Once Microsoft's automated support line says something to the effect of "this call may be recorded for training purposes" you have full legal freedom to record any ensuing conversation where they might tell you to do such a thing and turn it over to your insurance company, letting them tackle Microsoft for attempting to induce you to commit insurance fraud. In the business world, Microsoft is small. Insurance companies are not. They eat fools like Bill Gates for breakfast. It's a matter of "Billions" vs. "Trillions".
"Why would you use Zulu instead of UTC? UTC 0wnz j00r m0th3r."
"UTC RAPES BABIES!"
"GMT BAPES RABIES! Err..."
Pretty soon, someone throws in that asinine Swatch Internet Time idea and we have a real flamewar. Remember, kids, it's all fun and games until someone's clock gets punched in the face. Or something.
First, the main problem is that there is no hard line "right" and "wrong" in most cases. Whys is it safe to go 64.9 mph but 65.1 mph is unsafe? That's unreasonable. However, the law has to say something because going way to fast is definitely dangerous. The "reasonableness" is often part of the law.
What retarded programmer would hard-code something like that? It should NEVER be more than a defined constant, and ONLY for a temporary fix until something better is worked out. Speed limits are stupid anyway. You don't need to set an arbitrary limit like that. Set a concrete principle. Something like, "If you cause an accident, you get $penalty." Personally, I think causing an accident should cost you your license, end of story. If you're too retarded to treat other drivers with respect (or at least stay out of trouble), you shouldn't be driving. The line in the sand is much more definite (and therefore enforceable) when it's a verifiable event that everyone recognizes as "wrong" such as an accident.
Second, related to the first, is that the problem with the ambiguity of the law now is that it is, in fact, being written like computer syntax. Since there are few absolutes, all sorts of exceptions (if... then) and variability ("reasonable") have to be built in. Ambiguities tend to be these cases. "Don't kill" is easy. Except self-defense. Except defense of a third person. If you are insane, different punishment. How abonormal do you have to be to be insane?
Easy one... A plus/minus points system. Your basic traffic accident rates a "2". If you didn't cause it, -1. If you did, +1. If you have legal permission to use the car and roads (licenses and tags and such), another -1. No? +1. Were there injuries? If you're at fault, another +1. Deaths? Another +5 if you're at fault. Then set graduated punishments. (1 = ticket, 2 = court date + fine, 3 = loss of priveleges, 4 = minor jail time, 5 = jail + fine, 6 = major jail time, 7 = major jail time + fine, 8 = life in prison, 9 = capital punishment.) Then you weight the crimes accordingly. Disobeying traffic signals? 1. Murder? 10. Remember, just because the graduations don't go that high doesn't mean you can't weight a crime out of range of anything less than the death penalty (think "high treason" here). There's no need to cover corner cases or loopholes, since "reasonability" would be weighted with negative points.
Third, how they hell are people supposed to understand what the law says? People speak in English, they don't speak computer languages.
For starters, have you ever actually read legalese fine print lately? Or are your eyes so bad that you just didn't even notice it? It barely qualifies as "english". The words look familiar, but mean nothing. Then again, you're being a pedant, since we all know that he was talking about developing laws with a clear-cut set of rules instead of the current anything-you-can-put-on-paper-will-work clusterfuck.
He does have a point, even if this was about a laptop chip. The PPC970FX has a full-load (the spec sheet says they couldn't find a program more strenuous than the one they used to test it) heat dissipation of 24.5W. The Pentium M has a "real life usage" heat dissipation of 27W and a theoretical maximum of 34W. So, yes, it is typical of Intel processors, and no, Apple didn't choose Intel for their low-power-consumption chips.
Everyone should be on Zulu time (which is basically just GMT expressed in 24-hour format). When it's 0600 Zulu, we here in the central US should be asleep and should stay that way until about 1200 at the earliest. Personally, I wake at about 1330. When it's 1330 in the central US, it's 1330 in Britain, Russia, and even on islands on both sides of the IDL. No muss, no fuss. It just happens to be location-dependent whether it's dark or light at any given numeric time of day.
From that point, it's a hop-skip-jump to making everyone have the same date, thus eliminating the 24-hour jump over the IDL, along with stupid fights about which country gets to be the first one to start a new year. (Remember the whiny-bitch islands that wanted to be first ones into the new milennium? Yeah. That. Prevent retards by force if necessary. But usually changing the rules out from under them works fine.) So basically, when the clock rolls around to 0000, the date rolls over to the next day. Again, no muss, no fuss, just a simple numeric counter for easy measurement of events in their proper order.
You have better visibility around a corner from near the center of the road, therefore, you sit as close to the center of the road as possible. That's the reason I always heard, anyway. I guess it was more of an issue in the days of 2-lane windy roads that went up, down, and around hills, back before they started just pulverizing the hills and paving 4+ lanes through the middle.
Actually, just off the top of my head, there are several other commands to Christians.
- "Keep doing this in remembrance of me." (Luke 22:19) This was uttered by Jesus at the Passover meal in 33 C.E., just a day before he was killed. It was an instruction to observe the Lord's Evening Meal every Nisan 14th to commemorate his ransom sacrifice as the ultimate Passover lamb.
- "Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you." (Matthew 28: 19, 20) This was uttered by Jesus just before he ascended to heaven. This scripture alone shoots your argument down with the words "all the things I have commanded you." So, let's see if we can find some more.
