That's fine and all, and it looks like you have a neat site. You're talking about building an app for a particular platform, Flash, and that's fine; you've got some bad and good and found what works for you. My complaint is about bog-standard video being buried under Flash for no particular reason.
That should be up to the user agent. As far as I know, media player plugins by default play video in the web page, or at least pop right up when you click on a video.
What's wrong with posting MPG files for people to download? Every site these days is Flash video, or insists and assumes you're running a Web browser, wrapping their video file in Flash controls and burying the actual URL to the actual file people want to see under a dozen redirects.
All I want is the URL so I can play it with mplayer. I have no intention of putting Flash on my machine. Is that so danged difficult??
Well, it may not be ideal... I'd suggest that the ultimate fault lies with the government of New Zealand, who gave what, five months' notice on this? That's crazy. The US had a year and a half or two for their recent change, and I still don't think that was enough. (Apart from the fact that the whole DST thing is stupid anyway, but that's for another post...)
The "volatile" repository is for additions to Stable that need to change frequently. I believe the catalyst for creating volatile was for ClamAV updates. ClamAV changes on a regular basis to keep up with threats, and by adding volatile to your repository list you can keep the ClamAV engine and its data file at the latest version without sacrificing Stable.
Seems like a pretty good solution for timezone changes...
I think you'll find people's spyware-infested laptops and broken toasters fail the "functional" test also.
True, you could make them functional, by repairing the toaster or "simply" backing up, reformatting, and reinstalling. A normal person faced with that decision either has to take weeks to learn everything required about computers or take it to a shop. At that point, it's spend $200 and ending up with an old laptop or $500 and having a new one.
Sure you can. You don't have to be infallible to produce something correct. I can generate a log or multiplication table which is 100% perfect, and I'm not infallible.
In the debates about the canon at that time, they looked at the documents which had circulated among them since the beginning, and decided which ones "fit" and weeded out the ones that didn't. It's a stretch to call that a creative process. And in any case, Rome didn't formally declare the canon until Trent, after the Reformation.
All this is not considering that the Church in the 4th century was not the same as the RCC we know today.
There is constant redefinition of what is considered infallible and what isn't, in order to keep contradictions from being troublesome. The modern definition of having to use particular phrases to declare a teaching to be infallible is simply a way of wiping out the old inconvenient doctrines.
When Boniface VIII wrote Unam Sanctum, declaring that nobody could be saved without being under the authority of the Pope, he certainly understood that to be infallible; but he didn't know the magic words that are required today.
And if it's the case, as is claimed today, that there have only been a handful of invocations of papal infallibility, then why have all these new insights come only after 1850?
Also, I don't believe the other interpretation of the keys to the kingdom is that they applied only to Peter. It's that the whole Church was given the keys, which are the Gospel and the Sacraments, not just one man.
Attempting to stay on topic: since you agree that they've strayed from the Bible, you can't conclude that his statements today about taxation are biblical.
Straying further off topic: Once you've "gone quite a far way" from the Bible, it's not your basis anymore; you regard something else as foundational. Also, it was the early, and truly catholic, church which collected and distributed the New Testament and developed the Creeds. Note that the canon was not dogmatized by Rome until the Council of Trent, after the Reformation.
I was with you up until the end. Please recall that it's the Roman Catholics who take the heat for NOT basing their teachings on the Bible, and instead trust in the "consensus" of the Roman church as an organization, and on the Pope himself in particular. In short, the Pope's authority isn't based on the Bible as much as it's based on his own infallibility.
Too bad about Ron Paul... His view of the role of government (at least domestically) is so tremendously better than anybody else's, that it seems a shame to write him off for one issue. But national defense is a big issue.
If he truly is "the most honest man in Washington" (and I think he may well be), then it's possible after being sworn in, and after looking at all the data and talking with the military, he could decide that it _is_, in fact, worth fighting Islamic terrorism.
Why do people think that the best way to measure somebody's aptitude is by telling him that his performance on a test is meaningless?
I had the same experience with that test in third grade. The only thing I knew about it was that it didn't matter. Fortunately my mom realized why I hadn't made the cut, and was able to convince the powers that be to let me retake it, this time mentioning that it might be nice if I actually did well.
Teachers these days... Erm, I guess that's those days by now. But they're probably still doing this.
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How does that have one thing to do with Flash? Send YouTube your video and they can host the embedded MPG.
That's fine and all, and it looks like you have a neat site. You're talking about building an app for a particular platform, Flash, and that's fine; you've got some bad and good and found what works for you. My complaint is about bog-standard video being buried under Flash for no particular reason.
That should be up to the user agent. As far as I know, media player plugins by default play video in the web page, or at least pop right up when you click on a video.
You're certainly right about ads.
But won't most browsers talk to the default media player and play an MPG in the browser window when you click on it?
