Another deficiency in Mozilla is that it doesn't seem to support JavaScript... I've only taken a cursory glance at it, but my JavaScript code seems to be dead... Normally, I wouldn't complain -- Javascript's more hype than substance -- but I've been using JavaScript lately to manipulate layers (a la www.php.net) and I'd like to be able to do that in Mozilla too.
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Interesting. As a Christian, I take almost the exact symmetrical view -- too many "Christians" out there seem to be trying to force their own view on others, blindly attacking anything remotely atheistic, or obnoxiously yelling hooray at anything supportive of Christianity.
I think there are two kinds of Christians and atheists: those who are confident and secure in their belief and are content to simply live out their life as an example to others (well, Christianity at least has an evangelistic bent:-); and those who, for whatever reason, feel the need to defend their beliefs overly much.
I'm actually impressed whenever I discover a person (Christian or atheist) who belongs to the former category. Kudos!
If my view of God were that He is some benevolent present-giver sitting on a cute throne made of clouds, then I would put every bit as much stock in Him as I do in Santa Claus (none). He is to me something entirely different -- my Creator and Savior.
Yes, not all of the Bible is independently verifiable; however, it is far from hearsay. Much of it has been verified to be true (and yes, there are inconsistencies, but we won't get into the question of inerrancy vs. infallibility). I cannot use the Bible to prove God's existence, yet I personally feel it provides a decent bunch of evidence.
Heh. This is a glorious example of the kind of "logic" that Christians indulge in. You're assuming A) that anybody not a Christian must have no religion at all, and B) that anybody lacking a religion must necessarily "make up the rules as they go along".
I'm a Christian and I don't feel that we have a corner on "religion". I do believe we have a corner on "religious truth"; however that is my own opinion and you are entitled to your own. And I would agree with that many non-Christians do have a very well-defined set of "rules"... oftimes more so than some "Christians" I know... I admire the moral stance of many non-Christians.
Christianity is just one religion out of many, and atheists are in my experience generally a lot more "moral" than Christians.
Yes, this is quite often (unfortunately, in my view) the case.
This is because we can't unload responsibility for our crimes onto God. We can't pretend that "accepting Jesus" (or confessing, or whatever) will make everything okay. The buck stops here. With you, it never stops at all.
In a way, yes, and in a way, no. People who perform criminal acts in the name of Jesus or God do not have the privilege, in my view, of calling themselves Christians. Yes, we do "unload" our crimes unto God, but that's no excuse to commit them (and if we use it as an excuse to commit them, then we don't receive absolution!). If anything, it should give Christians a deeper sense of responsibility to live less criminal ("sinful", etc.) lives, because of the awesome gift of God's grace and forgiveness!
We also don't have the wide range of excuses for "good" bad behavior that religious people have. We never get to claim that "god is on our side" and that he wants us to murder people, or imprison them for "crimes" which harm no one, or any of the other sick abuses of power that Christians are so fond of. Christianity is an ink blot. People project whatever they want onto it. Christians are people who do exactly as they please, and then claim that god told them to do it -- and that god told them to force the rest of us to do it, too.
Whoa. Those people are emphatically not Christians, no matter what they claim to be. God is not in the business of crime. If I killed someone and told you Mickey Mouse told me to do it would you start doubting the integrity of the Mouseketeers, or boycott Disneyworld? I think it's important to realize that wackos who claim to be Christians but don't evidence a Christlike lifestyle (judge a tree by its fruit...) are most probably not Christians.
Then they say that if we want to think for ourselves, we're "sinners" who must be coerced "for our own good". All dissent is defined as a crime. This is called a "self-reinforcing delusional system". Hey, it's all yours and you're welcome to it, but don't expect rational, honest people to join in.
Yikes. If that's what Christianity is all about, then I don't want a part in it. My Christianity is all about grace. If I act in that manner towards anyone, then I'm not walking in Jesus' footsteps!
This Christian's $0.02 worth,:-) -- Es Mo (remove "bogus-host" to e-mail me)
The problem is that too many Christians are very legalistic. Unfortunately, this is especially true when they can apply it to others than themselves. I am a Christian myself, but I see grace as being far more important than any legalistic rules or laws, including not only the Ten Commandments, but also any other moral rules my fellow Christians all-too-often force down others' throats.
I don't know what to say to this... I am a fellow Christian Slashdot reader, yet I have a few problems with your own post. While I agree with your moral stance, I don't think it is anyone's responsibility -- Christians included -- to impose their moral standards on others. There's a double standard here -- would you want, for example, Islamic fundamental standards (no offense meant to anyone) imposed on you and your family? Why, then, impose our standards on others? Compulsion is the very last thing that should be associated with our Christian witness.
