First of all, faith does not necessarily rely on blind trust. Faith is believeing something fully, whether you get there by blind trust or by reasoning is a seperate issue. Second of all, all of life is based on faith. Is your computer real? Is your hand real? Do your senses decieve you? All these are articles of faith. The more you learn, the more you find that to deny faith has a purpose is to deny yourself the ability to function in any sort of rational manner. Also limiting what is real to what can be perceived with your limited senses is a grand mistake, once you learn just how limited your senses are. You will find how much faith is needed, and how little you are able to trust yourself. This also means you must also be open to your being wrong.
Well, in case you haven't noticed, the great majority of any group, religious or not, are "sheeple", so you are not saying much by saying most Christians you know are.. In fact, as the numbers of people who call themselves Christians has been decreasing, there might even be a lower percent of sheeple inside Christian circles then outside.
"They buy more into media portrayals of satanism and think that anything with any sort of potential religious connotations or lack thereof is evil unless it falls flatly within their own sheeple beliefs." Be careful when you make these kind of statements, because they also seem to fit you quite well. By lambasting all Christians because they have different views then you (and assuming yours is the only possible right answer) you have done the thing you decry. You may be wrong, and the "fundies" may be right. You have not yet accumulated all the evidence, and even if you had, your puny brain couldn't make sense of it all.. Neither can mine, or any other persons on this planet.. Learn that you may be wrong.. Is the best lesson you will ever learn.
I am a Christian. I have a sense of humor, I know the devil is not red with pointy tails (he's a fallen angel, the most beautiful of God's creations). And yes, I do believe he is real. I am hardly uninformed. I have read more books then most people my age have seen. I have argued and wrestled with both myself and others for quite some time. And yet, I have come down on a completely different point of view then yours. I could back up mine as well, if not better then you could back up yours. I'm sure if we were to discuss our worldviews at length I would learn something from you, and hopefully you would be open-minded enough to learn something from me too.. I could write a post saying how agnostics tend to be poorly informed, bigoted, and stupid, because most I have met have been. But unlike you I have been around long enough to know that there are sheeple as well as rational, well educated, well informed people in every catagory, and mine might not be correct after all. It behoves us all to learn from each other. Be careful about making sweeping generalizations. Learn your own falibility and the limits of your own reasoning, and help others to do the same. Be the devout agnositc you claim to be, but remember you may be completely wrong. Learn more about everything. Learn what an open mind really is.
Actually, a metal/ceramic case of some sort would probably be more helpful, and certainly would be a good thing to keep your vacume sealed videos in.. a lot of the degradation that happens to film is the result of radiation hitting it. Shielding it from this is definatly important if you intend to keep it around for a long time..
CD-R longevity reports CD-ROM's (the stamped ones) will last basically as long as you want them too, IIRC. CD-R's (the dye based cd-rom workalike) is claimed to have about 95% reliability at 75-100 years, depending on the brand if stored in a dark place at about room tempature (25c, about 75F). CD-RW's are worse, from what I've heard, but this is mearly hearsay.. Also to keep in mind, if you keep you disks in a light place, a humid place, or in a hotter place, the disk life would be much much shorter. Check out Kodak's permanance page for more info on how temperature, light, and humidity affect CD-R's. There is other good info in their other sections you can reach from this page too. However, in 10 years you will probably consolidate your collection onto a whole lot less of whatever format we have to replace DVD-Rs (or on high capacity DVD-Rs for that matter..), so reliability beyond that is not really an issue. At worst, if you plan on recopying every 35 years or so(1/3 to 1/2 the claimed reliable shelf life), you should have no problems. (BTW, all info for this post was found by doing a search for "cd-r permanence" at www.google.com. A little searching goes a long way;-)
Are there any "payware" OCR programs for linux either? I have a Linux supported scanner, and would like this functionality, free or not.. Of course, Open Source is prefered, but right now I don't know much about the field, so couldn't hack on it for my self very much anyway.
