The messages of Jesus are most definately not evil. Anyone would be hard pressed to argue that love and tolerance are bad things. But, beliefs such as "you can only get to the Father through the Son" have done a great deal of harm throughout history. If Christianity had as its focus free thinking and true kindness to others, regardless of religion, I would be one. Unfortunately, Christians throughout history have focused on prostelyzing others (often persecuting when attempts to convert failed), and the most poisonous of all beliefs, that one should trust the judgement of another (minister, priest, etc) when it comes to spiritual matters instead of encouraging spiritual exploration and self-discovery. Oh, and the "render unto Caesar" line was pretty destructive, too.
Uhh..
As a Christian, I think free thinking is vitally important. If you can't think critically, how can you be sure of your beliefs?
True kindness to others (regardless of religion or background) is repeatedly encouraged in the Bible. Who did Jesus hang out with? Whores and corrupt tax collectors. If someone does something that's obviously wrong, try to show them what they're doing and guide them toward a better path, but if they're really not interested, leave them alone (and don't associate with them).
In case you hadn't heard, the Bible has been translated into English; you no longer have to learn Latin in order to read it. In fact, there are many different English translations, a handful of paraphrased versions (such as the Living Bible), and it's been translated into (as far as I know) every written language on the planet (and work is being done to translate it into Klingon). If you don't trust people, go read it yourself; if you don't have a copy handy you can read it online.
Are you saying the heart of Christianity is a material book and not good will and such?
Umm, yes. Not the physical book itself, but the message it contains. The Word of God. "Good will and such" is only secondary to the basic message of sin and salvation, and certainly has nothing to do with going to Heaven. Anyone who thinks being a Christian is about being a good person is deluding themselves, and may not even be a Christian at all. Not that being a good person is a bad thing - quite the contrary; it's highly encouraged and should come naturally to anyone who truly believes God's word and follows Jesus' teachings - but that's not really what Christianity is about.
Did I offend the missionary? Or her whinning friend? If you dont even know the basic facts then stay the hell outta da kitchen. Enough of your self righteous bullshit. Its real nice you can say you can admire her.
I'd guess you've probably offended most people reading this thread, and with your apparent complete disregard for most of the qualities that society considers to be decent and humane, I'm sure you've offended most of the people you've come into contact with at some point.
My point was that it would do the whole world better if the Cristians leaved everyone the hell alone and let the people come to christianity by themselves.
By themselves, without having access to Bibles? Just because you can walk into a bookstore, public library or even a hotel room and pick one up, and find several translations of the complete text on the Internet, doesn't mean that everyone else can.
Seriously, no offense but maybe it would be better if your friend never got out. I dont mean to be offensive but if you look throughout all of history, wherever the christians extended their hand, usually resulted in rape and plunder. Do we really need any more "holy wars" and persecutions? This is not flaimbait but just meant to stimulate thoughts.
OK, a few thoughts have been stimulated.
How can you possibly say something like that without meaning to offend?
His friend could have been killed. Have you no regard for human life?
Most Slashdotters usually support the freedom of information and oppose censorship. You appear to be advocating censorship and praising those who would try to block the spread of information. Why?
Rape and plunder don't sound like very Christian things to do - are you sure those were Christians?
"Do we really need more... persecutions?" You mean like persecuting Christians because they're trying to bring Bibles into your country? I'd be happy to see that come to an end, although I know it will always continue.
First, this letter sounds a bit too much like whining complaints about a bunch of guys who came up with some "standards" and are trying to get everybody to implement them, and they're pissed off cuz they're not getting their way.
Take Netscape 4.x off the market? What exactly do they want? Pull it off their site so those that want it can no longer download it? Try to migrate everyone to a buggy, unfinished browser that only mostly works?
I do agree with most of the WaSP's complaints, however, and AOL is entirely at fault. Why haven't they been devoting more resources to the Mozilla project? Open source development is great, but if AOL wants this to happen, you'd think they'd contribute something, especially if they're planning to base their flagship service on this product!
Does anyone know just exactly what AOL does contribute to the Mozilla project?
That will happen. Its not like you buy less food because you are given free samples at the grocery store. In fact you buy more of that because it was good.
Yet, there are also those who hang out at Costco every Saturday around noon just for the free samples. Everyone I know who does this also shops, but I suppose there must be a few that don't. Likewise, there are people who will never buy another CD as long as there's Napster.
