The bible is inconsisten right from the start. The writers of the first book failed to understand the first rule of lying, is to not embellish your story. They give us one creation myth, then, in an attempt to convince us further, give us another one. Wrong....
Better to invent one story and stick to it. For some more information on the bible, try this.
I think you will find the reason the bible seems to be so familiar in terms of people and their actions is that it was written by, people.
I am just waiting to get through the pearly gates, sit down with god over a cappucino, and talk about things like, why are we here, what is all this for, how did we all get here, is there a point to all this, where did heaven come from?
As someone who was raised a catholic, it is the believers in god who seem to appeal to fear the most. You will go to hell, and burn for ever and ever, if you do not believe in god. It was the aim of those teaching at catholic schools to barricade the minds of the young and susceptible into believing in god, through intimidation.
Ever read the old testament and noticed how it goes all downhill in terms of the fantastic events it relates, from creating earth, seas parting, god talking, and ends up with just some boring old prophets telling every one to watch out or god will get mean again, like back in the old days. Well, he still hasn't popped his head out of the clouds, and there is an earth full of trouble here.
There is a huge difference between believing in Jesus the man and Jesus the God. The Bible, like so many histories, is just as much a political document as anything else. The manipulations within it are quite apparent when you realize that three of the Gospels are related, with the two subsequent ones merely embellishments of the first.
Many religious people these days doubt the divinity of Jesus, and instead see a person who tried to change the world for the better who was co-opted by others with their own agendas.
I have two Win XP machines at home, on a PIII 1GHz laptop and one a Duron 800 Desktop, 256MB RAM on each. Win XP runs like a lame sloth on both machines, and from what I can deduce, it is because it access the hard disk a lot, and slows down application launching, disk browsing. Clicking on the start button->programs is a good reason to find something to think about, as it always takes a long time for the application menu to come up. (Red light on the hard disk is on).
Applications run fine once they have started, unless they have to access the hard disk.
Now Toms is becoming more and more ridiculous in his evaluation of Intel Vs AMD, as neither processor is going to help me with my real performance problem, which is XP not appearing to buffer the hard disk properly, (intelligently?). What I really need is some high speed disk drives, (maybe I shouldn't have bought the 5400rpm IDE, but I worried that the 7200s might get too hot), and better I/O. I am sticking with AMD for the CPU performance is more than good enough for my needs, it is the I/O that is my real problem.
Toms is just turning into an Intel whore as far as I can see.
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This planet is nowhere near being 'infintite'. And just because there are plenty of places to put your garbage and waste, that aren't near you, doesn't mean that you have the right to put them there.
I can recall the story of the garbage barge from NY city trolling up and down the American East Coast trying to find somewhere to dump it's load. No one wanted it, of course.
This is a typical 'human' oriented point of view, that this planet is just ours to use as we want. It isn't.
The idea that we should not change our way of using the planet is just a reflection of the most important principle in our lives. (No, it's not energy, it's money). There are plenty of wealthy companies that just want the easy way out, and protect their turf. This means changing nothing about the way they do business, as they believe that any change will affect profits.
Because they can, and they think it will save them money. It does bring in the concept of substituting someone for yourself. If you are working at a desk, for a large company, with only your id tag to swipe in a slot, all you have to do is farm out your job to someone else at a percentage of the going rate. Do this more than once, and you could be making a nice profit.
What we actually need is a new generation power distribution system. The current one is over a century old. I would like to be able to have ultra low power gadgets, rechargeable, and can be connected to a low power dc power strip that runs around the whole length of the walls. Devices can be plugged into it anywhere. The only place were we would still need high power devices, such as heaters, etc, (tvs, computers, hi-fi etc, would all now be low power dc connected.), would still use AC.
I think we all just started to face up to the fact that, except for technology that can commercialised, such as medical, transport, etc, the end is here for pure science.
The Australian government funded organisation, the CSIRO, has been told to become more commercially viable while funding in many areas has been slashed.
The end result of all this is a similar cycle that has happened to the world many times before when scientific advancement has ground to a halt, the money men run everything and science for the sake of it stops.
This is despite the fact that pure science research has ultimately been the basis for all pratical science.
