I work in remote sensing and GIS, and we make alot of seamless aerial photos (for multiple entire states).
Unless I just totally missed the boat, Windows and Linux have a file size limitation of around 2 gigabytes. Therefore, my suspicion is that the images are stored in separate tiles that when viewed all at once make a large mosaic.
If anyone knows of another way to store this much data all in one file, please enlighten me! The closest I've been able to come is storing all the image data in ArcSDE, a GIS product that allows you to store geospatial data inside an enterprise database.
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The thing is, everyone knows the Bible was written by men. A Christian believes that the writers were inspired by God, that the message is life to those who hear it, and that it is the key to knowing and having a relationship with God.
I encourage you to ignore all of the social issues, controversies, and right-wing chatter about the bible, and just read it with an open mind. Start with the book of 1st John, and if you like that then read the Gospel of John.
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Pardon my asking, but aren't these sources (Exodus, Numbers) the very sources which the grandparent posting calls into doubt as original works of Moses (transmitted to later scribes or otherwise)?
No, my point was that the Pentateuch as it currently exists does not consist of the exact words Moses recorded.
The likelihood of Moses' original writings surviving to modern times are very small. In all probability, the original writings were copied, distributed, and even repeated orally to maintain the history of the people. I'm at work now and don't have access to my library, but a study of the language style does in fact suggest that the books were written much later than 1200 BC (quite possibly during the reign of King Josiah).
2 Chronicles 34 contains the biblical account of his life. Specifically, it details how he was renovating the Temple and discovered a Book of the Law tucked away. It is clear from the text that the Law was not known among the people, was rediscovered, and then copied and distributed.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with 16th and 17th century english, but it's significantly different from our modern english. It would be understandable that spelling, grammar, sentence structure, etc, were rewritten and modernized for distribution to the general populace. As an example, compare the language of the original King James bible to that of the modern "New Living" translation.
In short, I'm not disputing the assertion that the texts are more modern than Moses. I simply disagree that the texts were significantly modified or wholly fabricated to prop up the reign of Josiah.
including important chronicles about Moses, Solomon, and others, were actually made up for the first time by scribes hired by King Josiah
It is important to note that the Bible does make mention of Moses recording historical and legal material in written form, as in Exodus 17:14, 24:4, and 34:27, and in Numbers 33:2. Modern scholarship would suggest that these words of Moses were passed down and later recorded in the form that we have today.
Read the first few chapters of this book for a Christian perspective on the same topic: The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament. Ed. William LaSor, David Hubbard, and Frederic Bush. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI. 1996.
In fact, this Robert Sarmast guy is specifically looking for Atlantis.
I think it would make more sense to actually *find* an ancient city, and afterwards prove that it is Atlantis. That would be much more credible than looking for every bump in the seafloor shaped like an Athenian temple.
Perhaps there could be more then one story that fits? But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion.
If you're an archaeologist, it's alot easier to get funding for your excavation if you make it sound like your project has major ramifications to the history of humanity.
Toys represent everything that's wrong with modern western civilization. They enforce the notion that there is a difference between "work" and "play".
Toys are an artificial construct popularized by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations in the late 1800's. The inherent psychological principle is that if you mentally dissociate your job from the context of your normal life, then you are willing to put up with a constant low level of dissatisfaction in exchange for a reward of "play time" or "toys".
Thus, by encouraging your children to "play", you are psychologically destroying them and reducing their future potential to that of an assembly line worker. People endure 40-60 hours of pure crap every week of their lives with the dubious reward of "vacation", or a nice car, or time to watch TV as their only reward. Toys simply lay the groundwork for this type of pathological motivation.
What's the solution for this madness? Teach your children to enjoy working hard to accomplish their independent goals. Learning and discovery and adventure are rewarding without the need for false constructs. Hard work and proportional reward are the foundations of our country, and the entrepreneurial spirit should be encouraged at a very early age. Teach your children to live and enjoy life, rather than to simply endure it.
But, failing all that, buy them a Nintendo 64 and Goldeneye... that game rocks my face off.
...I've increasingly come to believe Southpark and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart offer a more realistic and balanced view of current affairs.
While Fox and CNN aren't the best, you have other alternatives than the Comedy Channel...
The NYT, the BBC, Al-jazeera, Haaretz, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg all offer news from a variety of perspectives. You won't be able to tap into any one source and get an objective look at current events, but if you look at things from a variety of perspectives you should be able to make a pretty clear picture.
I can guarantee you that the army of writers propping up South Park and the Daily Show do this in order to formulate their opinion on world events.
