The biggest pain I have is getting a single font (yeah, I don't mind a 20 MB font that works) which will work uniformly well with unicode text in different languages.
Of course, using logic isn't the strong suit of the ID\Young Earth\Creationism set anyway, so I fully predict those guys will show up here in force with a bunch of "I told you so" posts, mostly with out actually reading TFA.
Oh, please.
Intelligent Design people are normally not Young Earth people. The combination does exist, of course, but they are rare.
If you've ever read any Young Earth literature, you will know that the Young Earth people do use logic as effectively as their opponents. They just point out that there are different, and in their opinion equally valid, interpretations of the data. See, for example, "Evolution -- The Fossils STILL say NO!" by Duane Gish, PhD, in which he says precisely what I have just said, then uses logic very effectively to show why he believes in a Young Earth -- from the fossil data, referring to other scientific publications on other matters of the Young Earth debate.
If you've read any of William Dembski's work on intelligent design, you will know that he argues very cogently, coherently, and soundly logically in all that he writes.
Attacking Intelligent Design people / Young Earth people / Creationists in the same sentence is disregarding their differences to the exclusion of sound logic within the same sentence.
What you gave is an instance of an ad hominem argument, which, it is generally agreed, is not a valid argument.
I am not a Young Earth person myself, but the above argument does not deserve to be labelled "Insightful".
I can recommend Doxygen. It allows you to intermingle API documentation and code; you put a specially, but easily formatted comment in front of or behind each thing you want to document (class, method, member, #define, etc.), and then Doxygen extracts the documentation, producing a variety of output formats (HTML, LaTeX, RTF, PDF, and others). A lot like JavaDoc, and a lot like the Qt documentation as well.
For HTML output, I'd recommend using a custom CSS stylesheet rather than the one provided, though. Fortunately, everything is CSS-enabled, so it's easy to change the look 'n feel.
We at the Department of Communication, University of Aalborg, Denmark use Moodle as the primary communications channel for one of our study programs in multimedia. It works extremely well for us -- our students and lecturers love the simplicity of the interface, while also relishing its power. Teachers speak well of Moodle's didactically enabling features, and the ease with which they can structure the time-flow of their teaching using Moodle.
I am the administrator/help desk guy for our Moodle site, and I must say, it is easy as pie. I very rarely hear from anyone, and when I do, it's usually fixed in 15 minutes or less. I've been running our site for almost a year and a half now, and I've only spent something like 20 man-hours on it, all told. That includes spending time upgrading Moodle, fixing bugs in Moodle, AND supporting users. Moodle has a very active and very helpful user community at the Moodle site, which provides lots of help both to newbies and to seasoned Moodle veterans.
I've recommended Moodle for another Danish educational institution, and they've also been running it for a year and a half now, with very good results. The praise lavished on Moodle from their users -- teachers and students -- falls along the same lines as what I said above.
I can highly recommend Moodle as a Course Management System.
Yes, but so does "of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession" (Lev. 25:45). Yup, you have a biblical right to enslave tourists' children. Or, in other words - not everything the Old Testament says is suitable as a handbook of modern morality.
Except that the passage you mention is not about morality. It's about civil laws of the Israelite people of antiquity. Theologians (Christian ones, anyway -- don't know about Jewish theologians) generally divide the Old Testament laws into three kinds:
Moral laws
Civil laws
Ceremonial laws
Of these, only the first is held by Christians to be binding on non-Jews. Thou shalt not steal is in this moral category, whereas social or civil laws are not binding for non-Jews, nor can they be applied to non-Jewish peoples.
I agree with your other reasoning, though, namely that you have to define "theft" before making blanket statements like that of the grandparent post. I am just calling into question your argumentation that not everything the Old Testament has to say about morality can be applied to modern morality. What you referred to is not about morality, but about civil laws.
If you have quickview installed on your machine, you can see what DLLs a program use in its Import Section (from the PE header). Else i would recommend OllyDBG (free) or PE Explorer ($$$).
I can recommend the HT Editor for editing all sorts of executable files (Windows and Linux/Unix).
