When the Bible was first assembled from the Gospels, Acts, Revelations, and the various letters of the apostiles to the early churches, there was much debate as to which versions of various books to include. Most of the books of the Bible had various differences as they were copied by various scribes attempting to preserve them before the first collections of them were gathered. Here's a good timeline of the history of the Good Book.
Furthermore, there's the Pseudepigrapha. These are rejected books of the Bible that scholars of various times either considered falsified or otherwise not worthy to include in the Bible. Usually, they purport to be written by a Biblical figure, but were generally not believed to have actually been written by them at the time of the Council of Laodicea. Then you have the books where are in the Catholic Old Testament but not in the Protestant Old Testament. These are the books most commonly labelled as Apocrypha.
Here's some more info on early church texts. Here's a FAQ on the history of the Bible.
You can find a lot of this on Google if you know what to look for, but I've been nice and included links without bizarre obscurist religious or UFO ranting. The "lost" books of the Bible are a rich source of material for people with fringe beliefs that are looking to justify them or people who have an axe to grind with mainstream Christianity.
Well, they're putting the notes of Martin Luther online. If you don't know the relation of Martin Luther to the Catholic church, then you might need spend some time with the Googline Oracle.
All in all, that's not very favorable material to the Catholic Church considering what the movement he started was and why he started it.
If you're going to be patronizing, you might as well get your facts straight.
First of all, "Shirow" is how his name is romanized on every Japanese product I've ever seen. While it would be more technically correct to spell it, "Shiro" to avoid confusing people into believing his name is a 3-mora word instead of a 2-mora word, it is the spelling that he himself gives for his pseudonym.
Second, "otaku" was in fact coined to refer to obsessed fanboys in Japan. It refers to obsessed fanboys regardless of obsession, but most Americans who use the term are familiar with anime and manga fans. The tongue-in-cheek expose known as "Otaku no Video" also charts gun otaku, porn otaku, and model-building otaku as well as containing a semi-racist overdubbing of an American anime fan in Japan to be nutcase who claimed God told him to come to Japan and obsess over anime. In Japan and to a much greater extent in America, the insulting word is worn like a badge of pride, much like the words "geek" or "fundamentalist."
Third, your etymology of the word is completely wrong. "Otaku," is a word which literally means a household -- specifically someone else's household. You never refer to you're own house/family unit with that word. As such, it is a polite and neutral though slightly archaic term to greet a stranger with. Since fanboys are lacking in social graces usually, they didn't make much of a point of remember other people's names and had a bad habit of referring to everyone as "otaku." This earned them the name "otaku-zoku", or "otaku-people(/race/tribe)." It has since then been shortened to just "otaku," and use of the word "otaku" as a polite greeting has fallen out of common parlance, much like the word "gay" is rarely used in English to refer to a happy person or event. This was exacerbated by a series of child murders in the 80s by an otaku which gave adult obsession with manga and anime the kind of bad stigma that has continued to this day.
In addition to what other's pointed out, anonymous publishing is utterly useless if anonymous reading is not allowed. Your ISP can easily track what you download and read over NNTP. If your ISP is controlled by an oppresive government, then you're hosed for using Usenet.
Also, I'd like to point out that many, many ISPs don't carry the alt.* hierarchy, especially the alt.binaries.* hierarchy as it takes up way, way too much storage space and bandwidth to host. Heck, even Google doesn't carry any alt.binaries.* newsgroups due to what a hideous burden it would be to archive them.
Of course you have no recourse. He's basically "stealing" your own theft. Be flattered, because any darker feelings you might have about your own work getting ripped off for money are completely hypocritical.
I, quite frankly, find it comtemptible that you have the gaul to call if YOUR music.
Firewire is unusable for system drives because the ID is dynamically assigned. There is no way to decide which comes first.
More importantly for large systems, if a drive fails in a RAID array and you pull it out and plug a new one back in it will get a different ID than the old one and thus not be part of the array it should be part of.
That's a pretty good objection. I honestly hope this gets moderated up. I had no idea this was a problem for Firewire.
