I'm a man of science myself, but that has no bearing on my taste in music, interest in history, my relationships with other people, or my faith in God. Science only has bearing on a tiny part of our lives and is wholly incapable of saying anything about the supernatural, by definition. How does being a man of science equate to you not being able to come to terms with the books? It seems to be somewhat of an illogical connection to make.
Many slashdotters have been quoting this term so perhaps I can clarify myself?
When I use the term "man of science" I mean that almost everything I do is done scientifically. I guess that's what I thought the term meant. You apply the scientific method to all things possible. I'm very skeptical and I'm very hypercritical of most things (the arts included). I don't want to sound aloof but this is how I run my life. I guess the term "man of science" means many different things to us.
I would rather identify myself with Liebnitz than Lewis.
Well, the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was read to me by a teacher in grade school at a Catholic school. The entire time she drew parallels from the bible with the story and she did a fairly convincing job of it.
I'm not referring to the epic battle of good and evil part of the plot, that's fine. I'm just saying that I read his other work and he is very definitely Christian oriented. I don't agree with his beliefs. The purpose of my post was to ask/. if I should even worry about this when reading an author's works.
I'm going to go ahead and argue with you that I do believe C.S. Lewis did write with Christian themes. I'm sorry if you find this offensive.
This story is basically a retelling of Jesus Christ. I loved it as a kid but as I got older and read more of C.S. Lewis, I became less and less impressed with him. I've read his books on Christianity and how he turned to Christianity after many hardships in his life. I'm a man of science myself and have thus forgotten about these books as I could never come to terms with them.
After reading some of Orson Scott Card's infamous rantings, I have also fallen out of admiring him.
Is anyone else having these problems with these once great authors? Maybe I shouldn't care about their political viewpoints when I read their fiction?
I give my friends gifts that define not only them but me. I often give cds and take chances with books because if our paths divide in the future, I don't want them picking up some clichéd copy of Catcher in the Rye and trying to remember who gave it to them. I'd rather have them pick up a book that maybe isn't their favorite but sure let them know who it was that gave it to them.
I agree. It is like giving your mom a skillet for christmas because she cooks for you.
But my mom was so happy she cried when I bought her a set of T-Fal cookware. If you've used T-Fal, you'd know why she was crying.
Ebay is the only place I know of that has everything, the worlds largest flea market.
You know, you're right. But I remember when I was a wee little nooblet, a lil' bastard at the computer (maybe 15 years old) and I would find endless amounts of entertainment at the number of channels on mIRC.
And some of these channels would have "hackorz" and/or "warez" in the titles. Now, I'm not sure what the 'z' meant but they sure the hell were interesting channels.
A particular channel, you could go in and say something like "www.englishstrumpets.com $5, paypal." And a few minutes later, someone with ops would say "englishstrumpets cracked, i_am_a_hackor@hotmail.com" and you would pay the five dollars to his paypal account and he would private message you the info to get into the site. Seeing as I didn't have a credit card, paypal account or any money, all I would do is list impossible sites to hack until I was booted. Ahhh, the days of little lil' bastardry, how I miss them.
Anyways, this article reminded me of those forgotten channels.
Rather than evaluate which one of X editors I'd prefer to use.
Perhaps it's just me, but I love new things. I think that's an important quality for one to have with ever changing new technology. If I have ever heard of a free editor, I have tried it. I love the possibility of infinite posibilities:).
Call me crazy, but I also like the idea of several people writing programs vying for my use of their program.
I don't know you at all, but I'm guessing we're fundamentally different in this aspect (so no reason to start flaming each other). Especially if you're using Windows and arguing in support of their unchanging editors. I hope you've tried textpad, I personally enjoy that much more than notepad when using Windows.
GEB is simply amazing and really makes you think. It is a large tome but it was well worth the read when I read it in high school. It influenced me musically, mathematically and gave me insight to become a computer programmer.
It's a very common book and can be acquired cheaply on amazon, ebay and the wiki.
I also heavily recommend getting to know this site if you're willing to search through lists of books for good deals.
I think I'll stick to my Windows editor if that's where Linux editors have got to so far...
Alright man, it's obvious you're just trying to get a rise out of people but let me assure you that emacs is not the only Linux based editor. You can try vi too:)
But seriously, I know for a fact that my scroll wheel works in emacs (windows binary even!) so check that out if it's so important to you. You know, some people just want a text editor without a huge memory footprint yet lots of functionality. I think programs like emacs provide exactly that and are what these people are looking for.