Out of curiosity, what kernel version are you running? A lot of solaris tcp/ip bugs have been worked around in the newest kernels.. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
OK, now I've got myself all confused.. Sorry all.. There are 2 kinds of distributed file systems, the kind this guy wants is not covered by xFS or NFS really... Those are speed and reliability solutions, and neither can make a seamless volume. The other kind is what he wants, a way to make a single volume out of multiple network volumes. I know the md driver can do this on physical hard drives, can it also do so on network links? If you combine it with the network block device?
Woops, looks like I displayed my ignorance... (research first, post second;-) Distributed in this manner looks like it should make a large difference in speed for muliple clients.. if you have only a node or two that are clients though, it wouldn't help much and NFS would be simplier, but if you have 20+ clients this looks like it has the possibility of being really cool.. Thanks to whoever posted the link to xFS...
NFS seems the best solution to me also.. Do you really want a distributed file system? Seperate mount points has always seemed to me to be a much more robust way of handling things.. This way if a node dies, you only lose that node, and it doesn't make trouble for the rest of the system. Also, with NFS being built into the kernel, should be the fastest way going...
That's the thing, we don't know... All they have said is that they will audit a product once instead of for every sale.. It really isn't that much of a win for encryptation, for they can deny anything they want to be exported still. For instance, they can say that only only 56bit keys will be allowed, or only programs with backdoors, or whatever they darn well please. I'm still holding out for some REAL openness for encryptation.
"The only person who'd be safe if the SAFE bill were to pass," Hamre said, "would be spies." WTF? Isn't that like saying, "If gun ownership is legal, only criminals will use guns"? What a bunch of crap... If the SAFE bill were to pass, the citizens would be another step closer to running the country, not the bloated, increasingly self-centered government. OK, I hope I'm not quite as paranoid as I sound, but it does appear the government doesn't care about the citizens any more, but rather focuses on giving itself more power.
A few additions.. If your Sparc doesn't stop at the OK prompt, a "stop-a" keypress will bring it up, then you can do your "boot cdrom" from there... As for why a "whole disk" partition is needed, IIRC, it is only there for compatibility with Solaris/SunOS. I think if you are only going to run Linux, you can forgo that.. However, I don't know all that much about SUN firmware (yet)..
Not really, sounds like a RedHat tactic to me... Putting out a competing product in a comercial setting adds options for the end user, gets the word out about Gimp, and makes someone some change... Nothing is lost for the comsumer, only to the $500 mad overpriced drawing programs. And I personally have no problem with this;-)
I mirror Redhat's FTP to my computer every night and burn a new copy of the CD whenever there are major changes (because I do so many installs). If I lived in Canada, my burning a redhat CD would cost me like 5 dollars, and half of that would go to recording companies? That's screwed up.. And if heaven forbid I burn a blank, I'd be REALLY pissed...
I don't think Quake3 will have much benifit at all over 2 processors, and none over 3.. John Carmack set up two processes, one for the rendering pipeline, one for the physics and other enviornment code. If you have another thread doing your openGL thing, then maybe 3 would help.. The rest would basically sit around and heat your room... NOw that I think of it, I should get one of these as a RC5 cracker and spaceheater;-)
Ugh... K7s(Athlons) will not need 200mhz ram, they currently use pc100 ram... And K7 MB's should be pretty cheap by the time coppermines come out... However, you are right to question AMD's.18 abilities. The MHZ race is where this battle will be fought. Keep in mind that the k7 should still be faster then coppermines per MHZ, but less they are to the p2/p3's. The K7 is still a superior architecture, just the memory subsystem in the coppermines will be catching up, the rest of the core is still slower.. Learn first, post second...
Of course, you have to remember that England is a small ass country compared to the US... However, it is quite larger then whatever Oklahoma city you live in I'm sure...
