If developer tools are to be free as in lunch, then why not just make them available for download.
They are. You have to register, though. Make up a dummy account if you don't want Apple to have your real info. You can find development kits with IDEs for use with 10.2 and 10.3. I use Xcode quite a bit, although I'm also learning to work with vi and make.
I know more people with Linux installed (in a desktop/gaming platform manner) than people that have even considered buying a Mac for that manner. I know of one person that I know that owns a Mac, and that's because she does digital media work.
This is where Apple needs to fire its marketing dept., in full. Bring in The Donald if you feel squeamish about it. I have never seen an add for OS X. However (and I'm gonna get flamed for this) I believe that Apple may be paving the way to allowing the licensing of its OS to other box makers.
So let me be preemtive - I know that Apple is a hardware maker that writes software to support it. I know that it almost died in the '90s when they did this. However, something is very different this time - the PPC 970. This is how Apple could differentiate itself from other PPC box makers - don't allow them to sell 970-based hardware . Imagine, if you will, G3+Altivec (rumored for a long time now, don't know if it will appear) or G4 'beige' boxes running OS X. The average consumer would have a low-cost PPC alternative and Apple could maintain high hardware margins by selling G5 and G6 boxes. In other words, license OS X to other companies for use on 32-bit PPC CPUs, while keeping 64-bit to themselves, for now at least. Personally, I think we'll see HP-branded PPC boxes running OS X within the next 18 months.
In addition, look at how much Apple has put into developing iLife. They are moving more and more towards software. They are positioning themselves to be less dependant on high hardware margins with their solid software.
i know more people running desktop linux than desktop mac. And I even own an ibook (but run linux on it).
mac is all very nice, but i just cannot do some real work on it. I hate the interface. For most other people, the hardware is just to obscure and expensive.
Who? How many? What do they do for a living? Are we talking Ma and Pa here, or some buddies who are more tech-savvy? Lets not forget, there have also been numerous accounts of Linux users switching to OS X, like Moshe Bar and James Kahan.
And what is 'real work'? I use Panther on a 6-yr old powerbook with a little help from XPostFacto, and while certain functions incur serious slow-down (I have to boot into OS 9 to use Virtual PC), my ability to read and type don't.
As far as disliking the interface, to each his own. I have issues with it myself; the Dock for instance, and especially the 'menulettes' or whatever the Hell they're called. When I run Xcode its menu covers over a couple of 'em. Stupid, poor design. Same with Fast User Switching; should have put it under the Apple menu.
But thanks for the reply. Perhaps a few more details next time.
Um, Linux is not now nor in the near future going to overtake Mac OS X in the desktop arena. Let's be clear on that. Everyone here on slashdot knows of Linux; this is not true beyond those pieces of glass that separate you from the reality outside. How long has Linux been around? Why do I know of no one with it installed on their desktop? Server, yes. On the other hand, in the short time that OS X has been on the market it has become the single largest UNIX distro on the market. And it has MS Office. Scoff, point to OO.o, whatever, Linux ain't gonna make it onto the desktop of the average user until OO.o or Koffice get a bit farther along.
Of course, this is only an opinion. I've been known to be wrong. But I don't think so.
Very sad that users who buy get less than users who don't.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - it ain't all about cost. My time is worth a Hell of a lot more than the time it takes to download off of P2P. And I use Poisoned, an OS X client that searches Gnutella, OpenFT and FastTrack (Kazaa) simultaneously. iTMS is still a better value. And since I managed to get a copy of PlayFair before it got yanked (even the new host in India has pulled it) I can strip the DRM.
Now, a question for those in the know; something I've been wondering about. I know that one loses quality when a lossy format is burned then re-ripped. Here's my question - can one minimize this by re-ripping back to the original format and bitrate? In other words, if I take music that I purchase off of iTMS, burn it to cd, then rip it back down to 128kbps AAC will it sound completely crappy?
...but that George shit is fucking hilarious. Me and my son hit the floor on a more than a couple tickets. I had to stop after page 7.
