Well for one some of the gospels at least back then could be dated exactly to persons surrounding jesus followers, and others omitted clearly showed up way later then the one canoninized or clearly showed gnostic influences which crawled up way later in christianity. I dont know too much about the early history, but the entire council of Nicea is well documented and written philosophical texts way before that so a person with good historical and religious background can give you more insight why exactly the gospels we have today were canoninized but my assumption goes towards, those were the most historical correct ones, you partially can prove that today by trying to date them back, some of the gospels we have today were canonized within the first century after the death of crist while others not making it into the canon came after 200 bc! But anyone with a good historical background can give you more insight on this. But rest assured that the gospels which made it in can be taken more seriously than the rest which is floating around, which sometimes has heavy gnostic influence or influences from other religions and which most of the times came way later!
Anyway the canonisation is always a problem, even the Moslems who always say their book is 100% correct are at fault here. First of all Muhammad has rewritten parts of the canon during his lifetime, secondly the canonisation happened as book a few generations after Muhammad before everything was written down in leather scrolls. So who can gurantee that nothing was added or altered, after all a few generations after Muhammad the islam already was an established political force with Muhammads heirs being the ones profiting most from it!
So in the end there always is a certain factor of believe, and in the end it is only the message that counts!
Fundamentalists are proof to the world that Satan does, in fact, exists.
You bring up a good point, the best way to poison the good roots of any religion is to grow fundamentalists. Those usually are the people who kill others for some stupid parts of something they do not understand while the core message is, do not kill people, do not harm others. The funny thing is fundamentalists are exactly those Jesus fought against in the bible in the sections where he constantly broke jewish law for the sake of helping others. It was constantly that he tried to give a message of freedom to the people while the fundamentalists tried to frame him for not following their law of trying to lock the people into myriads of rites they have to follow!
Actually the glimpse always has been there, all we get is probably some texts known but lost in history. Everybody interested into history might have gotten access to the most important texts of that era way before 1800 they never were lost and all the christian roots were known in the old historians books from the roman era! But what is lost definitely are important works by ancient authors! But I guess most you can get is profanity in documents freshly scanned! The ancient world was way more open to sex than we are today!
Actually even in early christianity there were two strong philiosophical roots one Arianism just said Christ was not god but a messenger from god, the other one was the Trinitarism was the one chosen by the council of Nicea. Now take it with a grain of salt, Muslims basically reject Christianity because of trinitarism and follow more the course of early Arianism in their view of god, while many catholic mystics had visions which basically fortified trinitarity.
But in the end, is it really important, I always saw such things as things which distract people from the core of the message which over all this mumbo jumbo seems to be forgotten, and the message is one of peace, forgiveness, trying to help others and no violence!
(This is one of the reasons why I feel so uneasy among many christian groups they simply do not represent the message, I am christian myself, often those who shout loudest we are so holy are the worst by ignoring the core of the message!)
That is very interesting. Maybe they find evidence of the existence of Jesus, or maybe text about his life that were written when he was still actually on Earth.
Well there is historical evidence, you just have to read the Bellum Judaicum by Flavius Josephus, the most important historian of this time and he has a special 10 liner about Jesus (speaking very favorable about him although he was not christian/jewish).
Well doesn't that bring to mind the original principle of censorship, not to protect the people but to protect the leaders from wrath of the people. One might wonder whether more truth might be found in an ancient garbage dump than in a ancient royal library.
Actually if you want to know what you might find in an ancient garbage dump just look at Pompeii most of the stuff to be found at the walls or ruins are pornography, ancient advertisements (especially for hookers) and political graffity. So nothing really changes!
Well the biggest problem is that hand written artefacts date back to early babylon but not older, I doubt we will rediscover something significant history wise giving us new knowledge, but we will rediscover some known lost books.
Well to the media a conspiracy theory sells better than the plain truth... Please also tell that to Dan Brown before he spills out his next badly researched book full of historical errors!
Those gospels have been known for ages and have been omitted in the 5th century for many reasons one of them in many cases was that they were unreliable and often written by third parties trying to promote an agenda. Have in mind early christianity was split way more than we are today and everyone could run his/her religious and monetary agenda on top of the religion. Often those gospels also were folk tales written down which can be attributed to the area of folk legends nothing more!
I purchased a Lenovo X301 with a 120 GB flash drive last September and have been nothing but pleased with the performance of the drive. I boot Vista and also run openSUSE in a vm. The drive speed is high and consistent. The drive in the X301 is supposed to have better controllers than some, and it certainly does better than a USB stick.