- "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your fine works and give glory to your Father who is in the heavens." (Matthew 5:16) Part of the Sermon on the Mount.
- "If, then, you are bringing your gift to the altar and you there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar, and go away; first make your peace with your brother, and then, when you have come back, offer up your gift." (Matthew 5:23, 24) Another part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is immediately after stressing how letting anger and ill feelings toward one another build up can lead us to do something we would be judged adversely for. The next segment of that sermon contains information about adultery, and admonition to "tear [your eye] out" rather than do something God considers detestable. I believe this passage is what one of the original posters was referring to.
- "Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those persecuting you." (Matthew 5:44) Another one from the Sermon on the Mount.
- "Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21) Another one from the Sermon on the Mount. This one shoots down your "love God and do as you please" theory. Doing as you please would be treasures on earth. Doing as God pleases would be treasures in heaven. This command doesn't just say "Store up treasures on the earth after you have some in heaven." It says "Stop storing up treasures upon the earth." (emphasis mine)
And one that really puts the finishing touches on there:
- "Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33) Keep on seeking first God's kingdom and God's righteousness (or righteous ways, as they apply to the one doing the seeking, i.e. "you") and these other things will be added to you. You shouldn't seek the "other things" at all. You should only seek the interests of God's kingdom and will. Of course, God hasn't changed his will. So when he says you shouldn't murder, fornicate, worship idols, etc., that intention for humankind hasn't changed. Of course, I can hear you chanting "but you probably eat pork and don't have a blue thread around your clothes" or something similarly clueless. Those things weren't matters of principle. Murder, adultery, and idolatry are! And things that seemed similar to the non-principled parts of the old law that needed to continue were reiterated (like the command to "keep abstaining from... blood" in Acts 15:28,29) to make sure true Christians are acceptable to God.
I could go on, but this is more than adequate to illustrate my point. There are a lot of commands in the Christian faith.
Oh, and one more nitpick: there is no "new law". There are only a collection of principles and commands. The "New Covenant" is not a law, it's a contract, and closely resembles a settlement between two parties that have decided to forego a lengthy and painful court battle. The drafting of the new covenant finished with the words "Keep doing this in remembrance of me."
The power-optimized PPC 970FX has a rated 24.5W peak at 2.0 GHz. I found that buried in a PDF spec sheet on IBM's website.
There's nothing really holding Apple back from making Powerbook G5's right now. This whole shenanigan is just Steve Jobs being a dickhead because IBM didn't deliver 3 GHz chips after he promised they would.
Yep, good ol' Steve "Dickhead" Jobs... Steve "Numbnuts" Jobs... Steve "Motherfucking Crack-Whore" Jobs...
Quite true. But once you've done it at least once and distilled the actual need-to-do tasks from the process, it's about a 15-minute job.
1) Install Apache with the MSI installer. Do not reboot (it doesn't ask, so no problem). 2) Install PHP from the ZIP archive. Just unzip it to C:\PHP (or C:\PHP5 for even less config editing) 3) Install MySQL with the MSI installer. DO NOT REBOOT (yet). 4) Run through the MySQL Config Wizard when asked (at the end of the install). 5) Set the DocumentRoot and any VirtualHosts you want in the Apache config. It works just like other platforms. 6) Copy and rename the php.ini-recommended file to just php.ini. Set the doc_root and extension_root (extension root should be "./ext") settings, and uncomment (remove the semicolon) "extension=php_mysql.dll" and uncomment or add (if it's not there) "extension=php_mysqli.dll". 7) Find the PHP install.txt file. Find your system/HTTP server/version combination and add the lines they say to the end of the Apache config. There should be 2 or 3 lines. A copy/paste will suffice. 8) Right-click My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables... Now, on the bottom half of the dialog box are the environment variables for everyone (your user-specific ones are at the top). Find the one called "PATH" (not case sensitive, but is usually all upper-case) and add;c:\php (or php5, if you named it that way). 9) Reboot. The environment variables aren't updated unless you reboot.
It's not a walk in the park, but after the first time and figuring out just where stuff is, it's pretty easy for a techie. Another note: I added stuff about VirtualHosts in Apache above, but didn't mention that you'll need to set up DNS entries or mess with your hosts file to get those to work. You can just skip the VirtualHosts if you don't know how to configure them. The rest of it will still work.
Who considers Ocarina to be one of the worst games of all time?
Me. It ruined Zelda. The effect was twofold:
First, it gave Zelda this fancy 3D crap that wowed everyone for a minute or two. That part, I can forgive. I was wowed along with everyone else. That said, the controls sucked large portions of ass, and that's mostly why I hated the change. Console Controllers Aren't Made For 3D Games(tm).
Second, it brought n00bs into the fanbase. Not just regular newbs that can be taught to be decent people, but n00b fanboys that love their Playstations and don't subscribe to the One True Nintendo Way. Even that I could forgive if it wasn't for the other half of this n00b problem: they're usually ungrateful and arrogant, and outspokenly so. They refuse to play the older Zelda games because "they're old and crusty and who cares?" and they firmly and stubbornly believe that "3D is better than 2D because it has more D's!!111one!!!2twoone!" It's a childish and contemptible mindset that leaves anyone who enjoys the older games with the taste of vomit in their mouth. The types of n00bs I'm speaking of here are the ones that griped about Wind Waker's graphics and used non-words like "Celda" and didn't punctuate their "sentences" properly. I honestly hope Nintendo goes back to 2D Zeldas just to piss these assholes off and to chase them back to their stupid Playstations.