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Go ahead take the cheap shot. Me, I'm going to buy one of the high-end ones at with a student discount. Everyone here is talking about initial cost, but not TCO. While I'm currently using our iMac DV 400, most of the time I spend on a computer is on my PowerBook G3 300 Wallstreet. The only upgrade has been the RAM, to 320MB, which is more than is officially supported. It's also running OS X 10.3, with a little help from XPostFacto. I still boot it into OS 9.2 often because Virtual PC and Windows 98SE run faster under it. I use it for word processing and software development with Xcode, nothing fancy, and it's certainly slower than I would like at times, but hey, OS X has become more and more responsive with each new release. Show me a 6-year-old WinTel laptop thats runs XP faster (or at all, for that matter) after SP1, and faster again after SP2.
It's easier to read from NULL to NULL, or tab to tab, or line by line than to parse for 's. It's far easier to have the program simply "know" that field #3 goes into array slot #3 than to have to parse what's between the to find out its slot. Way more resource intensive, as well.
This makes sense. And I s'pose if one used tabs to distiguish columns, and newlines for rows, then the text file would be quite easily readable with a text editor. To be able to extract the data from the files with only a text or hex editor is important; as an example my brother lost a days worth of work last year because his handheld took a dive right in the middle of a write operation, the data file was corrupted, and the data lost. I tried to look through the file with a hex editor, but it was in Pocket Access format, and I was lost. So Pat had to go rewalk a couple of transects, and regather data.
If you're using a binary file format, usually your format on disk will be almost identical to how you manipulate the data once it's loaded. The data can be read from disk into your own data structures with very little modification necessary.
Formats like XML require translating the data from the on disk format to the in memory format, and the reverse when saving.
Excellent insight; thank you. However, the format used for collection is different than that used for manipulation; For example, when I collect data, I collect it plot by plot. Each plot contains tree data, veg data, and wood debris data. However, when put into their database ( 'they' being the Oregon Dept. of Forestry in this case; more info on the survey format here), it is separated into tables by tree, veg and debris data, not by plot. XML tags make it easy to extract all the data into arrays. Also, it seems that by not just assuming that info in a certain 'field' in a tab/newline-delineated is of a certain 'type', but rather it's explicitly defined via a tag, one would be far less likely to screw up data translations.
Anyways, please point out errors in my thinking. I do appreciate the input; it really helps.
It's easier to code a program for reading a binary file than an XML file.
How so? I ask this in all seriousness, because I'm developing an inventory application that will use DTDs to describe the inventory format, and store the data in XML format. I'm hoping to use expat, an OSS XML parser. However, I'm an amateur, learning as I go, so any advice from those with more experience is always welcomed.
Instead of any of these USD1500+ devices, I'm using an Audiovox Maestro PDA with a ruggedized case. The PDA cost USD140 on eBay and the case cost ~USD100 with shipping. The biggest cost was the crappy software.
I spend most of my time walking, crawling, climbing and clawing my way through the forest. At certain intervals, depending, I stop and take data on trees (including damages and diseases, if any), vegetation, stuff like that. It depends on the contract. Hell, I once worked on a 'terrestrial mollusk survey'. Snails and slugs. Little, itty, bitty snails and slugs. Crawling around, digging through leaves and other debris, looking for slugs and snails that aren't much longer than the width of the face of a penny.
Most of the work that I do is on public lands (Forest Service, BLM, state Depts. of Forestry, etc), although I have done some work on private ground and reservations. When it's good, it's the best job you can imagine. When it's bad, ain't much that could be worse.
The main downside is that I spend a lot of time of the road, away from my wife and kids. On the up side, I do get to spend a lot of time on the road, away from my wife and kids.
I'd like to get away from it, though. Been doing it since '92 (February 17, to be exact), and it can be very physically, emotionally, and psychcologically, demanding. Isn't what I wanted to do with my life, anyways. But I had a child on the way, and the opportunity presented itself, so... What I'd like to be doing is writing code, and I'm starting by writing my own inventory software. Everything that I've used to this point sucks. And more and more these days the contracting office, whoever it is, wants the data in electronic form. I'm hoping to have something to show in the next couple of months. We'll see.
Actually, I want to download my music easily. Key difference. In fact, I've been on and off Poisoned for the last few days, and have yet to find an album that is readily available on iTMS. In fact, I've only been able to find one song. The band - Pond. The album costs $9.90 for 10 songs on iTMS, so no price break vs. individual tracks, but how much is my time worth? As a private forester, I don't work for less than $300/day in general, and usually not less than $400.
Anyways, that's my take on it. It's ain't the price, it's the convenience.