Any theoretical problems with write speed don't appear to me to affect typical real world use.
I have also a SSD in a macbook air and one thing I am very pleased with is the consistent speed of the SSD HD (less with the air and its prevalent heating issues never fixed by Apple). I assume the entire issue is way overblown, since there might be some degration but given that it occurs only in continous writes and that is a rare situation you wont notice in real world use. In fact normal ops usually are a mixture of read, random write and calculation cycles and the advantage to normal hds really is huge! The issues however in normal hds are serious enough that given enough time every hd comes to a crawl,
The problem is the slashdotters are in an unresolvable emotional deadlock. Do we cheer for destroying 100000 infested Windows installations, or do rage at the crapware producers who make this possible...
I cheer to 100000 ignorant users who give a shit about keeping their machine up to date and making everyones life miserable by spreading other trojans finally being removed from the net!
I second that, it is one of the known facts never admitted by Sony that the main reason the PS1 won was the easy pirating of CD games. It was just the correct middle ground between piracy and making it hard enough for enough users so that the games still sold well besides that the console was way cheaper than the Dreamcast which also was easy to get copied games for, but if you have two system with easily pirated games, people get the one being cheaper. The biggest looser was Nintendo who basically sunk their console due to their games not properly being piratable.
The developer might never see a penny from this deal, as the fact that they have spoken out against it suggests.
And the reason why most Movie tie-ins suck is because they are developed hastily to time with movie releases and commissioned by the rights-holders. This game is from a 25 year old movie and started by game developers.
Im pretty sure the developers are heavily shafted due to this deal, because the number of pirated PC version copies will skyrocket in the PAL territory. So additionally to seeing the XBOX and PC sales within the PAL territory (which is combined the biggest one) later, the PC sales definitely and to some degree the XBOX sales will be way less than they could be because of this stunt and the obvious piracy enforcement this will bring on. Now my personal guess is that the devs get a share of each copy so they basically got stomped a boot into their face by Atari. No wonder they are against it! The only one really winning in this deal is Atari, neither Sony who probably wont see a single sale of one PS3 more than without it nor the developers who might get into serious trouble financially!
Actually this console exits it name is PC. The hardware update cycle has slowed down to that degree that if you count in the price difference console-pc the pc is up to par to a console or even cheaper if you do not run after the latest graphics card or highest power processor (which you wont need after about a year the last console generation has been released) Nowadays you can go for a mid to low range processor and a 100$ graphics card and you will get a system which stomps both the PS3 and the XBOX and to the best the next upate probably will be just another 100$ graphics card in about 2 years when the next generation consoles will hit the street! Between that are 30-40$ games while console owners pay up to 70-80$ (It is even worse in Europe where companies constantly sell 1$ for 1â)
Who outside U.S. cannot Hate Hulu for saying "this movie can't be played in your region".
Easy to bypass as long as you know what you are doing, same goes for this Europe only Exclusive, the only users this will hurt are the XBOX ones, the PC gamers simply will download a pirated copy of the US version even before the PS3 exclusive version hits Europe. My personal opinion is that console only owners nowadays are pretty stupid. A decent PC graphics card which can do the latest games is around 100$ and the games usually are 20-30% cheaper. And if someone wants to pull a region stunt on the PC there is always Bittorrent, saying no...
Problem is this exclusive thing only works if it is on a worldwide scale. If sony tries to pull that off for Europe only, almost all the people interested into the game simply will get an iso of the PC version of the game from a torrent tracker! Sony after 15 years in the console business still has not understood a single thing how region zoning does not work and how does it work! The only ones getting really screwed by the deal are the developers! I hope sony paid Atari enough to recoup the losses by the increased pirated copy rate all over Europe!
In a long time, if it will be PS3 eclusive in Europe only, I imagine everyone in Europe will just download the PC version from the nearest Torrent tracker and additional person will by a PS3 for that. Besides that I hardly imagine Ghostbusters being an AAA title to justify the buying of a console! My condolescenses to the hard working developers who again got screwed up by another publisher after Activision had pulled a stunt on them earlier!
First of all it removes the trojan from the net. Secondly more important it removes ignorant users from their machines making everyones life more bearable! This is probably the education many absolutely ignorant users need to keep their systems up to date!
No they did not loose the boat, HTML 5 will get a video tag finally, and guess what, which format will be supported out of the box due to having no licenses involved... The entire WM9 and MPEG4 file formats usually mean licensing costs!
