Geocaching is one of the most interesting educational activities to hit the mainstream in a long time. With well-placed caches with enticing instructions, you get a chance to be in the great outdoors, learn about nature, a place and its history, logic and reasoning, among many other things.
As a matter of fact, the GGP caused me to spend about 8.5 hours straight of reading up on the subject (as the history of religions is one of my pet interests).
Rather than start another factflood, let me suffice to say this: 1. Your reply, although it purports to address the relationship of both Unitarian Universalism and Unitarianism with Christianity, ends up addressing only Unitarian Universalism. 2. The UUA admits to there being a historical link to Unitarianism, and refers to Unitarianism as a form of Christianity, right on their own website. 3. Your final remark about Christians is a gross generalization, as there were (and are) Trinitarian (see my previous post) as well as Nontrinitariandoctrines, all identifying themselves as Christian.
In the spirit of Universal Unitarianism, I wish you Peace, Love and Respect.
Reminds you of what you would like to do with the receiver when for the umpteenth time some telemarketing droid calls you on the phone when you're having dinner.
Once I walked up to an ATM which was showing a blue screen. What was even more funny: the text was sideways! Also, I believe the train ticket vending machines (use of which is now mandatory unless travellers have certain disabilities) run some kind of MS Windows.
I was an editor for many years (and no, English is not my first language, so grammar nazis: stay away).
Really, most of the work getting an article ready to be published was getting it stripped of all the formatting and style cruft that well-meaning people put in, which are useless to a real DTP application.
That is why we kept hammering into peoples' minds to only submit plain text. No fonts, no tabs, lists only prefixed with dashes, asterisks or numbers, no line breaks except at the end of paragraphs.
Silly but true, it does. They're called plain text documents, usually with the '.txt' extension. Too bad you will lose most of your formatting and styles, but anyway, if a document needs to be revised (that is why you got it emailed in the first place, I guess), I don't see a need for any but the most basic formatting. When the document is finished, you can format and style it with any app you want and then save it (in an open format file, I hope).
Also, many recent wireless chips use software (not 'black-box' firmware) MAC and radio control implementations to reduce cost. In order to comply with FCC regulations, users must not be allowed to easily tweak the radio settings to illegal values. Alas, binary-only drivers are the only option in this case.
Just to show that you shouldn't believe everything that a company tells you in their sales pitch:
[quote from Win4Lin FAQ]
Does Win4Lin Pro use QEMU?
The Win4Lin Pro(TM) architecture is a combination of our 20 years of product development experience with Win4Lin(TM) and Merge(TM), combined with our embrace of the QEMU project.
[end quote]
Watch that comma! So, the people at Win4Lin are trying to tell us that they were busy developing virtualization software for Linux 6 years before Linus even released his first kernel??
Think again. If true, I'm much more interested in their time travel / information-gathering-from-the-future technology than their virtualization stuff.
1. Profit!! 2. ??? 3. Virtualization technology on x86 hardware becomes mainstream.
Just put 2 ASD's (anti-shoplifting devices) like EM or RFID labels in the item, one very large, visible and obvious, the other very hard to detect by humans. As soon as the client tampers with one of them, the larger one sends out a signal to set off a silent alarm to warn security to be extra alert. If the client pays up, both ASD's get deactivated and the larger one gets removed. If the client tries to leave the shop without paying and at least one of the ASD's is still functioning, the sirens go off. If both are dead, it is up to security to spot suspicious behaviour.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
I'm typing this text on one of those! They're pretty awesome, both in ergonomics and reliability. I honestly don't remember how many years I've had mine, but I hope I will be using it for a loooong time to come.
In other news, a house fire that initially looked just ordinary made it onto the front page after forensic detectives found out that it was caused by a slashdotted toaster.
1) To save the state after unplugging, doesn't the device need some sort of backup power source (GoldCap, 'CMOS' battery)?
2) If left unplugged for a long time, doesn't it need some form of RTC to keep time? Otherwise I can foresee lots of trouble with timestamp based document versioning systems when you try to commit a file that has an earlier timestamp than the one in the repository but which actually has more recent changes.
$ while true; do (echo "not every site running MediaWiki is WIkipedia!" | post-to-slashdot sid=15882); done
How many more of those can Slashdot take? Maybe we should try all permutations of words in that sentence? Write a polymorphic engine for it? DOS attack Wikipedia asking it for its own definition? Oh well...
I have used such a device in the past. The media were disks with a spiral groove on one side. The groove was used to steer a magnetic recording/playback head. The device had a slider on the front to place the head anywhere on the disk. I used the device for voice recording and for primitive analog sampling.
is that these organisms, being carbon-based lifeforms, consist of more than just water, so they need to consume nutrients besides water to multiply, and probably just to survive at all.
As long as those nutrients remain available, the organisms can go on converting water, but as soon as the available amount of nutrients starts falling, the population growth will decrease as well.
Even if we suppose for the moment that the organisms are immortal and are able to survive on water and solar energy alone, they can never multiply beyond a certain point, at which the nutrients required to multiply are exhausted. The water conversion rate will then be proportional to the size of the (stable) population. It is not hard to imagine a process countering the water conversion taking hold at that time.
Slashdot Mirror
Way to go! (pun intended)
Geocaching is one of the most interesting educational activities to hit the mainstream in a long time.
With well-placed caches with enticing instructions, you get a chance to be in the great outdoors, learn about nature, a place and its history, logic and reasoning, among many other things.
I beg your pardon!
As a matter of fact, the GGP caused me to spend about 8.5 hours straight of reading up on the subject (as the history of religions is one of my pet interests).
Rather than start another factflood, let me suffice to say this:
1. Your reply, although it purports to address the relationship of both Unitarian Universalism and Unitarianism with Christianity, ends up addressing only Unitarian Universalism.