Yay, you paid a substantially more money for a different, metro-looking USB HDD that plays music than he did. Congrats, you're an idiot.
Really? So you can boot your Windows machine off of your Dell DJ, and troubleshoot your computer? Can you also transfer music and charge it at the same time off of one cord?
But you know what the real beauty of the iPod design is? It anin't much bigger than a cassette. How much longer before someone comes out with a car stereo that accepts your iPod like a tape? They're gonna get my money.
A tiny fraction of how many died in one century under the regimes of Stalin (athiest), Hitler (paganist), and Pol Pot. But don't let the facts get in the way of your religious intollerence.
How many died during the Crusades? My point is that Man has, throughout time, used faith as a means to dominate others. The Bible, and Christianity, is no different.
That's funny. I think people spend far too much time debating what He's saying now, and not enough time listening to what we know he said.
Know He said? Again, we're talking about translations here.
My 12-yr old son recently got into trouble with the law - he took an air-soft pellet gun to school. Big mistake. Got expelled for 6-months. While attending atlernative school, he got into a fight. Back to Juvenile Justice. He consistently refuses to listen to us. Shall I take him before the city elders, and ask my fellow citizens to stone him, as instructed in Deuteronomy 21:18-21? (And my son may not be a drunkard, but he sure can pack away the food.)
And how about a little farther in the same book, Deuteronomy 22:5, which starts "A woman shall not wear an article proper to a man...". All those suit-pants must drive you nuts. And the makers of blue-jeans are gonna rot in Hell, right?
Be very wary of fundamentalism.
Jesus was a rebel. He challenged the status quo, challenged people to look at others, especially the less-fortunate, differently. The way to the Lord isn't through what someone else claims Jesus said, but rather as demonstrated through his life.
Of course, I could be wrong. But I've said it before, you don't have the right to judge, only express a different belief.
And how are we supposed to know how the man lived his life? Well, the only source appears to be the description of his life in... the Bible! So don't believe claims in the Bible about what he said, but do believe claims in the Bible about what he did. Sorry, but that's not terribly plausible.
I'll sum up what I responded to another post - the one thing that seems to be agreed upon is how Jesus lived his life in general. Quoting from a text that has undergone multiple translations is naive at the very least, IMHO. I'm not just taking what I like out of the Bible, and discarding the rest. Rather, I try to seek the true meaning of what the Lord is saying. The Bible is full of all sorts of interesting little contradictions. Read it cover-to-cover sometime, uninterupted. Take a day or two.
And do I need the Bible? No, not really. Because, quite frankly, I do not believe that there is only one path to the Lord. And I'll say it again - you do not have the right or the authority to judge me, for you do not see into the private moments of my life, or the hidden places of my heart. You are human, and by your very nature fallible.
The only people who are totally wrong about faith are those who know they are totally right.
Okay, you start by saying that you can't count on the Bible for information and say, "don't do what the Bible says."
Then you proceed to cram your own version of Christianity (" try to live your life as the man lived his; with understanding and compassion for others (he spent a lot of time with prostitutes, thieves, lepers, etc)," basing your entire argument on the chunks of the Bible you have chosen to believe.
So which it it? Do we pay attention to Christ's ministry, or ignore the Bible?
I guess what I'm saying is that the one thing that has remained constant throughout written history, at least what I know of it, is not what Jesus said but rather how he lived. This seems to be the one point upon which scholars agree.
The Bible as a whole, on the other hand, has had books added and removed, been rewritten and reinterpreted as to what was said and what was meant, and been used as a political tool far too often to be considered a truly reliable source as to what was said. How many thousands have died over the centuries in the name of Jesus Christ? When did he ever demonstate violence as a means to an end? No, rather, he showed us that anger, resentment, all those negative aspects of Man are what keep us away from the Lord.
Personally, I think people spend far too much time debating what the Lord said and not enough time listening to what He's saying now.
We are like little children, and we are just now beginning to stand up and walk. Examples of our falling down lie in the sick, the hungry, the homeless. We're just now beginning to understand that maybe there is no Santa Claus, there is no Easter Bunny, there is no Bogey Man under the bed. The world is larger than the block we live on.
Truly, the more we know the less we understand.
In his entire life, there's no evidence that he ever acknowledged any belief system other than his own as being valid, let alone worthy of respect.
