"illah" means a god. "Allah" is derived from "Al-Lah" and means "The God".
There is also "Rab", which means lord, and "Rabbi" which means "my lord" [this is not the samething as the Jewish rabbi, that one means "priest", roughly, I don't know much about jewish culture.]
Btw, everyone who thinks muslims worship a different god than christians and jews, is dead wrong. I was raised as a muslim, and we were taught about the three "heavenly faiths". It basically says that you are going to heaven, if you believe in God and follow one of the three books. The books are Torat, Bible and Quran. However, they are not downwardly compatible. A jew is required to convert to Christianity or Islam, if he learns of either, becuase the prophets Jessus and Mohamed came after Mosses. A Christian would still go to heaven, as long as he has never learnt Islam, however, the moment he learns Islam for what it is, he is required to convert to Islam. A christian can not convert to judaism, because heaven is not upward compatible with previous kernels (too many patches I figure.)
A muslim OTOH, doesn't need to convert to anything, and he is not expected to anticipate the arrival of another prophet, for Mohamed was the last. Hmmm, so technically, a muslim like myself would consider himself "bleeding edge";-D
There other minor differences between the 3 groups also. A muslim man can marry a woman of either faith, but a woman can't. A muslim can perform his prayer in a Church or a Synuguge. A muslim can eat from a Jewish plate without having to ask what it is, but NOT from a christian plate. A muslim can not address a christian or a jew, while he is on his horse (figuratively speaking I guess) he has to come down and address them from ground level.
All other people are said to be going to hell. Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, all peacful skinny environment friendly morally fancy shemancys are going to hell.. en mase. OK, I really don't wanna accuse my faith (which I don't know well btw) of any wrong doing, from what I know, all non-God believers are considered evil [this includes other christians who believe in "prophets" after Mohamed, including mormons, and any other christian faction that idolizes a human being, so if your church has a holly saint you pray to, other than God himself, chances are you are considered an infidel under Islam.]
Don't listen to this guy, please, I beg of you don't close shop. I mean, what would I do? read kuro5hin or something? or god forbid, I might even resort to playing with my kid or even... ah, noooooo
Not good enough. Even if the two constitutions served identical purposes and were semantically equivelant. You would still miss on the fortune of having an "American Constitution" and will be stuck with 2nd grade "Canadian Constitution".
Look at it at every way, Canada is an American state. I mean, what have you got that is special to you, other than "eh" and the pesky french? "Eh" is not a good reason to errect an entire government. Texas speaks in more gibberish than all of Canada, and still didn't bother becoming an independent nations. As far as the french is concerned, we have more spanish than you have french, and they are happy living here.
My point is, Canada has no reason to remain its own independent nation. Join the union and we will find the marijuana leaf of yours, a parking spot amidst the stars. Besides, all the terrorists will not bother crossing the border, they will stay in Toronto and wreck havoc:-)
> The Ogre source is made available under the GNU Public License (GPL), which basically > means you can use it however you like as long as you include all the source code if you > distribute a product using it. At a later date I may also release a commercially licensed > version which allows closed-source programs to use it, probably mainly targetted at shareware > authors. THe core version of Ogre will always be available under the GPL though. See the > downloads page for full licensing terms.
Amen brother.
I REALLY believe that everyone who writes GPLed code, should ASK for money in one way or another. OSS authors need to make it clear to every one that they expect their share of the pie, should you make money off of their efforts.
Along with the screenshots, the manpages, and mailing list, OSS authors need to provide a big fat button, which links to a page with an explanation on how you should send them money, if you ever decide to use their code in closed source software, or even donations if you are one of the few out there.
To the developer of OGRE; I am not a graphics programmer, but I will download your lib and try to learn something with it, should I ever decide to use your code in one way or another, I promise you am going to PAY for it.
To the slashdot reader. If you have the money, and there is an OSS app the you earn your income with, please don't be a prick and send your financial contribution to the author(s).
My congrats go to the coder who was behind this, a good job well done.
The whinning security-experts will never see the beauty in this. A polymorphic engine? when was the last time there was a real polymorphic virus? and a cross-platform one at that.
Another kudos flies to "the whale" aka "motherfish". The first polymorphic virus, EVER.
You can't change the Quran in any way or form. Even if you make a translation, you are required to provide the "ayat" and "sura" numbers.
Muslims belief that the quran as genuine as when God uttered it. But keep in mind that the Quran itself was put into writing about 20 years (I am guessing, It was written during the ages of the 3rd Khalifa, Othman Bin Afan) after prophet Mohamed's death. Before that, it was learnt through memorization. Mohamed (PBUH) himself did not read or write (he was praised for being the illiterate who could read, and that is the subject of the first "sura" in the Quran.)
