Progressive Christian is a believer in one God - three persons (as defined in Nicene Creed) who does NOT engage in bibliolatry (i.e. a belief that every single word of the Bible must be taken literally, and for whom Bible is the final authority and not God. Jesus didn't write any books but revealed divine truth to his selected followers only. Hence, continuous Apostolic succession is so important in the Church, and not many churches can lay a claim to that. As a matter of fact the idea that you can "start" a church is absurd, just as the idea that someone in England, decides to "start" a kingdom and proclaim themselves a king of England).
A progressive Christian reads the Bible and understands it for what it is, a collection of parables and rarely historical accounts of actual events, the purpose of which is to always illustrate a point that God is actively involved in his creation, encouraging trust in him (which means believing his word i.e. believing that he has done or will do what he has promised).
A progressive Christian is living in the present, and applies the word of God to his situation and does not try to bend the world to fit the Bible and live in the past, avoiding relativism, a great peril of modern world on the way.
Unlike resources (assets) like land, water, ore etc. total wealth is not limited. Just because 2% of people have 50% of wealth, does NOT mean that there's somehow less wealth to be had for the rest of us.
Wealth is created by creative people. Each time you write software that other people need, you create wealth. Wealth is what other people need really.
If you read carefully you will perhaps notice that I never said Eclipse is THE best IDE out there, but merely that it is significantly better than VS.NET 2005 (not a big feat in itself really). IntelliJ may be better than Eclipse, but it better be it costs quite a bit more:).
I have used VS.NET 2005 and all versions of Visual Studio before it, but it simply can't even be compared on basic tasks. Code exploration and navigation in Eclipse really is light years ahead (each line of code becomes a link on demand), popup previews of code, bookmarks, history of browsing etc. Exploring a large multi million line code base with Eclipse is a breeze and much faster than say VS.NET 2005. But, IDE is a personal thing. If VS.NET works for you, use it. If you are MS code monkey then that's the only decent (compared to the rest) IDE you really can "choose".
Actually, Jesus made it quite clear everywhere that ~he is the way, and that no one comes to the Father but through him...~. Yes, if there were a hypothetical people living on an "island" where they never heard of Jesus, but lead good lives by accident (and it would have to be by accident since they would not know of God's rules for living a good life), then they indeed would not be condemned. However, anyone who has learned of Jesus and his role (which today is almost everyone) and has decided to reject him, condemns themselves.
what if "the terrorists" raid one and steal the fuel and build a bomb. Or what if they hijack one and dock it in New York and pull and few plugs and make the reactor explode?
This is "big idead" from people with money?? WTF. Their idea of changing the world is bombarding cell phone owners with ads based on where they take their dog for a walk? What the f*ck? How small minded. Could they not use that money for something really progressive???
Actually negative of "all cats have tails" is "there is at least one cat that does not have a tail". So, if someone brought you a cat that does not have a tail, it would indeed prove that "all cats have tails" is false. However, number of cats on the planet is finite. So it is in fact possible at least in theory to inspect all cats. If there was an infinite number of cats (or worse uncountably infinite where even induction couldn't help), then we'd have a different problem.
In 1998 or there about Rogers.com started offering cable Internet access. This required installation of software (and sometimes even public sharing of entire C: drive that Rogers then could access all done by clueless? "modem installation" guys) which customized your browser (default icons, search engine and home page all done in registry) so when you open your browser it would go to @Home portal with their news snippets, and other content. And people thought THAT IS the Internet.
With the death of net neutrality we are going back to those lovely times, when your ISP (or your ISP's ISP) is going to provide priority content (i.e. ads and what ever crap they want to shove down your throats) that loads fast, and everything else is slow and that WILL BE the Internet. And people will pay for this privilege $50 a month (don't laugh people do that with cable TV already, and telcos want to enter into TV market).
will the rest of the world follow as well? As it stands the laws passed only affect IP traffic in the USA (and I swear all US sights seem to load a lot slower today!???!). I wonder is this will trickle down to the rest of the world. It would only make sense. New World Order can't be brought about if there is a free medium where people can easily exchange ideas.
Because Pure Math is one of those disciplines closest to the inner workings of the mind. It really does teach you to think clearly, to analyse, deduce, synthesize, create knowledge, research, explore, and be critical. It teaches understanding not just a body of knowledge. And math is also a language. Quite expressive language at it too. It's the language spoken by the universe.
Depending on how deep you go into it, and how long you exercise your mind, other things like computer languages (which at its formal abstract level is a pure math discipline really, grammars, syntax etc) become mundanely trivial. Now using a language to solve a concrete problem may be a lot more interesting, but such problems rarely arise in business and commerce.
This is exactly why Google should work hard on its own Linux distro. By putting their weight and cache behind it, they might be able to gather some support from major hardware manufacturers to create high quality drivers for latest hardware (which in my mind is the biggest reason why majority of people don't already use Linux).