Actually there are even differences between NTSC and PAL. PAL sucket less than NTSC which could not keep the colors. On the other hand some games especially on the AppleII and the higher resolution Atari modes used deficiencies of NTSC to display artificial colors. I always was somewhat mad when pictures showed the NTSC deficiecies colors and I got stripes instead on my PAL TV....
IE8 is out of beta... And if it breaks a ton of webapps they have to be fixed. It mostly just breaks webapps which are IE6 specific, if a site is coded towards CSS 2.1 and works well in Firefox Chrome and Opera, then the webapp/site will work in IE8 as well, to my experience! People mostly are affected are those who relied on Microsoft tooling (which intentionally was geared towards IE6s enhancment features) doing their webapps and who cared a s**** about standards, IE6 is enough type of people!
It probably wont kill ie6, the reason is, Microsoft already did the enforced update with IE7! Those people still on IE6, which is corporate users mostly nowadays, wont be affected by the enforced IE8 update as well. But it will help to bring the existing ie7 users up to ie8 which is a good thing!
You might laugh, but there are even users of IE 5.5 we had recently such a case where a customer complained loudly that something did not work on his browser (which turned out to be IE 5.5)
Speaking of making others life hard, my personal preference would be to violently enforce an update towards Firefox or Chrome onto those people. With violently I mean by using all physical means necessary!
I have no problem upgrading to IE8, as I use FireFox as my primary browser, but I do use it to test web applications and design. Even as a critical update, IE8 won't take out the huge number using IE7 and IE6 for some time; and there are still a small number using IE5.5 (horror of horrors). Since IE is tied into the OS, it's my understanding that you can only have one version installed at a time.
Is there some way to use older versions of IE on the same PC? I've seen an "IE Pack" of sorts, but it got a lot of bad reviews and haven't tried.
Microsoft has freely downloadable VMs on their site, even if you dont use virtual pc (which you also can get free) which most non windows users dont (and most windows users dont either due to speed reasons) you can crossconvert those images by third party tools! The VM images expire usually at a certain date but Microsoft then adds a new one on their site! This is probably currently the cleanest way to test it.
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Well for one some of the gospels at least back then could be dated exactly to persons surrounding jesus followers, and others omitted clearly showed up way later then the one canoninized or clearly showed gnostic influences which crawled up way later in christianity. I dont know too much about the early history, but the entire council of Nicea is well documented and written philosophical texts way before that so a person with good historical and religious background can give you more insight why exactly the gospels we have today were canoninized but my assumption goes towards, those were the most historical correct ones, you partially can prove that today by trying to date them back, some of the gospels we have today were canonized within the first century after the death of crist while others not making it into the canon came after 200 bc!
But anyone with a good historical background can give you more insight on this. But rest assured that the gospels which made it in can be taken more seriously than the rest which is floating around, which sometimes has heavy gnostic influence or influences from other religions and which most of the times came way later!
Anyway the canonisation is always a problem, even the Moslems who always say their book is 100% correct are at fault here. First of all Muhammad has rewritten parts of the canon during his lifetime, secondly the canonisation happened as book a few generations after Muhammad before everything was written down in leather scrolls. So who can gurantee that nothing was added or altered, after all a few generations after Muhammad the islam already was an established political force with Muhammads heirs being the ones profiting most from it!
So in the end there always is a certain factor of believe, and in the end it is only the message that counts!
Chances are 99.99% that ancient porn was lost
Fundamentalists are proof to the world that Satan does, in fact, exists.
You bring up a good point, the best way to poison the good roots of any religion is to grow fundamentalists. Those usually are the people who kill others for some stupid parts of something they do not understand while the core message is, do not kill people, do not harm others.
The funny thing is fundamentalists are exactly those Jesus fought against in the bible in the sections where he constantly broke jewish law for the sake of helping others. It was constantly that he tried to give a message of freedom to the people while the fundamentalists tried to frame him for not following their law of trying to lock the people into myriads of rites they have to follow!
Actually the glimpse always has been there, all we get is probably some texts known but lost in history.
Everybody interested into history might have gotten access to the most important texts of that era way before 1800 they never were lost and all the christian roots were known in the old historians books from the roman era!
But what is lost definitely are important works by ancient authors!
But I guess most you can get is profanity in documents freshly scanned! The ancient world was way more open to sex than we are today!
Actually even in early christianity there were two strong philiosophical roots one Arianism just said Christ was not god but a messenger from god, the other one was the Trinitarism was the one chosen by the council of Nicea.
