It was understood in 1492 that the Earth is round. Please don't perpetuate the myth that people thought Columbus was going to fall off some edge of the world.
I wouldn't say the Koine is "substantially" different. Homeric, Attic and Koine may have their peculiarities, but they are generally all described together in the same reference grammars.
No need. Just reduce copyright protection to 25 years.
Too late for that. For younger generations in wired countries, it's a normal thing to download a recent film or album without paying for it. At this point there's no going back.
John Lennon was totally in tune with "spirituality" and all kinds of superstitious mumbo-jumbo. In the context of his life, that line can only be interpreted as his desire for faith groups with strict morality to get off his cloud.
Only according to the official statistics of the time, which historians have found to be highly exaggerated. And over in China, Mao's "Great Leap Forward" was an enormous catastrophe.
I drive my car to work though I should take a bus. Why do I do it? It saves me 10 minutes of my commute and I don't have to walk 500 meters from the bus stop to the office. Bus would be cheaper, but car is bit more convenient. Even with the difficulty of parking it in the city.
You're not a typical Helsinki resident and I and many other inhabitants of the city would call you a lazy fool.
Don't forget bicycling, which is a popular way to travel overland. I spend most of the year traveling by hitchhiking all over the world, and if it gets too expensive for most people to drive cars, I imagine that me and my peers will began to bicycle more.
With regard to the last article you cite, if religious laws left on the books but rarely enforced make a society un-modern, then Europe is still medieval, since blasphemy is still a crime in certain jurisdictions there.
Petrol is already massively taxed, paying for public transportation and road upkeep. That's why prices for petrol are considerably higher than in the US even in a country like Norway that has its own oil resources.
Sorry, I see that the specific page is recent. However, the plan is fairly old. It went from being a big thing at Nokia to essentially being the hobby of a couple of developers who are just lucky enough to do it on company time. Talk privately to a Meego developer at Nokia and he'll tell you that the company has put Nokia on something behind even a backburner.
The wiki.meego.com page you linked to was created last year, well before the company decided to go with Windows 7.
The Meego head left the company and at least one Meego developer at Nokia has reported that management has lost any interest in the development the Meego team had done to date.
The forthcoming N950 is reported to be shipping with a lightly updated version of Maemo, since work on Meego stopped.
Nokia knows that they have no future with low-end phones in the developing world because a huge array of Chinese firms are now producing cheap phones and undercutting Nokia. This was a major point in the Burning Platform memo.
If by Western attempts you mean well-known scholars like The Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is still held to be a rebirth of the boddhisatva Avalokiteshvara. The notion of the boddhisatva, remaining in the cycle of rebirths while assisting people out of it, is pretty superstitious.
Buddha was fairly clear about the fact that it's not intended to be a religion, and that he wasn't some supreme being. He was mortal, and expounded things that mortals should do. The pre-existing gods where Buddhism moved to didn't need to be purged wholesale, and have been incorporated/kept in many places.
The Mahayana scriptures suggest that the Buddha-nature is the supreme being. And although Buddhism inherited the Vedic pantheon, the Avatamsakasutra does have Buddha ascend to Mt Sumeru to display his superiority over them.
Buddhism does not have a requirement in beliefe of a supernatural being, a creator god, or deification the the Buddha
The teachings of the Mahayana sutras (and at least a few Theravada texts) assume the existence of supernatural forces. They simply consider these entities to be inferior to the Buddha-nature. This persists even into schools of Buddhism that appeal to the West. The Mahayana sutras continue to be chanted in Zen monasteries.
Many forms of Buddhism believe that the rebirth of those with especially bad karma leads to existence among the living as a ghost.
In spite of some recent Western attempts to proclaim a "Buddhism without beliefs" (little more than an attempt to rewrite the whole religion so that it doesn't make us uncomfortable), the cycle of rebirths is essential across the many expressions of Buddhism.
While Lilypond produces beautiful scores, the syntax of its files is not very stable and changes from version to version. If you want to release a free edition of a score, then better to distribute it in a fairly established and unchanging XML format, which might then be automatically converted to the latest Lilypond instructions for engraving.
In his novel A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge's vision of a galactic internet was basically Usenet newsgroups writ large. Once the web took off, he got a lot of flak for that seemingly outdated vision, but perhaps he's right. As easy as real-time communication is nowadays to people around the globe, once the internet moves into space, the incredible latency of long-distance communications could return us to a series of groups and threads that one logs into periodically, downloads en masse, and reads locally.
The Kindle doesn't lack these things. The edition of the text that you bought lacks these things. Blame the publisher who converted the text into Kindle format, not the manufacturer of the device.
You can run the GIMP on the N900, whose tech is already two years old.
Now, you can complain about the screen limitations and processing power of smartphones, but 1) smartphones are starting to feature HDMI out, and 2) a smartphone running X will allow you to run GIMP on your powerful home computer and just interface with it through your mobile device.
Intel has announced that it is going ahead with Meego development. Meego was never just about mobile phones, but extends to netbooks and in-vehicle devices as well, so the loss of Nokia was no crushing blow. Nokia was the only major handset manufacturer committed to the Meego edition for mobile phones, there are also several smaller firms who planned to release Meego smartphones by the summer (Aava was preparing Meego cores for multiple firms). Meego has in no way been "mothballed".