Actually, a scientific theory must be based on a reproducible, controllable scenario where one variable can be isolated and tested at a time... Any theory of origins is by definition not scientific. Origins is really a question of forensics. Secondly, you are making a large assumption if you think that all the fossil record supports evolution, that the dating methods often used by scientists are in any way scientific, and that all scientists in this field, or even a majority of them, think that evolution has a sufficient case for itself. Scientists have left the only semi-plausible explanation behind, gradual evolution, in favor of punctuated equilibrium, because the fossil record supports species appearing out of nowhere in a very short period of time. Basically, Creationism has the same evidence, that of the fossil record and the living species right now, as evolution does, but in addition has religious overtones. However, so does science, just that they are more popular ones, namely humanism and atheism. If you were truly openminded, you would see that you can't escape the religion question, and that everyone has a religion of some sort... I could babble forever about the scientific problems with evolution, the things that science has been able to show us that make evolution very unlikely, and about the forensic evidence that goes a long way towards casting doubt on evolution, that really matches the pattern of creation much more closely. However, that's not the point of this discussion. The point is that I think that students should be presented with the evidence, and then the theories should be drawn from that evidence. That is really the only openminded solution.
I agree people should be open-minded... As for Kansas's decision, I didn't like what was reported in the news, but who knows how biased that was.. I think the the "big bang" theory and the theory of evolution should be taught, but tought as the theory that they are. I also believe that Creationism should be presented, and that the evidences and conclusions of both competing theories should be studied. Both theories have things going for and against them, and there are many good, well researched and thought out books for both sides. I hope that Kansas has not thrown out one theory for another, but does truly take an "open minded" position, as should the rest of the school system.
Well, I agree with most of what you said, except for this quote, "I should be able to decide what is right and what is wrong." To be perfectly honest, first you need to discover wether or not you do have the power to do that. For example, user spinkham can't decide wether or not he wants to mount a floppy on my system, only root can do that.. Too many people assume themselves to be "root", when there is little evidence for it, if only because they want to and aren't sure who "root" is. It seems to me to be highly likely that I am not my own "root", as I can't change the rules I run under, only my reactions within those rules. It isn't the best analogy in the world, because even root is limited in what he can do because of finite time. Basically, if there is a God, you are almost definatly not him, and the question of wether or not there is a god is a good one to ask...
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I've never had problems with SCSI support in Linux..
You did read the SCSI-howto and recompile your kernel, right?
First of all, faith does not necessarily rely on blind trust. Faith is believeing something fully, whether you get there by blind trust or by reasoning is a seperate issue.
Second of all, all of life is based on faith. Is your computer real? Is your hand real? Do your senses decieve you? All these are articles of faith. The more you learn, the more you find that to deny faith has a purpose is to deny yourself the ability to function in any sort of rational manner. Also limiting what is real to what can be perceived with your limited senses is a grand mistake, once you learn just how limited your senses are. You will find how much faith is needed, and how little you are able to trust yourself. This also means you must also be open to your being wrong.
Well, in case you haven't noticed, the great majority of any group, religious or not, are "sheeple", so you are not saying much by saying most Christians you know are..
In fact, as the numbers of people who call themselves Christians has been decreasing, there might even be a lower percent of sheeple inside Christian circles then outside.
"They buy more into media portrayals of satanism and think that anything with any sort of potential religious connotations or lack thereof is evil unless it falls flatly within their own sheeple beliefs."
Be careful when you make these kind of statements, because they also seem to fit you quite well. By lambasting all Christians because they have different views then you (and assuming yours is the only possible right answer) you have done the thing you decry. You may be wrong, and the "fundies" may be right. You have not yet accumulated all the evidence, and even if you had, your puny brain couldn't make sense of it all.. Neither can mine, or any other persons on this planet.. Learn that you may be wrong.. Is the best lesson you will ever learn.
I am a Christian. I have a sense of humor, I know the devil is not red with pointy tails (he's a fallen angel, the most beautiful of God's creations). And yes, I do believe he is real.
I am hardly uninformed. I have read more books then most people my age have seen. I have argued and wrestled with both myself and others for quite some time. And yet, I have come down on a completely different point of view then yours. I could back up mine as well, if not better then you could back up yours. I'm sure if we were to discuss our worldviews at length I would learn something from you, and hopefully you would be open-minded enough to learn something from me too..
I could write a post saying how agnostics tend to be poorly informed, bigoted, and stupid, because most I have met have been. But unlike you I have been around long enough to know that there are sheeple as well as rational, well educated, well informed people in every catagory, and mine might not be correct after all.