It's well known that a large portion of Jesus' life is not docmented. There is some evidence that he spent at least part of that time traveling to eastern lands studying, amongst other issues, faith. Your comment portrays Jesus as arrogant. I would disagree.
Please try to bear in mind that the Bible is a translation from a dead language of mans interpretation of the word of God.
Don't do what the Bible says. Don't necessarily believe what it claims Jesus said. Rather, try to live your life as the man lived his; with understanding and compassion for others (he spent a lot of time with prostitutes, thieves, lepers, etc), with respect for those of different faiths than his (remember, he was a Jew) and above all the knowledge that you don't have the right or authority to judge anyone, for only the Lord knows what's in your heart.
"...Yeah? And now you're alive and not bombed to smithereens by the raghead terrorists - thanks to President Bush..."
We were safer with Clinton because he was actually addressing real issues in the middle east (Israel-Palestine, for instance). What has Bush done to promote peace in the region? The war in Iraq has done nothing to stabilize the region; rather, it has become a rallying point for anti-American sentiment. And please don't try to say that the regime of Saddam Hussein harbored or aided terrorist; there is absolutely no proof for and plenty against (idealogies, for starters). Saddam may have condoned the attacks of September 11, but that doesn't mean he assisted in them.
"...Show some respect..."
Why show him any more respect than he showed the apparent majority of American voters in the 2000 election? This is not to say that he would not have won had a complete and total recount occurred; rather, that he would accept the position under the cicumstances that he did speaks volumes about his true character.
Actually, I had a similar experience with an album that has been out of print for, oh, about 20 years now. In addition, I live in the States and the artist (Gandalf) is Austrian. So I did a search, found a forum that hadn't been posted to in a long time, asked a question regarding said album (Tales from a Long Forgotten Kingdom), and actually received a reply about 6 months later, long after I had forgotten about posting this message. About 12 months after that I received in the mail 3 cds from a gentleman in Russia, one of which was the album in question , the other two by the same artist. No cost to me at all.
I still communicate with him every so often. I'm still amazed at the experience.
I guess that I tend to want to err on the side of caution. Include a paper flyer with each new computer explaining in detail the firewall, and how to disable it. Or make it part of the first-time set-up. Design it in such a way that the end user has to go out of their way to not read it (can't continue until the page explaining the firewall has been scrolled down to the bottom or some such).
As far as disrupting some functionality, I hear you, but OS X seems to be mostly free from these issues, at least for home-use. I have the firewall up and running on both our Macs (PB G3 300 and iMac DV 400), and share a printer between them with no problems. I can also connect via SSH, FTP, SMB/CIFS, AppleTalk or Remote Desktop with no issues, although I don't keep them all on. The only problem I've encountered are external FTP sites that have problems with passive ftp.
My memories are off, it appears. Through the haze, though, I seem to remember getting 9600, but only if both modems were AppleCats. When connected to anything else, like an Ascii Express, it was significantly lower.
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They are. You have to register, though. Make up a dummy account if you don't want Apple to have your real info. You can find development kits with IDEs for use with 10.2 and 10.3. I use Xcode quite a bit, although I'm also learning to work with vi and make.
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This is where Apple needs to fire its marketing dept., in full. Bring in The Donald if you feel squeamish about it. I have never seen an add for OS X. However (and I'm gonna get flamed for this) I believe that Apple may be paving the way to allowing the licensing of its OS to other box makers.
So let me be preemtive - I know that Apple is a hardware maker that writes software to support it. I know that it almost died in the '90s when they did this. However, something is very different this time - the PPC 970. This is how Apple could differentiate itself from other PPC box makers - don't allow them to sell 970-based hardware . Imagine, if you will, G3+Altivec (rumored for a long time now, don't know if it will appear) or G4 'beige' boxes running OS X. The average consumer would have a low-cost PPC alternative and Apple could maintain high hardware margins by selling G5 and G6 boxes. In other words, license OS X to other companies for use on 32-bit PPC CPUs, while keeping 64-bit to themselves, for now at least. Personally, I think we'll see HP-branded PPC boxes running OS X within the next 18 months.
In addition, look at how much Apple has put into developing iLife. They are moving more and more towards software. They are positioning themselves to be less dependant on high hardware margins with their solid software.
Anyways, we'll just have to wait and see.
