The halakha (Jewish Law) works like this - the text must be readable, and printed correctly. There can't be any holes inside the margins; however, holes or tears outside the margins are parmitted, although they're not mehudar (nice).
My synagogue, Kesher Israel has one particular Sefer Torah which has about a 2" tear over one of the columns at about Parshat Pinhas (Numbers 25:10 - 30:1), which is quite apparent every time we read it - it'd be quite hard to fix, so we're waiting until we can take that one out of circulation for a few months...
lots and lots of training, and apprenticeship to a known Sofer. For people to rely on one's work, the Sofer has to be observant, well educated, and upstanding in the community.
Can you buy a Torah at the bookstore? If so, does it have publisher's information?A quick check of Amazon.com shows a Torah with searchable online samples. The inside cover page says "Second Edition Newly Corrected". Whups! That doesn't bode well!
"Torah" means multiple things, thus the confusion.
1) = Pentatuch = Text of the 5 books of Moses 2) = "Teaching" or "Law" = the contents of all of Jewish Law 3) = shorthand for Sefer Torah = scroll containing (1) written on Parchament (skin of a kosher animal) by a Sofer (Jewish scribe) using special ink with the pieces of skin sewn together with Gid (sinew).
#3 is what TFA discusses. What you found in the bookstore is a bound copy of #1.
The price represents about a year's labour for a Sofer (Jewish Scribe) and the cost of the parchament and ink itself. The cost of the materials is something like $5-10K, while the rest is the labour.
Most Sifrei Torah (Torah Scrolls) are not particularly ancient, although scrolls which are a couple of hundred years old are quite common.
the most notable thing about the mini is that it's a cheap mac. the small size is a side effect of all the corner cutting to make a mac that cheap.
I'm not sure I agree with this - Apple has experimented with nonstandard form factors for quite some time, with variable success:
consider the Cube - innovative and really neat, but sold all of 30 units (I have one:/ )
I think that Apple really does decide what they want it to look like, and then figures out how to shoehorn the components into the box, rather than the reverse.
That makes sense - a fortune 500 company is more likely to put the extra money into a reasonably redundant infrastructure where parts can be taken offline without disruption than a smaller enterprise. (this goes back to the mainframe days)
However, the Cisco IPT stuff is a beast: rebooting Unity is a HUGE pain, and the IPCC servers don't like it either.
I didn't RTFA but any company that is going to lose more than a few pennies from a reboot is going to have redundant servers in place already. It is not difficult to stagger the application of patches to server machines in a farm, which all but eliminates the cost of a reboot.
I'm assuming that you're not speaking out of direct experience, but instead from the big book of "how things are supposed to be" because in the real world, reboots cause LOTS of disruption. An example:
Most of the Cisco IP Telephony servers run under Win2K, and several platforms (Unity, IPCCEx) don't handle stateful failover well. Do you want to say "my call center is down because I needed to patch?"
Another example: while it's quite possible to virtualize things like databases, most small enterprises ( 5000 employees) have some number of non-redundant services. Now, if the print server is down at 3AM, who cares - but if it's your main database for your online store, that's not so good.
It's a rare company that ACTUALLY has a real farm of redundant servers which can individually be taken offline without disruption.
I'm neither a patent attourney, nor an examiner. I do however, have three good friends who are examiners, one who is a former examiner, and two who are patent attourneys. I am pretty familiar (from a lay perspective) with some of the concepts involved, but make no pretenses that I know whether the behavior of Lotus CC:Mail meets the technical definition of "prior art."
My comment, and I stand by it, was that CC:Mail did differentiate between email sourced from the Internet and email from internal systems, and showed that difference obviously. I was responding to a prior request for examples. One of the things my friend who used to be an examiner has told me is that it's often hard to find the places to begin looking because the patents end up covering tremendously specific cases, and then later on in court, the companies try to broaden them.
I'm not deliberately trying to be an ass... I'm not trying to put words into your mouth...
Then stop. I don't think too many people treat Slashdot as a source for informed legal opinion (and those who do are fools), but rather, one can get a sense of what people (specifically the geeks who read/.) think about an issue.
I'm not aware of prior art in this one - do you know of an email client that visually differentiated between internet based email addresses and ones from the address book?
Absolutely.
Lotus CC:Mail in the late 90's did this, as did all of the early mail apps which had to contend with Internet vs. FIDOnet vs. etc... networks.
My complaint is the different behavior of all of the office apps:
In Word, clicking the outermost "close" button closes the document you're working on, but leaves other documents unaffected. In Excel, doing the same action closes all documents. Some of the apps treat indiviual documements completely independantly, and some of them treat them as cascaded windows inside the same instance of the application.
I would LOVE to see a robust tabbed implementation in Office, especially if (like Firefox) you could run multiple instances of a tabbed application.
Yeah, yeah, I know, dramatic license and effect. I miss Babylon 5. Wait -- they had the Minbari using melee weapons too. *Sigh*
Only in places where either silence or stealth are appropriate. We have AK47s and cruise missles today, and a certain number of crimes are still committed with switchblades, no?
-David Barak
If I recall correctly, Ellison only wrote one episode, "City on the Edge of Forever," which I have heard described as one of the absolute best episodes of ST.
Niven's contribution to the ST animated series (which is not ST canon) was encounters with his Kzinti, which he had previously developed for his Known Space universe.
In both of those cases, the talents of the excellent writers who were eager to work on ST were not fully used. Alas...
I just checked out Greydanus' reviews, and you're quite correct: his analysis is a pleasure to read, and he's able to call the matrix 2 and 3 as the junk they are while being polite and explaining his reasons quite well.