As to fighting, raising a voice, and all that... Yes, there was a time when Jesus got polemical and at times violent (moneychangers, anyone?), but what stands out most to me in his ministry is grace. We as Christians should be all about grace. I don't mean not stepping on people's toes, but I mean being even-tempered; open-minded, yet firm in our own beliefs; ever willing to listen yet slow to speak; and above all, humble! Our primary vocation is to be a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week living witness of God's grace and tough love. And this is just as important -- if not more so -- in our electronic interactions as in our day-to-day personal interactions. Thank God for the grace He gives us to perform this impossible task!!!
With all due respect, I humbly ask you to reconsider your approach to your living witness. I'm sorry that I can't really convey my tone very well through plaintext, but I honestly harbor no animosity.
Thanks for hearing me out,:-) Es Mo (take out "bogus-host" to email me)
Um, let me enlighten you: QNX is (IMHO) the coolest OS ever. But I'll explain why:
It's real-time.
It's inherently and transparently distributed. *transparently*!!!
It's darn fast and efficient.
It's got a microkernel. I don't know about neutrino, but QNX4 was around 8-10k.
It's got a really nifty windowing model (Photon). Read their white papers -- this thing is pretty darn cool!
It's stable. I've never had it crash on me!
It's software plug-and-play. Imagine only having to reboot to mess around with your hardware!
It has a nifty messaging architecture. Takes a little getting used to, but this is *the* way to do client-server! Ok, flamebait, but it is definitely one of the best schemes I've seen.:-)
QNX is expensive. Oops, that wasn't a bonus.:-( Sigh. But that doesn't diminish it's awesomeness!
It's POSIX. I.e., you already know how to use it. But it's so much more, as well!
I'm sure I'm leaving lots more out. But you get the picture.:-)
True, however there are two factors that play into this: . A RTOS shouldn't count on swap space to provide short-term storage. Oops, pardon me while I go grab my interrupt handler off of disk... . QNX is one darn efficient OS. You can do lots more with lots less RAM in QNX... I never once regretted not having swap space on QNX, and that even includes the days I was running QNXWin, etc. in 8MB of RAM...
True, but consider also the fact that that 650MB of data is not terribly random, given that I could easily bring it down to, say, ~60MB with some good compression. Ergo, it's a tad more breakable than a true random bitstream.
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Another deficiency in Mozilla is that it doesn't seem to support JavaScript... I've only taken a cursory glance at it, but my JavaScript code seems to be dead... Normally, I wouldn't complain -- Javascript's more hype than substance -- but I've been using JavaScript lately to manipulate layers (a la www.php.net) and I'd like to be able to do that in Mozilla too.
Linux: n., antidote to the common "Windows" virus.
Interesting. As a Christian, I take almost the exact symmetrical view -- too many "Christians" out there seem to be trying to force their own view on others, blindly attacking anything remotely atheistic, or obnoxiously yelling hooray at anything supportive of Christianity.
I think there are two kinds of Christians and atheists: those who are confident and secure in their belief and are content to simply live out their life as an example to others (well, Christianity at least has an evangelistic bent :-); and those who, for whatever reason, feel the need to defend their beliefs overly much.
I'm actually impressed whenever I discover a person (Christian or atheist) who belongs to the former category. Kudos!
If my view of God were that He is some benevolent present-giver sitting on a cute throne made of clouds, then I would put every bit as much stock in Him as I do in Santa Claus (none). He is to me something entirely different -- my Creator and Savior.
Yes, not all of the Bible is independently verifiable; however, it is far from hearsay. Much of it has been verified to be true (and yes, there are inconsistencies, but we won't get into the question of inerrancy vs. infallibility). I cannot use the Bible to prove God's existence, yet I personally feel it provides a decent bunch of evidence.
Heh. This is a glorious example of the kind of "logic" that Christians indulge in. You're assuming A) that anybody not a Christian must have no religion at all, and B) that anybody lacking a religion must necessarily "make up the rules as they go along".
I'm a Christian and I don't feel that we have a corner on "religion". I do believe we have a corner on "religious truth"; however that is my own opinion and you are entitled to your own. And I would agree with that many non-Christians do have a very well-defined set of "rules"... oftimes more so than some "Christians" I know... I admire the moral stance of many non-Christians.
Christianity is just one religion out of many, and atheists are in my experience generally a lot more "moral" than Christians.