You can keep your windows editors... wait, how many of them are there? Notepad and wordpad? At least I've got a nice selection with just a basic Linux install.
You think Ghost in the Shell is too confusing? Attempt to watch the last two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I watched that entire series only to find the end to be a roller coaster ride of quality.
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS... you made it through this series! If you're still sane... CONGRATULATIONS!
I clicked on the link for "jail time" but all I got was a report of police handing out vouchers to obnoxious fans.
No one's "braving" jailtime.
Let me know when this hits NIN concert level then I'll be interested.
This article may have some valid points in it but it is all presented at a very high level. I think the author may be biting off more than he can chew with this brief article, I would like to hear more of his ideas but with more specific proposed solutions. There is also little justification for his logic. I'm not sure where he got his "Two rules" of operating systems from but I don't exactly agree with them--he may be over-simplifying this.
The Reuters copy is a bit spotty in its coverage...more information can be found here, here, and here.
Interesting quote from the third source listed above:
Under the new regulations, Internet news sites are encouraged to report news that is "healthy" and promotes economic and social progress, Xinhua said. In addition, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported that any news Web site that reports "false or distorted information" will be fined up to 30,000 renminbi (US$3,701) under the new guidelines.
Reuters later went on to say that in addition to this fine, news web sites will be issued a new copy of Mao's Litte Red Book and be sent to colder climes for "re-nedification."
I thought that Microsoft had to break up into separate entities much like Mama Bell did long ago to avoid monopoly issues. Why are people surprised that M$ is considering it now?
Seriously, there's some satisfaction in whipping out an acronym your peers don't understand. For example, I was at a conference and the speaker started talking. Without laying down any definitions, he gave a lecture using primarily the acronyms: CORBA, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, etc. Ok, how many people were confused? Probably a few considering I knew what they ment and he was using them very liberally. Example, "So you UDDI that service from the registry..." UDDI is not a verb.
I believe this speaker smelled other nerds in his presence and felt threatened. He assumed a dominant stature (on the stage) and began to challenge our ability to keep up with him, thus affirming his alpha nerd status.
So before you get upset with someone asking you "what does that mean?" just remember to politely explain it to them and try not to snort and treat them like they're Ralph Wiggum.
This is communication, there's no need for a d*ck measuring contest in the workplace.
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So I was in college last year and I was working on a graduate math course.
The teacher had provided us with several postcript files to have as notes. I wasn't keen on printing off the hundreds of pages required so I thought I'd put 8 on a page using mpage.
I dutifully saved each file from the class website as math1.ps, math2.ps, math3.ps, etc.
I then went to that directory and executed: mpage -8 math*.ps > mathMaster.ps
And it finished (like I thought it should). So I opened up a shell and attempted to print the ps file from the command line but the printer wouldn't take it (said it required too much memory).
I opened it up and started scanning through the postcript. Everything looked fine until I got to the last page and watched my workstation grind out an infinite recursive impossibility in the shape of some sort of snail shell. I had somehow printed the mathMaster.ps file into itself!
My workstation then froze and crashed. Who says you can't crash Unix?
I had a few friends and coworkers I wanted to turn onto Linux. This entailed creating instructions for them, burning four fedora core or mandrake discs, explaining how to set up a dual boot with several partitions and, in the end, turned out to be more trouble then it was worth. I stopped suggesting it, but it wasn't so long ago that I was a freshman in college and a friend of mine handed me a debian disc....
I suggest showing them how to edit photos in The Gimp 2.0 in Win32. Or maybe making documents in OO.o in Win32 (there's an easy.exe available). Or perhaps they'd enjoy the simple beauty of emacs...well, maybe you should leave out emacs.
Maybe you should start with simple tools first like pdfcreator on sourceforge. Or even show them how to use GAIM instead of 3 different IM programs. Maybe let them toy with NASA World Wind?
Most of these suggestions are just tiny steps, actually running Linux was one of the greatest eye-openers I've ever experienced.
The image of the 9 Krol Blades is a definite photoshop. Note the pattern that is maintained throughout each listing with the bit shadowing. You can also see a definite line between each posting if you zoom in inbetween each pair.
Also, on the far right, some of them have a discontinuous gray line while others don't.
Also, there is a difference of nine pixels instead of ten between two of the listings.
All of these are evidence of photoshopping.
Please mod this post up so people can investigate and see that this item duping is BS.
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Look up the two Isreali twins and their work in this.
You're right but to understand more how Netscape's attitude and eventual martyrdom still affects us, watch Revolution OS. It's a bit slow at times and the ending has a terrible open source band playing music but it's quite informative.