It behoves us all to learn from each other. Be careful about making sweeping generalizations. Learn your own falibility and the limits of your own reasoning, and help others to do the same. Be the devout agnositc you claim to be, but remember you may be completely wrong. Learn more about everything. Learn what an open mind really is.
Actually, a metal/ceramic case of some sort would probably be more helpful, and certainly would be a good thing to keep your vacume sealed videos in..
a lot of the degradation that happens to film is the result of radiation hitting it. Shielding it from this is definatly important if you intend to keep it around for a long time..
CD-R longevity reports CD-ROM's (the stamped ones) will last basically as long as you want them too, IIRC. CD-R's (the dye based cd-rom workalike) is claimed to have about 95% reliability at 75-100 years, depending on the brand if stored in a dark place at about room tempature (25c, about 75F). CD-RW's are worse, from what I've heard, but this is mearly hearsay.. Also to keep in mind, if you keep you disks in a light place, a humid place, or in a hotter place, the disk life would be much much shorter. Check out Kodak's permanance page for more info on how temperature, light, and humidity affect CD-R's. There is other good info in their other sections you can reach from this page too. However, in 10 years you will probably consolidate your collection onto a whole lot less of whatever format we have to replace DVD-Rs (or on high capacity DVD-Rs for that matter..), so reliability beyond that is not really an issue. At worst, if you plan on recopying every 35 years or so(1/3 to 1/2 the claimed reliable shelf life), you should have no problems. (BTW, all info for this post was found by doing a search for "cd-r permanence" at www.google.com. A little searching goes a long way ;-)
Are there any "payware" OCR programs for linux either? I have a Linux supported scanner, and would like this functionality, free or not..
Of course, Open Source is prefered, but right now I don't know much about the field, so couldn't hack on it for my self very much anyway.
Out of curiosity, what kernel version are you running? A lot of solaris tcp/ip bugs have been worked around in the newest kernels.. I wonder if that has anything to do with it?
OK, now I've got myself all confused.. Sorry all..
There are 2 kinds of distributed file systems, the kind this guy wants is not covered by xFS or NFS really... Those are speed and reliability solutions, and neither can make a seamless volume.
The other kind is what he wants, a way to make a single volume out of multiple network volumes.
I know the md driver can do this on physical hard drives, can it also do so on network links? If you combine it with the network block device?
Woops, looks like I displayed my ignorance... (research first, post second ;-)
Distributed in this manner looks like it should make a large difference in speed for muliple clients.. if you have only a node or two that are clients though, it wouldn't help much and NFS would be simplier, but if you have 20+ clients this looks like it has the possibility of being really cool..
Thanks to whoever posted the link to xFS...
NFS seems the best solution to me also.. Do you really want a distributed file system? Seperate mount points has always seemed to me to be a much more robust way of handling things.. This way if a node dies, you only lose that node, and it doesn't make trouble for the rest of the system.
Also, with NFS being built into the kernel, should be the fastest way going...
That's the thing, we don't know...
All they have said is that they will audit a product once instead of for every sale..
It really isn't that much of a win for encryptation, for they can deny anything they want to be exported still.
For instance, they can say that only only 56bit keys will be allowed, or only programs with backdoors, or whatever they darn well please. I'm still holding out for some REAL openness for encryptation.
"The only person who'd be safe if the SAFE bill were to pass," Hamre said, "would be spies."
WTF?
Isn't that like saying, "If gun ownership is legal, only criminals will use guns"? What a bunch of crap...
If the SAFE bill were to pass, the citizens would be another step closer to running the country, not the bloated, increasingly self-centered government. OK, I hope I'm not quite as paranoid as I sound, but it does appear the government doesn't care about the citizens any more, but rather focuses on giving itself more power.
A few additions..
If your Sparc doesn't stop at the OK prompt, a "stop-a" keypress will bring it up, then you can do your "boot cdrom" from there...
As for why a "whole disk" partition is needed, IIRC, it is only there for compatibility with Solaris/SunOS. I think if you are only going to run Linux, you can forgo that..
However, I don't know all that much about SUN firmware (yet)..
