If you view "God" as a force like the native Americans did/do, or like the Gaia thing then, yes, God is in you. But you don't need a fabricated tome of rules for the weak and meek like the Bible to realize this.
For sure. The "I am in the Father and the Father is in me" cryptic comment that Jesus made actually hints that God (according to Christianity anyway) is not some guy in the sky, but all encompassing of living creatures. On a similar note, while Jesus doesn't outright say it, the kingdom of heaven is not a place you go when you die either.
The problem is that many who call themselves "Christian" don't understand this, and many who don't call themselves Christan do. IMHO.
The problem is that Jesus was so cryptic that in order to understand what he meant you needed to be able to think - and unfortunately not everyone knows how to do that.
With all this talk of natural selection vs. creationism... one thing I just don't understand is this:
If "God" is said to exist in all life having created it, I would have thought that creationism and natural selection is mutually inclusive, rather than exclusive. If God is in all life, and I am alive (and therefore part of "God") then I too can create BY MEANS OF evolution. I can create and evolve myself with ideas and actions.
I think the Bible actually explains all this, but for some reason a lot of the religious people missed the point completely.
I used to work with two Japanese coworkers who had an email spat. They sat next to each other, but one day they had a heated debate. After that finished, they stopped all verbal communication and started sending nasty emails to each other... despite sitting only a meter apart.
It's easier said than done to switch over to Linux like that in a business/government environment. Obviously you've never worked in a place where you've been responsible for the uptime of a network - especially one which services over 5000 host machines or anything like that.
When you manage a large network, doing some of the thing you take for granted as a computer hobbyist just don't cut it. At home if I boot up upgrade FreeBSD and it borks... no harm done. It's just my PC. I know I can fix it eventually with time. However, if you 're doing this on a currently running server that's handling all the mail of your organization and it borks.... you are in serious crap from upper management and all your users when they discover that their email is not working, stopping them from getting their jobs done, and costing the company a lot of money in lost productivity. Meanwhile you scrape around reading online documentation to fix the problem.
As an admin you have to take a lot of extra variables into account, in addition to having tech skills, you need to calculate maintenace downtime, handle announcements, write install documentation, and deal with user issues, plan upgrades, write more documentation, write reports, and be paranoid that something is going to come along and screw your network up at any second. You need to make backups and write documents to deal with disaster recovery as well. You simply don't do this when you're just playing around with your boxen at home.
I suspect that they want to unroll Open Office on Windows first is so that they can easily switch back to MS Office in case something doesn't work in OpenOffice. Always having something on standby is typical system administration paranoia at work.
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As long as Trolltech continues to make a developer kit so that us less financially inclined can just complile and test software on their platform for free, I will be happy.
I'm having fun with my Zaurus, thanks. Keep the free tools coming!
Hopefully a public float won't mean that the shareholders get greedy and cut off the free stuff in order to profit more. Hopefully these new ex-Microsoft execs quit Microsoft to get away from Microsoft's corporate practices.
So I guess if this is even true, that instead of waiting 5 billion years + until our sun runs out of fuel, the sun can have one of these discharges at any seocoGI'WOIQF+IHWJFW>F(&"&)"#$')"'#(%
But in an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Unilever CIO Neil Cameron, said the cost benefits of migrating en masse to an open source platform are no longer as clear cut as they were two years ago because of security and support issues.
Or it other words, this guy just doesn't know how to secure a Linux system, or support it with any tech know how. Moreover, he probably just doesn't want to know or care either.
It would probably just be easier for him to not do the extra work involved in a migration and just get his cookie cutter salary.
That just sounds like my company. The minute we get used to filling out reports a certain way, the management come up with another *brilliant* excel sheet format and we have to relearn how to fill out reports all over again.
Kinda of OT, but how is OpenOffice 2 working around the Java licensing issues that they had originally? I've seen OpenOffice 2.0 Beta riding around on Knoppix, but how far has compatibility been reached with the Java handling?
I head that he came back to work, and as the virus spread, everybody suddenly stopped work and began writing adverts for penile enlargement, herbal meds, and home mortgages - sending them to as many people as they could. Friends, acquaintances, relatives, people they didn't even know.... until the Microsoft post office was flooded in spam and Microsoft workers had created a robot zombie army........ok, I'm making all this up.
