Yikes. I don't speak King James. Give me a second...
Mark 16:2-5
2 Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb 3 and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?"
4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. 5 As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.
Matthew 28:1-3
1 After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.
2 There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow.
Umm. Okay. So we're arguing about semantics.
Mark says the stone had been rolled away in the past tense, when the women weren't there, end of story. Matthew 28:2 doesn't indicate that the event happened in the present; it is also written in the past tense. Seeing as the very event caused the guards to fall unconscious, I would personally consider it unlikely that the women were there (studies have been done to indicate that women faint just as much as men do, actually... but this is a freakin' angel!). Chronologically, Matthew 28:2 belongs before Matthew 28:1.
That reconciles those two passages in my mind.
Besides, these are second-hand accounts of the same event. None of the writers witnessed any of it first-hand. I wouldn't really expect two objective writers to come up with the same account of a given historical event, but I would expect it to be accurate. We barely know what happened in Tianamen Square, for comparison. Equality and accuracy are different concepts and the fact the observations aren't equal doesn't mean the observations aren't accurate.
The Bible wasn't written by God, as in, He wasn't sitting at a desk writing the book. Most reasonable Christians believe that the different authors had the same spirit at work when they did put it on paper, or as they discussed it through oral history. The same with the choosing of which books go in. Given how well the parts of the Bible that cite each other do it, this is a logical conclusion.
Okay, I'll bite. But if you believe that not one of the authors should omit one single detail, the rest of this post is pointless. The crucifixion contains similar "summary writing". Among other things, there were no men present at the time of Jesus' death.
So... how else would they get information, other than interviewing people that were there?
A possible chronology of the day's events:
1.) The Angel rolls away the tomb.
2.) Mary Magdelene and the other Mary, amongst a crowd of other women, are told Jesus isn't there anymore. Remember, the disciples had all run off.
3.) The disciples are notified.
4.) Peter runs off to see for himself.
5.) The men guarding the tomb (who had been knocked unconscious) tell the chief priests what happened.
6.) (If you believe Mark 16:9-20 belongs in the Bible): At some point, Jesus appears to the Mary Magdelene.
That is the summary of what happened that day. Afterwards, the following events occured:
7.) Jesus appears to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. One of these could easily have been Peter. (1 Corinthians 15)
8.) Jesus appears to the rest of the disciples, except for Thomas.
9.) John only: Jesus appears to Thomas. The other gospels summarize this part.
10.) Jesus appears to 500 believers, then James, then to the Apostles.
11.) Jesus announces his great commission and rises to heaven in Galilee (presumably near Bethany or vice versa, but that's an item to research.)
12.) Jesus appears to Saul the persecuter.
That wasn't so bad. Yes, it's a summary. But it should contain all of the items in question. If not, reply. Some gospel writers omit the mention of women. That is a cultural issue — they did that back then.
I am also not making any statement on "ID". I for one can see how evolution would be used as a driver for Creation as a whole.
I don't know about anyone else, but I spend time on my write-ups, so it's a little hard not to take it personality when they're rejected, rejected, rejected. I really just want to know people's opinions on my write-up. (naked girls can't hurt.)
So... how about creating a "Rejected" section? Obvious trolls and one/two-line stories can be discarded and removed. The rest, we can see.
...Since we haven't seen this much else, any ol' theory will fly about as well as another.
It was a dusty summer in the Atlantic, though. Dry Sahara dust prevented the formation of 2-3 tropical storms. We normally think that stronger hurricanes saturate the dust and cause it to "go away". What if the dust got entrained in the system and caused additional friction to occur at high speeds, in spite of the extremely high water vapor values?
Another theory — did the strength of the storm increase conductivity within the eye? (Is it comparatively easier for lightning to occur in a dry environment as it would a wet one?)
Depends. Could a knowledgable terrorist have even a distant, slim-to-nil chance of operating a spacecraft and crashing it into another satellite?