Now take it with a grain of salt, Muslims basically reject Christianity because of trinitarism and follow more the course of early Arianism in their view of god, while many catholic mystics had visions which basically fortified trinitarity.
But in the end, is it really important, I always saw such things as things which distract people from the core of the message which over all this mumbo jumbo seems to be forgotten, and the message is one of peace, forgiveness, trying to help others and no violence!
(This is one of the reasons why I feel so uneasy among many christian groups they simply do not represent the message, I am christian myself, often those who shout loudest we are so holy are the worst by ignoring the core of the message!)
That is very interesting. Maybe they find evidence of the existence of Jesus, or maybe text about his life that were written when he was still actually on Earth.
Well there is historical evidence, you just have to read the Bellum Judaicum by Flavius Josephus, the most important historian of this time and he has a special 10 liner about Jesus (speaking very favorable about him although he was not christian/jewish).
Well doesn't that bring to mind the original principle of censorship, not to protect the people but to protect the leaders from wrath of the people. One might wonder whether more truth might be found in an ancient garbage dump than in a ancient royal library.
Actually if you want to know what you might find in an ancient garbage dump just look at Pompeii most of the stuff to be found at the walls or ruins are pornography, ancient advertisements (especially for hookers) and political graffity.
So nothing really changes!
Well the biggest problem is that hand written artefacts date back to early babylon but not older, I doubt we will rediscover something significant history wise giving us new knowledge, but we will rediscover some known lost books.
Well to the media a conspiracy theory sells better than the plain truth...
Please also tell that to Dan Brown before he spills out his next badly researched book full of historical errors!
Those gospels have been known for ages and have been omitted in the 5th century for many reasons one of them in many cases was that they were unreliable and often written by third parties trying to promote an agenda. Have in mind early christianity was split way more than we are today and everyone could run his/her religious and monetary agenda on top of the religion.
Often those gospels also were folk tales written down which can be attributed to the area of folk legends nothing more!
I purchased a Lenovo X301 with a 120 GB flash drive last September and have been nothing but pleased with the performance of the drive. I boot Vista and also run openSUSE in a vm. The drive speed is high and consistent. The drive in the X301 is supposed to have better controllers than some, and it certainly does better than a USB stick.
Any theoretical problems with write speed don't appear to me to affect typical real world use.
I have also a SSD in a macbook air and one thing I am very pleased with is the consistent speed of the SSD HD (less with the air and its prevalent heating issues never fixed by Apple). I assume the entire issue is way overblown, since there might be some degration but given that it occurs only in continous writes and that is a rare situation you wont notice in real world use. In fact normal ops usually are a mixture of read, random write and calculation cycles and the advantage to normal hds really is huge!
The issues however in normal hds are serious enough that given enough time every hd comes to a crawl,
The problem is the slashdotters are in an unresolvable emotional deadlock.
Do we cheer for destroying 100000 infested Windows installations, or do rage at the crapware producers who make this possible...
I cheer to 100000 ignorant users who give a shit about keeping their machine up to date and making everyones life miserable by spreading other trojans finally being removed from the net!
English is not my native language.
I second that, it is one of the known facts never admitted by Sony that the main reason the PS1 won was the easy pirating of CD games. It was just the correct middle ground between piracy and making it hard enough for enough users so that the games still sold well besides that the console was way cheaper than the Dreamcast which also was easy to get copied games for, but if you have two system with easily pirated games, people get the one being cheaper. The biggest looser was Nintendo who basically sunk their console due to their games not properly being piratable.
The developer might never see a penny from this deal, as the fact that they have spoken out against it suggests.
And the reason why most Movie tie-ins suck is because they are developed hastily to time with movie releases and commissioned by the rights-holders. This game is from a 25 year old movie and started by game developers.
Im pretty sure the developers are heavily shafted due to this deal, because the number of pirated PC version copies will skyrocket in the PAL territory. So additionally to seeing the XBOX and PC sales within the PAL territory (which is combined the biggest one) later, the PC sales definitely and to some degree the XBOX sales will be way less than they could be because of this stunt and the obvious piracy enforcement this will bring on.
Now my personal guess is that the devs get a share of each copy so they basically got stomped a boot into their face by Atari. No wonder they are against it!
The only one really winning in this deal is Atari, neither Sony who probably wont see a single sale of one PS3 more than without it nor the developers who might get into serious trouble financially!