I don't buy many CDs. I didn't before I started collecting MP3s, and I still don't now that I have a 6GB+ archive. However, as the collection grows, I'm getting more and more interested in having a lot of music, and therefore I'm becoming more and more interseted in purchasing CDs - not necessarily music I've already gotten from Napster, but just music in general.
What are you talking about? They ARE called Corinthians! There's no such a thing as "Corinthiao".
Didn't you read the e-mail?
>At other times Bianchi borders on bazaar. When he rationalizes
>Complainant's rights to protection despite the fact that they don't even >have a Trademark for "CORINTHIANS" (in Brazil or anywhere else), Bianchi >says this about their nearest T.M., "CORINTHIAO": > > > >"CORINTHIAO in Portuguese is pronounced as Corinthian in English. In >fact, unless the English word itself is used, phonetics (because of the >nasal pronunciation) and correct spelling require that the word >Corianthiao is used in Portuguese. Thus, when comparing Corinthians with >Corianthiao, the Panel concludes that the domain name at issue is >phonetically nearly identical to the Complainants trademark CORINTHIAO." > > > >I knew I hated phonics.
I think they're planning on doing this but saving it or the new motherboard architecture due out later this year.
Light a fire under IBM and Motorola. (Think G4e @ 600mhz)
IBM is working on it. Motorola wishes they could be as cool as IBM. However, they won't be able to catch up to Intel and AMD in clock speed unless they cheat somehow (like, say, doubling the clock rate while halving efficiency). I'm reminded of Patrick Volkerding jumping from Slackware 4.0 to Slackware 7.0 for similar reasons.
Get OSX out the door to take advantage of the MP
It's not ready yet. If they ship it before it's ready, there will be disaster. Remember, this is Mac OS on BSD - not an easy thing to pull off seamlessly, and it must be seamless.
The Cube is available now, yes? I think store.apple.com said it was. They couldn't have pulled all of the Cubes and put Rage 128's in them so quickly. Plus, you have to have drivers.
Just because you can order them today doesn't mean they're shipping out the door today. Apple's kinda annoying like that. They might not actually ship until next week. And by the way, if they were planning to ship with Radeon cards, they'd have drivers for both cards (and many more) included with the OS anyway, so they wouldn't have to make any software changes. Since the Radeon isn't ready to ship yet, it may not be supported by the drivers currently shipping.
A) The guy had a legitimate use for the domain name, and had already been using it for some time.
B) The soccer team is a national thing and probably should use their own country's TLD. Biblical quotations are global in scope and are more suited to using a gTLD (although admittedly.org would have been better).
C) The soccer team doesn't even have a trademark on the name Corinthians; their name is Corinthiao, which is apparently pronounced the same in Portuguese, but not spelled the same - and domain names are spelled, not spoken aloud (generally).
D) The way trademark law works, I could sell a trivia game called "Guess?" but I couldn't sell bluejeans called "Guess?". Why should domain names be any different? If he had corinthiansoccer.com or corinthianfutbol.com or corinthiaofutbol.com or something, it might be a different situation.
It's an international netcast of a concert. As far as I can tell from the article, the players will all be together, but the show will go through the internet to Japan. Big deal.
Yes, this time, but read the last paragraph again:
Researchers say their ultimate goal is to create an environment, complete with sound vibrations in the floorboards, which would allow musicians at venues around the world to perform together.
That's where lag becomes a problem. This broadcast is nothing terribly special - just a higher quality than previous broadcasts.
I wonder if we're ever going to reach a point where artists just record a concert once and have it broadcast to venues all over the world, instead of actually travelling.
You might as well just buy the CD. Live performances are already broadcast around the world, but listening to a reproduction of the performance (live or recorded) in your living room doesn't compare to actually being there.
Sure, but this doesn't help for a live performance where the musicians have to interact with each other. For example, if a violin and clarinet are being played at the same time, they couldn't hear each other in real time. If you've never played in a band or orchestra, you may not appreciate how much of a problem this would be.
That's a good point. You may have enough bandwidth to carry information about floor vibrations, but the latency would make simultaneous performance impossible - or so far off so as to defeat the purpose entirely.
This isn't the first time Apple's tried a new, "advanced" monitor cable. There'll be an adapter, just like there was with the 7100 (I think it was?)...
The 6100 had it too, and presumably the 8100. No idea whose idea that was. It plugged instead of screwed; whoopie. I thought it was particularly impressive that the monitor it shipped with needed one of those adapters.
