I'd agree that it is a fascinating area. What is interesting is just how much is agreed on in the Canon. Largely the only area of discussion at the moment is the Apocrytha.
Interpretations vary, but largely the bible is accepted as constant.
The only significant variations (from the reformation bible) that I am aware of as follows: 1. The catholic church includes the Apocrypha, and to some extent the teachings of the church act as a surrogate "bible" 2. Jehova's Witnesses translate some sections of the bible rather differently (eg John 1) to match them to teachings of the church 3. Mormons have the book of Mormon as well, which can supercede the bible 4. Some denominations hold that there is one true translation (eg King James Version) for reasons that remain opaque to me
I am not familiar with Unitarians.
Most of the separations between churches relates to interpretation rather than the bible itself.
This is a major problem today. People like yourself read works of fiction that have a veneer of truth and use it as a basis for their arguments. Another great example of this Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci code". The history sounds impressive, and indeed it refers to some real points in history, but it is totally incorrect.
I would suggest that you muse long and hard on the fact that what you are reading is fiction.
I have to say that Id don't believe this "mad leader" theory. If they manage to maintain control, how can they be mad? I think it may be possible that they are mad and still competant, but I think it is unlikely.
Saddam was often called mad, and yet he managed to hold together a country of three different ethic groups, who hated each other. Note that the US is having some difficulty doing just that at the moment. The Kurds want to suceed, the Sunnis don't want the Shiites in power and the Shiites want sharia law.
Because people want it to do more. I certainly do. I have extensions installed that allow me: - See all HTTP headers - open pages in IE - numerous development/pref extensions - google bar - tabbed browsing extensions - something to bypass NYT registration - tool to read off RGB values from images on the web
These are all useful extensions of the browser. In fact the biggest reason for me, after security, for using Firefox is the extensions.
I found this when I was trying to do some compatibility testing with earlier versions of IE. The one caveat with this stuff is that I found that cookies don't seem to work. I'm not certain why this is the case, but the all the versions of IE seem to use the IE installation folder, and maybe this causes problems. It is a real PITA if you are testing something that requires cookies though.
But the Office assistant is still installed by default. Clippy is a shorthand for referring to that. And frankly I have always found the office assistant extremely unhelpful.
And the third thing, that bloody dog. No you can't just switch it off. I can't find the relevant link in my bookmarks (which is frustating), but IIRC you need to change a registry key to return to a decent (read Win2K) style search.
To characterise the way Mozilla and IE handled @ as broken is incorrect. They handled it perfectly, it is just that this was a little used (and insecure) feature of URLs. Because it was little used, and therefore unfamiliar, it could be used to hide the URL for the unwary.
What it was actually there for was to allow people to specify and login and password in the URL. I believe it was used mostly for FTP.
Somewhere in my collection of bookmarks I have a page that goes through most of the techniques for obscuring the URL, but I am afraid I couldn't find it. Other options include writing an IP address in hex or in as a single number.
Visio's eps export was pretty broken when I went to use it (for the Latex export), which was a couple of years ago. I'm not sure which version of Visio you were using, but at that time with Visio 2000 eps export support was there, but was broken. The solution was to use Acrobats eps printer (Generic Postscript Printer) to export the stuff.
2. ASP = VB6. You could include ASP as an offshoot of Visual Basic if you like, but it has exactly the same snytax. The real changes came with VB.Net, which is included in both charts.
On which planet pray tell? ASP == VBScript | Jscript (other languages are possible as well). I would have more hair if ASP == VB6. It would be better to have an offshoot from the VB6 tree which includes VBScript, but it is a pretty minor scripting language so it isn't really worth it I guess.
Yes. The problem lies in making something sufficiently general to be useful, yet specific enough to work in this case. Don't hold your breath waiting for it. While it may be announced, it will never come.
I haven't used Fedora Core 3, so I couldn't in all honesty comment.
My last experience with a version of linux aimed at Grandma was the latest and greatest release of Mandrake of about a year and a quarter ago. At that time to get a network connection, the only solution was to compile and install an RPM (cmd line). I gave up at that point. In that case the GUIs were outright broken. This was on pretty standard hardware (Shuttle SN41G2, nForce 2 Mobo).
I personally run Debian for my linux boxes (file server & a second desktop).
I had my motorola crash on me during phone calls numerous times. This was after a firmware update from the original fimware. RF doesn't do much for you if your software isn't up to scratch.
The price of petrol in the states is too cheap, encouraging car use. You need to drive it up. What with Iraq and all that the US seems to be doing a pretty good job.
Earth calling Motorola: your phones are crap. I got burnt on a T720 and went back to nokia. I'd have taken almost any nokia in preference to any Motorola. My advice to Motorola: Build a usable, responsive interface.
There may be a similar attitude to MP3 players at Microsoft.
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I'd agree that it is a fascinating area. What is interesting is just how much is agreed on in the Canon. Largely the only area of discussion at the moment is the Apocrytha.
Interpretations vary, but largely the bible is accepted as constant.
The only significant variations (from the reformation bible) that I am aware of as follows:
1. The catholic church includes the Apocrypha, and to some extent the teachings of the church act as a surrogate "bible"
2. Jehova's Witnesses translate some sections of the bible rather differently (eg John 1) to match them to teachings of the church
3. Mormons have the book of Mormon as well, which can supercede the bible
4. Some denominations hold that there is one true translation (eg King James Version) for reasons that remain opaque to me
I am not familiar with Unitarians.