I'd love to be the first one to say: NO "D" FOR YOU!
You're close, but either played way too much of the original, or not enough of LttP.
The original was most certainly a get-item-go-to-next-screen march on rails. It just had a very large, inert starting area (126 of 128 overworld screens). Note how, even in the original, you couldn't go to levels out of order without major headaches. (1, 2, 3, and 8 are available from the start in the first quest without anything more than a blue candle, but good luck with 8. The second quest narrows it down to 1 and 3 and a death wish.)
Meanwhile, there was just as much flexibility in LttP. I always went through (in the Dark World) 1, then 2, then 4 (to get the sword upgrade), then 3(made much easier by the sword), then 6 (to get the cane that makes a brick), then 5 (made much easier by the cane), then 7 and onward. And there are ways to get through 3 without going through 2 first (2 had the hookshot, which is why it's "required" before 3).
So really, the Zelda series has always been a progressive dungeon crawl with a wide-open "overworld" area connecting the dungeons. Other games in the series that continue the tradition: The Adventure of Link(it was a side-scroller, but still the same), Link's Awakening, Oracle of *, Ocarina of Time, and from what I hear, Wind Waker.
Personally, what killed the series' fun for me was the transition to 3D. I don't want complicated control schemes or "impressive" enemy graphics. I was distinctly underwhelmed by people fading into and out of existence as I walked around in OoT. And the retardedness of "Wall Masters" not only coming from the ceiling (a tradition started in LttP, presumably because they wanted an elegant way to "get" you without futzing around with the 45-degree angle walls in LttP) but through the ceiling... that's just too much. Oh, yes... through the ceiling. The corridor leading into the large area in the shadow temple where you encounter that thing... you'll round a corner and notice a line separating textures on the floor... cross it and you're fair game for that damned hand... even though it's falling through solid matter, something that supposedly ceased when it quit coming from the walls. That's when I decided that OoT was an abomination and was completely against everything Zelda games were supposed to be. Majora's Mask and Wind Waker are continuations of this. I'm guessing this new Twilight Princess game will be the same. 3D is great for shooting things. It sucks for dungeon games like Zelda.
The best Zelda game since LttP is Four Swords Adventures. (The Gamecube one, not the GBA LttP side-game.) It was a real, honest-to-god Zelda game, complete with all the goodies, and with none of the annoying 3D bullcrap! It had one hell of a set of rails, though. Which is why I want a "real" Zelda game done the same way, with the same ingenuity and, most importantly, the same 2D view and non-sucky controls.
Bah, it's 1:00 AM and I've probably written enough to piss off every modern Zelda fan in existence. Hell, the bring-back-2D thing is probably heresy in itself. I'm done griping/ranting/wishing.
No, the problem here is that MySQL is being dealt with on a level it wasn't designed for.
The major gripe here is that MySQL silently does it's job storing data without letting you know that the data had to be slightly altered to fit. While I can see areas where this would be a problem, allow me to point out to you that the entire WWW is designed to silently fail to a common baseline. If you write <b>blah <i>foo bar</b> in a web page, all current browsers will silently fail to make a big, fat, hairy deal out of that minor error and will silently display it the same way as <b>blah <i>foo bar</i></b>, which would be the correct way of closing those tags. What MySQL does is the exact same thing. It protects sloppy and/or stupid people from their mistakes. And better yet, it speeds up development time on apps made to deal with sloppy and stupid people by silently absorbing their stupidity without complaint.
There's something to be said for that in some instances. Which is why I have come to the conclusion that if it doesn't suit your needs, plug your pie hole and let it suit someone else's.
the two upcoming new Justices (whoever they may be) will impact us more than any elected politician
WHAM!
Perhaps you meant "affect"...
Remember, kids, just because they say it on the evening news doesn't mean that it's grammatically correct. (This reminder has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood grammar Nazi.)
Apple sold a Performa 610 (630?) with a "DOS Compatibility Card" in it. That was in about 1995.
Orange Micro made their own version for a much longer period, and they worked with systems all the way up to, but not including, the G5. (It was a PC-on-PCI card, so any Mac with PCI could do it. G5's have PCI-X.) The fastest one was a K6-2 with 64MB of RAM and a Rage Pro GPU. (Yes, I asked them. It was around the time of the release of the Blue & White G3's, and they were phasing the cards out even back then.) IIRC, the switching software required MacOS 8.1 or later, but not OS X (duh... we're talking 1998-era tech here). It was pretty slick, but still a kludge. KVM's are cheaper and present a better way to have a Mac and a PC side-by-side. And then monitor prices came down, so... yeah.
I'm surprised it's not already used in some bass-ackwards hackjob form on PC's. Open Firmware would be an overclocker's wet dream.
Seriously... you get fine-tuning control over the clock speed of any device on the system. Don't believe me? How 'bout an example? If you have a Mac, go into OF (hold option-apple-o-f at boot).
- type dev/ - type.properties See that "clock-frequency" item? Yeah, that's the hex value in Hz of your system bus. You can change it with setenv. You can really screw things up by changing this setting, so don't blame me if you hose your Mac this way.