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Who? How many? What do they do for a living? Are we talking Ma and Pa here, or some buddies who are more tech-savvy? Lets not forget, there have also been numerous accounts of Linux users switching to OS X, like Moshe Bar and James Kahan.
And what is 'real work'? I use Panther on a 6-yr old powerbook with a little help from XPostFacto, and while certain functions incur serious slow-down (I have to boot into OS 9 to use Virtual PC), my ability to read and type don't.
As far as disliking the interface, to each his own. I have issues with it myself; the Dock for instance, and especially the 'menulettes' or whatever the Hell they're called. When I run Xcode its menu covers over a couple of 'em. Stupid, poor design. Same with Fast User Switching; should have put it under the Apple menu.
But thanks for the reply. Perhaps a few more details next time.
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Um, Linux is not now nor in the near future going to overtake Mac OS X in the desktop arena. Let's be clear on that. Everyone here on slashdot knows of Linux; this is not true beyond those pieces of glass that separate you from the reality outside. How long has Linux been around? Why do I know of no one with it installed on their desktop? Server, yes. On the other hand, in the short time that OS X has been on the market it has become the single largest UNIX distro on the market. And it has MS Office. Scoff, point to OO.o, whatever, Linux ain't gonna make it onto the desktop of the average user until OO.o or Koffice get a bit farther along.
Of course, this is only an opinion. I've been known to be wrong. But I don't think so.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again - it ain't all about cost. My time is worth a Hell of a lot more than the time it takes to download off of P2P. And I use Poisoned, an OS X client that searches Gnutella, OpenFT and FastTrack (Kazaa) simultaneously. iTMS is still a better value. And since I managed to get a copy of PlayFair before it got yanked (even the new host in India has pulled it) I can strip the DRM.
Now, a question for those in the know; something I've been wondering about. I know that one loses quality when a lossy format is burned then re-ripped. Here's my question - can one minimize this by re-ripping back to the original format and bitrate? In other words, if I take music that I purchase off of iTMS, burn it to cd, then rip it back down to 128kbps AAC will it sound completely crappy?
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And Apple doesn't?
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...but that George shit is fucking hilarious. Me and my son hit the floor on a more than a couple tickets. I had to stop after page 7.
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Go ahead take the cheap shot. Me, I'm going to buy one of the high-end ones at with a student discount. Everyone here is talking about initial cost, but not TCO. While I'm currently using our iMac DV 400, most of the time I spend on a computer is on my PowerBook G3 300 Wallstreet. The only upgrade has been the RAM, to 320MB, which is more than is officially supported. It's also running OS X 10.3, with a little help from XPostFacto. I still boot it into OS 9.2 often because Virtual PC and Windows 98SE run faster under it. I use it for word processing and software development with Xcode, nothing fancy, and it's certainly slower than I would like at times, but hey, OS X has become more and more responsive with each new release. Show me a 6-year-old WinTel laptop thats runs XP faster (or at all, for that matter) after SP1, and faster again after SP2 .
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This makes sense. And I s'pose if one used tabs to distiguish columns, and newlines for rows, then the text file would be quite easily readable with a text editor. To be able to extract the data from the files with only a text or hex editor is important; as an example my brother lost a days worth of work last year because his handheld took a dive right in the middle of a write operation, the data file was corrupted, and the data lost. I tried to look through the file with a hex editor, but it was in Pocket Access format, and I was lost. So Pat had to go rewalk a couple of transects, and regather data.
Excellent insight; thank you. However, the format used for collection is different than that used for manipulation; For example, when I collect data, I collect it plot by plot. Each plot contains tree data, veg data, and wood debris data. However, when put into their database ( 'they' being the Oregon Dept. of Forestry in this case; more info on the survey format here), it is separated into tables by tree, veg and debris data, not by plot. XML tags make it easy to extract all the data into arrays. Also, it seems that by not just assuming that info in a certain 'field' in a tab/newline-delineated is of a certain 'type', but rather it's explicitly defined via a tag, one would be far less likely to screw up data translations.
Anyways, please point out errors in my thinking. I do appreciate the input; it really helps.
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How so? I ask this in all seriousness, because I'm developing an inventory application that will use DTDs to describe the inventory format, and store the data in XML format. I'm hoping to use expat, an OSS XML parser. However, I'm an amateur, learning as I go, so any advice from those with more experience is always welcomed.