The HOPL is an "Interactive historical roster of computer languages". It has more languages, but also contain non-programming languages (like query-languages).
The editor of the site has made two color-coded posters: Version 1 and Version 2.
If Microsoft "borrowed" GPLed code and tried to hide it not only would they open themselves up to a serious lawsuit from the copyright holders (with serious monetary penalties), but they could theoretically end up having to share any source code that came in contact with the GPLed code.
This is what the FUDsters would have us believe, but it's not true. As Eben Moglen, General Counsel for the FSF, has repeatedly pointed out, the GPL is a license, not a contract.
One of the consequence os this is that you can't force someone to open up their own code if they link against GPL'ed code in violation of the license. At most, you can force them to stop using the GPL'ed code.
See this lengthy rebuttal by Pamela Jones of Groklaw fame, or this more accessible, shorter version.
Epimenides, being a Cretan himself, said: "Cretans always lie". But is he speaking the truth? In that case, Cretans don't always lie, and the statement is false, and he is lying. It is similar to Russell's paradox with sets, or to Cantor's diagonal argument.
So I was only three, a little brat, but a morally conscious brat. And then and there, I made a decision never to lie ever in my life (haven't been able to keep that decision completely, though). And I say to my Dad, who is standing nearby, "I will never lie in my life." And then I add hastily - "I didn't lie just now".
I remember then feeling like I had to corroborate that statement denying any falsehood, which statement would then also have to be corroborated, and I felt - as only a three year-old's little brain can feel it - the weight of an infinite regression. It had to be curtailed somehow.
Apart from Epimenides' paradox, it was basically discovering one of the most fundamental things necessary for social interaction, namely trust. I couldn't prove that I didn't just lie, but I hoped my Dad would trust me.
my emdros text database engine is built specificially for storing and retrieving annotated or analyzed text. This makes it ideal as a back-end for certain classes of NLP projects.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, Jason Kohrs of Geeks.com wrote this. Here is part 1 about Intel, which is what we're all (not) reading, and part 2, which is the AMD counterpart.
The biggest pain I have is getting a single font (yeah, I don't mind a 20 MB font that works) which will work uniformly well with unicode text in different languages.
You mean, like Gentium? Or Doulos SIL?
The Unicode Font Guide for Linux should also give you some pointers.
Ulrik P.
Of course, using logic isn't the strong suit of the ID\Young Earth\Creationism set anyway, so I fully predict those guys will show up here in force with a bunch of "I told you so" posts, mostly with out actually reading TFA.
Oh, please.
I am not a Young Earth person myself, but the above argument does not deserve to be labelled "Insightful".
I can recommend Doxygen. It allows you to intermingle API documentation and code; you put a specially, but easily formatted comment in front of or behind each thing you want to document (class, method, member, #define, etc.), and then Doxygen extracts the documentation, producing a variety of output formats (HTML, LaTeX, RTF, PDF, and others). A lot like JavaDoc, and a lot like the Qt documentation as well.
For HTML output, I'd recommend using a custom CSS stylesheet rather than the one provided, though. Fortunately, everything is CSS-enabled, so it's easy to change the look 'n feel.
The text mistakenly says Schwartz is CEO of Sun, he's "only" COO.
We at the Department of Communication, University of Aalborg, Denmark use Moodle as the primary communications channel for one of our study programs in multimedia. It works extremely well for us -- our students and lecturers love the simplicity of the interface, while also relishing its power. Teachers speak well of Moodle's didactically enabling features, and the ease with which they can structure the time-flow of their teaching using Moodle.
I am the administrator/help desk guy for our Moodle site, and I must say, it is easy as pie. I very rarely hear from anyone, and when I do, it's usually fixed in 15 minutes or less. I've been running our site for almost a year and a half now, and I've only spent something like 20 man-hours on it, all told. That includes spending time upgrading Moodle, fixing bugs in Moodle, AND supporting users. Moodle has a very active and very helpful user community at the Moodle site, which provides lots of help both to newbies and to seasoned Moodle veterans.
