I started doing this program six weeks ago and my back pain is gone for the first time in 20 years. I can't recommend it highly enough. I know the web page reads like pure home shopping network but it works.
The back bridge exercise is very effective, although a little intimidating at first. See here for a good explanation of all the core exercises with photos. No weights, no gyms, a few minutes a day. Charles Atlas would have been impressed.
On the happy hacking keyboard the escape key is where the tilde key is on a normal keyboard, making it a little easier to hit.
Do yourself a favour and map CAPS Lock to Ctrl. In your xorg.conf file it's just the line:
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
in your InputDevice section for your keyboard (this remapping is also possible in Windows I believe). Then ESC can be typed with a Ctrl-[ and your hands can stay on the home row for maximum vim power:)
Instead of exhorting others to re-read the books, why don't you try reading Tolkien's own preface yourself? He denies that LoTR is an allegory, and specifically not about WWII.
The problem is this: vi is not vim. I used emacs for years, then converted to vim for various reasons. After falling in love with Lisp, I looked at emacs again because it's got such good tools for lisp development - like SLIME.
But Viper, good as it is, doesn't come close to the functionality of vim. Even basic things like visual mode are missing. This isn't Viper's fault of course - it's a vi emulator, not a vim emulator and vim itself is a moving target that has introduced a number of improvements on vi - but suffice to say if you're wedded to editing code in vim, emacs+Viper feels like a giant leap backwards. I know because I've tried.
I agree with Joel but I can't help thinking that his attitude taken to the extreme is precisely what's wrong with Windows: millions of lines of legacy hacks, bugfixes and two-page functions that nobody really understands anymore and that few can fix or audit for security problems.
I heartily agree with an earlier poster who suggested SWIG. Keep the C++ codebase and maybe refactor the bits that really need it but do all new development in a scripting language like Python or Ruby, using SWIG to wrap the existing code. I've done this before on a somewhat smaller scale than the submitter and it really worked well. You're not wasting manpower and experience either: maintenance and improvement of the C++ code will be needed.
No, he's quite right - he probably just doesn't live in the US like you. In the UK and South Africa (at least - I think there are also several other countries who use it), radio controlled aircraft are allocated to 35Mhz.
All my radio equipment is 35Mhz and any Canopy Wireless system in the area would definitely make for some very short flights.
So in other words, in Soviet Russia, space stations dock you.
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If you have the data files you can still play Flashback. Go here for a remake that works with SDL. The author also did a similar remake of Another World but has removed his source code for that on a request from Eric Chahi (it's still around though).
No, for two reasons. Godwin's law is invoked, not violated. To violate it would, I guess, require an interminable discussion in which no-one ever compares something to Hitler or the Nazis.
Secondly Godwin's law doesn't apply here. It says:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
The GP's sig is not part of this online discussion.
Don't you remember visible slowness in scrolling on 8086 hardware in text mode?
Yes. Nethack on an XT (Hack I think it was called back then) slowed down significantly when there was a shop on the level you just entered. A bunch of us would play in the lab and every so often someone would say "yes! the machine's really crawling this time - must get to the shop!" - much to the amazement of the other students who were actually working on making their software go faster.
Brain cites a passages that says: "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.". If I read this passage, and I am the first to admit to not having any special qualifications beyond the English language, I certainly would interpret it as Brain does, that he who prays gets what he wants.
It's not a passage though - it's a single sentence from the middle of a paragraph which occurs in the middle of a long discourse. And fortunately for you and me there are people with special qualifications who have a number of principles that they apply to all ancient literature:
Who wrote it? What do I know about him?
When?
Why?
In what language?
What would this have meant to the original readers?
What kind of literature is it? Prose, poetry, visonary? What?
Is there any other stuff by the same author or from the same period that I can compare?
Can I be sure that this text is the original? How?
Is there some kind of cultural or linguistic thing here I need to be aware of?
There's nothing special about these methods: they are the same that apply to all ancient documents. And only once you've answered all those questions can you even begin to ask what it means. Jesus warns time and again on the dangers of wealth. For him to suddenly promise some kind of candy-bar dispenser model of prayer right after emphasizing the opposite is reading something into the text that simply isn't there.