Technically, the Quran hasn't changed since its first writing. There are discrete scriptures from around 1200 years ago, and they bare the same format as today's. But all the punctuation was added later, as arabic evolved into a written language and a grammar was developed.
OTOH, the oldest Quran books are not complete and bound. They are missing parts and decayed. In islamic history, there were times when libraries and Mosques were burnt by the invaders (the mongolians come to mind) and/or by warring factions. There was a time when the largest islamic kingdom was not a sunni, as was the case with the "Fatimiyat's" in egypt; so, they had the power to modify every Quran book in existance, to suit their needs.
The Amirs/Kings of distant Islamic colonies and tribes (away from the central empire) were also known for misinterpreting and mistranslating the Quran to suit their needs (as was the case in some parts of Pakistan, Morroco, and many tribes in "black" Africa.)
There you have it. The Quran is believed to be intact, Allah says -I paraphrase- "We sent you the Quran and We are responsible for keeping it". But then, this Quote itself is from the Quran, and as you have seen, there are many reasons to suspect it undergoing change.
I can safely say that you should stay clear of Lisp and go with a product that is usable in a production environment. The experienced staff of #ai recommends Trivia, Eggdrop and Capncrunch.
Hey, I am C guy here (meaning, I don't even use perl for regexes,I know how to use lex;) but C doesn't require you to name them argc and argv respectively, it is just a tradition. However, some libraries expect such symbols and some (specially frameworks) might provide a encapsulated versions for you.
Does perl really make that a requirement? Can't it just do type checking, and leave the naming of symbols to the user's immagination?
Please tell me this is not so, as that would mean "there is only ONE way to do it":-(
I AM NOT WITHOUT A LIFE, I am just someone who can't grok the co-relation between geekdom and sci-fi/anime/cartoons/monty-python/mp3s/etc etc, and guess what? I HATED LotR here is my prrof.
All I am saying is, there are geeks who read the economist, practice judo, enjoy politics, play baseball, date a hot chick, and don't like to download everything.
If I am an exception to the rule of "geeks loving anime", then we ought to define geekdom more abstractly, and focus on the things we have in common.
A poster said I should drool over "Natalie Portman", when infact, I looked up that name in google as soon as I read it (note to self: hmmm, I should have found out about geeky stuff long time ago.)
> So let me ask this: why are you doing all these things?
I didn't get into mathematics or computing to make my own galaxy, I agree that being a control freak has something to do it, but the most important reason is because that is the only thing I can do.
I was a business student, up until recently, and I spent most of my time focusing on the mathematical aspects of business.
Going to MTH/CS wasn't a conscious choice, it was a gradual drift to my interests, and a growing pain to satisfy my curosity about life.
I, however, learnt programming for the sole purpose of independence. I have obsecure software needs, no general package can satisfy. I need lexical analyzers, matrix routines, graphics manipulation, and interrupt handlers for my IC components.
Learning to program was an effort, solving problems was an inistinct of mine.
Look, I have read every CS/math book I could lay my hands on. I have been coding since I was 13, and missed all my highschool home-comings while coding (I didn't miss my prom.) I am also a 3rd year college student, majoring in math.
I have never seen a single star wars movie, never watch an anime, not even a comic book. I hate computer games (specially multi-player games) but I don't mind trying some galaga while I am waiting for my pizza at pizza hut.
Can someone tell me, what do being a geek and being a fantacy freak have in common?
Am I the only realistic geek in this world? I would rather play with my obselete machines than spend few hours watching a friken fantacy.
Slashdot Mirror
Good for you :-)
;-D
.. en mase.
"illah" means a god.
"Allah" is derived from "Al-Lah" and means "The God".
There is also "Rab", which means lord, and "Rabbi" which means
"my lord" [this is not the samething as the Jewish rabbi, that one means "priest",
roughly, I don't know much about jewish culture.]
Btw, everyone who thinks muslims worship a different god than christians and
jews, is dead wrong. I was raised as a muslim, and we were taught about the
three "heavenly faiths". It basically says that you are going to heaven, if
you believe in God and follow one of the three books. The books are Torat,
Bible and Quran. However, they are not downwardly compatible. A jew is required
to convert to Christianity or Islam, if he learns of either, becuase the prophets
Jessus and Mohamed came after Mosses.
A Christian would still go to heaven, as long as he has never learnt Islam, however,
the moment he learns Islam for what it is, he is required to convert to Islam. A
christian can not convert to judaism, because heaven is not upward compatible with
previous kernels (too many patches I figure.)