Not really, sounds like a RedHat tactic to me... ;-)
Putting out a competing product in a comercial setting adds options for the end user, gets the word out about Gimp, and makes someone some change... Nothing is lost for the comsumer, only to the $500 mad overpriced drawing programs. And I personally have no problem with this
Can you say ouch?
The hardware drivers are...Do you have any real need to have open sourced hardware? I'm sure none of your other computer hardware is...
Sorry guy, Fermat's Last Theorem has been solved...
I mirror Redhat's FTP to my computer every night and burn a new copy of the CD whenever there are major changes (because I do so many installs). If I lived in Canada, my burning a redhat CD would cost me like 5 dollars, and half of that would go to recording companies? That's screwed up..
And if heaven forbid I burn a blank, I'd be REALLY pissed...
I don't think Quake3 will have much benifit at all over 2 processors, and none over 3.. ;-)
John Carmack set up two processes, one for the rendering pipeline, one for the physics and other enviornment code. If you have another thread doing your openGL thing, then maybe 3 would help.. The rest would basically sit around and heat your room...
NOw that I think of it, I should get one of these as a RC5 cracker and spaceheater
Ugh... .18 abilities. The MHZ race is where this battle will be fought.
K7s(Athlons) will not need 200mhz ram, they currently use pc100 ram...
And K7 MB's should be pretty cheap by the time coppermines come out...
However, you are right to question AMD's
Keep in mind that the k7 should still be faster then coppermines per MHZ, but less they are to the p2/p3's. The K7 is still a superior architecture, just the memory subsystem in the coppermines will be catching up, the rest of the core is still slower..
Learn first, post second...
Of course, you have to remember that England is a small ass country compared to the US...
However, it is quite larger then whatever Oklahoma city you live in I'm sure...
Actually, a scientific theory must be based on a reproducible, controllable scenario where one variable can be isolated and tested at a time...
Any theory of origins is by definition not scientific. Origins is really a question of forensics.
Secondly, you are making a large assumption if you think that all the fossil record supports evolution, that the dating methods often used by scientists are in any way scientific, and that all scientists in this field, or even a majority of them, think that evolution has a sufficient case for itself. Scientists have left the only semi-plausible explanation behind, gradual evolution, in favor of punctuated equilibrium, because the fossil record supports species appearing out of nowhere in a very short period of time.
Basically, Creationism has the same evidence, that of the fossil record and the living species right now, as evolution does, but in addition has religious overtones. However, so does science, just that they are more popular ones, namely humanism and atheism. If you were truly openminded, you would see that you can't escape the religion question, and that everyone has a religion of some sort...
I could babble forever about the scientific problems with evolution, the things that science has been able to show us that make evolution very unlikely, and about the forensic evidence that goes a long way towards casting doubt on evolution, that really matches the pattern of creation much more closely. However, that's not the point of this discussion.
The point is that I think that students should be presented with the evidence, and then the theories should be drawn from that evidence. That is really the only openminded solution.
I agree people should be open-minded...
As for Kansas's decision, I didn't like what was reported in the news, but who knows how biased that was..
I think the the "big bang" theory and the theory of evolution should be taught, but tought as the theory that they are. I also believe that Creationism should be presented, and that the evidences and conclusions of both competing theories should be studied.
Both theories have things going for and against them, and there are many good, well researched and thought out books for both sides. I hope that Kansas has not thrown out one theory for another, but does truly take an "open minded" position, as should the rest of the school system.
I can't say how much I've missed you B1FF...
Well, I agree with most of what you said, except for this quote, "I should be able to decide what is right and what is wrong." To be perfectly honest, first you need to discover wether or not you do have the power to do that.
For example, user spinkham can't decide wether or not he wants to mount a floppy on my system, only root can do that..
Too many people assume themselves to be "root", when there is little evidence for it, if only because they want to and aren't sure who "root" is.
It seems to me to be highly likely that I am not my own "root", as I can't change the rules I run under, only my reactions within those rules. It isn't the best analogy in the world, because even root is limited in what he can do because of finite time.
Basically, if there is a God, you are almost definatly not him, and the question of wether or not there is a god is a good one to ask...