Actually the movie was based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel." I just learned that today. (Didn't fit with what I remembered from that forward; I need to go read it again.)
This should not be moderated up; it's disinformation. There is absolutely no evidence that anything about "lilith" was ever in the Bible. It's in legends which sprang up after the Bible, but never in the Bible itself. The oldest copies of the Old Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, predate the Christian religion and the Church, and don't contain any of this junk. The Dead Sea Scrolls are fascinating evidence that the Old Testament has not been altered since before the time of Christ and the Church.
... and copyright of modern translations has been controversial since it began (in 1901 with the American Standard Version, I believe). And it really puts a damper on my goreadthebible.com project, where I'd like to have multiple modern translations of the Bible available for reading without some of the doctrinal teachings found on other websites that I believe are incorrect. Unfortunately, I'm just a small fry, and can't afford whatever royalties would be needed for such a project (and they doubtless would disapprove of my intended site policy that anyone in the world be able to print or save the entire contents of the website).
I'm taking training courses in hymnwriting and intend on anything I publish being freely redistributable. My father has been a hymnwriter since the 1960s; I remember when he first explained copyright to me as a boy. It didn't seem right to me, then, and he's now changed his stance so much that he pretty much doesn't care where his hymns go. I think he decided it was more important that people actually SING his hymns than respect his copyright. I know some other great hymnists and wish they would see things the same way.
The difference between scientology and Christianity is that in scientology the originals are copyrighted, while in Christianity someone could conceivably make a new translation and own the rights to it. There are actually people called Freezoners who believe in the scientology principles but not the organization. These people are forced to purchase their religious texts from an organization they find morally repugnant, perhaps violating their religious principles. That doesn't sound right.
Not sure where they got the idea only coders using CodeWarrior used Macs. Personally, the main programmers I've seen using it are Perl programmers. Personally, I use the Mac as a coder, running Debian. But I'm a bit out of the ordinary.:)
Excuse me while I go back to this exciting Freeciv game on my Mac.:)
Heh; I know the feeling. My fiance was homeschooled and grew up with weekly trips to Half Price Books and the library. What's more, I live about three blocks from a Half Price Books, and I've agreed to homeschool our children, so I have a feeling the tradition will continue.
Half Price Books is mostly used stuff; that was the only one they had. I've learned recently shopping their closeouts can be great. I bought a book there not long ago, paperback, for $1; then came back the next week and saw the same book, hardback, for $1.
It was just a one time thing. I got lucky. But don't let that dissuade you from checking that section.:)
Doesn't fit my worldview. As an unmarried Christian, if I weren't a virgin, I'd want to hide it, not the other way around... I'm 25, btw, and engaged.
Probably take all kinds of mocking for writing this, but hey, our worldviews are completely different. The guys who'd make fun of me over this think I'm a loser, and I don't have such a high opinion of them, either, so I guess life goes on.
I used to use a similar whiteboard system. I was in the smallest workspace I've ever had: a sort of quarter-cube, but it was around the corner inside a group office, so it was one of the most productive locations I've ever been in.
When you came through the door into the group office, you were staring straight at my manager's cube wall. On that wall was a giant-size whiteboard a previous manager had obtained for me. You had to turn left around the corner to get to me, so you saw my whiteboard before you ever saw me, and that was where I kept my task list.
I hadn't quite hit on how to get people to prioritize things for me, so I used a tally mark system. I worked on the task with the greatest number of tally marks next to it. Whenever someone asked me about a task, I added one or more tally marks. Most people rated one tally mark. If it was my manager, I put two tally marks; if it was his manager, I put three, and for the VP in charge of our department, I put four. This worked surprisingly well as a heuristic to help me deliver the most important products first.
I found Peopleware a couple of weeks ago on closeout at Half Price Books for A DOLLAR! I'd heard about it and knew I was getting an important classic (it's right next to Mythical Man-Month on my shelf, now).
It's only been just this week I've really started getting into it, but the insights it offers have been wonderful. After reading that noise is a huge office problem and that music can effectively block out noise but stifles creativity, I've dispensed with the headphones and gone to just earplugs. Instant productivity gain! Working in silence has been one of the best things ever for me.