Solaris' ability to scale Linux off the map is something that ought to worry Linux vendors.
Take a look at Schillix 0.1 (the first Open Solaris distro). It's still early days yet, but if it ever gains traction, Open Solaris may well give commercial linux a run for it's money.
Linus should be thinking about forking the kernel to 2.7 and attempting to implement some of the features that the Solaris kernel has, but the Linux kernel does not yet have.
For example, no Japanese that I know will tell you that you're being a penis-brain for being as dense to this concept as you've shown. But I will, because I am an American, and you are a penis-brain for the aforementioned reason.
ouch!
but I don't think we would have received the same kind of reciprocation if I'd been the kind of insensitive, un-"childlike" git you're modeling.
ouch!
I'm sure you could introduce some interesting counterpoint being Mr. Japan,
ouch!
Back to the original issue with the Xbox 360 though... I think that if you actually have to deal with the Japanese as customers (as Microsoft have to), you'll find them tough because they won't complain or get upset or hurl insults. Without any feedback, they'll just stop talking and listening and switch out....
If you've worked in a Japanese company for a considerable amount of time, having to speak Japanese and having to deal with customers/superiors in business situations as I have, then I think I stand to learn considerably.
Yes, apparently there are other countries on Earth besides the USA and Australia.
It's too bad that you'll probably be too scared to visit those other countries without an army and an colonial occupation first - after which you force everyone to speak American English.
Yes, I'm from Australia and I've been to the USA, and that comment gets me riled. Congratulations. You've earned it.
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For sure. The "I am in the Father and the Father is in me" cryptic comment that Jesus made actually hints that God (according to Christianity anyway) is not some guy in the sky, but all encompassing of living creatures. On a similar note, while Jesus doesn't outright say it, the kingdom of heaven is not a place you go when you die either.
The problem is that many who call themselves "Christian" don't understand this, and many who don't call themselves Christan do. IMHO. The problem is that Jesus was so cryptic that in order to understand what he meant you needed to be able to think - and unfortunately not everyone knows how to do that.
But whatever.... now I'm just rambling.
With all this talk of natural selection vs. creationism... one thing I just don't understand is this:
If "God" is said to exist in all life having created it, I would have thought that creationism and natural selection is mutually inclusive, rather than exclusive.
If God is in all life, and I am alive (and therefore part of "God") then I too can create BY MEANS OF evolution. I can create and evolve myself with ideas and actions.
I think the Bible actually explains all this, but for some reason a lot of the religious people missed the point completely.
I used to work with two Japanese coworkers who had an email spat. They sat next to each other, but one day they had a heated debate. After that finished, they stopped all verbal communication and started sending nasty emails to each other... despite sitting only a meter apart.
It's easier said than done to switch over to Linux like that in a business/government environment. Obviously you've never worked in a place where you've been responsible for the uptime of a network - especially one which services over 5000 host machines or anything like that.
When you manage a large network, doing some of the thing you take for granted as a computer hobbyist just don't cut it. At home if I boot up upgrade FreeBSD and it borks... no harm done. It's just my PC. I know I can fix it eventually with time. However, if you 're doing this on a currently running server that's handling all the mail of your organization and it borks.... you are in serious crap from upper management and all your users when they discover that their email is not working, stopping them from getting their jobs done, and costing the company a lot of money in lost productivity. Meanwhile you scrape around reading online documentation to fix the problem.
As an admin you have to take a lot of extra variables into account, in addition to having tech skills, you need to calculate maintenace downtime, handle announcements, write install documentation, and deal with user issues, plan upgrades, write more documentation, write reports, and be paranoid that something is going to come along and screw your network up at any second. You need to make backups and write documents to deal with disaster recovery as well.
You simply don't do this when you're just playing around with your boxen at home.
I suspect that they want to unroll Open Office on Windows first is so that they can easily switch back to MS Office in case something doesn't work in OpenOffice. Always having something on standby is typical system administration paranoia at work.
As long as Trolltech continues to make a developer kit so that us less financially inclined can just complile and test software on their platform for free, I will be happy.
I'm having fun with my Zaurus, thanks. Keep the free tools coming!