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Can you say sarcasm? I knew you could.
Now ain't that just the kettle calling the pot black.
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With the right software, something like this could make a really nice alternative to other high-priced, 'ruggedized' hand-helds.
Instead of any of these USD1500+ devices, I'm using an Audiovox Maestro PDA with a ruggedized case. The PDA cost USD140 on eBay and the case cost ~USD100 with shipping. The biggest cost was the crappy software.
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I spend most of my time walking, crawling, climbing and clawing my way through the forest. At certain intervals, depending, I stop and take data on trees (including damages and diseases, if any), vegetation, stuff like that. It depends on the contract. Hell, I once worked on a 'terrestrial mollusk survey'. Snails and slugs. Little, itty, bitty snails and slugs. Crawling around, digging through leaves and other debris, looking for slugs and snails that aren't much longer than the width of the face of a penny.
Most of the work that I do is on public lands (Forest Service, BLM, state Depts. of Forestry, etc), although I have done some work on private ground and reservations. When it's good, it's the best job you can imagine. When it's bad, ain't much that could be worse.
The main downside is that I spend a lot of time of the road, away from my wife and kids. On the up side, I do get to spend a lot of time on the road, away from my wife and kids.
I'd like to get away from it, though. Been doing it since '92 (February 17, to be exact), and it can be very physically, emotionally, and psychcologically, demanding. Isn't what I wanted to do with my life, anyways. But I had a child on the way, and the opportunity presented itself, so... What I'd like to be doing is writing code, and I'm starting by writing my own inventory software. Everything that I've used to this point sucks. And more and more these days the contracting office, whoever it is, wants the data in electronic form. I'm hoping to have something to show in the next couple of months. We'll see.
(tig)
Actually, I want to download my music easily. Key difference. In fact, I've been on and off Poisoned for the last few days, and have yet to find an album that is readily available on iTMS. In fact, I've only been able to find one song. The band - Pond. The album costs $9.90 for 10 songs on iTMS, so no price break vs. individual tracks, but how much is my time worth? As a private forester, I don't work for less than $300/day in general, and usually not less than $400.
Anyways, that's my take on it. It's ain't the price, it's the convenience.
(tig)
Can you say 'FireWire'? I knew you could.
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Really? So you can boot your Windows machine off of your Dell DJ, and troubleshoot your computer? Can you also transfer music and charge it at the same time off of one cord?
But you know what the real beauty of the iPod design is? It anin't much bigger than a cassette. How much longer before someone comes out with a car stereo that accepts your iPod like a tape? They're gonna get my money.
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How many died during the Crusades? My point is that Man has, throughout time, used faith as a means to dominate others. The Bible, and Christianity, is no different.
Know He said? Again, we're talking about translations here.
My 12-yr old son recently got into trouble with the law - he took an air-soft pellet gun to school. Big mistake. Got expelled for 6-months. While attending atlernative school, he got into a fight. Back to Juvenile Justice. He consistently refuses to listen to us. Shall I take him before the city elders, and ask my fellow citizens to stone him, as instructed in Deuteronomy 21:18-21? (And my son may not be a drunkard, but he sure can pack away the food.)
And how about a little farther in the same book, Deuteronomy 22:5, which starts "A woman shall not wear an article proper to a man...". All those suit-pants must drive you nuts. And the makers of blue-jeans are gonna rot in Hell, right?
Be very wary of fundamentalism.
Jesus was a rebel. He challenged the status quo, challenged people to look at others, especially the less-fortunate, differently. The way to the Lord isn't through what someone else claims Jesus said, but rather as demonstrated through his life.
Of course, I could be wrong. But I've said it before, you don't have the right to judge, only express a different belief.
(tig)
I'll sum up what I responded to another post - the one thing that seems to be agreed upon is how Jesus lived his life in general. Quoting from a text that has undergone multiple translations is naive at the very least, IMHO. I'm not just taking what I like out of the Bible, and discarding the rest. Rather, I try to seek the true meaning of what the Lord is saying. The Bible is full of all sorts of interesting little contradictions. Read it cover-to-cover sometime, uninterupted. Take a day or two.