And one more resource that seems to suggest that the new Intel-based Macs will need to have Open Firmware or a suitable replacement by release: Universal Binary Info
"Macintosh computers that use an Intel microprocessor
do not use Open Firmware." (italics mine)
They're still in the beta phase (at best) on this project. It doesn't say anything about what kind of bootstrapping mechanism they'll use in production hardware - nothing about what they will or will not use once these are rolling off the line. For all we know right now, Apple is shoehorning Open Firmware and some PRAM onto an x86 motherboard alongside an honest-to-god Mac ROM chip. (Hey, I said it could happen, not that it was likely.)
I wouldn't call him a murderer of any sort. I would call him someone who was judging people who were willfully disobeying his orders. And what's more, this isn't just some two bit dictator, it's God Almighty. Someone disobeying God deserves to die. Why? Is that cruel? No. He made the rules. Live by them or don't.
And as for the "child murderer" thing, no. The judgement wasn't upon children alone. It was upon every firstborn, and not just males, or even just humans. For example: my father was the firstborn of his parents. My mother was the firstborn of her parents. I'm the firstborn of my parents. Our cat was the firstborn of the litter. In that situation in ancient Egypt, all of us would die, including the cat! Unless, of course, we did the smart thing and put the blood of a sacrificial lamb on our doorposts and ate the meal of lamb and unleavened bread with our loins girded.
So, I hate to be rude, but you misunderstood the Bible and have twisted it. And by the way, only a non-student of the Bible would use the name "Yahweh" since the modern spelling is "Jehovah" and the words it's derived from are "ye hawah". If you had studied anything more than your navel lint, you'd know that. And yes, I regard those links to be nothing more than navel lint.
Actually, the Bible says no such thing about the Israelites.
The Bible says that "spiritual Israel" will exist, that is, the people who actually want to serve God will be his approved people and will have his protection. It also says that the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" will happen when they "gather at the place that is, in Hebrew, called Har-magedon". That literally translates to "mountain of Megiddo" but there isn't a mountain anywhere near the plains of Megiddo.
Megiddo was a place where many decisive battles took place in ancient times. A battle on a mountain would be something everyone would see for miles around. So when all the nations gather at the "mountain of Megiddo", expect a battle of all the nations of the world vs. God's kingdom army. Everyone will see it, and it will be a decisive battle. As it says numerous times in Ezekiel, "and they shall come to know that I am Jehovah." There will be no escape from this conclusion. It will be completely evident to all onlookers, and that will include everyone in the entire world.
The nation of Israel has no more to do with this than any other nation. They'll be destroyed like all the rest. Why? Because God rejected them when they rejected and killed his son. Their rulership was "cut down" in 607 BC, but they were restored to freedom. But when they out-and-out rejected the Messiah, that was the end of any favor shown to them by God. The Romans destroyed their "nation" in 70 AD and there wasn't even a fight. Even when they were "punished" in 617-607 BC, there was a 10-year fight. The literal nation of Israel no longer has any backing from God. Heck, they went completely out of existence for almost 2000 years.
Of course, you're correct in your assertion that Bush (and the rest of the world's leaders) are pushing toward that final battle. "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." So said the apostle Paul in an inspired letter to a first-century Christian congregation. Satan has control of the political, economic and religious systems of the world. That makes George W. Bush a tool of the devil. (Along with every other president in history, and all other kings, chancellors, prime ministers, premieres, dictators, etc...)
Jeremiah 10:23 states that "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step." Man should not, cannot, and will not rule himself. Only God's kingdom has the ability to rule mankind. And that is the issue here.
People think that the number "666" is going to literally show up on tax forms or something. It's not. 6 is a number that signifies something falling short of heavenly perfection (which is symbolized by 7). 3 is used for emphasis. So the number 6 repeated 3 times is something emphatically deficient. The failing governments of the world fit that bill perfectly.
Perhaps you're an atheist because of all the "fundie" idiots out there that sound crazy. (And truly, they are!) Don't misunderstand the Bible and reject it because people have twisted it. Read it. Study it. Perhaps you too may learn what it says and why it says that. Then you can calm down, enjoy life, have a happy hope for the future, and laugh when people start mingling conspiracy theories with biblical allusions. (Yes, I laughed before I posted all this. It's quite refreshing to be able to laugh and shrug something off when it's as disturbing as this story is.)
There's also a difference between coding to standards and intentional exclusion. But that doesn't support your argument, so you left that bit out.
Everyone has a right to give MS crap for making a browser that doesn't work properly and billing it as the best thing since sliced bread, as well as a right to give users of said broken browser a heads-up about just how profoundly broken it is. Not everyone chooses to exercise that right, but it doesn't make it any less of a net positive force in the Internet when someone chooses to use their resources toward that end.
I know of specific things that IE doesn't do properly that end up excluding people from some of my pages (like:hover on any tag other than an anchor). I usually just make a browser detection script that throws something ugly-but-functional together for IE users. It's technically "intentional exclusion" because I'm excluding them from the eye candy that could probably be hacked together by another method (like:shudder: JavaScript). And when they bitch about how ugly the page is, I tell them to use a browser that doesn't suck. Until they bitch, I assume they're perfectly happy with an ugly page and a sucky browser.
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Once Microsoft's automated support line says something to the effect of "this call may be recorded for training purposes" you have full legal freedom to record any ensuing conversation where they might tell you to do such a thing and turn it over to your insurance company, letting them tackle Microsoft for attempting to induce you to commit insurance fraud. In the business world, Microsoft is small. Insurance companies are not. They eat fools like Bill Gates for breakfast. It's a matter of "Billions" vs. "Trillions".