Put it on your todo list. Keep your todo list open and accessible. When people bark about something, move it up in priority on the list. If they never ask about it again, it'll stay at the bottom of the list and not get done.
Jody, thanks for the great piece of software! Gnumeric has done a lot for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing it become the gold standard of spreadsheets some day. Don't listen to the naysayers.
What's new about this technique? I remember reading in National Geographic World magazine for children about 1984 or so about them doing this for King Tut.
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Ask any 15 year old girl what the square root of four is and she'll giggle and go "i dont know math!". She probably knows, but it's not cool to know math, so the act is that they dont.
I recently tutored my girlfriend for the math portion of the Texas state college test (TASP) which determines if you need to take remedial courses or not. She had zero confidence in her own abilities, but when we were done she beat the passing score by 65 points and the College Algebra level score by 30 points. I can't think of anything so rewarding as helping someone see that they can do math.
I really cant stand the way ignorance and stupidity is glorified in western cultures.
I viewed a presentation about design patterns at YAPC::NA::2002.
I once had a software engineering professor who over a period of several weeks refused to believe me that Perl was an object-oriented language (like C++, not like Java or Smalltalk). He was finally convinced when he taught design patterns, giving the factory class as an example, and I said, "I did that this morning in Perl." His jaw dropped.
I still consider myself a Perl programmer, but I was laid off last November and moved to a new job that is primarily Oracle PL/SQL programming. I only knew the bare minimum of PL/SQL, but already I am one of the guys people go to in this office when they have PL/SQL questions. I've helped about six people more experienced than me through fixing mutating table problems, and I'm learning more constantly through reading and experience.
I credit my experience with Perl extensively for helping me to be a good PL/SQL programmer. In my experience, good Perl programmers (the ones you're likely to see speaking at a conference or writing a book) use the right tool for the job, constantly pick up new languages (Ruby and Python are pretty popular), and do a better job programming in those languages because of their Perl experience.
I just bought the Idiot's Guide to Getting Rich and the Idiot's Guide to Online Investing. Both seem reasonably competent, but I won't read them until after I finish the financial planning book. The Getting Rich book emphasizes starting your own business if you want to be what I would call "filthy rich," and I have no interest in doing that, but other than that the advice seems sound. I'm not sure I'm ever going to invest online (surprisingly, since I do everything else online), but I got both for $2 each and thought it couldn't hurt.
I've also been interested in the Ebay Businesses for Dummies books and other Ebay titles in the series. Not because I want to start a business but because I'm curious about people who do and how they do it.
Someday I'll probably have Hebrew for Dummies, too, as that's another of my interests.
For computer titles, though, I pretty much stick to O'Reilly.
I have actually learned recently that the for Dummies books seem to be quite good. The Personal Finance for Dummies book I bought is one of the most highly recommended books on the subject. Dummies books are apparently published by the people who do Cliff's Notes, and I always found those handy, too. (Of course, I was one of those weirdos who read the book and then read the Cliff's Notes...)
I haven't used many of the computer-related Dummies books (the C one I looked at years ago looked awful, but I'm sure it's been through six revisions by now) but for other subjects I know little about but need a good introduction, they seem very good. I'm planning on getting Automotive Repair for Dummies (or whatever they call it) sometime soon.
Some of the Idiot's guides also seem to be pretty good, but more of them seem to be misses.
I'm browsing on a 300 MHz Celeron machine. A dragon would be a step up, I think.
I can compile Linux From Scratch in a single evening. I think this machine is more than sufficient for my needs. I can't imagine why a Dragon wouldn't be.
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Hear, hear! A closed Calvin and Hobbes canon was one of the worst tragedies to ever occur.
Actually the movie was based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel." I just learned that today. (Didn't fit with what I remembered from that forward; I need to go read it again.)
Would you believe when I read that this morning, I took you seriously? I wondered why the guy would make lewd jokes in addition to his weird agenda.