And do I need the Bible? No, not really. Because, quite frankly, I do not believe that there is only one path to the Lord. And I'll say it again - you do not have the right or the authority to judge me, for you do not see into the private moments of my life, or the hidden places of my heart. You are human, and by your very nature fallible.
The only people who are totally wrong about faith are those who know they are totally right.
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I guess what I'm saying is that the one thing that has remained constant throughout written history, at least what I know of it, is not what Jesus said but rather how he lived. This seems to be the one point upon which scholars agree.
The Bible as a whole, on the other hand, has had books added and removed, been rewritten and reinterpreted as to what was said and what was meant, and been used as a political tool far too often to be considered a truly reliable source as to what was said. How many thousands have died over the centuries in the name of Jesus Christ? When did he ever demonstate violence as a means to an end? No, rather, he showed us that anger, resentment, all those negative aspects of Man are what keep us away from the Lord.
Personally, I think people spend far too much time debating what the Lord said and not enough time listening to what He's saying now.
We are like little children, and we are just now beginning to stand up and walk. Examples of our falling down lie in the sick, the hungry, the homeless. We're just now beginning to understand that maybe there is no Santa Claus, there is no Easter Bunny, there is no Bogey Man under the bed. The world is larger than the block we live on.
Truly, the more we know the less we understand.
It's well known that a large portion of Jesus' life is not docmented. There is some evidence that he spent at least part of that time traveling to eastern lands studying, amongst other issues, faith. Your comment portrays Jesus as arrogant. I would disagree.
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Please try to bear in mind that the Bible is a translation from a dead language of mans interpretation of the word of God.
Don't do what the Bible says. Don't necessarily believe what it claims Jesus said. Rather, try to live your life as the man lived his; with understanding and compassion for others (he spent a lot of time with prostitutes, thieves, lepers, etc), with respect for those of different faiths than his (remember, he was a Jew) and above all the knowledge that you don't have the right or authority to judge anyone, for only the Lord knows what's in your heart.
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Apparently so. Click on the link a couple o' posts up, the one that shows the Rhapsody desktop. Note the processor.
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"...Yeah? And now you're alive and not bombed to smithereens by the raghead terrorists - thanks to President Bush..."
We were safer with Clinton because he was actually addressing real issues in the middle east (Israel-Palestine, for instance). What has Bush done to promote peace in the region? The war in Iraq has done nothing to stabilize the region; rather, it has become a rallying point for anti-American sentiment. And please don't try to say that the regime of Saddam Hussein harbored or aided terrorist; there is absolutely no proof for and plenty against (idealogies, for starters). Saddam may have condoned the attacks of September 11, but that doesn't mean he assisted in them.
"...Show some respect..."
Why show him any more respect than he showed the apparent majority of American voters in the 2000 election? This is not to say that he would not have won had a complete and total recount occurred; rather, that he would accept the position under the cicumstances that he did speaks volumes about his true character.
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Actually, I had a similar experience with an album that has been out of print for, oh, about 20 years now. In addition, I live in the States and the artist (Gandalf) is Austrian. So I did a search, found a forum that hadn't been posted to in a long time, asked a question regarding said album (Tales from a Long Forgotten Kingdom), and actually received a reply about 6 months later, long after I had forgotten about posting this message. About 12 months after that I received in the mail 3 cds from a gentleman in Russia, one of which was the album in question , the other two by the same artist. No cost to me at all.
I still communicate with him every so often. I'm still amazed at the experience.
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I guess that I tend to want to err on the side of caution. Include a paper flyer with each new computer explaining in detail the firewall, and how to disable it. Or make it part of the first-time set-up. Design it in such a way that the end user has to go out of their way to not read it (can't continue until the page explaining the firewall has been scrolled down to the bottom or some such).
As far as disrupting some functionality, I hear you, but OS X seems to be mostly free from these issues, at least for home-use. I have the firewall up and running on both our Macs (PB G3 300 and iMac DV 400), and share a printer between them with no problems. I can also connect via SSH, FTP, SMB/CIFS, AppleTalk or Remote Desktop with no issues, although I don't keep them all on. The only problem I've encountered are external FTP sites that have problems with passive ftp.
Of course, YMMV.
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My memories are off, it appears. Through the haze, though, I seem to remember getting 9600, but only if both modems were AppleCats. When connected to anything else, like an Ascii Express, it was significantly lower.
As always, please correct me as necessary.
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