Suppose that part of the parts of the bible are true and parts of it are false, as you determine.
Well now you decide that murder thing really is bad. That's definitely right on. No murder. That's definitely a sin.
But is lying really all that bad? I mean come on, there are good times to lie. What if it will make someone feel bad about themselves. What if it could help me make a big sale?
And that adultery thing, that's definitely outdated and isn't relevent anymore.
If you can do that, then you have no moral standard. No one can come to you and say look this is in God's word, this is wrong. If you take parts to be true and parts to be false the bible is nothing more than a bunch of nice fairy tales with moral lessons.
No, not really. God created man in a single day. Interpreting a day as a thousand years does not make sense in that context (And it was morning the 6th day...) and STILL wouldn't be enough time for evolution. Some people try to recouncil the two beliefs but they are really totally and absolutely unrecouncilable. Either the bible is true or it is false.
I've definitely seen the flash ads too. It was an HP something ad.
I don't like flash because it makes my web browser load a cruddy java flash implemenation. I wouldn't mind them so much if there was a decent flash implementation for Linux.
It seems like to me, microsoft should be using linux as the reason they do this integration. If you install RedHat with the gnome environement, you're going to get a web browser(galeon), cd/ripping/burning software (grip), a web server(apache), and a office suite(albeit weak).
How could they compete if they didn't include this software in their operating system?
Anyone else notice the operating temperature of this thing is 0C-50C. I hope that no one buys this thing somewhere it freezes. You would think in a car stereo replacement they would design the thing to handle freeze...
Sorry, but this isn't true unless you're buying the special Audio CD-Rs not generic blank media. Many(most?) home audio recording equipment will only support the Audio CD-Rs. There is no tax for the computer CD-Rs...
I have to wonder how much business do they actually get from their ads? I mean... I was planning on buying several hundreds to mid-thousand dollars worth of wireless security stuff and they were who I thought of to go to(before the ads). However, now I would be reluctant to even let them send me a free firecracker kit because they've annoyed me so much. I wouldn't give them a dime no matter what. So now I'm ordering all of my wireless stuff from smarthome.com nearly purely because of their advertising tactics (Although, smarthome.com actually has a lot more stuff).
Have the ads had this effect on anyone else? Are these ads actually effective at making sales? I would think about any professional would stay way far away from any company with ads like that.
I was wondering -- does anyone know what vendors sell Nvidia cards with TV/Video capture built-in that supports Linux?
I have an old Asus TNT3400/TV, and I never get to use the/TV functions because I don't ever use windows (except for Minitab and Xilinx. gah.) Now that I'm looking at upgrading my computer again, I want to make sure I get maximum linux compatiblity.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks,
Ian
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Interesting.. I had some moderator points.. let's see if your theory works:)
Don't ship using Mail Boxes Etc. Call 1-800-PICKUPS. They'll come out and pick up your package for like $5. Mail boxes Etc charges 2x rates to ship UPS.
Ian
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They discovered Async memory?! Umm... wait... wasn't all memory Async until SYNCRONOUS memory came out? The S in SDRAM? I.e. EDO and Fast-page memory were Async...
What is this article talking about? What was the big discovery?
I thought this statement from the article was rather strange:
"The other nice thing about GNOME is you can continue running your standard CDE motif applications, they just run on the GNOME desktop. Also, Java
applications can run on the desktop, so you really end up having the best of both worlds."
Under that logic couldn't you argue that since you can use gnome applications under CDE is the best of both worlds? If they still have motif applications you're not getting the best of both worlds, you're getting gnome with some nasty motif flavored bits:)
Actually, GM is probaly the worlds most powerful corporation. It employees the most people and has the most revenue. Heck, its revenue rivals the GDP of Sweden! Heck, I bet that Philip Morris has more 'power' than Microsoft.
Now, if you're talking about power in the computer industry, yes I would agree it's the most powerful. However, AOL also has a lot of power, however they don't control the platform. It kind of reminds me of the TMBG poll on slashdot some time ago asking "Who is the most powerful?"