The best ones try to start a flamewar.
"Why would you use Zulu instead of UTC? UTC 0wnz j00r m0th3r."
"UTC RAPES BABIES!"
"GMT BAPES RABIES! Err..."
Pretty soon, someone throws in that asinine Swatch Internet Time idea and we have a real flamewar. Remember, kids, it's all fun and games until someone's clock gets punched in the face. Or something.
First, the main problem is that there is no hard line "right" and "wrong" in most cases. Whys is it safe to go 64.9 mph but 65.1 mph is unsafe? That's unreasonable. However, the law has to say something because going way to fast is definitely dangerous. The "reasonableness" is often part of the law.
... then) and variability ("reasonable") have to be built in. Ambiguities tend to be these cases. "Don't kill" is easy. Except self-defense. Except defense of a third person. If you are insane, different punishment. How abonormal do you have to be to be insane?
What retarded programmer would hard-code something like that? It should NEVER be more than a defined constant, and ONLY for a temporary fix until something better is worked out. Speed limits are stupid anyway. You don't need to set an arbitrary limit like that. Set a concrete principle. Something like, "If you cause an accident, you get $penalty." Personally, I think causing an accident should cost you your license, end of story. If you're too retarded to treat other drivers with respect (or at least stay out of trouble), you shouldn't be driving. The line in the sand is much more definite (and therefore enforceable) when it's a verifiable event that everyone recognizes as "wrong" such as an accident.
Second, related to the first, is that the problem with the ambiguity of the law now is that it is, in fact, being written like computer syntax. Since there are few absolutes, all sorts of exceptions (if
Easy one... A plus/minus points system. Your basic traffic accident rates a "2". If you didn't cause it, -1. If you did, +1. If you have legal permission to use the car and roads (licenses and tags and such), another -1. No? +1. Were there injuries? If you're at fault, another +1. Deaths? Another +5 if you're at fault. Then set graduated punishments. (1 = ticket, 2 = court date + fine, 3 = loss of priveleges, 4 = minor jail time, 5 = jail + fine, 6 = major jail time, 7 = major jail time + fine, 8 = life in prison, 9 = capital punishment.) Then you weight the crimes accordingly. Disobeying traffic signals? 1. Murder? 10. Remember, just because the graduations don't go that high doesn't mean you can't weight a crime out of range of anything less than the death penalty (think "high treason" here). There's no need to cover corner cases or loopholes, since "reasonability" would be weighted with negative points.
Third, how they hell are people supposed to understand what the law says? People speak in English, they don't speak computer languages.
For starters, have you ever actually read legalese fine print lately? Or are your eyes so bad that you just didn't even notice it? It barely qualifies as "english". The words look familiar, but mean nothing. Then again, you're being a pedant, since we all know that he was talking about developing laws with a clear-cut set of rules instead of the current anything-you-can-put-on-paper-will-work clusterfuck.
He does have a point, even if this was about a laptop chip. The PPC970FX has a full-load (the spec sheet says they couldn't find a program more strenuous than the one they used to test it) heat dissipation of 24.5W. The Pentium M has a "real life usage" heat dissipation of 27W and a theoretical maximum of 34W. So, yes, it is typical of Intel processors, and no, Apple didn't choose Intel for their low-power-consumption chips.
"Oh no! Don't let that float into the " BZZZZZZZZT! BOOM!
"Whoops."
Everyone should be on Zulu time (which is basically just GMT expressed in 24-hour format). When it's 0600 Zulu, we here in the central US should be asleep and should stay that way until about 1200 at the earliest. Personally, I wake at about 1330. When it's 1330 in the central US, it's 1330 in Britain, Russia, and even on islands on both sides of the IDL. No muss, no fuss. It just happens to be location-dependent whether it's dark or light at any given numeric time of day.
From that point, it's a hop-skip-jump to making everyone have the same date, thus eliminating the 24-hour jump over the IDL, along with stupid fights about which country gets to be the first one to start a new year. (Remember the whiny-bitch islands that wanted to be first ones into the new milennium? Yeah. That. Prevent retards by force if necessary. But usually changing the rules out from under them works fine.) So basically, when the clock rolls around to 0000, the date rolls over to the next day. Again, no muss, no fuss, just a simple numeric counter for easy measurement of events in their proper order.
You have better visibility around a corner from near the center of the road, therefore, you sit as close to the center of the road as possible. That's the reason I always heard, anyway. I guess it was more of an issue in the days of 2-lane windy roads that went up, down, and around hills, back before they started just pulverizing the hills and paving 4+ lanes through the middle.
Actually, just off the top of my head, there are several other commands to Christians.
- "Keep doing this in remembrance of me." (Luke 22:19) This was uttered by Jesus at the Passover meal in 33 C.E., just a day before he was killed. It was an instruction to observe the Lord's Evening Meal every Nisan 14th to commemorate his ransom sacrifice as the ultimate Passover lamb.
- "Go, therefore, and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you." (Matthew 28: 19, 20) This was uttered by Jesus just before he ascended to heaven. This scripture alone shoots your argument down with the words "all the things I have commanded you." So, let's see if we can find some more.