Firewire solves all the major shortcomings of both SCSI and SATA. It provides fast transfer rates, intelligent, cheap controllers that offload CPU utilization, and has no problems with multiple devices daisy-chained off of one port. It's cheap and fast, only costing about $7 to add a Firewire port to a motherboard.
This addresses all of the SCSI issues you listed.
However, your SATA data paints a rosier picture of things then reality allows. Your 1.8 GBps controller is somewhat useless seeing as it's a PCI card, which won't be able to come close to using all that bandwidth. I'll be more impressed when ports are finally built into the motherboard. Also the lack of integrated power connector means that routing cable around a case is still not as simple as if Intel had continued to suggest internal Firewire for future PCs before getting huffy at Apple and starting its USB 2.0 movement. Furthermore the one port per one device limitation is onerous. While future versions are expected to provide daisy-chaining of drives, current revisions do not. This means you need one port per device, and I guarantee you no current devices will be using half the bandwidth of their connection. It's a waste. Furthermore, SATA still eats CPU just like all other forms of IDE because it lacks intelligent controllers.
I say forget SATA, what we need is internal Firewire. That was the nirvana of case wiring that we passed up a few years ago. I know that the SFF system I'm building will be quite cramped due to ATA/100 cables and power cables. If we'd adopted Firewire internally a few years ago like Intel originally suggested, my air flow problems would be solved already.
What's really going to bake your noddle later on is, did I just expose my ignorance of Star Trek, or, did I intentionally make the error to bring trekkies out of the woodwork?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity." --Hanlon's Razor
Isn't it funny -- you ever notice that other bird meats don't taste like chicken? I mean, duck doesn't taste like chicken. Quail doesn't taste like chicken. Turkey doesn't taste like chicken. Ostrich doesn't even resemble chicken.
I'm thinking that chicken just tastes like reptile.
Heh. Honestly, anyone with any concept of fuel-cell chemistry should just giggle at the thought of "proprietary" fuels. I mean, come on, the idea is the pack as much hydrogen into as dense of a fuel as possible. This pretty much means the simplest chemicals possible, with methanol being the best choice in most cases.
Anything "proprietary" would be more expensive to manufacture and less efficient.
The Green Party is also a good choice for a party that is against corporate welfare legislation. That's pretty much the core focus of their party platform, though it's more oriented towards enviromental concerns.
I disagree. "AOL Grandmas" are exactly the sort of idiots most likely to turn off their machine by pulling the plug or turning off the surge protector the machine is on. Not to mention, they're also the people most likely to destabilize their system into crashing with bad software in the first place.
I think it should be turned on by default with advanced users, such as video editing pros, being the ones to turn it off.
This too is why I came to hate Todd McFarlane. There is absolutely nothing alike between the game and the comic book, but Palladium had to knuckle under because a gaming shop like them didn't have the money to take on the 800-pound gorilla that is the Spawn francise. I'm absolutely positive that they would've won in court had they taken it to trial.
Not to be pedantic
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Yeah, just wait until we wake up one of the Elder Gods imprisoned in a block of ice on Pluto.
Get your Mythos references straight! Yuggoth is HPL's name for Pluto, which is home of the primary colony of the Mi-go (the Fungi from Yuggoth) in our solar system. They also have mining colonies on Earth. While they are worshippers of the Elder Gods, there is no indication that an Elder God is actually present on their world. I believe their strongest associations are with Shub-Niggurath and Nyarlathotep, both of which are pretty active and have been called to Earth before anyway.
Read "The Whisper in the Darkness" to see the origins of the Mi-go, one of the few technologically advanced races to appear in Lovecraft's stories. As for Cthulhu -- he lies dead but still dreaming somewhere under the seas of Earth, and it was the Old Ones from "At the Mountains of Madness" that were found encased in ice.
From experience, I can tell you that it's not likely to be "good" either when marketing starts jumping up and down. When marketing starts screaming, it becomes a battle between engineering and marketing over whether it's "good" or "fast." Cheap usually loses out either way.
If the school owns it, then they're within their right to do with it as they please. If the individual owns it, then the rules are different.