Hopefully a public float won't mean that the shareholders get greedy and cut off the free stuff in order to profit more. Hopefully these new ex-Microsoft execs quit Microsoft to get away from Microsoft's corporate practices.
So what's up with the US comic book industry? I don't read comics anymore, so maybe someone who does can tell me or something.
The article seemed to hint that Marvel is losing out in comic books these days. Is manga taking over? What gives?
So I guess if this is even true, that instead of waiting 5 billion years + until our sun runs out of fuel, the sun can have one of these discharges at any seocoGI'WOIQF+IHWJFW>F(&"&)"#$')"'#(%
SONY haven't learnt from their OWN history.
This is going to look like Betamax vs VHS all over again.
Or it other words, this guy just doesn't know how to secure a Linux system, or support it with any tech know how. Moreover, he probably just doesn't want to know or care either.
It would probably just be easier for him to not do the extra work involved in a migration and just get his cookie cutter salary.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
NO! It's a milk carton!
Got milk?
Just don't tell the RIAA and the MPAA about the sneakernet or they'll shut that down too. ...oh wait...
Does GeekSquad ever battle supervillains or anybody trying to take over the world?
That just sounds like my company. The minute we get used to filling out reports a certain way, the management come up with another *brilliant* excel sheet format and we have to relearn how to fill out reports all over again.
Kinda of OT, but how is OpenOffice 2 working around the Java licensing issues that they had originally?
I've seen OpenOffice 2.0 Beta riding around on Knoppix, but how far has compatibility been reached with the Java handling?
Can I download the zOS i686 bootable CD images off BitTorrent?
No...? Then YOUR MAINFRAME IS SCREWED!
I head that he came back to work, and as the virus spread, everybody suddenly stopped work and began writing adverts for penile enlargement, herbal meds, and home mortgages - sending them to as many people as they could. Friends, acquaintances, relatives, people they didn't even know.... until the Microsoft post office was flooded in spam and Microsoft workers had created a robot zombie army.... ....ok, I'm making all this up.
Sorry, I should correct myself...
When are the going to go after the sneakernet?
*crickets chirp*
So, um, when is Hollywood going to go after Usenet?
*crickets chirp*
Damn, that was the best joke I could come up with for this article, and not only did you get first post but you got to the joke first!
Just goes to show that Microsoft excels in marketing more than it does in the creation of operating systems.
Oh, to be a time traveller and go back 10 years before the Windows 95 release....
- glib and superficially charming
* seriously disgusting and offputting
- grandiose sense of self-worth
* Hate self so much they slash their wrists
- pathological liar
* Tells their brutal honest feelings, which are usually offensive or overtly negative
- master manipulator
* Can't manipulate anyone because nobody likes them
- lack of remorse or guilt
* Guilty all the time, they balme themselves, hate themselves
- shallow
* Over sensitive and over dramatic
- callous and lacking in empathy
* bleeding heart
- fail to accept responsibility for his own actions
* Accepts all responsibility for their own actions until they become the whipping boy
I don't know which is worse.
Solaris' ability to scale Linux off the map is something that ought to worry Linux vendors.
Take a look at Schillix 0.1 (the first Open Solaris distro). It's still early days yet, but if it ever gains traction, Open Solaris may well give commercial linux a run for it's money.
Linus should be thinking about forking the kernel to 2.7 and attempting to implement some of the features that the Solaris kernel has, but the Linux kernel does not yet have.
ouch!
but I don't think we would have received the same kind of reciprocation if I'd been the kind of insensitive, un-"childlike" git you're modeling.
ouch!
I'm sure you could introduce some interesting counterpoint being Mr. Japan,
ouch!
Back to the original issue with the Xbox 360 though... I think that if you actually have to deal with the Japanese as customers (as Microsoft have to), you'll find them tough because they won't complain or get upset or hurl insults. Without any feedback, they'll just stop talking and listening and switch out....
If you've worked in a Japanese company for a considerable amount of time, having to speak Japanese and having to deal with customers/superiors in business situations as I have, then I think I stand to learn considerably.
Yes, apparently there are other countries on Earth besides the USA and Australia.
It's too bad that you'll probably be too scared to visit those other countries without an army and an colonial occupation first - after which you force everyone to speak American English.
Yes, I'm from Australia and I've been to the USA, and that comment gets me riled. Congratulations. You've earned it.