Here I am, two Dr. Peppers later, and I finally get it. :)
Passing the Turing Test may not be as far away as you think.
Scientology is also doing something to make Earthlink (their ISP) come up high on many religious searches. Drives me nuts.
This should not be moderated up; it's disinformation. There is absolutely no evidence that anything about "lilith" was ever in the Bible. It's in legends which sprang up after the Bible, but never in the Bible itself. The oldest copies of the Old Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, predate the Christian religion and the Church, and don't contain any of this junk. The Dead Sea Scrolls are fascinating evidence that the Old Testament has not been altered since before the time of Christ and the Church.
... and copyright of modern translations has been controversial since it began (in 1901 with the American Standard Version, I believe). And it really puts a damper on my goreadthebible.com project, where I'd like to have multiple modern translations of the Bible available for reading without some of the doctrinal teachings found on other websites that I believe are incorrect. Unfortunately, I'm just a small fry, and can't afford whatever royalties would be needed for such a project (and they doubtless would disapprove of my intended site policy that anyone in the world be able to print or save the entire contents of the website).
I'm taking training courses in hymnwriting and intend on anything I publish being freely redistributable. My father has been a hymnwriter since the 1960s; I remember when he first explained copyright to me as a boy. It didn't seem right to me, then, and he's now changed his stance so much that he pretty much doesn't care where his hymns go. I think he decided it was more important that people actually SING his hymns than respect his copyright. I know some other great hymnists and wish they would see things the same way.
The difference between scientology and Christianity is that in scientology the originals are copyrighted, while in Christianity someone could conceivably make a new translation and own the rights to it. There are actually people called Freezoners who believe in the scientology principles but not the organization. These people are forced to purchase their religious texts from an organization they find morally repugnant, perhaps violating their religious principles. That doesn't sound right.
Not sure where they got the idea only coders using CodeWarrior used Macs. Personally, the main programmers I've seen using it are Perl programmers. Personally, I use the Mac as a coder, running Debian. But I'm a bit out of the ordinary. :)
Excuse me while I go back to this exciting Freeciv game on my Mac. :)
Heh; I know the feeling. My fiance was homeschooled and grew up with weekly trips to Half Price Books and the library. What's more, I live about three blocks from a Half Price Books, and I've agreed to homeschool our children, so I have a feeling the tradition will continue.
I need more bookshelves ... sigh. :)
Half Price Books is mostly used stuff; that was the only one they had. I've learned recently shopping their closeouts can be great. I bought a book there not long ago, paperback, for $1; then came back the next week and saw the same book, hardback, for $1.
It was just a one time thing. I got lucky. But don't let that dissuade you from checking that section. :)
Doesn't fit my worldview. As an unmarried Christian, if I weren't a virgin, I'd want to hide it, not the other way around... I'm 25, btw, and engaged.
Probably take all kinds of mocking for writing this, but hey, our worldviews are completely different. The guys who'd make fun of me over this think I'm a loser, and I don't have such a high opinion of them, either, so I guess life goes on.
I used to use a similar whiteboard system. I was in the smallest workspace I've ever had: a sort of quarter-cube, but it was around the corner inside a group office, so it was one of the most productive locations I've ever been in.
When you came through the door into the group office, you were staring straight at my manager's cube wall. On that wall was a giant-size whiteboard a previous manager had obtained for me. You had to turn left around the corner to get to me, so you saw my whiteboard before you ever saw me, and that was where I kept my task list.
I hadn't quite hit on how to get people to prioritize things for me, so I used a tally mark system. I worked on the task with the greatest number of tally marks next to it. Whenever someone asked me about a task, I added one or more tally marks. Most people rated one tally mark. If it was my manager, I put two tally marks; if it was his manager, I put three, and for the VP in charge of our department, I put four. This worked surprisingly well as a heuristic to help me deliver the most important products first.
I found Peopleware a couple of weeks ago on closeout at Half Price Books for A DOLLAR! I'd heard about it and knew I was getting an important classic (it's right next to Mythical Man-Month on my shelf, now).