Then, Google would have more to rely on, than the search engine.
I'm aware of the F12 and back/forward buttons. But not quite the same as Eclipse. In Eclipse, if you hover with the mouse over any line of code (e.g. a method call on a class) and you have CTRL pressed, you get code outline in a pop up window, which reduces the need to actually follow the link. Also, the code itself becomes underlined and you can click on it to navigate (or follow the link).
In line outline is also very useful for navigating within the class. Exploring type hierarchies, esp. in-line hierarchy view which lets you know which classes override the method you are in, is also very useful. Perhaps you ought to also try Eclipse to appreciate the how much more advanced it is than VS.NET 2005.
VS.NET is not such a great IDE after all. It's actually mediocre compared to offerings available for Java.
What if you are working on a project with 30,000 source files. There is no way to tell the IDE open file "FooBar.sc". Code exploration and navigation is not well supported (the source view at the bottom is copied from Eclipse, but has limited usefulness and it's a lot slower than corresponding view in Eclipse).
Now Eclipse is a great IDE. With a click of a button each line of java code becomes a link (as in web page link). You can navigate and explore and learn 100,000,000 line code base much faster with it. It has favourites/forward/back buttons etc.
You can open any type using Camel case or wild cards, so you never have to memorize what project/package/folder the file you want to work on is in, etc.
Re-factoring support is much better than VS.NET 2005 etc.
All in all, light years ahead of anything we have seen from MS so far.
Well, actually Germans are a lot smarter than your average Canadian (lived in both countries), more cultured too, and on average drive a lot better cars capable and safer at the higher speeds that Germans drive, and quality of driving in Germany by your average driver is extremely high, in the top 5 percentile of Canadian drivers. So there, perhaps that explains something.
This guy hears of Moors law, extends it to everything else (renames it to Keurzweil's law) and starts making predictions about the end of civilization by 2020, since according to him, that is when out pocket PC will be more intelligent than us.... and other crazy stuff. Yeah right...
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Progressive Christian is a believer in one God - three persons (as defined in Nicene Creed) who does NOT engage in bibliolatry (i.e. a belief that every single word of the Bible must be taken literally, and for whom Bible is the final authority and not God. Jesus didn't write any books but revealed divine truth to his selected followers only. Hence, continuous Apostolic succession is so important in the Church, and not many churches can lay a claim to that. As a matter of fact the idea that you can "start" a church is absurd, just as the idea that someone in England, decides to "start" a kingdom and proclaim themselves a king of England).
A progressive Christian reads the Bible and understands it for what it is, a collection of parables and rarely historical accounts of actual events, the purpose of which is to always illustrate a point that God is actively involved in his creation, encouraging trust in him (which means believing his word i.e. believing that he has done or will do what he has promised).
A progressive Christian is living in the present, and applies the word of God to his situation and does not try to bend the world to fit the Bible and live in the past, avoiding relativism, a great peril of modern world on the way.
Perhaps that clears it somewhat.
Dollar is just a piece of paper whose scarcity is guaranteed by US government :). A lot of things in economy are relative.
Unlike resources (assets) like land, water, ore etc. total wealth is not limited. Just because 2% of people have 50% of wealth, does NOT mean that there's somehow less wealth to be had for the rest of us.
Wealth is created by creative people. Each time you write software that other people need, you create wealth. Wealth is what other people need really.
If you read carefully you will perhaps notice that I never said Eclipse is THE best IDE out there, but merely that it is significantly better than VS.NET 2005 (not a big feat in itself really). IntelliJ may be better than Eclipse, but it better be it costs quite a bit more :).
I have used VS.NET 2005 and all versions of Visual Studio before it, but it simply can't even be compared on basic tasks. Code exploration and navigation in Eclipse really is light years ahead (each line of code becomes a link on demand), popup previews of code, bookmarks, history of browsing etc. Exploring a large multi million line code base with Eclipse is a breeze and much faster than say VS.NET 2005. But, IDE is a personal thing. If VS.NET works for you, use it. If you are MS code monkey then that's the only decent (compared to the rest) IDE you really can "choose".
Actually, Jesus made it quite clear everywhere that ~he is the way, and that no one comes to the Father but through him...~. Yes, if there were a hypothetical people living on an "island" where they never heard of Jesus, but lead good lives by accident (and it would have to be by accident since they would not know of God's rules for living a good life), then they indeed would not be condemned. However, anyone who has learned of Jesus and his role (which today is almost everyone) and has decided to reject him, condemns themselves.
VS.NET the best IDE? Holy crap. It's thousand light years behind Eclipse 3.1 (give it a try it works on Macs too).
what if "the terrorists" raid one and steal the fuel and build a bomb. Or what if they hijack one and dock it in New York and pull and few plugs and make the reactor explode?
