Because their current model of crowdsourcing the leaks didnt work well so far. People are too lazy to read 600 pages of boring reports and blog about it. It's just not exciting enough. But journalists or papers maybe will.
Didn't you read Lord of the Ring in high school?; No, I had sex in high school. At least name the source of your quote if you insist on posting dupe comments, Joey Tribbiani!
The Dalai Lama is the religious leader of one of the four main schools/sects of Tibetan Buddhism, the so called 'Geluk'-sect. The religious head of the Geluk sect also happens to be the 'wordly'/political leader of Tibet. There is a small comment that needs to be added here: The Dalai Lama himself always considered the democratic system as very valuable and made effort to change the current theocracy/monarchy into a democracy. As far as I remember, he is not the only one to decide this, there is also a council which has political power, so this never really happened so far, but might happen in the future.
In Buddhism, every sentient being is being reborn after it dies, but there is never the same 'person' coming back, there is just a bunch of subtle and not-so-subtle habits coming back.
Here is an example which might illustrate this:
In buddhist believe, life after life after life is _not_ connected by something like a cord (think of a pearl necklet) which holds the lifes together like pearls, but life after life is connected like the way you pile up boxes on a stack. The former box holds the next box and creates the causes on which the next box can stand, but is a completely other box. Does that make any sense?
So, consequently following this analogy, in buddhist believe there is no exact same 'person' Dalai Lama being reborn, but more a stream of consciousness of a 'Dalai Lama'-ism or something like that. (Now I lost you alltogether I guess:)
So, to answer your question: The fourteen incarnations of the Dalai Lama we know of have all been in human form. Some buddhists might think that there were former incarnations where he was reborn as an animal, but that is (as far as I know at least) pure speculation.
Actually, well, buddhists believe Bodhisattvas in general (not the Dalai Lama in particular) are very often, even nowadays, reborn as animals. This is quite common believe. Here, as in the human form, they try to benefit the other sentient beings (in this case the other animals) as good as possible.
The first lineage of reborn Lamas in Tibet are the Karmapas (Also known as the 'black head' Lamas). They are known to have a good connection to animals, especially birds. The last Karmapa (the 16th) had some birds that were known to lie completely straight and flat on the bottom or in his hand -- and according to him, they were meditating.:) I know this sounds weired and strange, but people claim to have seen this and unless someone prooves the opposite, I am at least not saying that this can't be true.
The Dalai Lama said he _might_ be reborn as a female.
Buddhists believe that highly realized beings like the Dalai Lama (Called 'Bodhisattvas': those beings are believed to have attained a certain step on the path to enlightenment which gives them certain powers over their mind) will choose the form which best benefits sentient beings at the time when they are reborn. In past times, this seems to have been a male body, since Tibet was mainly a patriarchy.
If now a female body best benefits sentient beings, then the Dalai Lama is female in his next life. If now (still) a male's body best benefits sentient beings, then the Dalai Lama is male in his next life. If a bird's body best benefits sentient beings, then the Dalai Lama is a bird in his next life. Again, this is buddhist believe and of course questionable from a scientists point of view. (On a personal note I want to add that if I look at the Dalai Lama and the way he acts, I personally feel that this might actually be true)
I don't reply to ACs. If what you have to say isn't important enough to log in, why should I bother to reply? Because they might be someone who just stumbled over some article but still makes valid points?
Interesting. It is something, good or bad doesn't matter really. All that matters is that there is a connection somehow. This actually seems to be enough to satisfy something in here, something that is bored a bit. I am of the same astrological sign, by the way.
Hm.. Eastern religions in general [Buddhism, Hinduism etc.] seem to value animal ethics much more than western religions. So what is your statement based on?
If this Laura Richards is the same that was involved with the infamous "Jack the Ripper" story recently, I suppose she needed another press-attracting story. Mission accomplished. We'll see what she comes up with next.