- "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your fine works and give glory to your Father who is in the heavens." (Matthew 5:16) Part of the Sermon on the Mount.
- "If, then, you are bringing your gift to the altar and you there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar, and go away; first make your peace with your brother, and then, when you have come back, offer up your gift." (Matthew 5:23, 24) Another part of the Sermon on the Mount. This is immediately after stressing how letting anger and ill feelings toward one another build up can lead us to do something we would be judged adversely for. The next segment of that sermon contains information about adultery, and admonition to "tear [your eye] out" rather than do something God considers detestable. I believe this passage is what one of the original posters was referring to.
- "Continue to love your enemies and to pray for those persecuting you." (Matthew 5:44) Another one from the Sermon on the Mount.
- "Stop storing up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break in and steal. Rather, store up treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21) Another one from the Sermon on the Mount. This one shoots down your "love God and do as you please" theory. Doing as you please would be treasures on earth. Doing as God pleases would be treasures in heaven. This command doesn't just say "Store up treasures on the earth after you have some in heaven." It says "Stop storing up treasures upon the earth." (emphasis mine)
And one that really puts the finishing touches on there:
- "Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added to you." (Matthew 6:33) Keep on seeking first God's kingdom and God's righteousness (or righteous ways, as they apply to the one doing the seeking, i.e. "you") and these other things will be added to you. You shouldn't seek the "other things" at all. You should only seek the interests of God's kingdom and will. Of course, God hasn't changed his will. So when he says you shouldn't murder, fornicate, worship idols, etc., that intention for humankind hasn't changed. Of course, I can hear you chanting "but you probably eat pork and don't have a blue thread around your clothes" or something similarly clueless. Those things weren't matters of principle. Murder, adultery, and idolatry are! And things that seemed similar to the non-principled parts of the old law that needed to continue were reiterated (like the command to "keep abstaining from... blood" in Acts 15:28,29) to make sure true Christians are acceptable to God.
I could go on, but this is more than adequate to illustrate my point. There are a lot of commands in the Christian faith.
Oh, and one more nitpick: there is no "new law". There are only a collection of principles and commands. The "New Covenant" is not a law, it's a contract, and closely resembles a settlement between two parties that have decided to forego a lengthy and painful court battle. The drafting of the new covenant finished with the words "Keep doing this in remembrance of me."
I thought that was supposed to be for sharks, not whales...
I Can See The Start Of A Tiny Halo
Enjoy.
The power-optimized PPC 970FX has a rated 24.5W peak at 2.0 GHz. I found that buried in a PDF spec sheet on IBM's website.
There's nothing really holding Apple back from making Powerbook G5's right now. This whole shenanigan is just Steve Jobs being a dickhead because IBM didn't deliver 3 GHz chips after he promised they would.
Yep, good ol' Steve "Dickhead" Jobs... Steve "Numbnuts" Jobs... Steve "Motherfucking Crack-Whore" Jobs...
(I miss the PowerPC already.)
Quite true. But once you've done it at least once and distilled the actual need-to-do tasks from the process, it's about a 15-minute job.
;c:\php (or php5, if you named it that way).
1) Install Apache with the MSI installer. Do not reboot (it doesn't ask, so no problem).
2) Install PHP from the ZIP archive. Just unzip it to C:\PHP (or C:\PHP5 for even less config editing)
3) Install MySQL with the MSI installer. DO NOT REBOOT (yet).
4) Run through the MySQL Config Wizard when asked (at the end of the install).
5) Set the DocumentRoot and any VirtualHosts you want in the Apache config. It works just like other platforms.
6) Copy and rename the php.ini-recommended file to just php.ini. Set the doc_root and extension_root (extension root should be "./ext") settings, and uncomment (remove the semicolon) "extension=php_mysql.dll" and uncomment or add (if it's not there) "extension=php_mysqli.dll".
7) Find the PHP install.txt file. Find your system/HTTP server/version combination and add the lines they say to the end of the Apache config. There should be 2 or 3 lines. A copy/paste will suffice.
8) Right-click My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Environment Variables... Now, on the bottom half of the dialog box are the environment variables for everyone (your user-specific ones are at the top). Find the one called "PATH" (not case sensitive, but is usually all upper-case) and add
9) Reboot. The environment variables aren't updated unless you reboot.
It's not a walk in the park, but after the first time and figuring out just where stuff is, it's pretty easy for a techie. Another note: I added stuff about VirtualHosts in Apache above, but didn't mention that you'll need to set up DNS entries or mess with your hosts file to get those to work. You can just skip the VirtualHosts if you don't know how to configure them. The rest of it will still work.
Who considers Ocarina to be one of the worst games of all time?
Me. It ruined Zelda. The effect was twofold:
First, it gave Zelda this fancy 3D crap that wowed everyone for a minute or two. That part, I can forgive. I was wowed along with everyone else. That said, the controls sucked large portions of ass, and that's mostly why I hated the change. Console Controllers Aren't Made For 3D Games(tm).
Second, it brought n00bs into the fanbase. Not just regular newbs that can be taught to be decent people, but n00b fanboys that love their Playstations and don't subscribe to the One True Nintendo Way. Even that I could forgive if it wasn't for the other half of this n00b problem: they're usually ungrateful and arrogant, and outspokenly so. They refuse to play the older Zelda games because "they're old and crusty and who cares?" and they firmly and stubbornly believe that "3D is better than 2D because it has more D's!!111one!!!2twoone!" It's a childish and contemptible mindset that leaves anyone who enjoys the older games with the taste of vomit in their mouth. The types of n00bs I'm speaking of here are the ones that griped about Wind Waker's graphics and used non-words like "Celda" and didn't punctuate their "sentences" properly. I honestly hope Nintendo goes back to 2D Zeldas just to piss these assholes off and to chase them back to their stupid Playstations.