If I do, you pious people will be quick to come back and say that I mustn't interpret it literary, or that I didn't interpret it literary enough, or in order for me to understand it I must study ancient history or Assyrian linguistics.
There's a vast gulf between understanding the message of the Bible and being a critic of the text. The sweets are on the bottom shelf as far as the message is concerned: do you trust this extraordinary individual who claimed to be God to show mercy to you? If yes, then trust him. That's it. There's more than enough evidence for those who want.
But what Brain and you are doing above is actually fairly advanced scholarly stuff: highlighting a piece of the text (translated - not even the original Koine Greek) and trying to read meaning into it. If you don't know Greek and don't know the cultural idioms of the day and won't read the whole text (rather than just a slice of it) and have no knowledge of hermeneutics, then it's hardly surprising that it can be made to mean whatever you like.
But how about this: how about, you supernaturalists translate your favored holy books into plain, literal English, so that whenever I read a sentence, it means exactly what I think it means.
How about you sceptics drop your Westernised cultural chauvinism and realise that not everything of significance in the world was written yesterday for you personally in English.
Not interested? Didn't think so. Because then there would be no excuses when I point out the rubbish and the contradictions.
Try this modern example of rubbish and contradiction then: Japanese people often say yes when they mean no. You can go and negotiate a business deal with a Japanese company, hear "yes" to your proposal from the board of directors, and then be shocked three months down the line when your competitor gets the deal. I'm not sucking this out of my thumb: it happens all the time.
But if I dig a little deeper and actually bother to study a bit more about Japanese culture, language and idiom, I would discover that the Japanese think that saying no is incredibly rude because it means I would lose face. What they really mean when they say yes in that sort of situation is "yes, I hear you" rather than "yes, I agree with you." They're actually being polite rather than rude because in a group-oriented culture suc
And herein lies the biggest problem with Brain's attempt to be a Biblical critic: he's not qualified. Authoring How Stuff Works does not give you the required background to make informed comments on the historical and literary context and interpretation of ancient documents. Why Does God Hate Amputees doesn't use expert sources (the Da Vinci Code and children's hymns are used as reliable sources of information which should tell you something right there), Brain seems to have no knowledge of ancient texts or ancient culture, and as a result makes childish errors of hermeneutics. Underlying all this is some kind of superior attitude that Christians must "grow up." There's lots of argument by outrage as well: God is blamed at every turn for human error and fallibility but at the same time criticized for not dispensing health, wealth and prosperity whenever we pray.
If Brain was a real scholar with real knowledge and real objections, then I might take him seriously. He isn't so I won't. But don't let me stop you recommending it - your intellectual capacity for such nonsense is obviously more than equal to that task.
I'm doing some sysadmin work with a blind guy from Florida and his capability is staggering. We use the same brand and model of notebook. We both run Gentoo. He had a problem with his alsa drivers the other day so I mailed him my/etc/modules.d/alsa file and he was able to fix his setup. He used to run a large site that managed a bunch of web cams in the Bahamas. He's on Skype. And so on and so forth.
I've never met him since I live several time zones away but if I didn't know he was blind I would never have known based on his technical competence.
As for the historical accuracy of the existing New Testament, almost none of it can be archeologically verified,
Strange, I thought vast portions of it have been archaeologically verified, and by sceptics such as Sir William Ramsay. Ramsay originally seriously doubted Luke's accounts in his gospel and the book of Acts and was forced to admit after years of digging in Asia Minor that Luke's accuracy as a historian was unparalleled.
including the actual authors of the remaining gospels, which were assigned their "authors" hundreds of years later.
If you want to make a claim like this you need to show that the gospels existed in anonymous format from roughly fifty years after the time of Christ, circulated for hundreds of years, and then were assigned their authors arbitrarily. Evidence for this claim: none.
In any case, as to the topic at hand, I don't think one can claim a religion predates its differentiator (ie. the person who caused the religion's followers to differentiate themselves from others.)
Sure you can. It's one of the most basic concepts in history - the fact that one event or the life on an individual occurred before another in time. Moses predates Jesus who predates Mohammed. Case closed.
The belief structure can go back to antiquity, just like you could claim that much of Judeo-Christian-Muslim thought goes back to the addition of "good" and "evil" to Western religious dogma in Zoraster's time.