I obviously don't know for sure, but I guess they do *not* test such stuff on themselves, only on the `bad boys', whoever that is -- roles change quickly these days.:)
It looks like Scotland Yard is also looking for scary new tactics in fighting crime. The latest idea of Laura Richards, head of analysis of the Metropolitan Police's Homicide Prevention Unit, sounds like a strangely familiar concept to those who have seen Minority Report. She aims to create a database of people who could supposedly commit a crime in the future, based on their psychological profile.
Even though preventing crimes is a noble motivation, this idea raises serious privacy issues.
As a sidemark it should be mentioned that Laura Richard also seems to be part of the team that "revealed" Jack the Ripper's face some time ago.
The subject line in the news implies that RMS absolved the deal between MS and Novell as a whole. Reading the text, I get the impression that he only talks about GPL-related issues and does not touch the related IP issue that Ballmer brought up. Correct me if I am wrong, but IMHO the latter seems to be a bigger problem but is not addressed by RMS at all.
The guy who wrote this won't probably have a problem finding a job anyway.
However, I *still* would like to suggest "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan/Pike to the author.;-)
Since when is slashdot involved in the distribution of microsoft's latest FUD? This story *here* is exactly the kind of thing they want to see happen. Where there no real news to post today?
..with inconvenient truth: People will laugh, people will ignore, people will not like you for telling them about it.
They laughed at Galileo Galilei, they laughed at Gandhi and they now laugh at everything inconvenient.
Why is this modded 'Informative'? This should be 'Flamebait' if anything.
First of all, it is off-topic. Secondly, the only information we get from this post is how a single 'software developer' feels about a certain Linux-distribution. Since he does so in a completely undifferentiated way and without bringing forward any real arguments, this can savely be regarded as FUD or flame.
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Because their current model of crowdsourcing the leaks didnt work well so far. People are too lazy to read 600 pages of boring reports and blog about it. It's just not exciting enough. But journalists or papers maybe will.
WikiLeaks didn't win that challange yet and I think it would be a good idea to support them by commenting on and rating their application here: http://generalapp.newschallenge.org/SNC/ViewItem.aspx?pguid=6aee8166-fb7c-4a2e-8581-fa6f6ff036dd&itemguid=3decc665-ebd1-46f0-95f4-f5fa57311062
The Dalai Lama is the religious leader of one of the four main schools/sects of Tibetan Buddhism, the so called 'Geluk'-sect. The religious head of the Geluk sect also happens to be the 'wordly'/political leader of Tibet. There is a small comment that needs to be added here: The Dalai Lama himself always considered the democratic system as very valuable and made effort to change the current theocracy/monarchy into a democracy. As far as I remember, he is not the only one to decide this, there is also a council which has political power, so this never really happened so far, but might happen in the future.
In Buddhism, every sentient being is being reborn after it dies, but there is never the same 'person' coming back, there is just a bunch of subtle and not-so-subtle habits coming back.
Here is an example which might illustrate this:
In buddhist believe, life after life after life is _not_ connected by something like a cord (think of a pearl necklet) which holds the lifes together like pearls, but life after life is connected like the way you pile up boxes on a stack. The former box holds the next box and creates the causes on which the next box can stand, but is a completely other box. Does that make any sense?
So, consequently following this analogy, in buddhist believe there is no exact same 'person' Dalai Lama being reborn, but more a stream of consciousness of a 'Dalai Lama'-ism or something like that. (Now I lost you alltogether I guess :)
So, to answer your question: The fourteen incarnations of the Dalai Lama we know of have all been in human form. Some buddhists might think that there were former incarnations where he was reborn as an animal, but that is (as far as I know at least) pure speculation.
...of course!
Actually, well, buddhists believe Bodhisattvas in general (not the Dalai Lama in particular) are very often, even nowadays, reborn as animals. This is quite common believe. Here, as in the human form, they try to benefit the other sentient beings (in this case the other animals) as good as possible.
The first lineage of reborn Lamas in Tibet are the Karmapas (Also known as the 'black head' Lamas). They are known to have a good connection to animals, especially birds. The last Karmapa (the 16th) had some birds that were known to lie completely straight and flat on the bottom or in his hand -- and according to him, they were meditating. :) I know this sounds weired and strange, but people claim to have seen this and unless someone prooves the opposite, I am at least not saying that this can't be true.