As for connectors, there're several different connectors, the old ATi Rage Pro that I, heh, think you're thinking about (I have a couple of em at work), have aqn older style Digital Flat Panel connector, and the Apple monitors with digital connectors have all come with a newer type (I believe it's the same connector on the Hercules Geforce DDR-DVI).
What I'm thinking of is the digital connector on the G4s that Apple was shipping prior to this week, that the $4000 Cinema Display plugged into. I don't know, but I was told that this is the same connector that the new monitors use.
Quite right; I checked the tech specs page about two minutes after posting that. I could have sworn I saw mention of 4x AGP somewhere, though, but the new G4s have 2x AGP as well. Hrm. Oh well.
Apple only supplies 64mgs of RAM to help the retailer. There is a low marging on Macs. The retailer makes it up with those things not supplied with the Mac. The Mac acts like a loss leader. It brings people in the front door. It is up to the salesman to do his job, by directing the customer to the add-ons which are keystoned.
This is also why the iBook has one mono speaker, no microphone, and no microphone jack. The only way to get sound in (like, say, to take advantage of the voice authentication feature of Mac OS 9) is with a USB microphone, which would have high markup.
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No, but neither do Christians. Jesus Christ is the Savior; we're merely spreading the word to those who are interested.
Also, who knows what christians nowadays motives are?
Obviously not you.
I have met many a persons that say "I am a good Christian " and do "bad" things like any other persons, a lot of times worse.
Duh. We're all human.
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." - Romans 3:23 (NIV)
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Uhh..
As a Christian, I think free thinking is vitally important. If you can't think critically, how can you be sure of your beliefs?
True kindness to others (regardless of religion or background) is repeatedly encouraged in the Bible. Who did Jesus hang out with? Whores and corrupt tax collectors. If someone does something that's obviously wrong, try to show them what they're doing and guide them toward a better path, but if they're really not interested, leave them alone (and don't associate with them).
In case you hadn't heard, the Bible has been translated into English; you no longer have to learn Latin in order to read it. In fact, there are many different English translations, a handful of paraphrased versions (such as the Living Bible), and it's been translated into (as far as I know) every written language on the planet (and work is being done to translate it into Klingon). If you don't trust people, go read it yourself; if you don't have a copy handy you can read it online.
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Umm, yes. Not the physical book itself, but the message it contains. The Word of God. "Good will and such" is only secondary to the basic message of sin and salvation, and certainly has nothing to do with going to Heaven. Anyone who thinks being a Christian is about being a good person is deluding themselves, and may not even be a Christian at all. Not that being a good person is a bad thing - quite the contrary; it's highly encouraged and should come naturally to anyone who truly believes God's word and follows Jesus' teachings - but that's not really what Christianity is about.
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I'd guess you've probably offended most people reading this thread, and with your apparent complete disregard for most of the qualities that society considers to be decent and humane, I'm sure you've offended most of the people you've come into contact with at some point.
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By themselves, without having access to Bibles? Just because you can walk into a bookstore, public library or even a hotel room and pick one up, and find several translations of the complete text on the Internet, doesn't mean that everyone else can.
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And your point was....?
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OK, a few thoughts have been stimulated.
How can you possibly say something like that without meaning to offend?
His friend could have been killed. Have you no regard for human life?
Most Slashdotters usually support the freedom of information and oppose censorship. You appear to be advocating censorship and praising those who would try to block the spread of information. Why?
Rape and plunder don't sound like very Christian things to do - are you sure those were Christians?
"Do we really need more... persecutions?" You mean like persecuting Christians because they're trying to bring Bibles into your country? I'd be happy to see that come to an end, although I know it will always continue.
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Take Netscape 4.x off the market? What exactly do they want? Pull it off their site so those that want it can no longer download it? Try to migrate everyone to a buggy, unfinished browser that only mostly works?
I do agree with most of the WaSP's complaints, however, and AOL is entirely at fault. Why haven't they been devoting more resources to the Mozilla project? Open source development is great, but if AOL wants this to happen, you'd think they'd contribute something, especially if they're planning to base their flagship service on this product!
Does anyone know just exactly what AOL does contribute to the Mozilla project?
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mmm, downloading theater-quality movies from Hotline, yum....