If you know with certainty when Zoroaster actually lived (I've seen ranges from 600BC to 4000BC) and can show how his teaching was incorporated into the OT, then I'd suggest getting in touch with some scholars of ancient history and literature. I'm sure they'll be fascinated with your discoveries.
This reminds me of a friend of mine who used to be a professional game tester for an EA dev team near where I live. Although somewhat looked down upon, testers are actually a terribly important part of the game dev process. If you're looking for budget to save, look somewhere else.
Nobody told that to the manager. For the next project my friend was given absolutely nothing to work with - no design docs, no resources, no source code, no debug version, no reporting sheets - zip. Just a crappy PC with - occasionally - the latest build on. All his requests for the basic tools to let him do his job properly went unheeded. So he started filing bug reports via email like this:
To: Developers Subject: Game is broken - fix it
To: Developers Subject: Game crashes - needs to be fixed
To: Developers Subject: Game broken - needs fixing
He was quickly provided with the tools he needed:)
Dick Jones: Sounds like I'm in a lot of trouble. You better report me to the election officer.
Robocop: I will.
ROBO takes two steps forward. CUT to ROBO POV which flashes PRODUCT VIOLATION, then DIRECTIVE 4. ROBO starts losing control of his limbs.
Jones: What's the matter officer? I'll tell you what's the matter. It's a little insurance policy called Directive 4 - my little contribution to your psychological profile. Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of Diebold results in shutdown. What did you think? That you were an ordinary vote counter? You're our product and we can't very well have our products turning against us can we?
ROBO tries to make a call on his phone but drops it.
Jones: Ah still a little fight left in you. Maybe you'd like to meet a friend of mine.
JONES gets a remote control off his desk. CUT to massive voting machine rumbling through the door towards ROBO. Cue scary Basil Poledoris music.
Really? Pray tell me how I can change say, the Linux kernel scheduler on the fly without having to recompile from source, install and reboot with the new image. This is what the GP was getting at - changing the code of the running kernel of the Lisp Machine while its running.
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Says the man who assumes in his .sig that all Linux users are dimwits who hate Windows :)
I started doing this program six weeks ago and my back pain is gone for the first time in 20 years. I can't recommend it highly enough. I know the web page reads like pure home shopping network but it works.
The back bridge exercise is very effective, although a little intimidating at first. See here for a good explanation of all the core exercises with photos. No weights, no gyms, a few minutes a day. Charles Atlas would have been impressed.
On the happy hacking keyboard the escape key is where the tilde key is on a normal keyboard, making it a little easier to hit.
:)
Do yourself a favour and map CAPS Lock to Ctrl. In your xorg.conf file it's just the line:
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
in your InputDevice section for your keyboard (this remapping is also possible in Windows I believe). Then ESC can be typed with a Ctrl-[ and your hands can stay on the home row for maximum vim power
Instead of exhorting others to re-read the books, why don't you try reading Tolkien's own preface yourself? He denies that LoTR is an allegory, and specifically not about WWII.
The problem is this: vi is not vim. I used emacs for years, then converted to vim for various reasons. After falling in love with Lisp, I looked at emacs again because it's got such good tools for lisp development - like SLIME.
But Viper, good as it is, doesn't come close to the functionality of vim. Even basic things like visual mode are missing. This isn't Viper's fault of course - it's a vi emulator, not a vim emulator and vim itself is a moving target that has introduced a number of improvements on vi - but suffice to say if you're wedded to editing code in vim, emacs+Viper feels like a giant leap backwards. I know because I've tried.
I agree with Joel but I can't help thinking that his attitude taken to the extreme is precisely what's wrong with Windows: millions of lines of legacy hacks, bugfixes and two-page functions that nobody really understands anymore and that few can fix or audit for security problems.
I heartily agree with an earlier poster who suggested SWIG. Keep the C++ codebase and maybe refactor the bits that really need it but do all new development in a scripting language like Python or Ruby, using SWIG to wrap the existing code. I've done this before on a somewhat smaller scale than the submitter and it really worked well. You're not wasting manpower and experience either: maintenance and improvement of the C++ code will be needed.
No, he's quite right - he probably just doesn't live in the US like you. In the UK and South Africa (at least - I think there are also several other countries who use it), radio controlled aircraft are allocated to 35Mhz.