From my experiences Gateway has so much trouble it's not even funny. A client of mine has 4 Gateway PCs, over the last 2yrs I've had to get at least 6 replacement parts. I have had them send me defective replacement parts TWICE! Once a bad motherboard, yesterday a bad harddrive! Very frusterating to say the least.
Very true. When everyone else is showing loss it MUCH easier for you to show a loss. So even if you're in the black, you start writing tons of stuff off. I don't know about the buy-back factor.. but the pure "we can write this off now" factor is huge. If you don't write stuff off now, when everyone else is showing earnings, you'll have to be writing stuff off and won't be able to compete.
It appears the last quickies article was posted Wednesday March 28, @05:59PM. Come on now, there has to have been a lot of little cool stories since then. I miss the quickies. They had a lot of the funniest, coolest, weirdest tidbits on/.
Anybody know why they have ceased to exist? Taco, hemos, et al you out there?
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If you don't know how to fix library problems, do nott use unstable. They will happen. However, you can fix them. That's what emergency disks are for. Boot off your emergency disk, download + install the old library or a new fixed one. Most of the time you don't even have to get that drastic though.. you can either go into single user mode or boot the kernel with init=/bin/sh before you go losing your system you might want to talk with the people in #debian irc.openprojects.net I can almost guarantee your system wasn't actually lost.. I've been dist-upgrading to unstable everyday to every other day now for the last say two years or so.
Okay.. this is freaky. Mod this guy up. Read the other posts by this guy. He sounds like a madbomber. I think this could definitely be a potential bomber or someone clued in on it. He speaks of Allah, hate against america, the whole bit. He predicted this kind of thing would happen 7 days before it did... freaks me out. Could these be posts by the actual suicide bombers?!
Do they given read their own web page? This is a organization who employees many of the top mathematicians in the world. From their own about web page:
NSA employs the country's premier codemakers and codebreakers. It is said to be the largest employer of mathematicians in the United States and perhaps the world.
How many people work for the NSA/CSS and what is its budget?
Neither the number of employees nor the size of the Agency's budget can be publicly disclosed. However, if the NSA/CSS were considered a corporation in terms of dollars spent, floor space occupied, and personnel employed, it would rank in the top 10 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. It is far from true that NSA/CSS has an unlimited "black" budget, unknown by other government entities. While the budget and size of the NSA/CSS are classified, these details are known by the Office of Management and Budget, by both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), and by the Defense Subcommittees of the Appropriations Committees in both houses of Congress. Resources allocated to NSA/CSS are subject to rigorous examination and approval processes.
In 1997, the aggregate figure for all U.S. Government intelligence and intelligence-related activities ? of which NSA/CSS was one segment ? was made public for the first time. The aggregate intelligence budget was $26.6 billion in fiscal year (FY) 1997 and $26.7 billion for FY98. The intelligence budget for FY99 has not been publicly released.
Aw.. poor NSA only gets $26 Billion dollars. It's only the equivalent to a Fortune 50 company. Yeah.. I'm sure its technology is _ancient_.
You know.. we don't actually know jack about our defense capablities I don't think. Of course, if we did then our enemies would also, and they wouldn't be nearly as effective. For example, living in St. Louis, I was talking to someone from Boeing and mentioned how they must not too happy that their missile tests failed. He just laughed and said he couldn't talk about it's classified. Makes you wonder if maybe he was inferring that those public tests don't totally represent the actually success of the projects...
I have _personally_ seen Eliza pass the turing test. I set up Eliza on my ICQ uin, one of my friends in crisis messaged me and had 45minute conversation with Eliza (not such a good thing). By the end of the conversation, my friend was convinced that he was talking to a hacker who broke into my account. Oh what a mess that was. He had called his ex-girlfriends's parents and told him her new boyfriend broke into my account. I didn't have any idea a bot could be so convincing. It had some flat out amazing responses to his questions and comments. If I had never seen an Eliza conversation before I would have probably thought it was a person too. But like I said.. setting up such a bot on your ICQ account is not recommended. They will pass the turing test and that's not such a good thing necessarily..:)
To see many such logs go to www.google.com and do a searh for "aoliza" or even "eliza chat" you'll find all sorts of hillarious conversations.