Rational people say "Of course not!" The NSA, CIA, FBI or what have you presumes that if the answer to "could" is "yes" (as in, a snowball's chance in hell, but yes), then it's their job to look at the possibility and address it.
That's very interesting. Where did Microsoft's Tokyo / Kobe / wherever-in-Japan office for the 360 go? Entire industries are built off picking up exactly these sorts of cross-cultural reactions. (A professor my wife knows makes $120k+ by interpreting what English and German engineers say, and what they actually mean). Microsoft couldn't afford research into the Japanese market? I highly doubt that. Likewise, they probably didn't intend to botch the launch this badly, so... someone messed up.
This also isn't a strictly-Japanese thing. In the early 2000's (from the Super NES onwards), there was this perceived slight in the U.S. over Nintendo, before Sony and Microsoft took over the game console market. Nintendo of America was, functionally, a branch office of Nintendo of Japan (where the translators worked). Sony and Microsoft read more correctly what American gamers wanted — and Sony is a Japanese company. I believe NOA has more input into the process now. Not that this stopped them; NOA still successfully brought over Mario Party, Pokémon, and Harvest Moon --> Animal Crossing.
It's interesting to note that "The Last Samurai" wasn't received well in theatres on this side of the pond. It did well because it had Tom Cruise in it, before he went psycho.
Kudos on the "Japans can be racist too" comment. Japanese have a low level of memory and anger about Hiroshima. There's magnitudes more anger at Chinese. See this article for more insight.
If I took a step back and looked at the computer world, and at the world in general, I see things run similarly. Nintendo is most like Apple, in that they covet their secrets and rely on their fanbase while making their platforms available to the widest audience possible. That the success of the DS mirrors the success of the iPod is more than coincedence. Both are liked and do a good job making money for investors. Microsoft, Sony and Dell do a decent job making money by scale and occasionally innovate. Unsurprisingly, the level of innovation closely mirrors how big (vocally speaking, of course) their fanbase is.
I would like to think Southwest did the same thing in the airline business, but Apple isn't exactly consumer friendly. Nintendo is ($199 Gamecube at launch?!?). Their innovation was that they found a way to be profitable in a deregulated airline industry... and keep passengers happy (except for the cattle method of boarding). It seems to be working quite well for them.
Reinvention just is one of those ways of doing business, and in the long run (20+ years), the best way to keep your company afloat. (Probably one of the reasons it's called the Nintendo Revolution). I hear IBM did a lot better after they changed things up, but I haven't read Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? yet.
This product looks destined to go straight to Brookstone or The Sharper Image... next to the $6,000 toy hoverboat or $15,000 authnetic scaled-down Lamborghini.
In order to do that justice, the screen needs to be bigger. Unless neat zooming features are included on every 'game' they have for this device, being able to command a game from the top down looks small with 8 people and a 30" by 30" screen.
Given that my last name is extremely similar to Guido (to the point that 4 of 5 letters are the same and the 5th looks like the remaining), I was extremely, extremely confused when I saw the headline. And ready to find the tinfoil. And wondering whether the headline's parallelism to "Girls Gone Wild" meant anything...
Then I realized it would be pretty cool to work for Google. Time to sharpen those Python skills...
If I were Microsoft, with the amount of money it would take to buy Opera, I'd rather just yoink 1.5 stable of Firefox and rebrand it as Internet Explorer. Releasing the code for all changes they make, of course.
They can stuff it with their links, write in their ActiveX/DLL extensions, make a better Windows-like skin... whatever.
Of course, I can't imagine them risking putting open source software in such a high-visibility area, but a web developer can dream.
Those are fairly good rules of thumb, but if I know a tsunami is inbound, I would take "best defense", and accept "modest defense" as better than "no defense".:-)
In last year's tsunami, often people that sought shelter on the third floor survived. Those that stayed in one-floor shelters were washed away.
The densest population areas (coastal India) that happen to be the most vulnerable are the ones least able to use this information. In general, there aren't any buildings to seek shelter in, and the land is so flat surrounding the coast that there isn't anywhere to run.
Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible "dirty numbers" linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said.
Hmm. I don't think I've called Afghanistan or Iraq lately.
This is still something to watch carefully. I often wonder if the U.S. were actually being attacked, in the present tense, daily/weekly, by terrorists that would be communicating entirely within the country and therefore (theoretically) avoiding this spy effort, if people's attitudes would actually change about "the privacy their government violates."
You know, I wonder what the browser world will look like 10 months after IE 7 comes out... eventually.
I thought about this earlier, and I'm pretty sure I'm not being pessimisstic — we know that Microsoft has (though doesn't always take advantage of) some of the best talent in the world. Has it been considered that there may be features in IE7 that will obsolete Firefox 1.0/1.5/2.0?
If so (and at this point I have to imagine that in spite of the organizational problems inherent to company, development on IE 7 is going at a rapid pace...), does that mean Firefox's purpose would be fulfilled?
In the broader scheme of things, I wonder what development process works better -- somewhat disorganized by design (having read the flamewars about GNOME vs. KDE, this has been part of the backdrop of that whole debate), or PHB's and private corporations? Does the development process have anything to do with the finished product?
Anyways, those have just been a few thoughts of mine in the past week. Feel free to critique.
It's pretty clear that article is pointing to an event that happened one year ago today. Maybe they'll re-release it as "One Year Annivesary of the Architecture of the World Wide Web" or something.
Despite the inherent comedy, a spear-wielder can no longer take out a tank as more advanced military units are levels of magnitude stronger than their older counterparts.
Agreed. It's hilarious to see a lone spearman straggle against an army of musketeers. It's not so funny when the spearman wins, elite status or not.:-)
I didn't try the nuclear option on the spearman, however...
So... I'd like to click on that link up at the top of his example page. Where does it go? How do I know it won't generate popups
If I can't tell within 2 seconds where the link goes, I'm not going to click on it. I also tend to forward URLs of interest to people, and use this right-click --> Copy link location... to do it. Why won't Flash let me do that? I know I can go to the page and up to the address bar, but that's not the point.
Considering they're at version 8.0 right now of their player, I can't imagine how hard it would be to interface with a browser's status window and at least tell me something.
So 360's are sold bundled in Japan. Fair enough. Are PS2's sold bundled in Japan? If they are, how much slower are 360 bundles being sold than PS2 bundles? Don't give me "percentage unsold" — that's horrendously misleading.
And all that still doesn't answer the question of why prices were cut to ~$150 anyway. Does MS want to make their retailers bleed with them?
"Selling out" as a descriptive term is fine, but then users go on to say that Konfabulator would be best served by staying independent and free of corporate influence. Then Konfabulator as we knew it would be dead with two part-time (at best) developers
If people would rather see software dead than their developers given more development time in exchange for name recognition, then we have come to a sad time.
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Neo: Hmm. Upgrades.
On second thought, I don't think they have electricity in those dens. We'll be living better than ewoks!
Mark 16:2-5
Matthew 28:1-3
Umm. Okay. So we're arguing about semantics.
Mark says the stone had been rolled away in the past tense, when the women weren't there, end of story. Matthew 28:2 doesn't indicate that the event happened in the present; it is also written in the past tense. Seeing as the very event caused the guards to fall unconscious, I would personally consider it unlikely that the women were there (studies have been done to indicate that women faint just as much as men do, actually... but this is a freakin' angel!). Chronologically, Matthew 28:2 belongs before Matthew 28:1.
That reconciles those two passages in my mind.
Besides, these are second-hand accounts of the same event. None of the writers witnessed any of it first-hand. I wouldn't really expect two objective writers to come up with the same account of a given historical event, but I would expect it to be accurate. We barely know what happened in Tianamen Square, for comparison. Equality and accuracy are different concepts and the fact the observations aren't equal doesn't mean the observations aren't accurate.