All my radio equipment is 35Mhz and any Canopy Wireless system in the area would definitely make for some very short flights.
So in other words, in Soviet Russia, space stations dock you.
If you have the data files you can still play Flashback. Go here for a remake that works with SDL. The author also did a similar remake of Another World but has removed his source code for that on a request from Eric Chahi (it's still around though).
No, for two reasons. Godwin's law is invoked, not violated. To violate it would, I guess, require an interminable discussion in which no-one ever compares something to Hitler or the Nazis.
Secondly Godwin's law doesn't apply here. It says:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
The GP's sig is not part of this online discussion.
That's as may be - it's still a patch.
Don't you remember visible slowness in scrolling on 8086 hardware in text mode?
Yes. Nethack on an XT (Hack I think it was called back then) slowed down significantly when there was a shop on the level you just entered. A bunch of us would play in the lab and every so often someone would say "yes! the machine's really crawling this time - must get to the shop!" - much to the amazement of the other students who were actually working on making their software go faster.
Not only one of the best assembly programmers ever but also has the ability to make coke shoot 3 feet out my nose.
Sir, I salute you. A truly unique combination of talent.
It's not a passage though - it's a single sentence from the middle of a paragraph which occurs in the middle of a long discourse. And fortunately for you and me there are people with special qualifications who have a number of principles that they apply to all ancient literature:
There's nothing special about these methods: they are the same that apply to all ancient documents. And only once you've answered all those questions can you even begin to ask what it means. Jesus warns time and again on the dangers of wealth. For him to suddenly promise some kind of candy-bar dispenser model of prayer right after emphasizing the opposite is reading something into the text that simply isn't there.
If I do, you pious people will be quick to come back and say that I mustn't interpret it literary, or that I didn't interpret it literary enough, or in order for me to understand it I must study ancient history or Assyrian linguistics.
There's a vast gulf between understanding the message of the Bible and being a critic of the text. The sweets are on the bottom shelf as far as the message is concerned: do you trust this extraordinary individual who claimed to be God to show mercy to you? If yes, then trust him. That's it. There's more than enough evidence for those who want.
But what Brain and you are doing above is actually fairly advanced scholarly stuff: highlighting a piece of the text (translated - not even the original Koine Greek) and trying to read meaning into it. If you don't know Greek and don't know the cultural idioms of the day and won't read the whole text (rather than just a slice of it) and have no knowledge of hermeneutics, then it's hardly surprising that it can be made to mean whatever you like.
But how about this: how about, you supernaturalists translate your favored holy books into plain, literal English, so that whenever I read a sentence, it means exactly what I think it means.
How about you sceptics drop your Westernised cultural chauvinism and realise that not everything of significance in the world was written yesterday for you personally in English.
Not interested? Didn't think so. Because then there would be no excuses when I point out the rubbish and the contradictions.
Try this modern example of rubbish and contradiction then: Japanese people often say yes when they mean no. You can go and negotiate a business deal with a Japanese company, hear "yes" to your proposal from the board of directors, and then be shocked three months down the line when your competitor gets the deal. I'm not sucking this out of my thumb: it happens all the time.
But if I dig a little deeper and actually bother to study a bit more about Japanese culture, language and idiom, I would discover that the Japanese think that saying no is incredibly rude because it means I would lose face. What they really mean when they say yes in that sort of situation is "yes, I hear you" rather than "yes, I agree with you." They're actually being polite rather than rude because in a group-oriented culture suc
Marshall Brain of How Stuff Works fame
And herein lies the biggest problem with Brain's attempt to be a Biblical critic: he's not qualified. Authoring How Stuff Works does not give you the required background to make informed comments on the historical and literary context and interpretation of ancient documents. Why Does God Hate Amputees doesn't use expert sources (the Da Vinci Code and children's hymns are used as reliable sources of information which should tell you something right there), Brain seems to have no knowledge of ancient texts or ancient culture, and as a result makes childish errors of hermeneutics. Underlying all this is some kind of superior attitude that Christians must "grow up." There's lots of argument by outrage as well: God is blamed at every turn for human error and fallibility but at the same time criticized for not dispensing health, wealth and prosperity whenever we pray.