Your publisher had problem printing this possibly because environmentalists screamed and begged for some sanity. I bet this book was a direct violation of the Kyoto treaty, they just had to make sure Bush wasn't going to sign it and then they went ahead with the printing of this book.
Thank you very much for making it available in PDF format, it's a great reference, the next 2000 free hours I have, I'll be sure to take a crack at reading it.
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When I use the term "man of science" I mean that almost everything I do is done scientifically. I guess that's what I thought the term meant. You apply the scientific method to all things possible. I'm very skeptical and I'm very hypercritical of most things (the arts included). I don't want to sound aloof but this is how I run my life. I guess the term "man of science" means many different things to us.
I would rather identify myself with Liebnitz than Lewis.
Well, the The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was read to me by a teacher in grade school at a Catholic school. The entire time she drew parallels from the bible with the story and she did a fairly convincing job of it.
/. if I should even worry about this when reading an author's works.
I'm not referring to the epic battle of good and evil part of the plot, that's fine. I'm just saying that I read his other work and he is very definitely Christian oriented. I don't agree with his beliefs. The purpose of my post was to ask
I'm going to go ahead and argue with you that I do believe C.S. Lewis did write with Christian themes. I'm sorry if you find this offensive.
This story is basically a retelling of Jesus Christ. I loved it as a kid but as I got older and read more of C.S. Lewis, I became less and less impressed with him. I've read his books on Christianity and how he turned to Christianity after many hardships in his life. I'm a man of science myself and have thus forgotten about these books as I could never come to terms with them.
After reading some of Orson Scott Card's infamous rantings, I have also fallen out of admiring him.
Is anyone else having these problems with these once great authors? Maybe I shouldn't care about their political viewpoints when I read their fiction?
What's the difference? They're both fun to put your mouth on but all the noise they make is boring.
Well, except for Miles but he's dead. His trumpet I mean.
Even Maynerd Furgeson is getting old. In more ways than one.
But my mom was so happy she cried when I bought her a set of T-Fal cookware. If you've used T-Fal, you'd know why she was crying.
You know, you're right. But I remember when I was a wee little nooblet, a lil' bastard at the computer (maybe 15 years old) and I would find endless amounts of entertainment at the number of channels on mIRC.
And some of these channels would have "hackorz" and/or "warez" in the titles. Now, I'm not sure what the 'z' meant but they sure the hell were interesting channels.
A particular channel, you could go in and say something like "www.englishstrumpets.com $5, paypal." And a few minutes later, someone with ops would say "englishstrumpets cracked, i_am_a_hackor@hotmail.com" and you would pay the five dollars to his paypal account and he would private message you the info to get into the site. Seeing as I didn't have a credit card, paypal account or any money, all I would do is list impossible sites to hack until I was booted. Ahhh, the days of little lil' bastardry, how I miss them.
Anyways, this article reminded me of those forgotten channels.
Perhaps it's just me, but I love new things. I think that's an important quality for one to have with ever changing new technology. If I have ever heard of a free editor, I have tried it. I love the possibility of infinite posibilities
Call me crazy, but I also like the idea of several people writing programs vying for my use of their program.
I don't know you at all, but I'm guessing we're fundamentally different in this aspect (so no reason to start flaming each other). Especially if you're using Windows and arguing in support of their unchanging editors. I hope you've tried textpad, I personally enjoy that much more than notepad when using Windows.
GEB is simply amazing and really makes you think. It is a large tome but it was well worth the read when I read it in high school. It influenced me musically, mathematically and gave me insight to become a computer programmer.
It's a very common book and can be acquired cheaply on amazon, ebay and the wiki.
I also heavily recommend getting to know this site if you're willing to search through lists of books for good deals.
Alright man, it's obvious you're just trying to get a rise out of people but let me assure you that emacs is not the only Linux based editor. You can try vi too
But seriously, I know for a fact that my scroll wheel works in emacs (windows binary even!) so check that out if it's so important to you. You know, some people just want a text editor without a huge memory footprint yet lots of functionality. I think programs like emacs provide exactly that and are what these people are looking for.
You can keep your windows editors
So, when does support pack one come out for my compass when this "feature" is fixed?
I hope it doesn't crash my compass like support pack two did to my computer.
You think Ghost in the Shell is too confusing? Attempt to watch the last two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I watched that entire series only to find the end to be a roller coaster ride of quality.
... you made it through this series! If you're still sane ... CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS!