The troll to end all trolls. Many so called trolls use sexual references or annoying artifacts to generate, say, one or two comments from like minded dimwits.
A true troll such as this one generates so many comments it boggles the mind, while causing many posters to make statements that are genuine, but dumb. The name itself is enough to be a giveaway. If there were a +ve troll mod, this would be one of the few to truly deserve it.
Which is the big problem for the Itanium, make a fast but difficult to program processor, and let the software sort it out.
That sort of thinking had intel producing the Pentium PRO, optimised for running in 32bit mode, slowed down by all the 16 bit software everyone was running. It was years before MS finally brought out NT, a true 64 bit operating system, that was really capable of exploiting the potential of the PRO.
Hey, you left out IBM mainframe processor, still going strong. And if you check out the PowerPC, it is very strongly based on the mainframe processor design, (simplified, fortunately). The power PC is really just an improvement on a processor that first saw the light of day in the pot smoking, tie died '60s. The processor that IBM now uses in its Z/OS systems is really just a tweaked power pc processor.
I would agree with this, except that corporartions everywhere try to claw back their products cent by cent, by cheapening the contents gradaully.
Food is a classic case. Most packaged food these days is cheapened to the max, resulting in something that has no actual lasting taste or substance. All it does is pass the taste test at a market trial, and out it goes. All traces of subtlety, variety and enjoyment are reduced to a simple mix of fat, sugar and salt, with some sort of manufactured taste to differentiate it from the next sugary, salty and fatty product.
HP no doubt gave the marketing genius a nice big bonus for coming up with the idea of the 'economy' cartridge, and the millions of consumers have to suffer for this stupid act.
As another comment has indicated, having introduced the concept once, half full then becomes 4/10 full, then 3/10 etc.
I bought a HP inkjet for the kids projects, and told them not to use it too often, as the ink costs a fortune. It cost just as much to replace the ink cartridges as it did to buy the printer. Then, because it wasn't used much, the ink dried out and I couldn't print with it. Then they fiddle with the cartridge design to prevent us from refilling them. I thought I owned the printer, so as it was my property I could refill it if I wanted to how I wanted to.
Does buying a printer these days involve some sort of transaction like buying software, where I don't actually own the printer, but they are just granting me a license to use it if I see fit, for as long as it pleases them?
I say that if consumers don't stand up for their rights in cases like this, the general trend towards shaving off value in the products we buy will only get worse.
I heard the classic story of an inventor, sold his idea to a company with a contracted $ amount for each unit sold. Only, they never sold any, instead they leased them all out. Inventor didn't see a cent.
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Better to invent one story and stick to it. For some more information on the bible, try this.
I think you will find the reason the bible seems to be so familiar in terms of people and their actions is that it was written by, people.
I am just waiting to get through the pearly gates, sit down with god over a cappucino, and talk about things like, why are we here, what is all this for, how did we all get here, is there a point to all this, where did heaven come from?
yeah, but i think that a guy with four arms could beat one with two. and why does he ignore the elephants on the turtles, how did they get there then?
Ever read the old testament and noticed how it goes all downhill in terms of the fantastic events it relates, from creating earth, seas parting, god talking, and ends up with just some boring old prophets telling every one to watch out or god will get mean again, like back in the old days. Well, he still hasn't popped his head out of the clouds, and there is an earth full of trouble here.
Many religious people these days doubt the divinity of Jesus, and instead see a person who tried to change the world for the better who was co-opted by others with their own agendas.
Applications run fine once they have started, unless they have to access the hard disk.
Now Toms is becoming more and more ridiculous in his evaluation of Intel Vs AMD, as neither processor is going to help me with my real performance problem, which is XP not appearing to buffer the hard disk properly, (intelligently?). What I really need is some high speed disk drives, (maybe I shouldn't have bought the 5400rpm IDE, but I worried that the 7200s might get too hot), and better I/O. I am sticking with AMD for the CPU performance is more than good enough for my needs, it is the I/O that is my real problem.
Toms is just turning into an Intel whore as far as I can see.
I can recall the story of the garbage barge from NY city trolling up and down the American East Coast trying to find somewhere to dump it's load. No one wanted it, of course.
This is a typical 'human' oriented point of view, that this planet is just ours to use as we want. It isn't.
