The really funny thing is that "Loop K" and "Destiny K" have both been vacant for 28 days. Did someone miss the bowl? Have these been cleaned yet? What's wrong with them?
You can firewall with globally-routable addresses on the inside just fine. I don't see how this would be any different with IPv6, except that msot home users are still going to prefer a single NAT/firewall/router box to a two-layer system. But with IPv6, there should be enough addresses to give every person more than he has room for hosts in his house, microwaves included, so why not remove the NAT feature and make it a firewall/router applicance?
Yep. In fact, my single biggest scholarship is, only 3 years after I got it, no longer available for new applicants. $20,000 Wal-Mart Competitive Edge scholarship, for those going into technological fields. I had a lot of excess checks, but it's a good thing I had the scholarships because I sure don't make enough with my CS degree to pay off student loans.
For my Honors thesis, I produced a general-purpose platform-independent distributed computing system with the added benefit of presence awareness/work accounting. (As in it immediately reassigns your work unit when you go offline, rather than waiting indefinitely for you to return the results. This is reasonable because almost everyone who would run a distributed computing client has a 24/7 Internet connection.) See the PDF version of my thesis for more information.
Havana is by far my favorite book that came out in 2003. And my most intensely unfavorite book of the year...well, I don't read shitty books, so I can't list one that really stood out.
I never trashed atheists. I trashed evangelical atheists. Big difference, there, buddy.
By the way, if you want troll behavior, read your parenthetical in that last one. I think you know you're a troll, too. Why else would you be posting anonymously? (I may be carefully guarding my karma by denying my bonus in this thread, but I'm not afraid to admit who I am.)
I really shouldn't be replying to this, because you still can't spell "persecute" correctly.
I didn't read anything into the initial comment. If you read the first 3 words of my comment, you'd know that I was not replying to it so much as picking a "good enough" spot in the comment tree to hang my two cents. You're the one reading too much into comments. I didn't interpret the original comment as anything about hatred. Telling someone not to hate something isn't accusing them of that hatred, just like telling someone to be careful isn't an accusation of gross carelessness.
Who said life is gonna last forever? I sure as hell hope heaven isn't the same in any way as real life. So I'm not going to waste any of my life away on the basis that I have eternity to take care of shit. If I thought I had all the time in the world with no cares, believe me I'd live it a little differently than I am. And who says a Christian life isn't a worthwhile life? It's basically the same as any other life, except you pray that God will forgive your sins and bless you in each coming day, and you have someone to thank and/or blame for the various luck you have in life.
Now, as to the bitter news part...let's say you're right. I've then lost say an hour a day for my life. Yeah, it adds up, but I was going to waste that time sleeping anyhow, so there's no real loss. And if you're wrong? Bring sunscreen, man.
Several good points here. I do not at all exclude Muslims, Buddhists, etc. from reaching heaven/nirvana/etc. I know the path I am taking, and would encourage others to take the same path because, frankly, it's pretty darn good.
As to atheism being the belief that you shouldn't waste your current life because it's all you have - hell, I agree with that principle absolutely. Except that I don't have to exclude God from my life in order not to waste it. Maybe an atheist is just someone with extremely poor time-management skills?;-D
Wow, there's a couple of misconceptions to base your faith system on. Let's take a closer look...
I meant Christianity, the faith, not Christianity, the set of bastardized religions loosely based on faith in Christ. A real Christian will never persecute you, burn you at the stake, or anything else. Throughout history there have just been too many people claiming to be Christians who were not.
Additionally, being an atheist doesn't mean you're free from original sin, it just means that you either don't believe you're involved in any sinning or don't believe that anyone really gives two shits if you have anyway. And if you think that Christians are sad because of sin, you're wrong. Christians are cognizant that they are involved in sin, and as happy as can be that somebody cares enough about them to forgive those sins.
This brings me to the real point: Christians have a bad reputation because of all the quacks throughout history that've described themselves as Christians but failed to act accordingly. Just like we can't judge Islam and all its followers based solely on the actions of fundamentalist, militant zealots, neither can we judge Christianity based on the same "sect".
I apologize for anyone stuffing Christianity down your throat. But do you really think revenge is the answer? That'll show those Christians for wanting me to be happy and go to heaven! Hah!
Heh, it's kind of like a poll. 20% of moderators think you should never digress, 20% hate God enough to call it a troll, and 40% find it interesting. Makes you feel rather optimistic for the Christmas season, no?:)
It wasn't a troll, nor was it ignorant, nor do I have a persecution complex. If you care to have a discussion about it, go right ahead, but please try to open your mind a little (I have no problem with atheists, just don't push it down my throat; and if you don't like what I am saying, you're free to ignore me or, better yet, ask me not to talk about it with you and I'll respect that), get a Slashdot account and don't be so afraid of showing your face, and, most importantly, learn how to spell.