CONGRATULATIONS
I clicked on the link for "jail time" but all I got was a report of police handing out vouchers to obnoxious fans. No one's "braving" jailtime. Let me know when this hits NIN concert level then I'll be interested.
This article may have some valid points in it but it is all presented at a very high level. I think the author may be biting off more than he can chew with this brief article, I would like to hear more of his ideas but with more specific proposed solutions. There is also little justification for his logic. I'm not sure where he got his "Two rules" of operating systems from but I don't exactly agree with them--he may be over-simplifying this.
If so, how many years do I get to sleep when I hit the snooze bar?
Do you turn it upside down and shake it to reboot it?
Is this MIT or Playskool developing this thing?
Now my arm's going to be sore from cranking out TPS reports for my third world boss.
Reuters later went on to say that in addition to this fine, news web sites will be issued a new copy of Mao's Litte Red Book and be sent to colder climes for "re-nedification."
I thought that Microsoft had to break up into separate entities much like Mama Bell did long ago to avoid monopoly issues. Why are people surprised that M$ is considering it now?
Seriously, there's some satisfaction in whipping out an acronym your peers don't understand. For example, I was at a conference and the speaker started talking. Without laying down any definitions, he gave a lecture using primarily the acronyms: CORBA, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, etc. Ok, how many people were confused? Probably a few considering I knew what they ment and he was using them very liberally. Example, "So you UDDI that service from the registry..." UDDI is not a verb.
I believe this speaker smelled other nerds in his presence and felt threatened. He assumed a dominant stature (on the stage) and began to challenge our ability to keep up with him, thus affirming his alpha nerd status.
So before you get upset with someone asking you "what does that mean?" just remember to politely explain it to them and try not to snort and treat them like they're Ralph Wiggum.
This is communication, there's no need for a d*ck measuring contest in the workplace.
...has just plumetted.
My employer curses you, slashdot.
So I was in college last year and I was working on a graduate math course.
The teacher had provided us with several postcript files to have as notes. I wasn't keen on printing off the hundreds of pages required so I thought I'd put 8 on a page using mpage.
I dutifully saved each file from the class website as math1.ps, math2.ps, math3.ps, etc.
I then went to that directory and executed:
mpage -8 math*.ps > mathMaster.ps
And it finished (like I thought it should). So I opened up a shell and attempted to print the ps file from the command line but the printer wouldn't take it (said it required too much memory).
I opened it up and started scanning through the postcript. Everything looked fine until I got to the last page and watched my workstation grind out an infinite recursive impossibility in the shape of some sort of snail shell. I had somehow printed the mathMaster.ps file into itself!
My workstation then froze and crashed. Who says you can't crash Unix?
I had a few friends and coworkers I wanted to turn onto Linux. This entailed creating instructions for them, burning four fedora core or mandrake discs, explaining how to set up a dual boot with several partitions and, in the end, turned out to be more trouble then it was worth. I stopped suggesting it, but it wasn't so long ago that I was a freshman in college and a friend of mine handed me a debian disc....
.exe available). Or perhaps they'd enjoy the simple beauty of emacs...well, maybe you should leave out emacs.
I suggest showing them how to edit photos in The Gimp 2.0 in Win32. Or maybe making documents in OO.o in Win32 (there's an easy
Maybe you should start with simple tools first like pdfcreator on sourceforge. Or even show them how to use GAIM instead of 3 different IM programs. Maybe let them toy with NASA World Wind?
Most of these suggestions are just tiny steps, actually running Linux was one of the greatest eye-openers I've ever experienced.
The image of the 9 Krol Blades is a definite photoshop. Note the pattern that is maintained throughout each listing with the bit shadowing. You can also see a definite line between each posting if you zoom in inbetween each pair.
Also, on the far right, some of them have a discontinuous gray line while others don't.
Also, there is a difference of nine pixels instead of ten between two of the listings.
All of these are evidence of photoshopping.
Please mod this post up so people can investigate and see that this item duping is BS.
Look up the two Isreali twins and their work in this.
You're right but to understand more how Netscape's attitude and eventual martyrdom still affects us, watch Revolution OS. It's a bit slow at times and the ending has a terrible open source band playing music but it's quite informative.
Your publisher had problem printing this possibly because environmentalists screamed and begged for some sanity. I bet this book was a direct violation of the Kyoto treaty, they just had to make sure Bush wasn't going to sign it and then they went ahead with the printing of this book.
Thank you very much for making it available in PDF format, it's a great reference, the next 2000 free hours I have, I'll be sure to take a crack at reading it.