Ha, I had a similar experience during the boom. It made so much sense at the time, but in the end all I ended up with was poor health and two lost years. It's taken me about a year to get back in shape and start to have a social life again:)
What country did you end up moving to? I'm thinking of going to law school for a change of pace, but the idea of moving to a foreign place is also appealing.
One step closer to free phone calls, or one step closer to state regulation or taxation of IP networks?
All I know is that I used to pay $65 a month for SBC service with unlimited long distance, caller ID, and voicemail. After I switched to Vonage (same deal for $24.99/mo), SBC started calling me three times a day to get me to switch back for $24.99.
I won't switch back, even though VoIP is a little annoying (doesn't work when the power is out, have to occasionally restart the cable modem, etc). Thank goodness that a cheaper alternative came along to break the back of the local phone monopoly.
Ha, me too! I was playing Star Wars Galaxies 30 hours a week, but that got boring...
Now, I'm thinking of going to law school to fill the empty hours. I've also been lifting weights, and am even thinking about talking to a girl sometime in the next few weeks (if the opportunity presents itself).
The late 19th century was a time of great philosophical and theological upheaval. This period was also one of the critical defining moments in natural science as a discipline. Geologists and biologists began to observe the earth more effectively and with greater rigor. Scientists began to assert the validity of their observational and experimental procedures as being concrete and repeatable. They began to see beyond Aquinas and the Scholastic tradition, and to make new conjectures about the chronology and functional characteristics of our planet.
What do these new scientific discoveries have to do with religion on a theoretical level? Who were some of the key players, and what did they do (if anything) to stimulate the 'conflict'? What did Christians think at the time? What did scientists think?
Gregor Mendel, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon are names synonymous with the scientific revolution and the enlightenment. These men are famous scientists, astronomers, and thinkers who are in large part responsible for propagating the modern intellectual culture. In addition to being men of such intellectual merit, however, one more similarity exists between them that is often overlooked. Gregor Mendel not only discovered the essential principles of genotype and phenotype, but was also a Catholic monk. His experiments were conducted in the bean patch of his Augustinian monastery. Copernicus was the first to accurately portray a heliocentric universe, but he also held the office of canon in his cathedral chapter. Galileo, although often troubled in his work by reactionary church polity, made a well thought-out attempt to reconcile his new scientific discoveries with the Christian faith. Francis Bacon made sweeping pronouncements about how science should be carried out, and played a pivotal role in formulating our modern scientific culture. In his writings, Bacon addressed the need for God, and His role in the life of an intellectual community (Moore 1986, p. 322). The Baconian Compromise has influenced many generations of thinkers and scientists, and this understanding is still widely held today by many in form if not in name.
Christianity is often viewed as being opposed to science. In order to determine whether or not the conflict exists in fact, it is important to go beyond cultural ideas and stereotypes. It is necessary to look at the historical records of both the scientific community and the historical account of Christianity, the Bible.
Owen Chadwick, a notable church historian, found it to be important to discern the difference "between science when it was against religion and the scientists when they were against religion" (Lindberg 1986, pg.7). The general consensus among historians is that two texts have set the present tone for the hostility between the scientific community and the Christian faith.
John William Draper, in 1874, wrote a History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science. Draper, the son of a Methodist minister, was highly successful with this book, in which he applied the traditional forms of Christianity to a new doctrine of science and metaphysics. In the preface, he pointedly stated that, "The history of science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other" (Draper 1874, p. vi). He frequently makes allusions to the battle of good, as human intellect, versus evil, as faith. He refers to the previous period in Europe as "intellectual night... passing away... into daybreak". These themes are reminiscent of passages in both the Old and New Testaments, such as 2 Samuel 22:29 "the Lord turns my darkness into light", Psalms 112:4 "even in darkness light dawns", John 1:5 "the light shines in darkness", and 2 Corinthians 6:14 "What fellowship can light have with darkness?". Donald Fleming, Draper's biographer, descr
While Google SMS (Short Message Service) provides text-only results, Yahoo! offer a more comprehensive features set - local, image and web search as well as maps, stock information, mobile games and icons - a feature where a user click and call a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
Once again, I think Google got this one right. People search to find information, and they want simple results that are easy to read. Similar to their (ugly) homepage, it sounds like Yahoo is going to fall victim to excessive gimmickry.
Mobile screen real estate is even more valuable than normal monitor real estate, so I would say google has the better strategy here.
Hah, the only thing an SWG Jedi knows is Carpal Tunnel syndrome:)
Well, that and how many mountain dews they can drink without having to go to the bathroom.
