The Islamic Empire (a political phenomenon) brought civilization and urbanization to a region that had been largely nomadic. It brought, at least for a time, stability, security, and wealth. The culture of Islam was, at the time, more contemporary and metropolitan than its contemporaries (remember, we're talking about a period when Europe was in the Dark Ages).
Europe is not limited to a few countries in the Western part of the continent. The rest of the Roman Empire was doing quite well. Bizantium was by far the pinnacle of civilization in those days and Northern Africa was also doing all right.
contraception is wrong yet most Catholics still use it. This is a very fundamental test of belief
Alcoholics know alcohol is is wrong for them yet they still use it.
The King James Version mistranslates the Hebrew word "almah", which means "young woman" as "virgin".
The Jewish scholars who translated and compiled the Hebrew scriptures into a Greek version of the Old Testament, translated almah in Isaiah 7:14 as parthenos, which almost always means "virgin". Since these Jewish scholars were well acquainted with the meaning of the old Hebrew words as well as the Greek, their interpretation (developed hundreds of years before Jesus) should be given special weight.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (I, 10) In this text it was translated as: More law, less justice.
I spent three years as a senior editor at InfoWorld
I have never heard of InfoWorld before. Maybe Slashdot linked to it in the past but I did not notice. I did a short visit just now but I did not bookmark it.
Yes, the world of media is going to shit. Yes, I hate it. Damned if I can do anything about it on my own, though.
Your blog got me interested in a book about parasites. I think you are already doing something about it.
While you are right that there is no native 64 bit version you can still run the 32 bit version of flash in a 64 bit browser by using a wrapper plugin. Google for npwrapper.libflashplayer.so if you are interested.
Many years ago Microsoft started to hire all the famous people in free software. Soul after soul joined the dark side and the future looked grim. Slightly depressed after reading one more such announcement I fired up Napster and without thinking too much I searched for "free software". The song I found sounded worse than a donkey braying but listening to it made me realize there are still people that will not sell out. You can hurt your ears here
Are there any earlier mentions of liquid lenses before Dune?
In the Mysterious Island novel by Jules Verne published in 1874, Cyrus Harding lits a fire with a lens made up of two watch glass lids stuck together and filled up with water. You can read the chapter here
Out of curiosity I did a find and grep on the source tree to see what companies contributed to the code base. I have to say there is at least one I did not expect. Here they are in no particular order:
How do you get all the files out for a specific revision? I can only get the files out individually one by one but I would like to fetch them all with just one command.
This is what I tried:
~/tmp/git_test$ vi a.txt ~/tmp/git_test$ vi b.txt ~/tmp/git_test$ git init-db defaulting to local storage area ~/tmp/git_test$ git add. ~/tmp/git_test$ git commit -a -m 'initial commit' Committing initial tree 478a3e8d61fa949e2e3b51e1ea935d3e9ba42f52 ~/tmp/gi t_test$ vi b.txt ~/tmp/git_test$ git commit -a -m 'second commit' ~/tmp/git_test$ vi a.txt ~/tmp/git_test$ git commit -a -m 'third commit' ~/tmp/git_test$ rm a.txt b.txt ~/tmp/git_test$ git checkout master ~/tmp/git_test$ ls ~/tmp/git_test$ git checkout master. git-checkout-index: is not in the cache ~/tmp/git_test$ git log ~/tmp/git_test$ git checkout master 063e821eabea161248c7bb111977949f038caaa1 git-chec kout-index: 063e821eabea161248c7bb111977949f038caaa1 is not in the cache ~/tmp/git_test$ git checkout 063e821eabea161248c7bb111977949f038caaa1 ~/tmp/gi t_test$ ls
It was a small miracle getting Express to be available both for free and for commercial use for customers
I would like to remind Fernandez in the unlikely case he reads slashdot that free means:
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
All MS has done was to let people make limited use of the software without paying.
Linux users do not pay for software; that's the nature of the beast.
That's not entirely true. Linux users do not pay for compilers, text editors, media players and other applications that can be categorized as general use. However I paid for Bibble to process raw format photos taken with my digital camera. I bought some ID games that run on Linux. And if I need more software that makes a difference I will pay for it. However I will never buy anything that takes my data hostage by saving it into a proprietary undocumented format.
The point is: why should you need write access to a non-$HOME directory, no matter where it is? You don't. Make subdirectories under $HOME and you're OK. The whole point of using -profile is to allow you full control on where you place you settings.
What if you don't have write-access to c:\beta\firefox ? Then use a directory where you have write access. c:\beta was just an example.
I thought you would easily figure that out given that you are running Debian.
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Is there a way to run both firefox and Paradiso without affecting firefox settings and extensions etc ? Unzip firefox in a separate directory, for example c:\beta\firefox, make an extra directory for profiles and start firefox with the -profile option:
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 c:\beta\firefox\firefox.exe -profile c:\beta\profile
The MOZ_NO_REMOTE variable will prevent it from connecting to another running instance of Firefox. All the settings are stored in the profile directory so it will leave the regular installation alone.
Chaintech AV-710 is well known in the audiofile world as being a good pass-through card. Add a decent DAC and hardly anthing can beat it.
Unfortunately I don't know any shop that sells it in Western Europe.
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In iPhone2 I want OpenMoko.
You can read the full article here
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (I, 10) In this text it was translated as: More law, less justice.
Many years ago Microsoft started to hire all the famous people in free software. Soul after soul joined the dark side and the future looked grim. Slightly depressed after reading one more such announcement I fired up Napster and without thinking too much I searched for "free software". The song I found sounded worse than a donkey braying but listening to it made me realize there are still people that will not sell out. You can hurt your ears here
IBM, Intel, Oracle, Mozilla, Microsoft, Netscape, MITRE, Digital Equipment, Novell, Activestate
I looked for the Microsoft code and it was just stuff copied from the SDK samples. Still, I did another count:
I would be really curious to do the same search on the IE7 code base, this time looking for MozillaThis is what I tried:
- The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
- The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
All MS has done was to let people make limited use of the software without paying.And last, for some of us c:\beta is home :)
I thought you would easily figure that out given that you are running Debian.
The MOZ_NO_REMOTE variable will prevent it from connecting to another running instance of Firefox. All the settings are stored in the profile directory so it will leave the regular installation alone.
Chaintech AV-710 is well known in the audiofile world as being a good pass-through card. Add a decent DAC and hardly anthing can beat it.
Unfortunately I don't know any shop that sells it in Western Europe.