Don't hate people for being evangelical Christians. Their motivation is to get as many people to heaven as possible. Most other religions can't claim this. How many Muslims have asked you if you've been saved, and if you'd like to be?
But the worst are evangelical atheists. The only motivation there is for you to be godless just like them so you won't be happier than they are.
You forget - we're the United States of America, that's states plural. The state I grew up in (and no, not that long ago) issued me a driver's license when I was not quite 14 years old. And some states require you to be 18 or something like that. It really seems incongruent, until you look at the reasoning. In extremely rural states, it's hard to operate the family farm if the kids can't drive.
How thorough are you being? Will your code be open? I'd really be interested in seeing this done in Z80, especially if it's compiled and if you have a compiler that runs alongside it on the TI (although an interpreter would be handier for quick calculations), and even more especially if you do any optimizations I don't know how to do.:)
The thing is essentially that you can get a better RPL calculator without writing any code, for the same price minus time. It's the HP48. However, I do not know of any hand-held Lisp machines.
How about a Lisp (well, subset thereof, of course) machine implemented on a calculator? A Lisp interpreter could feasibly be much faster and more powerful than TI-BASIC, without making basic calculations any harder than on a HP48.:)
I've toyed with writing enough Z80 assembly to get a working TCP stack, with the goal of connecting to IRC with an even more arcane device than netcat. SLIP is easy but you'd probably want to hardwire the IP addresses (PPP is really overkill unless you wrote a crippled IP-only version of it), IP isn't too hard although checksumming would be slow on the Z80, UDP and ICMP are elementary after that, and TCP isn't too tough. The hardest part is making all this available for other programs to use without static linking it into every program you write. Then add an XML parser and you can do Jabber on your calculator.:)
You might want to try Unison. It's basically a bidirectional rsync. It's GPL, but it does a great job. Much more reliable (when run over ssh, at least) than rsync and less of a hassle to train users how to get their files synchronized. I even have it working successfully in an all-Windows environment, including setting file ownership right (rsync did not do that for me when run as a daemon; SYSTEM owned all the files).
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The really funny thing is that "Loop K" and "Destiny K" have both been vacant for 28 days. Did someone miss the bowl? Have these been cleaned yet? What's wrong with them?
Is that your first gratuitous karma suicide, as well? :)
You can firewall with globally-routable addresses on the inside just fine. I don't see how this would be any different with IPv6, except that msot home users are still going to prefer a single NAT/firewall/router box to a two-layer system. But with IPv6, there should be enough addresses to give every person more than he has room for hosts in his house, microwaves included, so why not remove the NAT feature and make it a firewall/router applicance?
Yep. In fact, my single biggest scholarship is, only 3 years after I got it, no longer available for new applicants. $20,000 Wal-Mart Competitive Edge scholarship, for those going into technological fields. I had a lot of excess checks, but it's a good thing I had the scholarships because I sure don't make enough with my CS degree to pay off student loans.
For my Honors thesis, I produced a general-purpose platform-independent distributed computing system with the added benefit of presence awareness/work accounting. (As in it immediately reassigns your work unit when you go offline, rather than waiting indefinitely for you to return the results. This is reasonable because almost everyone who would run a distributed computing client has a 24/7 Internet connection.) See the PDF version of my thesis for more information.
Havana is by far my favorite book that came out in 2003. And my most intensely unfavorite book of the year...well, I don't read shitty books, so I can't list one that really stood out.
If it's such a kingdom of lamedom, why are you here? Most people who only find displeasure in something have the good sense to abandon it.
I never trashed atheists. I trashed evangelical atheists. Big difference, there, buddy.
By the way, if you want troll behavior, read your parenthetical in that last one. I think you know you're a troll, too. Why else would you be posting anonymously? (I may be carefully guarding my karma by denying my bonus in this thread, but I'm not afraid to admit who I am.)
I really shouldn't be replying to this, because you still can't spell "persecute" correctly.
I didn't read anything into the initial comment. If you read the first 3 words of my comment, you'd know that I was not replying to it so much as picking a "good enough" spot in the comment tree to hang my two cents. You're the one reading too much into comments. I didn't interpret the original comment as anything about hatred. Telling someone not to hate something isn't accusing them of that hatred, just like telling someone to be careful isn't an accusation of gross carelessness.
PS: "Joking aside" - if you take away the joking, half of what I say makes no sense at all and tends to offend. Not my intent at all! :)
Who said life is gonna last forever? I sure as hell hope heaven isn't the same in any way as real life. So I'm not going to waste any of my life away on the basis that I have eternity to take care of shit. If I thought I had all the time in the world with no cares, believe me I'd live it a little differently than I am. And who says a Christian life isn't a worthwhile life? It's basically the same as any other life, except you pray that God will forgive your sins and bless you in each coming day, and you have someone to thank and/or blame for the various luck you have in life.