You just basically run around and kill stuff to get experience points. Once you reach the maximum amount you can hold, you have to fly all the way out to a remote village on Dathomir to exchange them for "Force-sensitive" experience. It takes millions upon millions of regular XP to get enough force XP to become a jedi. I estimate that it's literally about 200 hours to finish it all off with travel and load time.
After all that, you become a padawan, which is a wimpy jedi. You have to get millions more experience to advance to jedi knight, which is what a normal person thinks of as a jedi.
I've been playing SWG awhile, sometimes more than I probably should have been. The ground based game is pretty fun, although it can get a little repetitive.
My biggest complaints:
1) There aren't enough dungeons or cool things to do besides run around and kill stuff and hope for loot.
2) The path to becoming a Jedi takes a filthy, sick amount of time. You pretty much don't have a girlfriend, wife, friends, or job if you can sit there for the required amount of time to make it all the way to jedi.
I've played on the JTLS beta, and overall its pretty fun (but not very challenging). Once I figured out that you can target specific enemies by pressing the TAB key (this isn't immediately obvious), then it was a breeze to kill the enemy ships.
I'm probably going to cancel my account soon, the game just doesn't have much to offer me after 3 or 4 months of playing. I made millions upon millions of credits, I've had most of the cool loot, and it just gets boring after awhile. The only thing I haven't done is make it to jedi, and I'm not about to invest 200+ more hours in the game.
I think if you've been wanting to try out SWG, this is a good time to start. It's somewhat fun, but all the cliches about MMORPG's definitely apply. After my 3 month experiment, I just figured out that I play video games BECAUSE I'm antisocial - not because I want to be around people more often.
The article was written by Roy Want. I seriously doubt if a principle engineer at Intel, with a PhD from Cambridge, is that worried about promoting a short article on a minor website.
"We have a technical term for what went wrong here," one of Huygens's principal investigators, John Zarnecki of Britain's Open University, would later explain to reporters: "It's called a cock-up."
We Americans speak English, but this is proof positive that the British have had much more time to master the use of it:)
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I'm not much of a linux operator, but I know for sure that XP chokes on a 2 or 3 gig image file!
Will have to look into Linux again...
I work in remote sensing and GIS, and we make alot of seamless aerial photos (for multiple entire states).
Unless I just totally missed the boat, Windows and Linux have a file size limitation of around 2 gigabytes. Therefore, my suspicion is that the images are stored in separate tiles that when viewed all at once make a large mosaic.
If anyone knows of another way to store this much data all in one file, please enlighten me! The closest I've been able to come is storing all the image data in ArcSDE, a GIS product that allows you to store geospatial data inside an enterprise database.
The thing is, everyone knows the Bible was written by men. A Christian believes that the writers were inspired by God, that the message is life to those who hear it, and that it is the key to knowing and having a relationship with God.
I encourage you to ignore all of the social issues, controversies, and right-wing chatter about the bible, and just read it with an open mind. Start with the book of 1st John, and if you like that then read the Gospel of John.
Pardon my asking, but aren't these sources (Exodus, Numbers) the very sources which the grandparent posting calls into doubt as original works of Moses (transmitted to later scribes or otherwise)?
No, my point was that the Pentateuch as it currently exists does not consist of the exact words Moses recorded.
The likelihood of Moses' original writings surviving to modern times are very small. In all probability, the original writings were copied, distributed, and even repeated orally to maintain the history of the people. I'm at work now and don't have access to my library, but a study of the language style does in fact suggest that the books were written much later than 1200 BC (quite possibly during the reign of King Josiah).
2 Chronicles 34 contains the biblical account of his life. Specifically, it details how he was renovating the Temple and discovered a Book of the Law tucked away. It is clear from the text that the Law was not known among the people, was rediscovered, and then copied and distributed.
I'm not sure how familiar you are with 16th and 17th century english, but it's significantly different from our modern english. It would be understandable that spelling, grammar, sentence structure, etc, were rewritten and modernized for distribution to the general populace. As an example, compare the language of the original King James bible to that of the modern "New Living" translation.
In short, I'm not disputing the assertion that the texts are more modern than Moses. I simply disagree that the texts were significantly modified or wholly fabricated to prop up the reign of Josiah.
Also, I should mention that the oldest records we have of written Hebrew are from around 1000 BC.
See here
It's not like Moses was trying to encrypt the 10 commandments on his laptop... We're talking the Bronze Age here, after all.
including important chronicles about Moses, Solomon, and others, were actually made up for the first time by scribes hired by King Josiah
It is important to note that the Bible does make mention of Moses recording historical and legal material in written form, as in Exodus 17:14, 24:4, and 34:27, and in Numbers 33:2. Modern scholarship would suggest that these words of Moses were passed down and later recorded in the form that we have today.