Yes, this is quite often (unfortunately, in my view) the case.
This is because we can't unload responsibility for our crimes onto God. We can't pretend that "accepting Jesus" (or confessing, or whatever) will make everything okay. The buck stops here. With you, it never stops at all.
In a way, yes, and in a way, no. People who perform criminal acts in the name of Jesus or God do not have the privilege, in my view, of calling themselves Christians. Yes, we do "unload" our crimes unto God, but that's no excuse to commit them (and if we use it as an excuse to commit them, then we don't receive absolution!). If anything, it should give Christians a deeper sense of responsibility to live less criminal ("sinful", etc.) lives, because of the awesome gift of God's grace and forgiveness!
We also don't have the wide range of excuses for "good" bad behavior that religious people have. We never get to claim that "god is on our side" and that he wants us to murder people, or imprison them for "crimes" which harm no one, or any of the other sick abuses of power that Christians are so fond of. Christianity is an ink blot. People project whatever they want onto it. Christians are people who do exactly as they please, and then claim that god told them to do it -- and that god told them to force the rest of us to do it, too.
Whoa. Those people are emphatically not Christians, no matter what they claim to be. God is not in the business of crime. If I killed someone and told you Mickey Mouse told me to do it would you start doubting the integrity of the Mouseketeers, or boycott Disneyworld? I think it's important to realize that wackos who claim to be Christians but don't evidence a Christlike lifestyle (judge a tree by its fruit...) are most probably not Christians.
Then they say that if we want to think for ourselves, we're "sinners" who must be coerced "for our own good". All dissent is defined as a crime. This is called a "self-reinforcing delusional system". Hey, it's all yours and you're welcome to it, but don't expect rational, honest people to join in.
Yikes. If that's what Christianity is all about, then I don't want a part in it. My Christianity is all about grace. If I act in that manner towards anyone, then I'm not walking in Jesus' footsteps!
This Christian's $0.02 worth, :-)
-- Es Mo (remove "bogus-host" to e-mail me)
The problem is that too many Christians are very legalistic. Unfortunately, this is especially true when they can apply it to others than themselves. I am a Christian myself, but I see grace as being far more important than any legalistic rules or laws, including not only the Ten Commandments, but also any other moral rules my fellow Christians all-too-often force down others' throats.
Down with legalism, long live grace!!!
-- Es Mo (remove "bogus-host" to email me)
I don't know what to say to this... I am a fellow Christian Slashdot reader, yet I have a few problems with your own post. While I agree with your moral stance, I don't think it is anyone's responsibility -- Christians included -- to impose their moral standards on others. There's a double standard here -- would you want, for example, Islamic fundamental standards (no offense meant to anyone) imposed on you and your family? Why, then, impose our standards on others? Compulsion is the very last thing that should be associated with our Christian witness.
As to fighting, raising a voice, and all that... Yes, there was a time when Jesus got polemical and at times violent (moneychangers, anyone?), but what stands out most to me in his ministry is grace. We as Christians should be all about grace. I don't mean not stepping on people's toes, but I mean being even-tempered; open-minded, yet firm in our own beliefs; ever willing to listen yet slow to speak; and above all, humble! Our primary vocation is to be a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week living witness of God's grace and tough love. And this is just as important -- if not more so -- in our electronic interactions as in our day-to-day personal interactions. Thank God for the grace He gives us to perform this impossible task!!!
With all due respect, I humbly ask you to reconsider your approach to your living witness. I'm sorry that I can't really convey my tone very well through plaintext, but I honestly harbor no animosity.
Thanks for hearing me out, :-)
Es Mo (take out "bogus-host" to email me)
Aah, but with the new USB ports on the PSII, we now *can* have a keyboard! :-)
Um, let me enlighten you: QNX is (IMHO) the coolest OS ever. But I'll explain why:
True, however there are two factors that play into this:
. A RTOS shouldn't count on swap space to provide short-term storage. Oops, pardon me while I go grab my interrupt handler off of disk...
. QNX is one darn efficient OS. You can do lots more with lots less RAM in QNX...
I never once regretted not having swap space on QNX, and that even includes the days I was running QNXWin, etc. in 8MB of RAM...
In composing this reply about 9e9 "meters" passed by... I'm thinking this is just a tad awkward. :-)
True, but consider also the fact that that 650MB of data is not terribly random, given that I could easily bring it down to, say, ~60MB with some good compression. Ergo, it's a tad more breakable than a true random bitstream.
-- Es Mo