What's wrong with posting MPG files for people to download? Every site these days is Flash video, or insists and assumes you're running a Web browser, wrapping their video file in Flash controls and burying the actual URL to the actual file people want to see under a dozen redirects.
All I want is the URL so I can play it with mplayer. I have no intention of putting Flash on my machine. Is that so danged difficult??
Well, it may not be ideal... I'd suggest that the ultimate fault lies with the government of New Zealand, who gave what, five months' notice on this? That's crazy. The US had a year and a half or two for their recent change, and I still don't think that was enough. (Apart from the fact that the whole DST thing is stupid anyway, but that's for another post...)
The "volatile" repository is for additions to Stable that need to change frequently. I believe the catalyst for creating volatile was for ClamAV updates. ClamAV changes on a regular basis to keep up with threats, and by adding volatile to your repository list you can keep the ClamAV engine and its data file at the latest version without sacrificing Stable.
Seems like a pretty good solution for timezone changes...
...would a comment like that get modded "informative"!
Praxis is their key energy production facility...
I think you'll find people's spyware-infested laptops and broken toasters fail the "functional" test also.
True, you could make them functional, by repairing the toaster or "simply" backing up, reformatting, and reinstalling. A normal person faced with that decision either has to take weeks to learn everything required about computers or take it to a shop. At that point, it's spend $200 and ending up with an old laptop or $500 and having a new one.
My, uh, "friend" has this problem, see. What should I^H he do about it?
Cycles per second in the computing world have always been in base 10, not base 2. This is divisible by 10^3, not 2^10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Usage_notes
OCLC provides a service which can give you a list of "related" ISBNs. This can be all the different editions, audio versions, etc. It may help you find a version of the book you're after. Here's an example, obviously replace the ISBN with yours. http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0596002815?method=getEditions&format=xml
You can't have one without the other.
Sure you can. You don't have to be infallible to produce something correct. I can generate a log or multiplication table which is 100% perfect, and I'm not infallible.
In the debates about the canon at that time, they looked at the documents which had circulated among them since the beginning, and decided which ones "fit" and weeded out the ones that didn't. It's a stretch to call that a creative process. And in any case, Rome didn't formally declare the canon until Trent, after the Reformation.
All this is not considering that the Church in the 4th century was not the same as the RCC we know today.
There is constant redefinition of what is considered infallible and what isn't, in order to keep contradictions from being troublesome. The modern definition of having to use particular phrases to declare a teaching to be infallible is simply a way of wiping out the old inconvenient doctrines.
When Boniface VIII wrote Unam Sanctum, declaring that nobody could be saved without being under the authority of the Pope, he certainly understood that to be infallible; but he didn't know the magic words that are required today.
And if it's the case, as is claimed today, that there have only been a handful of invocations of papal infallibility, then why have all these new insights come only after 1850?
Also, I don't believe the other interpretation of the keys to the kingdom is that they applied only to Peter. It's that the whole Church was given the keys, which are the Gospel and the Sacraments, not just one man.
Attempting to stay on topic: since you agree that they've strayed from the Bible, you can't conclude that his statements today about taxation are biblical.
Straying further off topic: Once you've "gone quite a far way" from the Bible, it's not your basis anymore; you regard something else as foundational. Also, it was the early, and truly catholic, church which collected and distributed the New Testament and developed the Creeds. Note that the canon was not dogmatized by Rome until the Council of Trent, after the Reformation.
I was with you up until the end. Please recall that it's the Roman Catholics who take the heat for NOT basing their teachings on the Bible, and instead trust in the "consensus" of the Roman church as an organization, and on the Pope himself in particular. In short, the Pope's authority isn't based on the Bible as much as it's based on his own infallibility.
Too bad about Ron Paul... His view of the role of government (at least domestically) is so tremendously better than anybody else's, that it seems a shame to write him off for one issue. But national defense is a big issue.
If he truly is "the most honest man in Washington" (and I think he may well be), then it's possible after being sworn in, and after looking at all the data and talking with the military, he could decide that it _is_, in fact, worth fighting Islamic terrorism.
But can I support him? I don't know...
Why do people think that the best way to measure somebody's aptitude is by telling him that his performance on a test is meaningless?
I had the same experience with that test in third grade. The only thing I knew about it was that it didn't matter. Fortunately my mom realized why I hadn't made the cut, and was able to convince the powers that be to let me retake it, this time mentioning that it might be nice if I actually did well.
Teachers these days... Erm, I guess that's those days by now. But they're probably still doing this.
My dog's got no nose!
How does he smell?
Awful!
Please don't post that signature. I caught a couple of words as I glanced by and nearly had to be rushed to the ER.
It was there, at the bottom of the label after "monosodium glutimate".
What exactly do you expect them to be doing with these cheques?
It's called Michael Moore logic. If the government provides it, it's by definition "free".
Huh. Well, run your own! It's not too bad to set up.