I question whether or not what they did was legal at all. By citing federal law, they are providing a very clear Constitutional challenge to the PATRIOT Act. Censoring political speech based on content is a clear 1st Amendment violation. This kind of behavior will have a "chilling effect" on free speech among students. The idea that the government can list a group as a terrorist and ban all information on the groups views and supporting arguments for them is a defilement of what our nation was founded on. It discourages rational discussion and questioning of the motives of the government.
Futhermore, public universities are quasi-government entities in most states. It may be flatly illegal for them to censor content on their servers as their servers may be considered a public resource. Even so, perhaps legally they have done nothing wrong, but one should question whether or not what they've done is ethically reprehensible as a place of learning and as Americans.
I'd rather not consume the rotting corpses of the dead thanks.
Me neither. I personally prefer the freshest corpses of the dead possible. Rotting flesh is just unhealthy, and your body knows it. If you tried fresh or well preserved meat, you'd probably like it more.
Personally, I'm all for sheep with increased thigh size. You should really try a good fresh leg of lamb, roasted slowly over a fire with a good rosemary and garlic rub. Very tasty.
Wow. That's a nice one line way to ruin your music collection. If you'd like a visual example of why it's dumb to throw data through lossy codecs over and over again, I'd recommend finding a good image conversion utility and recompress an image as a JPEG over and over again.
It might be because anyone who's read Slashdot before can figure out how to use Babelfish, but it's probably because their own site has an English translation that can be quickly found by following the "English Pages" link on the left sidebar.
Doesn't sound any different from my machine running 10.1 except for the fact that you can actually make yours go to sleep. I managed to successfully get my Sawtooth G4 tower to sleep only twice under 10.0, and the machine wouldn't wake back up at all afterwards. I've never gotten it to sleep under 10.1.
As for the Finder not arranging icons properly -- well, I'm not surprised. When they threw out 15 years of code for Mac OS X, they threw out 15 years of beta testing and bug fixing. It seems at this rate that a consistent and usable GUI is very low on Apple's list of priorities. This icon nonsense is one of the many reasons I hate the Mac OS X GUI and miss Mac OS 9 where I had some semblance of control over my desktop.
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When the Bible was first assembled from the Gospels, Acts, Revelations, and the various letters of the apostiles to the early churches, there was much debate as to which versions of various books to include. Most of the books of the Bible had various differences as they were copied by various scribes attempting to preserve them before the first collections of them were gathered. Here's a good timeline of the history of the Good Book.
Furthermore, there's the Pseudepigrapha. These are rejected books of the Bible that scholars of various times either considered falsified or otherwise not worthy to include in the Bible. Usually, they purport to be written by a Biblical figure, but were generally not believed to have actually been written by them at the time of the Council of Laodicea. Then you have the books where are in the Catholic Old Testament but not in the Protestant Old Testament. These are the books most commonly labelled as Apocrypha.
Here's some more info on early church texts.
Here's a FAQ on the history of the Bible.
You can find a lot of this on Google if you know what to look for, but I've been nice and included links without bizarre obscurist religious or UFO ranting. The "lost" books of the Bible are a rich source of material for people with fringe beliefs that are looking to justify them or people who have an axe to grind with mainstream Christianity.
Well, they're putting the notes of Martin Luther online. If you don't know the relation of Martin Luther to the Catholic church, then you might need spend some time with the Googline Oracle.
All in all, that's not very favorable material to the Catholic Church considering what the movement he started was and why he started it.
If you're going to be patronizing, you might as well get your facts straight.
First of all, "Shirow" is how his name is romanized on every Japanese product I've ever seen. While it would be more technically correct to spell it, "Shiro" to avoid confusing people into believing his name is a 3-mora word instead of a 2-mora word, it is the spelling that he himself gives for his pseudonym.
Second, "otaku" was in fact coined to refer to obsessed fanboys in Japan. It refers to obsessed fanboys regardless of obsession, but most Americans who use the term are familiar with anime and manga fans. The tongue-in-cheek expose known as "Otaku no Video" also charts gun otaku, porn otaku, and model-building otaku as well as containing a semi-racist overdubbing of an American anime fan in Japan to be nutcase who claimed God told him to come to Japan and obsess over anime. In Japan and to a much greater extent in America, the insulting word is worn like a badge of pride, much like the words "geek" or "fundamentalist."