The Bible wasn't written by God, as in, He wasn't sitting at a desk writing the book. Most reasonable Christians believe that the different authors had the same spirit at work when they did put it on paper, or as they discussed it through oral history. The same with the choosing of which books go in. Given how well the parts of the Bible that cite each other do it, this is a logical conclusion.
So... how else would they get information, other than interviewing people that were there?
A possible chronology of the day's events:
1.) The Angel rolls away the tomb.
2.) Mary Magdelene and the other Mary, amongst a crowd of other women, are told Jesus isn't there anymore. Remember, the disciples had all run off.
3.) The disciples are notified.
4.) Peter runs off to see for himself.
5.) The men guarding the tomb (who had been knocked unconscious) tell the chief priests what happened.
6.) (If you believe Mark 16:9-20 belongs in the Bible): At some point, Jesus appears to the Mary Magdelene.
That is the summary of what happened that day. Afterwards, the following events occured:
7.) Jesus appears to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. One of these could easily have been Peter. (1 Corinthians 15)
8.) Jesus appears to the rest of the disciples, except for Thomas.
9.) John only: Jesus appears to Thomas. The other gospels summarize this part.
10.) Jesus appears to 500 believers, then James, then to the Apostles.
11.) Jesus announces his great commission and rises to heaven in Galilee (presumably near Bethany or vice versa, but that's an item to research.)
12.) Jesus appears to Saul the persecuter.
That wasn't so bad. Yes, it's a summary. But it should contain all of the items in question. If not, reply. Some gospel writers omit the mention of women. That is a cultural issue — they did that back then.
I am also not making any statement on "ID". I for one can see how evolution would be used as a driver for Creation as a whole.
So... how about creating a "Rejected" section? Obvious trolls and one/two-line stories can be discarded and removed. The rest, we can see.
At the leats, it'd be interesting to look at.
It was a dusty summer in the Atlantic, though. Dry Sahara dust prevented the formation of 2-3 tropical storms. We normally think that stronger hurricanes saturate the dust and cause it to "go away". What if the dust got entrained in the system and caused additional friction to occur at high speeds, in spite of the extremely high water vapor values?
Another theory — did the strength of the storm increase conductivity within the eye? (Is it comparatively easier for lightning to occur in a dry environment as it would a wet one?)
If I overclocked my PC do I have change it every 2 months or 1,500 miles?
Will my next Intel Inside computer come with an odometer? Stay tuned! Oil filter change recommended once a year.
Rational people say "Of course not!" The NSA, CIA, FBI or what have you presumes that if the answer to "could" is "yes" (as in, a snowball's chance in hell, but yes), then it's their job to look at the possibility and address it.
This also isn't a strictly-Japanese thing. In the early 2000's (from the Super NES onwards), there was this perceived slight in the U.S. over Nintendo, before Sony and Microsoft took over the game console market. Nintendo of America was, functionally, a branch office of Nintendo of Japan (where the translators worked). Sony and Microsoft read more correctly what American gamers wanted — and Sony is a Japanese company. I believe NOA has more input into the process now. Not that this stopped them; NOA still successfully brought over Mario Party, Pokémon, and Harvest Moon --> Animal Crossing.
It's interesting to note that "The Last Samurai" wasn't received well in theatres on this side of the pond. It did well because it had Tom Cruise in it, before he went psycho.
Kudos on the "Japans can be racist too" comment. Japanese have a low level of memory and anger about Hiroshima. There's magnitudes more anger at Chinese. See this article for more insight.
If I took a step back and looked at the computer world, and at the world in general, I see things run similarly. Nintendo is most like Apple, in that they covet their secrets and rely on their fanbase while making their platforms available to the widest audience possible. That the success of the DS mirrors the success of the iPod is more than coincedence. Both are liked and do a good job making money for investors. Microsoft, Sony and Dell do a decent job making money by scale and occasionally innovate. Unsurprisingly, the level of innovation closely mirrors how big (vocally speaking, of course) their fanbase is.