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Yet, there are also those who hang out at Costco every Saturday around noon just for the free samples. Everyone I know who does this also shops, but I suppose there must be a few that don't. Likewise, there are people who will never buy another CD as long as there's Napster.
I don't buy many CDs. I didn't before I started collecting MP3s, and I still don't now that I have a 6GB+ archive. However, as the collection grows, I'm getting more and more interested in having a lot of music, and therefore I'm becoming more and more interseted in purchasing CDs - not necessarily music I've already gotten from Napster, but just music in general.
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Didn't you read the e-mail?
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I think they're planning on doing this but saving it or the new motherboard architecture due out later this year.
Light a fire under IBM and Motorola. (Think G4e @ 600mhz)
IBM is working on it. Motorola wishes they could be as cool as IBM. However, they won't be able to catch up to Intel and AMD in clock speed unless they cheat somehow (like, say, doubling the clock rate while halving efficiency). I'm reminded of Patrick Volkerding jumping from Slackware 4.0 to Slackware 7.0 for similar reasons.
Get OSX out the door to take advantage of the MP
It's not ready yet. If they ship it before it's ready, there will be disaster. Remember, this is Mac OS on BSD - not an easy thing to pull off seamlessly, and it must be seamless.
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Just because you can order them today doesn't mean they're shipping out the door today. Apple's kinda annoying like that. They might not actually ship until next week. And by the way, if they were planning to ship with Radeon cards, they'd have drivers for both cards (and many more) included with the OS anyway, so they wouldn't have to make any software changes. Since the Radeon isn't ready to ship yet, it may not be supported by the drivers currently shipping.
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B) The soccer team is a national thing and probably should use their own country's TLD. Biblical quotations are global in scope and are more suited to using a gTLD (although admittedly
C) The soccer team doesn't even have a trademark on the name Corinthians; their name is Corinthiao, which is apparently pronounced the same in Portuguese, but not spelled the same - and domain names are spelled, not spoken aloud (generally).
D) The way trademark law works, I could sell a trivia game called "Guess?" but I couldn't sell bluejeans called "Guess?". Why should domain names be any different? If he had corinthiansoccer.com or corinthianfutbol.com or corinthiaofutbol.com or something, it might be a different situation.
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I would get a Voodoo 5
If I had the cash
Bah! I need a better job.
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Yes, this time, but read the last paragraph again:
That's where lag becomes a problem. This broadcast is nothing terribly special - just a higher quality than previous broadcasts.
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If it wouldn't work for Pantera, what makes you think it would work for a symphony?
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You might as well just buy the CD. Live performances are already broadcast around the world, but listening to a reproduction of the performance (live or recorded) in your living room doesn't compare to actually being there.
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Sure, but this doesn't help for a live performance where the musicians have to interact with each other. For example, if a violin and clarinet are being played at the same time, they couldn't hear each other in real time. If you've never played in a band or orchestra, you may not appreciate how much of a problem this would be.
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The 6100 had it too, and presumably the 8100. No idea whose idea that was. It plugged instead of screwed; whoopie. I thought it was particularly impressive that the monitor it shipped with needed one of those adapters.
As for connectors, there're several different connectors, the old ATi Rage Pro that I, heh, think you're thinking about (I have a couple of em at work), have aqn older style Digital Flat Panel connector, and the Apple monitors with digital connectors have all come with a newer type (I believe it's the same connector on the Hercules Geforce DDR-DVI)
What I'm thinking of is the digital connector on the G4s that Apple was shipping prior to this week, that the $4000 Cinema Display plugged into. I don't know, but I was told that this is the same connector that the new monitors use.
Any light you can shed?
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Quite right; I checked the tech specs page about two minutes after posting that. I could have sworn I saw mention of 4x AGP somewhere, though, but the new G4s have 2x AGP as well. Hrm. Oh well.
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This is also why the iBook has one mono speaker, no microphone, and no microphone jack. The only way to get sound in (like, say, to take advantage of the voice authentication feature of Mac OS 9) is with a USB microphone, which would have high markup.
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That feature can be turned off. I can't think of a way to implement it that wouldn't involve sending the info to somebody.
IE is more standards compliant than Netscape.
As Netscape 6 draws nearer to completion, Microsoft will begin fighting against standards again. IE 5.5 is the first step in this direction.
IE isn't Word, it doesn't have a paper clip nor does it interfere with your browsing of the Internet.
Most of IE's annoyances are harder to turn off than the "What's Related" feature in Netscape.
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