Read the first few chapters of this book for a Christian perspective on the same topic:
The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament. Ed. William LaSor, David Hubbard, and Frederic Bush. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI. 1996.
In fact, this Robert Sarmast guy is specifically looking for Atlantis.
I think it would make more sense to actually *find* an ancient city, and afterwards prove that it is Atlantis. That would be much more credible than looking for every bump in the seafloor shaped like an Athenian temple.
Perhaps there could be more then one story that fits? But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion.
If you're an archaeologist, it's alot easier to get funding for your excavation if you make it sound like your project has major ramifications to the history of humanity.
It's just good business to call it Atlantis.
Toys represent everything that's wrong with modern western civilization. They enforce the notion that there is a difference between "work" and "play".
Toys are an artificial construct popularized by the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations in the late 1800's. The inherent psychological principle is that if you mentally dissociate your job from the context of your normal life, then you are willing to put up with a constant low level of dissatisfaction in exchange for a reward of "play time" or "toys".
Thus, by encouraging your children to "play", you are psychologically destroying them and reducing their future potential to that of an assembly line worker. People endure 40-60 hours of pure crap every week of their lives with the dubious reward of "vacation", or a nice car, or time to watch TV as their only reward. Toys simply lay the groundwork for this type of pathological motivation.
What's the solution for this madness? Teach your children to enjoy working hard to accomplish their independent goals. Learning and discovery and adventure are rewarding without the need for false constructs. Hard work and proportional reward are the foundations of our country, and the entrepreneurial spirit should be encouraged at a very early age. Teach your children to live and enjoy life, rather than to simply endure it.
But, failing all that, buy them a Nintendo 64 and Goldeneye... that game rocks my face off.
While Fox and CNN aren't the best, you have other alternatives than the Comedy Channel...
The NYT, the BBC, Al-jazeera, Haaretz, the Washington Post, and Bloomberg all offer news from a variety of perspectives. You won't be able to tap into any one source and get an objective look at current events, but if you look at things from a variety of perspectives you should be able to make a pretty clear picture.
I can guarantee you that the army of writers propping up South Park and the Daily Show do this in order to formulate their opinion on world events.
Ha, I had a similar experience during the boom. It made so much sense at the time, but in the end all I ended up with was poor health and two lost years. It's taken me about a year to get back in shape and start to have a social life again
What country did you end up moving to? I'm thinking of going to law school for a change of pace, but the idea of moving to a foreign place is also appealing.
One step closer to free phone calls, or one step closer to state regulation or taxation of IP networks?
All I know is that I used to pay $65 a month for SBC service with unlimited long distance, caller ID, and voicemail. After I switched to Vonage (same deal for $24.99/mo), SBC started calling me three times a day to get me to switch back for $24.99.
I won't switch back, even though VoIP is a little annoying (doesn't work when the power is out, have to occasionally restart the cable modem, etc). Thank goodness that a cheaper alternative came along to break the back of the local phone monopoly.
I am a suburban mother stuck in a high income man's body that's an early adopter. What does that make me?
the governor of New Jersey?
make your own
google cache, since we would deestroy geocities
AOL customers will be able to download the trailer today
Dang it, where's one of those CD's when you need it?
Ha, me too! I was playing Star Wars Galaxies 30 hours a week, but that got boring...
Now, I'm thinking of going to law school to fill the empty hours. I've also been lifting weights, and am even thinking about talking to a girl sometime in the next few weeks (if the opportunity presents itself).
2048 processors, 13 terabytes of ram, AND it comes with a smaller, more ergonomic controller.
The late 19th century was a time of great philosophical and theological upheaval. This period was also one of the critical defining moments in natural science as a discipline. Geologists and biologists began to observe the earth more effectively and with greater rigor. Scientists began to assert the validity of their observational and experimental procedures as being concrete and repeatable. They began to see beyond Aquinas and the Scholastic tradition, and to make new conjectures about the chronology and functional characteristics of our planet.
What do these new scientific discoveries have to do with religion on a theoretical level? Who were some of the key players, and what did they do (if anything) to stimulate the 'conflict'? What did Christians think at the time? What did scientists think?