The idea that we should not change our way of using the planet is just a reflection of the most important principle in our lives. (No, it's not energy, it's money). There are plenty of wealthy companies that just want the easy way out, and protect their turf. This means changing nothing about the way they do business, as they believe that any change will affect profits.
I take it we would not be able to have a Boewulf cluster of these then. That is enough reason to have any discussion of them banned from /.
Because they can, and they think it will save them money. It does bring in the concept of substituting someone for yourself. If you are working at a desk, for a large company, with only your id tag to swipe in a slot, all you have to do is farm out your job to someone else at a percentage of the going rate. Do this more than once, and you could be making a nice profit.
How can you call an OS dead because it is not being ported to an architecture that is looking dead before it is born?
What we actually need is a new generation power distribution system. The current one is over a century old. I would like to be able to have ultra low power gadgets, rechargeable, and can be connected to a low power dc power strip that runs around the whole length of the walls. Devices can be plugged into it anywhere. The only place were we would still need high power devices, such as heaters, etc, (tvs, computers, hi-fi etc, would all now be low power dc connected.), would still use AC.
I can see Thomas Edison rising out of his grave now, saying "See, I was right!".
The Australian government funded organisation, the CSIRO, has been told to become more commercially viable while funding in many areas has been slashed.
The end result of all this is a similar cycle that has happened to the world many times before when scientific advancement has ground to a halt, the money men run everything and science for the sake of it stops.
This is despite the fact that pure science research has ultimately been the basis for all pratical science.
A true troll such as this one generates so many comments it boggles the mind, while causing many posters to make statements that are genuine, but dumb. The name itself is enough to be a giveaway. If there were a +ve troll mod, this would be one of the few to truly deserve it.
US seemed to do a pretty good job of that in Vietnam.
I think you are getting confused with the Battle of Hastings here, please try to stay on topic.
That sort of thinking had intel producing the Pentium PRO, optimised for running in 32bit mode, slowed down by all the 16 bit software everyone was running. It was years before MS finally brought out NT, a true 64 bit operating system, that was really capable of exploiting the potential of the PRO.
Hey, you left out IBM mainframe processor, still going strong. And if you check out the PowerPC, it is very strongly based on the mainframe processor design, (simplified, fortunately). The power PC is really just an improvement on a processor that first saw the light of day in the pot smoking, tie died '60s. The processor that IBM now uses in its Z/OS systems is really just a tweaked power pc processor.
Food is a classic case. Most packaged food these days is cheapened to the max, resulting in something that has no actual lasting taste or substance. All it does is pass the taste test at a market trial, and out it goes. All traces of subtlety, variety and enjoyment are reduced to a simple mix of fat, sugar and salt, with some sort of manufactured taste to differentiate it from the next sugary, salty and fatty product.
HP no doubt gave the marketing genius a nice big bonus for coming up with the idea of the 'economy' cartridge, and the millions of consumers have to suffer for this stupid act.
As another comment has indicated, having introduced the concept once, half full then becomes 4/10 full, then 3/10 etc.
I bought a HP inkjet for the kids projects, and told them not to use it too often, as the ink costs a fortune. It cost just as much to replace the ink cartridges as it did to buy the printer. Then, because it wasn't used much, the ink dried out and I couldn't print with it. Then they fiddle with the cartridge design to prevent us from refilling them. I thought I owned the printer, so as it was my property I could refill it if I wanted to how I wanted to.
Does buying a printer these days involve some sort of transaction like buying software, where I don't actually own the printer, but they are just granting me a license to use it if I see fit, for as long as it pleases them?
I say that if consumers don't stand up for their rights in cases like this, the general trend towards shaving off value in the products we buy will only get worse.
As the inimitable WC Fields once said, 'You can't cheat an honest man."
This seems to help my wrists etc, but I notice the article refers a lot to upper body problems.
I heard the classic story of an inventor, sold his idea to a company with a contracted $ amount for each unit sold. Only, they never sold any, instead they leased them all out. Inventor didn't see a cent.
Your sig is no doubt referring to their initiation ceremony and why I refuse to join them.
You have just had a look at the future, it only gets worse from here.
I collect stamps, myself, it costs just as much but gives me more satisfaction. I believe I will collect coins next.