I'd love to be the first one to say: NO "D" FOR YOU!
You're close, but either played way too much of the original, or not enough of LttP.
The original was most certainly a get-item-go-to-next-screen march on rails. It just had a very large, inert starting area (126 of 128 overworld screens). Note how, even in the original, you couldn't go to levels out of order without major headaches. (1, 2, 3, and 8 are available from the start in the first quest without anything more than a blue candle, but good luck with 8. The second quest narrows it down to 1 and 3 and a death wish.)
Meanwhile, there was just as much flexibility in LttP. I always went through (in the Dark World) 1, then 2, then 4 (to get the sword upgrade), then 3(made much easier by the sword), then 6 (to get the cane that makes a brick), then 5 (made much easier by the cane), then 7 and onward. And there are ways to get through 3 without going through 2 first (2 had the hookshot, which is why it's "required" before 3).
So really, the Zelda series has always been a progressive dungeon crawl with a wide-open "overworld" area connecting the dungeons. Other games in the series that continue the tradition: The Adventure of Link(it was a side-scroller, but still the same), Link's Awakening, Oracle of *, Ocarina of Time, and from what I hear, Wind Waker.
Personally, what killed the series' fun for me was the transition to 3D. I don't want complicated control schemes or "impressive" enemy graphics. I was distinctly underwhelmed by people fading into and out of existence as I walked around in OoT. And the retardedness of "Wall Masters" not only coming from the ceiling (a tradition started in LttP, presumably because they wanted an elegant way to "get" you without futzing around with the 45-degree angle walls in LttP) but through the ceiling... that's just too much. Oh, yes... through the ceiling. The corridor leading into the large area in the shadow temple where you encounter that thing... you'll round a corner and notice a line separating textures on the floor... cross it and you're fair game for that damned hand... even though it's falling through solid matter, something that supposedly ceased when it quit coming from the walls. That's when I decided that OoT was an abomination and was completely against everything Zelda games were supposed to be. Majora's Mask and Wind Waker are continuations of this. I'm guessing this new Twilight Princess game will be the same. 3D is great for shooting things. It sucks for dungeon games like Zelda.
The best Zelda game since LttP is Four Swords Adventures. (The Gamecube one, not the GBA LttP side-game.) It was a real, honest-to-god Zelda game, complete with all the goodies, and with none of the annoying 3D bullcrap! It had one hell of a set of rails, though. Which is why I want a "real" Zelda game done the same way, with the same ingenuity and, most importantly, the same 2D view and non-sucky controls.
Bah, it's 1:00 AM and I've probably written enough to piss off every modern Zelda fan in existence. Hell, the bring-back-2D thing is probably heresy in itself. I'm done griping/ranting/wishing.
G'night.
No, the problem here is that MySQL is being dealt with on a level it wasn't designed for.
The major gripe here is that MySQL silently does it's job storing data without letting you know that the data had to be slightly altered to fit. While I can see areas where this would be a problem, allow me to point out to you that the entire WWW is designed to silently fail to a common baseline. If you write <b>blah <i>foo bar</b> in a web page, all current browsers will silently fail to make a big, fat, hairy deal out of that minor error and will silently display it the same way as <b>blah <i>foo bar</i></b>, which would be the correct way of closing those tags. What MySQL does is the exact same thing. It protects sloppy and/or stupid people from their mistakes. And better yet, it speeds up development time on apps made to deal with sloppy and stupid people by silently absorbing their stupidity without complaint.
There's something to be said for that in some instances. Which is why I have come to the conclusion that if it doesn't suit your needs, plug your pie hole and let it suit someone else's.
the two upcoming new Justices (whoever they may be) will impact us more than any elected politician
WHAM!
Perhaps you meant "affect"...
Remember, kids, just because they say it on the evening news doesn't mean that it's grammatically correct. (This reminder has been brought to you by your friendly neighborhood grammar Nazi.)
Apple sold a Performa 610 (630?) with a "DOS Compatibility Card" in it. That was in about 1995.
Orange Micro made their own version for a much longer period, and they worked with systems all the way up to, but not including, the G5. (It was a PC-on-PCI card, so any Mac with PCI could do it. G5's have PCI-X.) The fastest one was a K6-2 with 64MB of RAM and a Rage Pro GPU. (Yes, I asked them. It was around the time of the release of the Blue & White G3's, and they were phasing the cards out even back then.) IIRC, the switching software required MacOS 8.1 or later, but not OS X (duh... we're talking 1998-era tech here). It was pretty slick, but still a kludge. KVM's are cheaper and present a better way to have a Mac and a PC side-by-side. And then monitor prices came down, so... yeah.
I'm surprised it's not already used in some bass-ackwards hackjob form on PC's. Open Firmware would be an overclocker's wet dream.
/ .properties
Seriously... you get fine-tuning control over the clock speed of any device on the system. Don't believe me? How 'bout an example? If you have a Mac, go into OF (hold option-apple-o-f at boot).