Third, your etymology of the word is completely wrong. "Otaku," is a word which literally means a household -- specifically someone else's household. You never refer to you're own house/family unit with that word. As such, it is a polite and neutral though slightly archaic term to greet a stranger with. Since fanboys are lacking in social graces usually, they didn't make much of a point of remember other people's names and had a bad habit of referring to everyone as "otaku." This earned them the name "otaku-zoku", or "otaku-people(/race/tribe)." It has since then been shortened to just "otaku," and use of the word "otaku" as a polite greeting has fallen out of common parlance, much like the word "gay" is rarely used in English to refer to a happy person or event. This was exacerbated by a series of child murders in the 80s by an otaku which gave adult obsession with manga and anime the kind of bad stigma that has continued to this day.
Fourth, those ergonomics do in fact suck. <g>
In addition to what other's pointed out, anonymous publishing is utterly useless if anonymous reading is not allowed. Your ISP can easily track what you download and read over NNTP. If your ISP is controlled by an oppresive government, then you're hosed for using Usenet.
Also, I'd like to point out that many, many ISPs don't carry the alt.* hierarchy, especially the alt.binaries.* hierarchy as it takes up way, way too much storage space and bandwidth to host. Heck, even Google doesn't carry any alt.binaries.* newsgroups due to what a hideous burden it would be to archive them.
Of course you have no recourse. He's basically "stealing" your own theft. Be flattered, because any darker feelings you might have about your own work getting ripped off for money are completely hypocritical.
I, quite frankly, find it comtemptible that you have the gaul to call if YOUR music.
That's a pretty good objection. I honestly hope this gets moderated up. I had no idea this was a problem for Firewire.
Firewire solves all the major shortcomings of both SCSI and SATA. It provides fast transfer rates, intelligent, cheap controllers that offload CPU utilization, and has no problems with multiple devices daisy-chained off of one port. It's cheap and fast, only costing about $7 to add a Firewire port to a motherboard.
This addresses all of the SCSI issues you listed.
However, your SATA data paints a rosier picture of things then reality allows. Your 1.8 GBps controller is somewhat useless seeing as it's a PCI card, which won't be able to come close to using all that bandwidth. I'll be more impressed when ports are finally built into the motherboard. Also the lack of integrated power connector means that routing cable around a case is still not as simple as if Intel had continued to suggest internal Firewire for future PCs before getting huffy at Apple and starting its USB 2.0 movement. Furthermore the one port per one device limitation is onerous. While future versions are expected to provide daisy-chaining of drives, current revisions do not. This means you need one port per device, and I guarantee you no current devices will be using half the bandwidth of their connection. It's a waste. Furthermore, SATA still eats CPU just like all other forms of IDE because it lacks intelligent controllers.
I say forget SATA, what we need is internal Firewire. That was the nirvana of case wiring that we passed up a few years ago. I know that the SFF system I'm building will be quite cramped due to ATA/100 cables and power cables. If we'd adopted Firewire internally a few years ago like Intel originally suggested, my air flow problems would be solved already.
Funny, I thought living by Area 51 and spying on the Air Force was the ticket to getting your status changed to "radio personality."
I'd like to point out that this is a lifting body design... just like the bazillion other posters who didn't read the other replies first.
What's really going to bake your noddle later on is, did I just expose my ignorance of Star Trek, or, did I intentionally make the error to bring trekkies out of the woodwork?
"Never attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity."
--Hanlon's Razor
Isn't it funny -- you ever notice that other bird meats don't taste like chicken? I mean, duck doesn't taste like chicken. Quail doesn't taste like chicken. Turkey doesn't taste like chicken. Ostrich doesn't even resemble chicken.
I'm thinking that chicken just tastes like reptile.
Heh. Honestly, anyone with any concept of fuel-cell chemistry should just giggle at the thought of "proprietary" fuels. I mean, come on, the idea is the pack as much hydrogen into as dense of a fuel as possible. This pretty much means the simplest chemicals possible, with methanol being the best choice in most cases.
Anything "proprietary" would be more expensive to manufacture and less efficient.
The Green Party is also a good choice for a party that is against corporate welfare legislation. That's pretty much the core focus of their party platform, though it's more oriented towards enviromental concerns.