There were about half a dozen such requests from other hosts. I thought it might be interesting to show those of you who don't have webservers running what it looks like.
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Suppose that part of the parts of the bible are true and parts of it are false, as you determine.
Well now you decide that murder thing really is bad. That's definitely right on. No murder. That's definitely a sin.
But is lying really all that bad? I mean come on, there are good times to lie. What if it will make someone feel bad about themselves. What if it could help me make a big sale?
And that adultery thing, that's definitely outdated and isn't relevent anymore.
If you can do that, then you have no moral standard. No one can come to you and say look this is in God's word, this is wrong. If you take parts to be true and parts to be false the bible is nothing more than a bunch of nice fairy tales with moral lessons.
Ian
Hmm.. interesting technique there for spotting propoganda, but I normally just look to see if the file contains the word "propaganda" :)
Ian
No, not really. God created man in a single day. Interpreting a day as a thousand years does not make sense in that context (And it was morning the 6th day...) and STILL wouldn't be enough time for evolution. Some people try to recouncil the two beliefs but they are really totally and absolutely unrecouncilable. Either the bible is true or it is false.
I've definitely seen the flash ads too. It was an HP something ad.
I don't like flash because it makes my web browser load a cruddy java flash implemenation. I wouldn't mind them so much if there was a decent flash implementation for Linux.
Ian
It seems like to me, microsoft should be using linux as the reason they do this integration. If you install RedHat with the gnome environement, you're going to get a web browser(galeon), cd/ripping/burning software (grip), a web server(apache), and a office suite(albeit weak).
How could they compete if they didn't include this software in their operating system?
Ian
I think that you mean
1:2^4096
Ian
Anyone else notice the operating temperature of this thing is 0C-50C. I hope that no one buys this thing somewhere it freezes. You would think in a car stereo replacement they would design the thing to handle freeze...
Ian
Sorry, but this isn't true unless you're buying the special Audio CD-Rs not generic blank media. Many(most?) home audio recording equipment will only support the Audio CD-Rs. There is no tax for the computer CD-Rs...
I have to wonder how much business do they actually get from their ads? I mean... I was planning on buying several hundreds to mid-thousand dollars worth of wireless security stuff and they were who I thought of to go to(before the ads). However, now I would be reluctant to even let them send me a free firecracker kit because they've annoyed me so much. I wouldn't give them a dime no matter what. So now I'm ordering all of my wireless stuff from smarthome.com nearly purely because of their advertising tactics (Although, smarthome.com actually has a lot more stuff).
Have the ads had this effect on anyone else? Are these ads actually effective at making sales? I would think about any professional would stay way far away from any company with ads like that.
Ian
I was wondering -- does anyone know what vendors sell Nvidia cards with TV/Video capture built-in that supports Linux?
/TV functions because I don't ever use windows (except for Minitab and Xilinx. gah.) Now that I'm looking at upgrading my computer again, I want to make sure I get maximum linux compatiblity.
I have an old Asus TNT3400/TV, and I never get to use the
Anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks,
Ian
Interesting.. I had some moderator points.. let's see if your theory works :)
Don't ship using Mail Boxes Etc. Call 1-800-PICKUPS. They'll come out and pick up your package for like $5. Mail boxes Etc charges 2x rates to ship UPS.
Ian
They discovered Async memory?! Umm... wait... wasn't all memory Async until SYNCRONOUS memory came out? The S in SDRAM? I.e. EDO and Fast-page memory were Async...
What is this article talking about? What was the big discovery?
I thought this statement from the article was rather strange:
:)
"The other nice thing about GNOME is you can continue running your standard CDE motif applications, they just run on the GNOME desktop. Also, Java
applications can run on the desktop, so you really end up having the best of both worlds."
Under that logic couldn't you argue that since you can use gnome applications under CDE is the best of both worlds? If they still have motif applications you're not getting the best of both worlds, you're getting gnome with some nasty motif flavored bits
Ian
Actually, GM is probaly the worlds most powerful corporation. It employees the most people and has the most revenue. Heck, its revenue rivals the GDP of Sweden! Heck, I bet that Philip Morris has more 'power' than Microsoft.