It's only been just this week I've really started getting into it, but the insights it offers have been wonderful. After reading that noise is a huge office problem and that music can effectively block out noise but stifles creativity, I've dispensed with the headphones and gone to just earplugs. Instant productivity gain! Working in silence has been one of the best things ever for me.
Put it on your todo list. Keep your todo list open and accessible. When people bark about something, move it up in priority on the list. If they never ask about it again, it'll stay at the bottom of the list and not get done.
Perhaps the first amendment repealed that section of the Constitution.
Jody, thanks for the great piece of software! Gnumeric has done a lot for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing it become the gold standard of spreadsheets some day. Don't listen to the naysayers.
What's new about this technique? I remember reading in National Geographic World magazine for children about 1984 or so about them doing this for King Tut.
The vulnerability was exploited during the one week window between the announcement of the vulnerability and the release of the patch.
Best sig ever.
Ask any 15 year old girl what the square root of four is and she'll giggle and go "i dont know math!". She probably knows, but it's not cool to know math, so the act is that they dont.
I recently tutored my girlfriend for the math portion of the Texas state college test (TASP) which determines if you need to take remedial courses or not. She had zero confidence in her own abilities, but when we were done she beat the passing score by 65 points and the College Algebra level score by 30 points. I can't think of anything so rewarding as helping someone see that they can do math.
I really cant stand the way ignorance and stupidity is glorified in western cultures.
I enthusiastically agree.
I viewed a presentation about design patterns at YAPC::NA::2002.
I once had a software engineering professor who over a period of several weeks refused to believe me that Perl was an object-oriented language (like C++, not like Java or Smalltalk). He was finally convinced when he taught design patterns, giving the factory class as an example, and I said, "I did that this morning in Perl." His jaw dropped.
I still consider myself a Perl programmer, but I was laid off last November and moved to a new job that is primarily Oracle PL/SQL programming. I only knew the bare minimum of PL/SQL, but already I am one of the guys people go to in this office when they have PL/SQL questions. I've helped about six people more experienced than me through fixing mutating table problems, and I'm learning more constantly through reading and experience.
I credit my experience with Perl extensively for helping me to be a good PL/SQL programmer. In my experience, good Perl programmers (the ones you're likely to see speaking at a conference or writing a book) use the right tool for the job, constantly pick up new languages (Ruby and Python are pretty popular), and do a better job programming in those languages because of their Perl experience.
I just bought the Idiot's Guide to Getting Rich and the Idiot's Guide to Online Investing. Both seem reasonably competent, but I won't read them until after I finish the financial planning book. The Getting Rich book emphasizes starting your own business if you want to be what I would call "filthy rich," and I have no interest in doing that, but other than that the advice seems sound. I'm not sure I'm ever going to invest online (surprisingly, since I do everything else online), but I got both for $2 each and thought it couldn't hurt.
I've also been interested in the Ebay Businesses for Dummies books and other Ebay titles in the series. Not because I want to start a business but because I'm curious about people who do and how they do it.
Someday I'll probably have Hebrew for Dummies, too, as that's another of my interests.
For computer titles, though, I pretty much stick to O'Reilly.
I have actually learned recently that the for Dummies books seem to be quite good. The Personal Finance for Dummies book I bought is one of the most highly recommended books on the subject. Dummies books are apparently published by the people who do Cliff's Notes, and I always found those handy, too. (Of course, I was one of those weirdos who read the book and then read the Cliff's Notes...)
I haven't used many of the computer-related Dummies books (the C one I looked at years ago looked awful, but I'm sure it's been through six revisions by now) but for other subjects I know little about but need a good introduction, they seem very good. I'm planning on getting Automotive Repair for Dummies (or whatever they call it) sometime soon.
Some of the Idiot's guides also seem to be pretty good, but more of them seem to be misses.
I'm browsing on a 300 MHz Celeron machine. A dragon would be a step up, I think.
I can compile Linux From Scratch in a single evening. I think this machine is more than sufficient for my needs. I can't imagine why a Dragon wouldn't be.
I can't; I'm over my limit! :P