Now, as to the bitter news part...let's say you're right. I've then lost say an hour a day for my life. Yeah, it adds up, but I was going to waste that time sleeping anyhow, so there's no real loss. And if you're wrong? Bring sunscreen, man.
Several good points here. I do not at all exclude Muslims, Buddhists, etc. from reaching heaven/nirvana/etc. I know the path I am taking, and would encourage others to take the same path because, frankly, it's pretty darn good.
;-D
As to atheism being the belief that you shouldn't waste your current life because it's all you have - hell, I agree with that principle absolutely. Except that I don't have to exclude God from my life in order not to waste it. Maybe an atheist is just someone with extremely poor time-management skills?
Wow, there's a couple of misconceptions to base your faith system on. Let's take a closer look...
I meant Christianity, the faith, not Christianity, the set of bastardized religions loosely based on faith in Christ. A real Christian will never persecute you, burn you at the stake, or anything else. Throughout history there have just been too many people claiming to be Christians who were not.
Additionally, being an atheist doesn't mean you're free from original sin, it just means that you either don't believe you're involved in any sinning or don't believe that anyone really gives two shits if you have anyway. And if you think that Christians are sad because of sin, you're wrong. Christians are cognizant that they are involved in sin, and as happy as can be that somebody cares enough about them to forgive those sins.
This brings me to the real point: Christians have a bad reputation because of all the quacks throughout history that've described themselves as Christians but failed to act accordingly. Just like we can't judge Islam and all its followers based solely on the actions of fundamentalist, militant zealots, neither can we judge Christianity based on the same "sect".
I apologize for anyone stuffing Christianity down your throat. But do you really think revenge is the answer? That'll show those Christians for wanting me to be happy and go to heaven! Hah!
Heh, it's kind of like a poll. 20% of moderators think you should never digress, 20% hate God enough to call it a troll, and 40% find it interesting. Makes you feel rather optimistic for the Christmas season, no? :)
It wasn't a troll, nor was it ignorant, nor do I have a persecution complex. If you care to have a discussion about it, go right ahead, but please try to open your mind a little (I have no problem with atheists, just don't push it down my throat; and if you don't like what I am saying, you're free to ignore me or, better yet, ask me not to talk about it with you and I'll respect that), get a Slashdot account and don't be so afraid of showing your face, and, most importantly, learn how to spell.
Just a quick aside here...
Don't hate people for being evangelical Christians. Their motivation is to get as many people to heaven as possible. Most other religions can't claim this. How many Muslims have asked you if you've been saved, and if you'd like to be?
But the worst are evangelical atheists. The only motivation there is for you to be godless just like them so you won't be happier than they are.
You forget - we're the United States of America, that's states plural. The state I grew up in (and no, not that long ago) issued me a driver's license when I was not quite 14 years old. And some states require you to be 18 or something like that. It really seems incongruent, until you look at the reasoning. In extremely rural states, it's hard to operate the family farm if the kids can't drive.
Well, let's see some code! :)
How thorough are you being? Will your code be open? I'd really be interested in seeing this done in Z80, especially if it's compiled and if you have a compiler that runs alongside it on the TI (although an interpreter would be handier for quick calculations), and even more especially if you do any optimizations I don't know how to do. :)
The thing is essentially that you can get a better RPL calculator without writing any code, for the same price minus time. It's the HP48. However, I do not know of any hand-held Lisp machines.
How about a Lisp (well, subset thereof, of course) machine implemented on a calculator? A Lisp interpreter could feasibly be much faster and more powerful than TI-BASIC, without making basic calculations any harder than on a HP48. :)
I've toyed with writing enough Z80 assembly to get a working TCP stack, with the goal of connecting to IRC with an even more arcane device than netcat. SLIP is easy but you'd probably want to hardwire the IP addresses (PPP is really overkill unless you wrote a crippled IP-only version of it), IP isn't too hard although checksumming would be slow on the Z80, UDP and ICMP are elementary after that, and TCP isn't too tough. The hardest part is making all this available for other programs to use without static linking it into every program you write. Then add an XML parser and you can do Jabber on your calculator. :)
You might want to try Unison. It's basically a bidirectional rsync. It's GPL, but it does a great job. Much more reliable (when run over ssh, at least) than rsync and less of a hassle to train users how to get their files synchronized. I even have it working successfully in an all-Windows environment, including setting file ownership right (rsync did not do that for me when run as a daemon; SYSTEM owned all the files).