- type dev
- type
See that "clock-frequency" item? Yeah, that's the hex value in Hz of your system bus. You can change it with setenv. You can really screw things up by changing this setting, so don't blame me if you hose your Mac this way.
More resources:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
And one more resource that seems to suggest that the new Intel-based Macs will need to have Open Firmware or a suitable replacement by release:
Universal Binary Info
Blasphemy?
iTunes has an intelligent designer... So what moron said that there was no proof of intelligent design? Wikipedia doesn't count?
Hardwood floors lack the necessary anatomy.
I wouldn't call him a murderer of any sort. I would call him someone who was judging people who were willfully disobeying his orders. And what's more, this isn't just some two bit dictator, it's God Almighty. Someone disobeying God deserves to die. Why? Is that cruel? No. He made the rules. Live by them or don't.
And as for the "child murderer" thing, no. The judgement wasn't upon children alone. It was upon every firstborn, and not just males, or even just humans. For example: my father was the firstborn of his parents. My mother was the firstborn of her parents. I'm the firstborn of my parents. Our cat was the firstborn of the litter. In that situation in ancient Egypt, all of us would die, including the cat! Unless, of course, we did the smart thing and put the blood of a sacrificial lamb on our doorposts and ate the meal of lamb and unleavened bread with our loins girded.
So, I hate to be rude, but you misunderstood the Bible and have twisted it. And by the way, only a non-student of the Bible would use the name "Yahweh" since the modern spelling is "Jehovah" and the words it's derived from are "ye hawah". If you had studied anything more than your navel lint, you'd know that. And yes, I regard those links to be nothing more than navel lint.
Actually, the Bible says no such thing about the Israelites.
The Bible says that "spiritual Israel" will exist, that is, the people who actually want to serve God will be his approved people and will have his protection. It also says that the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" will happen when they "gather at the place that is, in Hebrew, called Har-magedon". That literally translates to "mountain of Megiddo" but there isn't a mountain anywhere near the plains of Megiddo.
Megiddo was a place where many decisive battles took place in ancient times. A battle on a mountain would be something everyone would see for miles around. So when all the nations gather at the "mountain of Megiddo", expect a battle of all the nations of the world vs. God's kingdom army. Everyone will see it, and it will be a decisive battle. As it says numerous times in Ezekiel, "and they shall come to know that I am Jehovah." There will be no escape from this conclusion. It will be completely evident to all onlookers, and that will include everyone in the entire world.
The nation of Israel has no more to do with this than any other nation. They'll be destroyed like all the rest. Why? Because God rejected them when they rejected and killed his son. Their rulership was "cut down" in 607 BC, but they were restored to freedom. But when they out-and-out rejected the Messiah, that was the end of any favor shown to them by God. The Romans destroyed their "nation" in 70 AD and there wasn't even a fight. Even when they were "punished" in 617-607 BC, there was a 10-year fight. The literal nation of Israel no longer has any backing from God. Heck, they went completely out of existence for almost 2000 years.
Of course, you're correct in your assertion that Bush (and the rest of the world's leaders) are pushing toward that final battle. "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." So said the apostle Paul in an inspired letter to a first-century Christian congregation. Satan has control of the political, economic and religious systems of the world. That makes George W. Bush a tool of the devil. (Along with every other president in history, and all other kings, chancellors, prime ministers, premieres, dictators, etc...)
Jeremiah 10:23 states that "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step." Man should not, cannot, and will not rule himself. Only God's kingdom has the ability to rule mankind. And that is the issue here.
People think that the number "666" is going to literally show up on tax forms or something. It's not. 6 is a number that signifies something falling short of heavenly perfection (which is symbolized by 7). 3 is used for emphasis. So the number 6 repeated 3 times is something emphatically deficient. The failing governments of the world fit that bill perfectly.
Perhaps you're an atheist because of all the "fundie" idiots out there that sound crazy. (And truly, they are!) Don't misunderstand the Bible and reject it because people have twisted it. Read it. Study it. Perhaps you too may learn what it says and why it says that. Then you can calm down, enjoy life, have a happy hope for the future, and laugh when people start mingling conspiracy theories with biblical allusions. (Yes, I laughed before I posted all this. It's quite refreshing to be able to laugh and shrug something off when it's as disturbing as this story is.)
C assumes that any integer not set to 0 is true in most(if not all) implementations. PHP is simply one in a long line of languages to work that way.
FWIW, in PHP, all of these are the same when converted to bool:
false
''
null
0
0.0
There's also a difference between coding to standards and intentional exclusion. But that doesn't support your argument, so you left that bit out.
:hover on any tag other than an anchor). I usually just make a browser detection script that throws something ugly-but-functional together for IE users. It's technically "intentional exclusion" because I'm excluding them from the eye candy that could probably be hacked together by another method (like :shudder: JavaScript). And when they bitch about how ugly the page is, I tell them to use a browser that doesn't suck. Until they bitch, I assume they're perfectly happy with an ugly page and a sucky browser.
Everyone has a right to give MS crap for making a browser that doesn't work properly and billing it as the best thing since sliced bread, as well as a right to give users of said broken browser a heads-up about just how profoundly broken it is. Not everyone chooses to exercise that right, but it doesn't make it any less of a net positive force in the Internet when someone chooses to use their resources toward that end.
I know of specific things that IE doesn't do properly that end up excluding people from some of my pages (like