I've recommended Moodle for another Danish educational institution, and they've also been running it for a year and a half now, with very good results. The praise lavished on Moodle from their users -- teachers and students -- falls along the same lines as what I said above.
I can highly recommend Moodle as a Course Management System.
Ulrik Petersen
That's not Informative, that's Funny. The original poster probably meant to be clever - or funny - by intentionaly making a speling mistake.
Except that the passage you mention is not about morality. It's about civil laws of the Israelite people of antiquity. Theologians (Christian ones, anyway -- don't know about Jewish theologians) generally divide the Old Testament laws into three kinds:
Of these, only the first is held by Christians to be binding on non-Jews. Thou shalt not steal is in this moral category, whereas social or civil laws are not binding for non-Jews, nor can they be applied to non-Jewish peoples.
I agree with your other reasoning, though, namely that you have to define "theft" before making blanket statements like that of the grandparent post. I am just calling into question your argumentation that not everything the Old Testament has to say about morality can be applied to modern morality. What you referred to is not about morality, but about civil laws.
If you have quickview installed on your machine, you can see what DLLs a program use in its Import Section (from the PE header). Else i would recommend OllyDBG (free) or PE Explorer ($$$).
I can recommend the HT Editor for editing all sorts of executable files (Windows and Linux/Unix).
Ulrik
The HOPL is an "Interactive historical roster of computer languages". It has more languages, but also contain non-programming languages (like query-languages).
The editor of the site has made two color-coded posters: Version 1 and Version 2.
Other lists are here, here and here.
Ulrik
This is, of course, a reference to RFC 3514, which in my humble opinion was the best April Fool's joke on Slashdot last year.
Ulrik
Your mouse has moved.
Windows has to be rebooted for this change to take effect.
[Reboot now] [Reboot later]
:-)
If Microsoft "borrowed" GPLed code and tried to hide it not only would they open themselves up to a serious lawsuit from the copyright holders (with serious monetary penalties), but they could theoretically end up having to share any source code that came in contact with the GPLed code.
This is what the FUDsters would have us believe, but it's not true. As Eben Moglen, General Counsel for the FSF, has repeatedly pointed out, the GPL is a license, not a contract.
One of the consequence os this is that you can't force someone to open up their own code if they link against GPL'ed code in violation of the license. At most, you can force them to stop using the GPL'ed code.
See this lengthy rebuttal by Pamela Jones of Groklaw fame, or this more accessible, shorter version.
Ulrik
Yes it is.
Ulrik Petersen
- There's a special version of TeX called Omega which does 16-bit Unicode. It can even do Sanskrit. Some critics say it doesn't cut the cake, however.
- There's also Unicode support for LaTeX.
UlrikI remember, when I was about three, discovering an instance of Epimenides' lying-paradox.
Epimenides, being a Cretan himself, said: "Cretans always lie". But is he speaking the truth? In that case, Cretans don't always lie, and the statement is false, and he is lying. It is similar to Russell's paradox with sets, or to Cantor's diagonal argument.
So I was only three, a little brat, but a morally conscious brat. And then and there, I made a decision never to lie ever in my life (haven't been able to keep that decision completely, though). And I say to my Dad, who is standing nearby, "I will never lie in my life." And then I add hastily - "I didn't lie just now".
I remember then feeling like I had to corroborate that statement denying any falsehood, which statement would then also have to be corroborated, and I felt - as only a three year-old's little brain can feel it - the weight of an infinite regression. It had to be curtailed somehow.
Apart from Epimenides' paradox, it was basically discovering one of the most fundamental things necessary for social interaction, namely trust. I couldn't prove that I didn't just lie, but I hoped my Dad would trust me.
Ulrik Petersen
Hi,
my emdros text database engine is built specificially for storing and retrieving annotated or analyzed text. This makes it ideal as a back-end for certain classes of NLP projects.
Ulrik Petersen
I think this packer/mapper distinction has similarity with the N/S distinction (iNtuitive/Sensing) made on the Myers-Briggs test.
Ulrik