Gregor Mendel, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon are names synonymous with the scientific revolution and the enlightenment. These men are famous scientists, astronomers, and thinkers who are in large part responsible for propagating the modern intellectual culture. In addition to being men of such intellectual merit, however, one more similarity exists between them that is often overlooked. Gregor Mendel not only discovered the essential principles of genotype and phenotype, but was also a Catholic monk. His experiments were conducted in the bean patch of his Augustinian monastery. Copernicus was the first to accurately portray a heliocentric universe, but he also held the office of canon in his cathedral chapter. Galileo, although often troubled in his work by reactionary church polity, made a well thought-out attempt to reconcile his new scientific discoveries with the Christian faith. Francis Bacon made sweeping pronouncements about how science should be carried out, and played a pivotal role in formulating our modern scientific culture. In his writings, Bacon addressed the need for God, and His role in the life of an intellectual community (Moore 1986, p. 322). The Baconian Compromise has influenced many generations of thinkers and scientists, and this understanding is still widely held today by many in form if not in name.
Christianity is often viewed as being opposed to science. In order to determine whether or not the conflict exists in fact, it is important to go beyond cultural ideas and stereotypes. It is necessary to look at the historical records of both the scientific community and the historical account of Christianity, the Bible.
Owen Chadwick, a notable church historian, found it to be important to discern the difference "between science when it was against religion and the scientists when they were against religion" (Lindberg 1986, pg.7). The general consensus among historians is that two texts have set the present tone for the hostility between the scientific community and the Christian faith.
John William Draper, in 1874, wrote a History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science. Draper, the son of a Methodist minister, was highly successful with this book, in which he applied the traditional forms of Christianity to a new doctrine of science and metaphysics. In the preface, he pointedly stated that, "The history of science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other" (Draper 1874, p. vi). He frequently makes allusions to the battle of good, as human intellect, versus evil, as faith. He refers to the previous period in Europe as "intellectual night... passing away... into daybreak". These themes are reminiscent of passages in both the Old and New Testaments, such as 2 Samuel 22:29 "the Lord turns my darkness into light", Psalms 112:4 "even in darkness light dawns", John 1:5 "the light shines in darkness", and 2 Corinthians 6:14 "What fellowship can light have with darkness?". Donald Fleming, Draper's biographer, descr
I will personally endorse this 'productivity' software for my company on one condition...
they give me the ability to anonymously moderate coworkers as trolls!
While Google SMS (Short Message Service) provides text-only results, Yahoo! offer a more comprehensive features set - local, image and web search as well as maps, stock information, mobile games and icons - a feature where a user click and call a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol).
Once again, I think Google got this one right. People search to find information, and they want simple results that are easy to read. Similar to their (ugly) homepage, it sounds like Yahoo is going to fall victim to excessive gimmickry.
Mobile screen real estate is even more valuable than normal monitor real estate, so I would say google has the better strategy here.
Hah, the only thing an SWG Jedi knows is Carpal Tunnel syndrome
Well, that and how many mountain dews they can drink without having to go to the bathroom.
You just basically run around and kill stuff to get experience points. Once you reach the maximum amount you can hold, you have to fly all the way out to a remote village on Dathomir to exchange them for "Force-sensitive" experience. It takes millions upon millions of regular XP to get enough force XP to become a jedi. I estimate that it's literally about 200 hours to finish it all off with travel and load time.
After all that, you become a padawan, which is a wimpy jedi. You have to get millions more experience to advance to jedi knight, which is what a normal person thinks of as a jedi.
It's pretty twisted...
I've been playing SWG awhile, sometimes more than I probably should have been. The ground based game is pretty fun, although it can get a little repetitive.
My biggest complaints:
1) There aren't enough dungeons or cool things to do besides run around and kill stuff and hope for loot.
2) The path to becoming a Jedi takes a filthy, sick amount of time. You pretty much don't have a girlfriend, wife, friends, or job if you can sit there for the required amount of time to make it all the way to jedi.
I've played on the JTLS beta, and overall its pretty fun (but not very challenging). Once I figured out that you can target specific enemies by pressing the TAB key (this isn't immediately obvious), then it was a breeze to kill the enemy ships.
I'm probably going to cancel my account soon, the game just doesn't have much to offer me after 3 or 4 months of playing. I made millions upon millions of credits, I've had most of the cool loot, and it just gets boring after awhile. The only thing I haven't done is make it to jedi, and I'm not about to invest 200+ more hours in the game.
I think if you've been wanting to try out SWG, this is a good time to start. It's somewhat fun, but all the cliches about MMORPG's definitely apply. After my 3 month experiment, I just figured out that I play video games BECAUSE I'm antisocial - not because I want to be around people more often.
A car modification guidebook for the stylistically-impaired
The article was written by Roy Want. I seriously doubt if a principle engineer at Intel, with a PhD from Cambridge, is that worried about promoting a short article on a minor website.
"We have a technical term for what went wrong here," one of Huygens's principal investigators, John Zarnecki of Britain's Open University, would later explain to reporters: "It's called a cock-up."
We Americans speak English, but this is proof positive that the British have had much more time to master the use of it