Vonage doesn't make IP phones - they make telephone adapters which convert typical analog phone signals into IP. The question you ask is still valid, though...
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The halakha (Jewish Law) works like this - the text must be readable, and printed correctly. There can't be any holes inside the margins; however, holes or tears outside the margins are parmitted, although they're not mehudar (nice).
My synagogue, Kesher Israel has one particular Sefer Torah which has about a 2" tear over one of the columns at about Parshat Pinhas (Numbers 25:10 - 30:1), which is quite apparent every time we read it - it'd be quite hard to fix, so we're waiting until we can take that one out of circulation for a few months...
-David Barak
You couldn't add an RFID to the scroll itself, although it might be possible to add it to the Atzei Hayyim (wood staves) on which the scroll is wound.
-David Barak
lots and lots of training, and apprenticeship to a known Sofer. For people to rely on one's work, the Sofer has to be observant, well educated, and upstanding in the community.
-David Barak
Nope, sorry. The formulation of the ink is specified by Jewish Law, and has remained the same for a few thousand years.
Besides, individual signatures added to ink wouldn't scale in any case.
-David Barak
"Torah" means multiple things, thus the confusion.
1) = Pentatuch = Text of the 5 books of Moses
2) = "Teaching" or "Law" = the contents of all of Jewish Law
3) = shorthand for Sefer Torah = scroll containing (1) written on Parchament (skin of a kosher animal) by a Sofer (Jewish scribe) using special ink with the pieces of skin sewn together with Gid (sinew).
#3 is what TFA discusses. What you found in the bookstore is a bound copy of #1.
-David Barak
The price represents about a year's labour for a Sofer (Jewish Scribe) and the cost of the parchament and ink itself. The cost of the materials is something like $5-10K, while the rest is the labour.
Most Sifrei Torah (Torah Scrolls) are not particularly ancient, although scrolls which are a couple of hundred years old are quite common.
-David Barak
I'm not sure I agree with this - Apple has experimented with nonstandard form factors for quite some time, with variable success:
consider the Cube - innovative and really neat, but sold all of 30 units (I have one
I think that Apple really does decide what they want it to look like, and then figures out how to shoehorn the components into the box, rather than the reverse.
-David Barak
That makes sense - a fortune 500 company is more likely to put the extra money into a reasonably redundant infrastructure where parts can be taken offline without disruption than a smaller enterprise. (this goes back to the mainframe days)
However, the Cisco IPT stuff is a beast: rebooting Unity is a HUGE pain, and the IPCC servers don't like it either.
-David
I'm assuming that you're not speaking out of direct experience, but instead from the big book of "how things are supposed to be" because in the real world, reboots cause LOTS of disruption. An example:
Most of the Cisco IP Telephony servers run under Win2K, and several platforms (Unity, IPCCEx) don't handle stateful failover well. Do you want to say "my call center is down because I needed to patch?"
Another example: while it's quite possible to virtualize things like databases, most small enterprises ( 5000 employees) have some number of non-redundant services. Now, if the print server is down at 3AM, who cares - but if it's your main database for your online store, that's not so good.
It's a rare company that ACTUALLY has a real farm of redundant servers which can individually be taken offline without disruption.
-David Barak
My comment, and I stand by it, was that CC:Mail did differentiate between email sourced from the Internet and email from internal systems, and showed that difference obviously. I was responding to a prior request for examples. One of the things my friend who used to be an examiner has told me is that it's often hard to find the places to begin looking because the patents end up covering tremendously specific cases, and then later on in court, the companies try to broaden them.
Then stop. I don't think too many people treat Slashdot as a source for informed legal opinion (and those who do are fools), but rather, one can get a sense of what people (specifically the geeks who read
-David
Absolutely.
Lotus CC:Mail in the late 90's did this, as did all of the early mail apps which had to contend with Internet vs. FIDOnet vs. etc... networks.
-David Barak
My complaint is the different behavior of all of the office apps:
In Word, clicking the outermost "close" button closes the document you're working on, but leaves other documents unaffected. In Excel, doing the same action closes all documents. Some of the apps treat indiviual documements completely independantly, and some of them treat them as cascaded windows inside the same instance of the application.
I would LOVE to see a robust tabbed implementation in Office, especially if (like Firefox) you could run multiple instances of a tabbed application.
-David Barak
Ok, I've got to know the answer to your .sig trivia question: which B5 cast member did porn?
-David Barak
disclaimer: I am not a mega-Trekkie
If I recall correctly, Ellison only wrote one episode, "City on the Edge of Forever," which I have heard described as one of the absolute best episodes of ST.
Niven's contribution to the ST animated series (which is not ST canon) was encounters with his Kzinti, which he had previously developed for his Known Space universe.
In both of those cases, the talents of the excellent writers who were eager to work on ST were not fully used. Alas...
At least BSG got another season...
-David
Zero dimensions = a point
One dimension = a line
Two dimensions = a plane
See also Flatland by Edwin Albott
-David
You have a 1D LCD? is it tall or wide? ;)
-David
I just checked out Greydanus' reviews, and you're quite correct: his analysis is a pleasure to read, and he's able to call the matrix 2 and 3 as the junk they are while being polite and explaining his reasons quite well.
:)
Thanks for the tip
A Serial Burglar stole my RS-232 and PA-T3 interfaces, and I had to move to FDDI!
All your jokes are belong to us...
Vonage doesn't make IP phones - they make telephone adapters which convert typical analog phone signals into IP. The question you ask is still valid, though...
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Awesome - are you in a band? Any recordings? I do geek-rock as well with The Franchise
Where is that from? It's awesome...
your sig read: "I came, I saw, she conquered"
shouldn't the first two items be reversed?