A muslim OTOH, doesn't need to convert to anything, and he is not expected to anticipate
the arrival of another prophet, for Mohamed was the last. Hmmm, so technically, a muslim like myself would consider himself "bleeding edge"
There other minor differences between the 3 groups also. A muslim man can marry a woman of
either faith, but a woman can't. A muslim can perform his prayer in a Church or a Synuguge.
A muslim can eat from a Jewish plate without having to ask what it is, but NOT from a christian
plate. A muslim can not address a christian or a jew, while he is on his horse (figuratively speaking I guess)
he has to come down and address them from ground level.
All other people are said to be going to hell. Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, all peacful skinny
environment friendly morally fancy shemancys are going to hell
OK, I really don't wanna accuse my faith (which I don't know well btw) of any wrong doing,
from what I know, all non-God believers are considered evil [this includes other christians who
believe in "prophets" after Mohamed, including mormons, and any other christian faction that
idolizes a human being, so if your church has a holly saint you pray to, other than God himself,
chances are you are considered an infidel under Islam.]
My MS-DOS 5/286 Commander Keen is challenging Taco's lesbian Sims running on a Linux
ThinkPad, to a side scrolling mud fight.
Terrorists?
Cool and the Gang?
Village People?
Evil Smurfs?
Boy Scouts Gone Wild?
Gayass Anal Cox, why is wearing the corporate hat again?
Also who is the guy with the long hair (front row, all the way in the right)
I think he is yummy.
Someone who knows better than I might wanna tell us the names of these guys.
FORBES suits now reading slashdot for up to the minute technical information.
Behave yourselves trolls, you are "providing senior-level business readers with access to cutting-edge, high-tech content"
ROFLMAO
Don't listen to this guy, please, I beg of you don't close shop. I mean, what ... ah, noooooo
would I do? read kuro5hin or something? or god forbid, I might even resort to
playing with my kid or even
RMS visits my scat tgp site almost everynight.
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Not good enough. Even if the two constitutions served identical purposes and
:-)
were semantically equivelant. You would still miss on the fortune of having an
"American Constitution" and will be stuck with 2nd grade "Canadian Constitution".
Look at it at every way, Canada is an American state. I mean, what have you got that
is special to you, other than "eh" and the pesky french?
"Eh" is not a good reason to errect an entire government. Texas speaks in more gibberish
than all of Canada, and still didn't bother becoming an independent nations. As far as
the french is concerned, we have more spanish than you have french, and they are happy
living here.
My point is, Canada has no reason to remain its own independent nation. Join the union
and we will find the marijuana leaf of yours, a parking spot amidst the stars. Besides,
all the terrorists will not bother crossing the border, they will stay in Toronto and
wreck havoc
More like your buddies in the backseat trying to ruin your date.
We don't like third world citizens, they make us look fat.
Nifty.org
no kidding.
your "solutions" link is broken
t ml
http://software.techyon.ca/download/solutions.h
Actually, I got the sig 2 days before the game, and forgot to remove it
because I have sigs disabled.
Meet them again? So fucking what, we will do the same thing again. Don't forget
that one of their "goals" was an own-goal.
Just watch what happens to "ahi ahi" host "ahi ahi" nation, in a few hours.
> The Ogre source is made available under the GNU Public License (GPL), which basically
> means you can use it however you like as long as you include all the source code if you
> distribute a product using it. At a later date I may also release a commercially licensed
> version which allows closed-source programs to use it, probably mainly targetted at shareware
> authors. THe core version of Ogre will always be available under the GPL though. See the
> downloads page for full licensing terms.
Amen brother.
I REALLY believe that everyone who writes GPLed code, should ASK for money in one way or another.
OSS authors need to make it clear to every one that they expect their share of the pie, should
you make money off of their efforts.
Along with the screenshots, the manpages, and mailing list, OSS authors need to provide a big
fat button, which links to a page with an explanation on how you should send them money, if you
ever decide to use their code in closed source software, or even donations if you are one of
the few out there.
To the developer of OGRE; I am not a graphics programmer, but I will download your lib and try
to learn something with it, should I ever decide to use your code in one way or another, I promise
you am going to PAY for it.
To the slashdot reader. If you have the money, and there is an OSS app the you earn your income with,
please don't be a prick and send your financial contribution to the author(s).
My congrats go to the coder who was behind this, a good job well done.
The whinning security-experts will never see the beauty in this. A polymorphic engine?
when was the last time there was a real polymorphic virus? and a cross-platform one at that.
Another kudos flies to "the whale" aka "motherfish". The first polymorphic virus, EVER.
You can't change the Quran in any way or form. Even if you make a translation,
;-D
you are required to provide the "ayat" and "sura" numbers.