Actually this console exits it name is PC. The hardware update cycle has slowed down to that degree that if you count in the price difference console-pc the pc is up to par to a console or even cheaper if you do not run after the latest graphics card or highest power processor (which you wont need after about a year the last console generation has been released)
Nowadays you can go for a mid to low range processor and a 100$ graphics card and you will get a system which stomps both the PS3 and the XBOX and to the best the next upate probably will be just another 100$ graphics card in about 2 years when the next generation consoles will hit the street!
Between that are 30-40$ games while console owners pay up to 70-80$
(It is even worse in Europe where companies constantly sell 1$ for 1â)
Who outside U.S. cannot Hate Hulu for saying "this movie can't be played in your region".
Easy to bypass as long as you know what you are doing, same goes for this Europe only Exclusive, the only users this will hurt are the XBOX ones, the PC gamers simply will download a pirated copy of the US version even before the PS3 exclusive version hits Europe.
My personal opinion is that console only owners nowadays are pretty stupid. A decent PC graphics card which can do the latest games is around 100$ and the games usually are 20-30% cheaper.
And if someone wants to pull a region stunt on the PC there is always Bittorrent, saying no...
Problem is this exclusive thing only works if it is on a worldwide scale. If sony tries to pull that off for Europe only, almost all the people interested into the game simply will get an iso of the PC version of the game from a torrent tracker!
Sony after 15 years in the console business still has not understood a single thing how region zoning does not work and how does it work!
The only ones getting really screwed by the deal are the developers! I hope sony paid Atari enough to recoup the losses by the increased pirated copy rate all over Europe!
In a long time, if it will be PS3 eclusive in Europe only, I imagine everyone in Europe will just download the PC version from the nearest Torrent tracker and additional person will by a PS3 for that. Besides that I hardly imagine Ghostbusters being an AAA title to justify the buying of a console!
My condolescenses to the hard working developers who again got screwed up by another publisher after Activision had pulled a stunt on them earlier!
First of all it removes the trojan from the net. Secondly more important it removes ignorant users from their machines making everyones life more bearable!
This is probably the education many absolutely ignorant users need to keep their systems up to date!
No they did not loose the boat, HTML 5 will get a video tag finally, and guess what, which format will be supported out of the box due to having no licenses involved...
The entire WM9 and MPEG4 file formats usually mean licensing costs!
Actually there are even differences between NTSC and PAL. PAL sucket less than NTSC which could not keep the colors.
On the other hand some games especially on the AppleII and the higher resolution Atari modes used deficiencies of NTSC to display artificial colors.
I always was somewhat mad when pictures showed the NTSC deficiecies colors and I got stripes instead on my PAL TV....
IE8 is out of beta...
And if it breaks a ton of webapps they have to be fixed. It mostly just breaks webapps which are IE6 specific, if a site is coded towards CSS 2.1 and works well in Firefox Chrome and Opera, then the webapp/site will work in IE8 as well, to my experience!
People mostly are affected are those who relied on Microsoft tooling (which intentionally was geared towards IE6s enhancment features) doing their webapps and who cared a s**** about standards, IE6 is enough type of people!
It probably wont kill ie6, the reason is, Microsoft already did the enforced update with IE7!
Those people still on IE6, which is corporate users mostly nowadays, wont be affected by the enforced IE8 update as well. But it will help to bring the existing ie7 users up to ie8 which is a good thing!
You might laugh, but there are even users of IE 5.5 we had recently such a case where a customer complained loudly that something did not work on his browser (which turned out to be IE 5.5)
Speaking of making others life hard, my personal preference would be to violently enforce an update towards Firefox or Chrome onto those people. With violently I mean by using all physical means necessary!
Perhaps a bit OT, but it seems apropos to me.
I have no problem upgrading to IE8, as I use FireFox as my primary browser, but I do use it to test web applications and design. Even as a critical update, IE8 won't take out the huge number using IE7 and IE6 for some time; and there are still a small number using IE5.5 (horror of horrors). Since IE is tied into the OS, it's my understanding that you can only have one version installed at a time.
Is there some way to use older versions of IE on the same PC? I've seen an "IE Pack" of sorts, but it got a lot of bad reviews and haven't tried.
Microsoft has freely downloadable VMs on their site, even if you dont use virtual pc (which you also can get free) which most non windows users dont (and most windows users dont either due to speed reasons) you can crossconvert those images by third party tools!
The VM images expire usually at a certain date but Microsoft then adds a new one on their site!
This is probably currently the cleanest way to test it.