This is "big idead" from people with money?? WTF. Their idea of changing the world is bombarding cell phone owners with ads based on where they take their dog for a walk? What the f*ck? How small minded. Could they not use that money for something really progressive???
what I think about it?
They said teeth and bones, not boner!
Actually negative of "all cats have tails" is "there is at least one cat that does not have a tail". So, if someone brought you a cat that does not have a tail, it would indeed prove that "all cats have tails" is false. However, number of cats on the planet is finite. So it is in fact possible at least in theory to inspect all cats. If there was an infinite number of cats (or worse uncountably infinite where even induction couldn't help), then we'd have a different problem.
In 1998 or there about Rogers.com started offering cable Internet access. This required installation of software (and sometimes even public sharing of entire C: drive that Rogers then could access all done by clueless? "modem installation" guys) which customized your browser (default icons, search engine and home page all done in registry) so when you open your browser it would go to @Home portal with their news snippets, and other content. And people thought THAT IS the Internet.
With the death of net neutrality we are going back to those lovely times, when your ISP (or your ISP's ISP) is going to provide priority content (i.e. ads and what ever crap they want to shove down your throats) that loads fast, and everything else is slow and that WILL BE the Internet. And people will pay for this privilege $50 a month (don't laugh people do that with cable TV already, and telcos want to enter into TV market).
will the rest of the world follow as well? As it stands the laws passed only affect IP traffic in the USA (and I swear all US sights seem to load a lot slower today!???!). I wonder is this will trickle down to the rest of the world. It would only make sense. New World Order can't be brought about if there is a free medium where people can easily exchange ideas.
Because Pure Math is one of those disciplines closest to the inner workings of the mind. It really does teach you to think clearly, to analyse, deduce, synthesize, create knowledge, research, explore, and be critical. It teaches understanding not just a body of knowledge. And math is also a language. Quite expressive language at it too. It's the language spoken by the universe.
Depending on how deep you go into it, and how long you exercise your mind, other things like computer languages (which at its formal abstract level is a pure math discipline really, grammars, syntax etc) become mundanely trivial. Now using a language to solve a concrete problem may be a lot more interesting, but such problems rarely arise in business and commerce.
And then all those things you mention become trivial :). And I'm not joking.
So, how long before compilers and debuggers are made illegal? Especially the open source ones.
This is exactly why Google should work hard on its own Linux distro. By putting their weight and cache behind it, they might be able to gather some support from major hardware manufacturers to create high quality drivers for latest hardware (which in my mind is the biggest reason why majority of people don't already use Linux).
Then, Google would have more to rely on, than the search engine.
How about the "idea" that this was predicted nearly 2000 years ago in the Bible.
I'm aware of the F12 and back/forward buttons. But not quite the same as Eclipse. In Eclipse, if you hover with the mouse over any line of code (e.g. a method call on a class) and you have CTRL pressed, you get code outline in a pop up window, which reduces the need to actually follow the link. Also, the code itself becomes underlined and you can click on it to navigate (or follow the link).
In line outline is also very useful for navigating within the class. Exploring type hierarchies, esp. in-line hierarchy view which lets you know which classes override the method you are in, is also very useful. Perhaps you ought to also try Eclipse to appreciate the how much more advanced it is than VS.NET 2005.
No, I meant 30,000 source files, which is only a slight exaggeration. The project I work on daily has about 16,000.
VS.NET is not such a great IDE after all. It's actually mediocre compared to offerings available for Java.
What if you are working on a project with 30,000 source files. There is no way to tell the IDE open file "FooBar.sc". Code exploration and navigation is not well supported (the source view at the bottom is copied from Eclipse, but has limited usefulness and it's a lot slower than corresponding view in Eclipse).
Now Eclipse is a great IDE. With a click of a button each line of java code becomes a link (as in web page link). You can navigate and explore and learn 100,000,000 line code base much faster with it. It has favourites/forward/back buttons etc.
You can open any type using Camel case or wild cards, so you never have to memorize what project/package/folder the file you want to work on is in, etc.
Re-factoring support is much better than VS.NET 2005 etc.
All in all, light years ahead of anything we have seen from MS so far.
Of course Intel can "keep up the heat"! That's what they are famour for.
Well, actually Germans are a lot smarter than your average Canadian (lived in both countries), more cultured too, and on average drive a lot better cars capable and safer at the higher speeds that Germans drive, and quality of driving in Germany by your average driver is extremely high, in the top 5 percentile of Canadian drivers. So there, perhaps that explains something.
This guy hears of Moors law, extends it to everything else (renames it to Keurzweil's law) and starts making predictions about the end of civilization by 2020, since according to him, that is when out pocket PC will be more intelligent than us.... and other crazy stuff. Yeah right...
Actually, base e (where e=lim (1+1/n)^n as n->+infinity) is the best base to use.