If Brain was a real scholar with real knowledge and real objections, then I might take him seriously. He isn't so I won't. But don't let me stop you recommending it - your intellectual capacity for such nonsense is obviously more than equal to that task.
What was the WallaceOS that he claimed he was unable to market due to the market abuse of the Linux-conglomerate?
Full of great - if slightly whacky - ideas that look promising but it almost always needs the GromitOS to get it out of trouble.
I'm doing some sysadmin work with a blind guy from Florida and his capability is staggering. We use the same brand and model of notebook. We both run Gentoo. He had a problem with his alsa drivers the other day so I mailed him my /etc/modules.d/alsa file and he was able to fix his setup. He used to run a large site that managed a bunch of web cams in the Bahamas. He's on Skype. And so on and so forth.
I've never met him since I live several time zones away but if I didn't know he was blind I would never have known based on his technical competence.
As for the historical accuracy of the existing New Testament, almost none of it can be archeologically verified,
Strange, I thought vast portions of it have been archaeologically verified, and by sceptics such as Sir William Ramsay. Ramsay originally seriously doubted Luke's accounts in his gospel and the book of Acts and was forced to admit after years of digging in Asia Minor that Luke's accuracy as a historian was unparalleled.
including the actual authors of the remaining gospels, which were assigned their "authors" hundreds of years later.
If you want to make a claim like this you need to show that the gospels existed in anonymous format from roughly fifty years after the time of Christ, circulated for hundreds of years, and then were assigned their authors arbitrarily. Evidence for this claim: none.
In any case, as to the topic at hand, I don't think one can claim a religion predates its differentiator (ie. the person who caused the religion's followers to differentiate themselves from others.)
Sure you can. It's one of the most basic concepts in history - the fact that one event or the life on an individual occurred before another in time. Moses predates Jesus who predates Mohammed. Case closed.
The belief structure can go back to antiquity, just like you could claim that much of Judeo-Christian-Muslim thought goes back to the addition of "good" and "evil" to Western religious dogma in Zoraster's time.
If you know with certainty when Zoroaster actually lived (I've seen ranges from 600BC to 4000BC) and can show how his teaching was incorporated into the OT, then I'd suggest getting in touch with some scholars of ancient history and literature. I'm sure they'll be fascinated with your discoveries.
This reminds me of a friend of mine who used to be a professional game tester for an EA dev team near where I live. Although somewhat looked down upon, testers are actually a terribly important part of the game dev process. If you're looking for budget to save, look somewhere else.
:)
Nobody told that to the manager. For the next project my friend was given absolutely nothing to work with - no design docs, no resources, no source code, no debug version, no reporting sheets - zip. Just a crappy PC with - occasionally - the latest build on. All his requests for the basic tools to let him do his job properly went unheeded. So he started filing bug reports via email like this:
To: Developers
Subject: Game is broken - fix it
To: Developers
Subject: Game crashes - needs to be fixed
To: Developers
Subject: Game broken - needs fixing
He was quickly provided with the tools he needed
No, Sony's biggest problem is not it's "contempt". It's their content division taking charge of it's electronics division.
I fail to see the contradiction here.
Doh - modules. Of course. Thanks for the reminder :)
Dick Jones: Sounds like I'm in a lot of trouble. You better report me to the election officer.
Robocop: I will.
ROBO takes two steps forward.
CUT to ROBO POV which flashes PRODUCT VIOLATION, then DIRECTIVE 4.
ROBO starts losing control of his limbs.
Jones: What's the matter officer? I'll tell you what's the matter. It's a little insurance policy called Directive 4 - my little contribution to your psychological profile. Any attempt to arrest a senior officer of Diebold results in shutdown. What did you think? That you were an ordinary vote counter? You're our product and we can't very well have our products turning against us can we?
ROBO tries to make a call on his phone but drops it.
Jones: Ah still a little fight left in you. Maybe you'd like to meet a friend of mine.
JONES gets a remote control off his desk.
CUT to massive voting machine rumbling through the door towards ROBO. Cue scary Basil Poledoris music.
Really? Pray tell me how I can change say, the Linux kernel scheduler on the fly without having to recompile from source, install and reboot with the new image. This is what the GP was getting at - changing the code of the running kernel of the Lisp Machine while its running.