I'm not sure Slashdot is that left-leaning. At least, not those readers who leave comments. Any time a discussion of the welfare state comes up, one can always expect a flood of Libertarian comments.
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It was understood in 1492 that the Earth is round. Please don't perpetuate the myth that people thought Columbus was going to fall off some edge of the world.
I wouldn't say the Koine is "substantially" different. Homeric, Attic and Koine may have their peculiarities, but they are generally all described together in the same reference grammars.
Too late for that. For younger generations in wired countries, it's a normal thing to download a recent film or album without paying for it. At this point there's no going back.
John Lennon was totally in tune with "spirituality" and all kinds of superstitious mumbo-jumbo. In the context of his life, that line can only be interpreted as his desire for faith groups with strict morality to get off his cloud.
Same deal. When you see even the Westend bÃttre folk loyally using public transportation, someone choosing to drive really stands out.
Only if you consider the US dismantling what little remains of its manned space program cool.
Only according to the official statistics of the time, which historians have found to be highly exaggerated. And over in China, Mao's "Great Leap Forward" was an enormous catastrophe.
You're not a typical Helsinki resident and I and many other inhabitants of the city would call you a lazy fool.
Don't forget bicycling, which is a popular way to travel overland. I spend most of the year traveling by hitchhiking all over the world, and if it gets too expensive for most people to drive cars, I imagine that me and my peers will began to bicycle more.
With regard to the last article you cite, if religious laws left on the books but rarely enforced make a society un-modern, then Europe is still medieval, since blasphemy is still a crime in certain jurisdictions there.
Petrol is already massively taxed, paying for public transportation and road upkeep. That's why prices for petrol are considerably higher than in the US even in a country like Norway that has its own oil resources.
Sorry, I see that the specific page is recent. However, the plan is fairly old. It went from being a big thing at Nokia to essentially being the hobby of a couple of developers who are just lucky enough to do it on company time. Talk privately to a Meego developer at Nokia and he'll tell you that the company has put Nokia on something behind even a backburner.
The wiki.meego.com page you linked to was created last year, well before the company decided to go with Windows 7. The Meego head left the company and at least one Meego developer at Nokia has reported that management has lost any interest in the development the Meego team had done to date. The forthcoming N950 is reported to be shipping with a lightly updated version of Maemo, since work on Meego stopped.
Nokia knows that they have no future with low-end phones in the developing world because a huge array of Chinese firms are now producing cheap phones and undercutting Nokia. This was a major point in the Burning Platform memo.
The Dalai Lama is still held to be a rebirth of the boddhisatva Avalokiteshvara. The notion of the boddhisatva, remaining in the cycle of rebirths while assisting people out of it, is pretty superstitious.
The Mahayana scriptures suggest that the Buddha-nature is the supreme being. And although Buddhism inherited the Vedic pantheon, the Avatamsakasutra does have Buddha ascend to Mt Sumeru to display his superiority over them.
The teachings of the Mahayana sutras (and at least a few Theravada texts) assume the existence of supernatural forces. They simply consider these entities to be inferior to the Buddha-nature. This persists even into schools of Buddhism that appeal to the West. The Mahayana sutras continue to be chanted in Zen monasteries.
Many forms of Buddhism believe that the rebirth of those with especially bad karma leads to existence among the living as a ghost. In spite of some recent Western attempts to proclaim a "Buddhism without beliefs" (little more than an attempt to rewrite the whole religion so that it doesn't make us uncomfortable), the cycle of rebirths is essential across the many expressions of Buddhism.
While Lilypond produces beautiful scores, the syntax of its files is not very stable and changes from version to version. If you want to release a free edition of a score, then better to distribute it in a fairly established and unchanging XML format, which might then be automatically converted to the latest Lilypond instructions for engraving.
Glass isn't made from just any random sand.
The government ban of CFCs two decades ago seems, in retrospect, to have been a good thing. Did you complain then?
In his novel A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge's vision of a galactic internet was basically Usenet newsgroups writ large. Once the web took off, he got a lot of flak for that seemingly outdated vision, but perhaps he's right. As easy as real-time communication is nowadays to people around the globe, once the internet moves into space, the incredible latency of long-distance communications could return us to a series of groups and threads that one logs into periodically, downloads en masse, and reads locally.
The Kindle doesn't lack these things. The edition of the text that you bought lacks these things. Blame the publisher who converted the text into Kindle format, not the manufacturer of the device.
You can run the GIMP on the N900, whose tech is already two years old.
Now, you can complain about the screen limitations and processing power of smartphones, but 1) smartphones are starting to feature HDMI out, and 2) a smartphone running X will allow you to run GIMP on your powerful home computer and just interface with it through your mobile device.
One of the motivations for tablets is that they have vastly longer battery life than laptops. Tablets are not simply keyboard-less laptops.
Intel has announced that it is going ahead with Meego development. Meego was never just about mobile phones, but extends to netbooks and in-vehicle devices as well, so the loss of Nokia was no crushing blow. Nokia was the only major handset manufacturer committed to the Meego edition for mobile phones, there are also several smaller firms who planned to release Meego smartphones by the summer (Aava was preparing Meego cores for multiple firms). Meego has in no way been "mothballed".
I'm not sure Slashdot is that left-leaning. At least, not those readers who leave comments. Any time a discussion of the welfare state comes up, one can always expect a flood of Libertarian comments.