Muslims belief that the quran as genuine as when God uttered it. But keep in mind
that the Quran itself was put into writing about 20 years (I am guessing, It was written
during the ages of the 3rd Khalifa, Othman Bin Afan) after prophet
Mohamed's death. Before that, it was learnt through memorization. Mohamed (PBUH) himself
did not read or write (he was praised for being the illiterate who could read, and that is
the subject of the first "sura" in the Quran.)
Technically, the Quran hasn't changed since its first writing. There are discrete scriptures
from around 1200 years ago, and they bare the same format as today's. But all the punctuation
was added later, as arabic evolved into a written language and a grammar was developed.
OTOH, the oldest Quran books are not complete and bound. They are missing parts and decayed.
In islamic history, there were times when libraries and Mosques were burnt by the invaders
(the mongolians come to mind) and/or by warring factions. There was a time when the largest
islamic kingdom was not a sunni, as was the case with the "Fatimiyat's" in egypt; so, they
had the power to modify every Quran book in existance, to suit their needs.
The Amirs/Kings of distant Islamic colonies and tribes (away from the central empire) were also
known for misinterpreting and mistranslating the Quran to suit their needs (as was the case in some
parts of Pakistan, Morroco, and many tribes in "black" Africa.)
There you have it. The Quran is believed to be intact, Allah says -I paraphrase- "We sent you the Quran and We are responsible for keeping it".
But then, this Quote itself is from the Quran, and as you have seen, there are many reasons to suspect it undergoing change.
Cynics don't make good worshipers I guess
As the official operator of #ai, on openprojects,
I can safely say that you should stay clear of Lisp and go with a product that is usable in a production environment.
The experienced staff of #ai recommends Trivia, Eggdrop and Capncrunch.
Hey, I am C guy here (meaning, I don't even use perl for regexes,I know how to ;) but C doesn't require you to name them argc and argv respectively, it
:-(
use lex
is just a tradition.
However, some libraries expect such symbols and some (specially frameworks) might
provide a encapsulated versions for you.
Does perl really make that a requirement? Can't it just do type checking, and leave
the naming of symbols to the user's immagination?
Please tell me this is not so, as that would mean "there is only ONE way to do it"
Ok, I will say this again:
I AM NOT WITHOUT A LIFE, I am just someone who can't grok the co-relation
between geekdom and sci-fi/anime/cartoons/monty-python/mp3s/etc etc, and
guess what? I HATED LotR here is my prrof.
All I am saying is, there are geeks who read the economist, practice judo, enjoy
politics, play baseball, date a hot chick, and don't like to download everything.
If I am an exception to the rule of "geeks loving anime", then we ought to define
geekdom more abstractly, and focus on the things we have in common.
A poster said I should drool over "Natalie Portman", when infact, I looked up that
name in google as soon as I read it (note to self: hmmm, I should have found out about
geeky stuff long time ago.)
How slow. The fact that I am "in slashdot" should hit it home, at first go :-)
> So let me ask this: why are you doing all these things?
I didn't get into mathematics or computing to make my own galaxy, I agree that
being a control freak has something to do it, but the most important reason is
because that is the only thing I can do.
I was a business student, up until recently, and I spent most of my time focusing
on the mathematical aspects of business.
Going to MTH/CS wasn't a conscious choice, it was a gradual drift to my interests, and
a growing pain to satisfy my curosity about life.
I, however, learnt programming for the sole purpose of independence. I have obsecure software
needs, no general package can satisfy. I need lexical analyzers, matrix routines, graphics
manipulation, and interrupt handlers for my IC components.
Learning to program was an effort, solving problems was an inistinct of mine.
The most realistic one of them all. I must have hit a nerve, seeing the
amount of moderation my post got.
I guess I am not a geek (knowing how good I am in baseball, and the fact that
I am seeing a pretty girl.) but hey, atleast I thought I was one.
Look, I have read every CS/math book I could lay my hands on. I have been
coding since I was 13, and missed all my highschool home-comings while coding
(I didn't miss my prom.) I am also a 3rd year college student, majoring in math.
I have never seen a single star wars movie, never watch an anime, not even a comic
book. I hate computer games (specially multi-player games) but I don't mind trying
some galaga while I am waiting for my pizza at pizza hut.
Can someone tell me, what do being a geek and being a fantacy freak have in common?
Am I the only realistic geek in this world? I would rather play with my obselete
machines than spend few hours watching a friken fantacy.
Get real guys.
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If this post is a "flamebait", I might as well sacrific a few
karma for the cause. Crack head mods.
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"Husband"? Geeks are taking it too far.
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