Most of the separations between churches relates to interpretation rather than the bible itself.
Surely you know the Bible changed a lot over the course of its history. To say nothing of its interpretations.
No I didn't. Got any facts for that?
This is a major problem today. People like yourself read works of fiction that have a veneer of truth and use it as a basis for their arguments. Another great example of this Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci code". The history sounds impressive, and indeed it refers to some real points in history, but it is totally incorrect.
I would suggest that you muse long and hard on the fact that what you are reading is fiction.
I have to say that Id don't believe this "mad leader" theory. If they manage to maintain control, how can they be mad? I think it may be possible that they are mad and still competant, but I think it is unlikely.
Saddam was often called mad, and yet he managed to hold together a country of three different ethic groups, who hated each other. Note that the US is having some difficulty doing just that at the moment. The Kurds want to suceed, the Sunnis don't want the Shiites in power and the Shiites want sharia law.
Risk? WTF? It was a certainty! You do know that China was already fighting in the Korean War? Get a grip.
Perl is a terrible language that happens to be quite useful.
Why can't a browser simply be a browser anymore?
Because people want it to do more. I certainly do. I have extensions installed that allow me:
- See all HTTP headers
- open pages in IE
- numerous development/pref extensions
- google bar
- tabbed browsing extensions
- something to bypass NYT registration
- tool to read off RGB values from images on the web
These are all useful extensions of the browser. In fact the biggest reason for me, after security, for using Firefox is the extensions.
I'm not sure if this counts but there is an army of google geeks out there. I don't think they'd get through basic training though.
Read my sig.
Any time.
I found this when I was trying to do some compatibility testing with earlier versions of IE. The one caveat with this stuff is that I found that cookies don't seem to work. I'm not certain why this is the case, but the all the versions of IE seem to use the IE installation folder, and maybe this causes problems. It is a real PITA if you are testing something that requires cookies though.
OK Bob died.
/. seems to.
But the Office assistant is still installed by default. Clippy is a shorthand for referring to that. And frankly I have always found the office assistant extremely unhelpful.
And the third thing, that bloody dog. No you can't just switch it off. I can't find the relevant link in my bookmarks (which is frustating), but IIRC you need to change a registry key to return to a decent (read Win2K) style search.
You may not get it, but the rest of
To characterise the way Mozilla and IE handled @ as broken is incorrect. They handled it perfectly, it is just that this was a little used (and insecure) feature of URLs. Because it was little used, and therefore unfamiliar, it could be used to hide the URL for the unwary.
What it was actually there for was to allow people to specify and login and password in the URL. I believe it was used mostly for FTP.
Somewhere in my collection of bookmarks I have a page that goes through most of the techniques for obscuring the URL, but I am afraid I couldn't find it. Other options include writing an IP address in hex or in as a single number.
You know that you can run multiple versions of IE on the same windows box? See this link.
$1000, not $500. That is $1000 Australian, which $772.28 US (according to XE).
Visio's eps export was pretty broken when I went to use it (for the Latex export), which was a couple of years ago. I'm not sure which version of Visio you were using, but at that time with Visio 2000 eps export support was there, but was broken. The solution was to use Acrobats eps printer (Generic Postscript Printer) to export the stuff.
Let me be the first to tell you, it is just you.
C needs some safety rails. Certainly everyone should learn C, but that doesn't mean it should be their first language.
2. ASP = VB6. You could include ASP as an offshoot of Visual Basic if you like, but it has exactly the same snytax. The real changes came with VB.Net, which is included in both charts.
On which planet pray tell? ASP == VBScript | Jscript (other languages are possible as well). I would have more hair if ASP == VB6. It would be better to have an offshoot from the VB6 tree which includes VBScript, but it is a pretty minor scripting language so it isn't really worth it I guess.
Yes. The problem lies in making something sufficiently general to be useful, yet specific enough to work in this case. Don't hold your breath waiting for it. While it may be announced, it will never come.
I haven't used Fedora Core 3, so I couldn't in all honesty comment.
My last experience with a version of linux aimed at Grandma was the latest and greatest release of Mandrake of about a year and a quarter ago. At that time to get a network connection, the only solution was to compile and install an RPM (cmd line). I gave up at that point. In that case the GUIs were outright broken. This was on pretty standard hardware (Shuttle SN41G2, nForce 2 Mobo).
I personally run Debian for my linux boxes (file server & a second desktop).
I had my motorola crash on me during phone calls numerous times. This was after a firmware update from the original fimware. RF doesn't do much for you if your software isn't up to scratch.
The price of petrol in the states is too cheap, encouraging car use. You need to drive it up. What with Iraq and all that the US seems to be doing a pretty good job.
Earth calling Motorola: your phones are crap. I got burnt on a T720 and went back to nokia. I'd have taken almost any nokia in preference to any Motorola. My advice to Motorola: Build a usable, responsive interface.
There may be a similar attitude to MP3 players at Microsoft.
I love your sig. This quote goes with it
I didn't realise that there was life outside Sydney. On all my maps it says "Here be dragons".