I would like to think Southwest did the same thing in the airline business, but Apple isn't exactly consumer friendly. Nintendo is ($199 Gamecube at launch?!?). Their innovation was that they found a way to be profitable in a deregulated airline industry... and keep passengers happy (except for the cattle method of boarding). It seems to be working quite well for them.
Reinvention just is one of those ways of doing business, and in the long run (20+ years), the best way to keep your company afloat. (Probably one of the reasons it's called the Nintendo Revolution). I hear IBM did a lot better after they changed things up, but I haven't read Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? yet.
Actually, I don't have Windows anymore, so Sosumi.aiff will have to do.
In order to do that justice, the screen needs to be bigger. Unless neat zooming features are included on every 'game' they have for this device, being able to command a game from the top down looks small with 8 people and a 30" by 30" screen.
Sometimes it didn't work as well as advertised.
But yes, they're going to tweak it and use it anyway.
Was this present at all Apple Stores during the holiday season? I seem to have completely missed it.
Then I realized it would be pretty cool to work for Google. Time to sharpen those Python skills...
They can stuff it with their links, write in their ActiveX/DLL extensions, make a better Windows-like skin... whatever.
Of course, I can't imagine them risking putting open source software in such a high-visibility area, but a web developer can dream.
In last year's tsunami, often people that sought shelter on the third floor survived. Those that stayed in one-floor shelters were washed away.
The densest population areas (coastal India) that happen to be the most vulnerable are the ones least able to use this information. In general, there aren't any buildings to seek shelter in, and the land is so flat surrounding the coast that there isn't anywhere to run.
Hmm. I don't think I've called Afghanistan or Iraq lately.
This is still something to watch carefully. I often wonder if the U.S. were actually being attacked, in the present tense, daily/weekly, by terrorists that would be communicating entirely within the country and therefore (theoretically) avoiding this spy effort, if people's attitudes would actually change about "the privacy their government violates."
Not advocating a policy position. Just curious.
I thought about this earlier, and I'm pretty sure I'm not being pessimisstic — we know that Microsoft has (though doesn't always take advantage of) some of the best talent in the world. Has it been considered that there may be features in IE7 that will obsolete Firefox 1.0/1.5/2.0?
If so (and at this point I have to imagine that in spite of the organizational problems inherent to company, development on IE 7 is going at a rapid pace...), does that mean Firefox's purpose would be fulfilled?
In the broader scheme of things, I wonder what development process works better -- somewhat disorganized by design (having read the flamewars about GNOME vs. KDE, this has been part of the backdrop of that whole debate), or PHB's and private corporations? Does the development process have anything to do with the finished product?
Anyways, those have just been a few thoughts of mine in the past week. Feel free to critique.
It's pretty clear that article is pointing to an event that happened one year ago today. Maybe they'll re-release it as "One Year Annivesary of the Architecture of the World Wide Web" or something.
That wasn't the Buffy I was thinking of...
Agreed. It's hilarious to see a lone spearman straggle against an army of musketeers. It's not so funny when the spearman wins, elite status or not. :-)
I didn't try the nuclear option on the spearman, however...
So... I'd like to click on that link up at the top of his example page. Where does it go? How do I know it won't generate popups
If I can't tell within 2 seconds where the link goes, I'm not going to click on it. I also tend to forward URLs of interest to people, and use this right-click --> Copy link location... to do it. Why won't Flash let me do that? I know I can go to the page and up to the address bar, but that's not the point.
Considering they're at version 8.0 right now of their player, I can't imagine how hard it would be to interface with a browser's status window and at least tell me something.
So 360's are sold bundled in Japan. Fair enough. Are PS2's sold bundled in Japan? If they are, how much slower are 360 bundles being sold than PS2 bundles? Don't give me "percentage unsold" — that's horrendously misleading.
And all that still doesn't answer the question of why prices were cut to ~$150 anyway. Does MS want to make their retailers bleed with them?
If people would rather see software dead than their developers given more development time in exchange for name recognition, then we have come to a sad time.
-Linus Torvalds
(Honestly. Ignore the sig.)