I disagree. "AOL Grandmas" are exactly the sort of idiots most likely to turn off their machine by pulling the plug or turning off the surge protector the machine is on. Not to mention, they're also the people most likely to destabilize their system into crashing with bad software in the first place.
I think it should be turned on by default with advanced users, such as video editing pros, being the ones to turn it off.
Hell, my video card was capable of 3100 fps once I built my own rail gun!
This too is why I came to hate Todd McFarlane. There is absolutely nothing alike between the game and the comic book, but Palladium had to knuckle under because a gaming shop like them didn't have the money to take on the 800-pound gorilla that is the Spawn francise. I'm absolutely positive that they would've won in court had they taken it to trial.
Yeah, just wait until we wake up one of the Elder Gods imprisoned in a block of ice on Pluto.
Get your Mythos references straight! Yuggoth is HPL's name for Pluto, which is home of the primary colony of the Mi-go (the Fungi from Yuggoth) in our solar system. They also have mining colonies on Earth. While they are worshippers of the Elder Gods, there is no indication that an Elder God is actually present on their world. I believe their strongest associations are with Shub-Niggurath and Nyarlathotep, both of which are pretty active and have been called to Earth before anyway.
Read "The Whisper in the Darkness" to see the origins of the Mi-go, one of the few technologically advanced races to appear in Lovecraft's stories. As for Cthulhu -- he lies dead but still dreaming somewhere under the seas of Earth, and it was the Old Ones from "At the Mountains of Madness" that were found encased in ice.
Personally, I think of Kabbalah and numerology, but I guess I'm just weird for reading meaning into random numbers, aren't I?
From experience, I can tell you that it's not likely to be "good" either when marketing starts jumping up and down. When marketing starts screaming, it becomes a battle between engineering and marketing over whether it's "good" or "fast." Cheap usually loses out either way.
If the school owns it, then they're within their right to do with it as they please. If the individual owns it, then the rules are different.
I question whether or not what they did was legal at all. By citing federal law, they are providing a very clear Constitutional challenge to the PATRIOT Act. Censoring political speech based on content is a clear 1st Amendment violation. This kind of behavior will have a "chilling effect" on free speech among students. The idea that the government can list a group as a terrorist and ban all information on the groups views and supporting arguments for them is a defilement of what our nation was founded on. It discourages rational discussion and questioning of the motives of the government.
Futhermore, public universities are quasi-government entities in most states. It may be flatly illegal for them to censor content on their servers as their servers may be considered a public resource. Even so, perhaps legally they have done nothing wrong, but one should question whether or not what they've done is ethically reprehensible as a place of learning and as Americans.
It doesn't play with NTFS -- not at all. Nothing does as far as I'm aware.
I'd rather not consume the rotting corpses of the dead thanks.
Me neither. I personally prefer the freshest corpses of the dead possible. Rotting flesh is just unhealthy, and your body knows it. If you tried fresh or well preserved meat, you'd probably like it more.
Personally, I'm all for sheep with increased thigh size. You should really try a good fresh leg of lamb, roasted slowly over a fire with a good rosemary and garlic rub. Very tasty.
Wow. That's a nice one line way to ruin your music collection. If you'd like a visual example of why it's dumb to throw data through lossy codecs over and over again, I'd recommend finding a good image conversion utility and recompress an image as a JPEG over and over again.
It might be because anyone who's read Slashdot before can figure out how to use Babelfish, but it's probably because their own site has an English translation that can be quickly found by following the "English Pages" link on the left sidebar.
Doesn't sound any different from my machine running 10.1 except for the fact that you can actually make yours go to sleep. I managed to successfully get my Sawtooth G4 tower to sleep only twice under 10.0, and the machine wouldn't wake back up at all afterwards. I've never gotten it to sleep under 10.1.
As for the Finder not arranging icons properly -- well, I'm not surprised. When they threw out 15 years of code for Mac OS X, they threw out 15 years of beta testing and bug fixing. It seems at this rate that a consistent and usable GUI is very low on Apple's list of priorities. This icon nonsense is one of the many reasons I hate the Mac OS X GUI and miss Mac OS 9 where I had some semblance of control over my desktop.