The Dalai Lama said he _might_ be reborn as a female.
Buddhists believe that highly realized beings like the Dalai Lama (Called 'Bodhisattvas': those beings are believed to have attained a certain step on the path to enlightenment which gives them certain powers over their mind) will choose the form which best benefits sentient beings at the time when they are reborn. In past times, this seems to have been a male body, since Tibet was mainly a patriarchy.
If now a female body best benefits sentient beings, then the Dalai Lama is female in his next life. If now (still) a male's body best benefits sentient beings, then the Dalai Lama is male in his next life. If a bird's body best benefits sentient beings, then the Dalai Lama is a bird in his next life. Again, this is buddhist believe and of course questionable from a scientists point of view. (On a personal note I want to add that if I look at the Dalai Lama and the way he acts, I personally feel that this might actually be true)
This is obviously sarcasm referring to the many many deaths among civilians caused by "new" and "save" technology in the past years.
Interesting. It is something, good or bad doesn't matter really. All that matters is that there is a connection somehow. This actually seems to be enough to satisfy something in here, something that is bored a bit. I am of the same astrological sign, by the way.
Hm.. Eastern religions in general [Buddhism, Hinduism etc.] seem to value animal ethics much more than western religions. So what is your statement based on?
Seconded. But sadly in china, ethical values don't seem to matter that much.
..we must be working in the same company!? What are the odds!
If this Laura Richards is the same that was involved with the infamous "Jack the Ripper" story recently, I suppose she needed another press-attracting story. Mission accomplished. We'll see what she comes up with next. :)
I obviously don't know for sure, but I guess they do *not* test such stuff on themselves, only on the `bad boys', whoever that is -- roles change quickly these days.
It looks like Scotland Yard is also looking for scary new tactics in fighting crime. The latest idea of Laura Richards, head of analysis of the Metropolitan Police's Homicide Prevention Unit, sounds like a strangely familiar concept to those who have seen Minority Report. She aims to create a database of people who could supposedly commit a crime in the future, based on their psychological profile.
Even though preventing crimes is a noble motivation, this idea raises serious privacy issues.
As a sidemark it should be mentioned that Laura Richard also seems to be part of the team that "revealed" Jack the Ripper's face some time ago.
The subject line in the news implies that RMS absolved the deal between MS and Novell as a whole. Reading the text, I get the impression that he only talks about GPL-related issues and does not touch the related IP issue that Ballmer brought up. Correct me if I am wrong, but IMHO the latter seems to be a bigger problem but is not addressed by RMS at all.
The guy who wrote this won't probably have a problem finding a job anyway. ;-)
However, I *still* would like to suggest "The Practice of Programming" by Kernighan/Pike to the author.
Seriously, try looking away from the genius who obviously wrote it.
- There is no single comment which would make reading and understanding what happens here much easier!
- Introduction of a magic number with no explanation whatsoever
- Magic pointer arithmetics without demystification
- Portability? Abuse of a single processor architecture, without warning that this would not work on non-x86
I know it is good code. But it is simply bad code!I see the end coming, I see the darkness spreading. [...] ..and you are all that stands in his way.
(Scary music fading in the background)
Since when is slashdot involved in the distribution of microsoft's latest FUD? This story *here* is exactly the kind of thing they want to see happen. Where there no real news to post today?
They laughed at Galileo Galilei, they laughed at Gandhi and they now laugh at everything inconvenient.
Since when does public opinion influence truth?
"Talk is cheap, show me the code!"
He says he has nothing to do with this.
Why is this modded 'Informative'? This should be 'Flamebait' if anything.
First of all, it is off-topic.
Secondly, the only information we get from this post is how a single 'software developer' feels about a certain Linux-distribution. Since he does so in a completely undifferentiated way and without bringing forward any real arguments, this can savely be regarded as FUD or flame.