2. The UUA admits to there being a historical link to Unitarianism, and refers to Unitarianism as a form of Christianity, right on their own website.
3. Your final remark about Christians is a gross generalization, as there were (and are) Trinitarian (see my previous post) as well as Nontrinitariandoctrines, all identifying themselves as Christian.
In the spirit of Universal Unitarianism, I wish you Peace, Love and Respect.
That was the Indians. (The ones with the dot, not the feathers.)
LOL!
What about men and unmarried women? Did they invent the zero too?
Not to mention RMS.
Wow, there's another Slashdot phenomenon: Factflooding!
Isaac Newton was a Unitarian, thanks very much. Like his friend John Locke. Please get your facts straight before accusing others of ignorance.
Your remark does nothing to discredit the GP's statement, just shows it to be less precise.
The fact that Unitarians reject the notion of God being a Trinity doesn't mean they are not Christians.
I'd rather call it BLAM.
Reminds you of what you would like to do with the receiver when for the umpteenth time some telemarketing droid calls you on the phone when you're having dinner.
"Open Source!"
Once I walked up to an ATM which was showing a blue screen. What was even more funny: the text was sideways!
Also, I believe the train ticket vending machines (use of which is now mandatory unless travellers have certain disabilities) run some kind of MS Windows.
Still find this silly?
I was an editor for many years (and no, English is not my first language, so grammar nazis: stay away).
Really, most of the work getting an article ready to be published was getting it stripped of all the formatting and style cruft that well-meaning people put in, which are useless to a real DTP application.
That is why we kept hammering into peoples' minds to only submit plain text. No fonts, no tabs, lists only prefixed with dashes, asterisks or numbers, no line breaks except at the end of paragraphs.
Silly but true, it does.
They're called plain text documents, usually with the '.txt' extension.
Too bad you will lose most of your formatting and styles, but anyway, if a document needs to be revised (that is why you got it emailed in the first place, I guess), I don't see a need for any but the most basic formatting.
When the document is finished, you can format and style it with any app you want and then save it (in an open format file, I hope).
Also, many recent wireless chips use software (not 'black-box' firmware) MAC and radio control implementations to reduce cost. In order to comply with FCC regulations, users must not be allowed to easily tweak the radio settings to illegal values. Alas, binary-only drivers are the only option in this case.
who:
- are Feyenoord supporters. [1]
- have AIDS, syphilis or the like. [2]
[1]: Ajax is a major league soccer club.
[2]: In Dutch, having a SOA roughly translates to having an STD.
Just to show that you shouldn't believe everything that a company tells you in their sales pitch:
[quote from Win4Lin FAQ]
Does Win4Lin Pro use QEMU?
The Win4Lin Pro(TM) architecture is a combination of our 20 years of product development experience with Win4Lin(TM) and Merge(TM), combined with our embrace of the QEMU project.
[end quote]
Watch that comma! So, the people at Win4Lin are trying to tell us that they were busy developing virtualization software for Linux 6 years before Linus even released his first kernel??
Think again. If true, I'm much more interested in their time travel / information-gathering-from-the-future technology than their virtualization stuff.
1. Profit!!
2. ???
3. Virtualization technology on x86 hardware becomes mainstream.
Just put 2 ASD's (anti-shoplifting devices) like EM or RFID labels in the item, one very large, visible and obvious, the other very hard to detect by humans.
As soon as the client tampers with one of them, the larger one sends out a signal to set off a silent alarm to warn security to be extra alert. If the client pays up, both ASD's get deactivated and the larger one gets removed. If the client tries to leave the shop without paying and at least one of the ASD's is still functioning, the sirens go off. If both are dead, it is up to security to spot suspicious behaviour.
That would be "pushed it right and off the desk".
ROTFL none the less!
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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I'm typing this text on one of those! They're pretty awesome, both in ergonomics and reliability. I honestly don't remember how many years I've had mine, but I hope I will be using it for a loooong time to come.
Kitchen sink: "drain: fatal IO error 9 (Broken pipe)"
John Doe: "Well, gotta have it fixed. Lets call the plumber..."
In other news, a house fire that initially looked just ordinary made it onto the front page after forensic detectives found out that it was caused by a slashdotted toaster.
Duh, have to retract 2). Of course the OS on the device can sync time with its host as soon as it is connected.
1) To save the state after unplugging, doesn't the device need some sort of backup power source (GoldCap, 'CMOS' battery)?
2) If left unplugged for a long time, doesn't it need some form of RTC to keep time? Otherwise I can foresee lots of trouble with timestamp based document versioning systems when you try to commit a file that has an earlier timestamp than the one in the repository but which actually has more recent changes.
$ while true; do (echo "not every site running MediaWiki is WIkipedia!" | post-to-slashdot sid=15882); done
How many more of those can Slashdot take?
Maybe we should try all permutations of words in that sentence? Write a polymorphic engine for it? DOS attack Wikipedia asking it for its own definition?
Oh well...
I have used such a device in the past. The media were disks with a spiral groove on one side. The groove was used to steer a magnetic recording/playback head. The device had a slider on the front to place the head anywhere on the disk.
I used the device for voice recording and for primitive analog sampling.
is that these organisms, being carbon-based lifeforms, consist of more than just water, so they need to consume nutrients besides water to multiply, and probably just to survive at all.
As long as those nutrients remain available, the organisms can go on converting water, but as soon as the available amount of nutrients starts falling, the population growth will decrease as well.
Even if we suppose for the moment that the organisms are immortal and are able to survive on water and solar energy alone, they can never multiply beyond a certain point, at which the nutrients required to multiply are exhausted. The water conversion rate will then be proportional to the size of the (stable) population. It is not hard to imagine a process countering the water conversion taking hold at that time.