Now, if you're talking about power in the computer industry, yes I would agree it's the most powerful. However, AOL also has a lot of power, however they don't control the platform. It kind of reminds me of the TMBG poll on slashdot some time ago asking "Who is the most powerful?"
Ian
Blah, BSD people don't care if you license their stuff GPL. That's why they licensed it BSD, because they want you do whatever fits you best.
Curl, proprietary, are you on crack or just a troll? Curl is under a MIT/X license. Check out http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/
From my experiences Gateway has so much trouble it's not even funny. A client of mine has 4 Gateway PCs, over the last 2yrs I've had to get at least 6 replacement parts. I have had them send me defective replacement parts TWICE! Once a bad motherboard, yesterday a bad harddrive! Very frusterating to say the least.
Ian
Very true. When everyone else is showing loss it MUCH easier for you to show a loss. So even if you're in the black, you start writing tons of stuff off. I don't know about the buy-back factor.. but the pure "we can write this off now" factor is huge. If you don't write stuff off now, when everyone else is showing earnings, you'll have to be writing stuff off and won't be able to compete.
It appears the last quickies article was posted Wednesday March 28, @05:59PM. Come on now, there has to have been a lot of little cool stories since then. I miss the quickies. They had a lot of the funniest, coolest, weirdest tidbits on /.
Anybody know why they have ceased to exist? Taco, hemos, et al you out there?
If you don't know how to fix library problems, do nott use unstable. They will happen. However, you can fix them. That's what emergency disks are for. Boot off your emergency disk, download + install the old library or a new fixed one. Most of the time you don't even have to get that drastic though.. you can either go into single user mode or boot the kernel with init=/bin/sh before you go losing your system you might want to talk with the people in #debian irc.openprojects.net I can almost guarantee your system wasn't actually lost.. I've been dist-upgrading to unstable everyday to every other day now for the last say two years or so.
Ian
Okay.. this is freaky. Mod this guy up. Read the other posts by this guy. He sounds like a madbomber. I think this could definitely be a potential bomber or someone clued in on it. He speaks of Allah, hate against america, the whole bit. He predicted this kind of thing would happen 7 days before it did... freaks me out. Could these be posts by the actual suicide bombers?!
Oh, yes and it gets way better.. from the FAQ..
Aw.. poor NSA only gets $26 Billion dollars. It's only the equivalent to a Fortune 50 company. Yeah.. I'm sure its technology is _ancient_.
You know.. we don't actually know jack about our defense capablities I don't think. Of course, if we did then our enemies would also, and they wouldn't be nearly as effective. For example, living in St. Louis, I was talking to someone from Boeing and mentioned how they must not too happy that their missile tests failed. He just laughed and said he couldn't talk about it's classified. Makes you wonder if maybe he was inferring that those public tests don't totally represent the actually success of the projects...
I have _personally_ seen Eliza pass the turing test. I set up Eliza on my ICQ uin, one of my friends in crisis messaged me and had 45minute conversation with Eliza (not such a good thing). By the end of the conversation, my friend was convinced that he was talking to a hacker who broke into my account. Oh what a mess that was. He had called his ex-girlfriends's parents and told him her new boyfriend broke into my account. I didn't have any idea a bot could be so convincing. It had some flat out amazing responses to his questions and comments. If I had never seen an Eliza conversation before I would have probably thought it was a person too. But like I said.. setting up such a bot on your ICQ account is not recommended. They will pass the turing test and that's not such a good thing necessarily.. :)
To see many such logs go to www.google.com and do a searh for "aoliza" or even "eliza chat" you'll find all sorts of hillarious conversations.
I was reading my transfer log file and saw the following:
/default.ida?NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
N NN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
N NN NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
N N% u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%
% u9 090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u5
212.244.30.10 - - [19/Jul/2001:18:28:35 -0500] "GET
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090
31b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a HTTP/1.0" 400 252
There were about half a dozen such requests from other hosts. I thought it might be interesting to show those of you who don't have webservers running what it looks like.
Ian
Yes, perhaps we all do drink that poison known as Dihydrogen Monoxide but should we really? Check out www.dhmo.org