Your parent's post was insightful because it is true. Your post is flamebait because it is not true.
In Christendom, if Christ is portrayed in a blatantly derogatory way (i.e the infamous Piss Christ), what happens? Christians write letters to the editor and threaten to boycott sponsors of the offender. In the Muslim world, draw a simple cartoon of the prophet Mohammed or write a book critical of the Islamic faith, and what happens? Muslims riot, destroy property, make death threats made (and sometimes carry them out).
There is a vast difference between Christianity and Islam, friend. It's true that both have been spread by force, but with Christianity that is the (exceedingly rare) exception, with Islam it is far more common.
I built EDE for NetBSD/mac68k and ran it on an upgraded Color Classic. No speed demon (not that I expected it to be) but it was at least responsive. I don't know of any other DE that I can say that for. Heck, there's even some WMs that would be sluggish at that speed.
I'm looking forward to EDE after it switches to using regular FLTK rather than the eFLTK fork. There aren't many FLTK apps, but by using the main toolkit branch at least there will be more resource sharing (and less redundant development), which is a good thing.
Apple should double the height of the Mini, put in a CPU that keeps pace with the ones they put in their laptops (why is the Mini so slow?), use a standard size hard drive, and they'd probably find a way to put some expansion capability in it while keeping the price down. This would address most of my needs. It's not quite as elegant a design (would look almost cubic), but would still look pretty darn slick. By changing only the height, it retains physical compatibility with some of the "stacking" peripherals that have come out.
I would really like to give Étoilé a try, but without many GNUstep apps, it seems kind of pointless. (I really wish there were a single standard for X11 menuing, so that it could be a simple run-time option to switch from shared-menubar to per-window-menubar, and all apps would respect that regardless of toolkit.) It's a chicken-or-egg proposition, though. One can hope that the relative ease with which one can built native apps for both GNUstep and OS X from the same codebase will draw developers, but so far I haven't seen much of that.
The "ancient browser" I want to try giving a whirl is IE5 on Solaris. (Pathetic, I know, but this has to be one of the strangest MS creations after Bob.) Unfortunately, the archived installer binaries don't run on Solaris 10, so it looks like I'm stuck. If only it had been packaged as a simple tarball...
I've been wanting to reimplement a small web project I'd done in MySQL back in the day, and I've also wanted to learn more about PostgreSQL as well. I have a dump of the MySQL db. Can I pull this into PostgreSQL somehow? Do I need to look for converter tools?
And the reason they keep going is because, by and large, they don't pay for it. Third-party "insurance" picks up the tab. If you don't pay for something yourself, the tendency is to try to milk it for everything you can get. This is why universal health care is a boondoggle. It will only be more of the same problem.
That right there is a good argument against universal health care. Unless you really want government intruding on and micromanaging everybody's life. You don't have to worry about it being abused - universal health care, by its very nature, is an abuse.
Simply having a vagina-sporting or melanin-enhanced person in the office will "do the world a whole lot of good"? Egads, I can't believe the loony state of leftists nowadays. Gender- and race-politics is All That Matters...who cares about actual ideas to solve real problems.
Tcl, good grief... We have people at my company that don't know anything but Tcl, thus we get web apps on our intranet written in it. Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
One thing that often gets lost is that the Crusades were a reaction to Muslim encroachment on Jerusalem and other Christian-held territories north and west of there. The Muslims even then were forcibly converting everyone in their way and killing those who resisted. The Crusades were a response to a cry for help from coreligionists that were being murdered. Did they go overboard sometimes? Probably. Did rulers use the military forces assembled for their own ends sometimes? Most likely. Did the Crusades help prevent Europe from becoming a Muslim territory by the 14th century? Definitely. Even as recently as 1683, cities as far northwest as Vienna were under military assault by Islamic forces. Revisionists like to paint the Christian West as the sole aggressor in the matter, when the truth is that Islam has been growing through military might since its inception.
No, it goes to show how the media goes about shaping the news rather than reporting it. The media is completely out of touch with mainstream America that truly does resonate with Paul's "limited government" message, to the point that they preemptively decided he cannot possibly win and does not matter. For Paul to actually do so well (all things considered) results in cognitive dissonance...they cannot believe what they are seeing, and thus ignore (don't report) it.
Unfortunately, Christians are largely gullible in matters of politics. "I'm one of you!" is often enough to win their vote...then they realize too late that Their Man(TM) doesn't walk the talk. Four years later they will fall for it again.
Honestly I think it's because Christian churches don't have enough worldview education. The secularists in society tried to drive religion from the public square (by passing laws against political speech in churches, etc) and in so doing, have created a generation of Christians that are ignorant of how to properly live our their faith in the public arena. You end up with all kinds of distortions, like taking personal mandates to help the poor, etc., and applying them to government. In some ways, the secularists created the very monster they feared!
Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's. This clearly implies that there are separate spheres of activity in human life. Civil government should not try to regulate religion, and religion should not try to run the government. Some would say this means there is strict separation, but it is a religious text informing this position. This shows that religious views can (and should) influence political views--you cannot divorce one part of you decision-making ability from the others--but also that you cannot run the civil government as if it were your own household or even as if it were your church. They are distinct, and though the same principles can apply to all spheres, the implementation may be very different!
To anyone (especially Christians) who would like to gain a good foundation of what a comprehensive Christian worldview really looks like, I highly recommend The Truth Project by Dr. Del Tackett. In 12 1-hour lectures, he lays a foundation of how a biblical view informs and influences every facet of life by getting down to the very basics (what is Truth?) and building up from there.
Anything that is a complete desktop environment probably doesn't meet most people's definition of low cruft, but if there is one that makes that cut in the free software world, I'd vote for XFCE. [...] If you really want low cruft, though, you need to really run just a window manager. Fluxbox and IceWM are a couple of very good choices in that area.
Between those "extremes" are even-lighter desktops like Étoilé and EDE, and somewhat-heavier WMs like Enlightenment. Lots of options in the X11 world. Readers may want to take a look at this comparison to start.
Same here. I filter my incoming email to display as plain text. (Even Outlook can handle that.) I hate it when people say "see the blue text". Too many people raised in the MS monoculture...
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Sentiment summed up nicely here.
Well, I see the /. crowd has bought the "Oh noes! Humans are destroying the planet!" mantra hook, line, and sinker.
And for envirodems, it matters not one bit that this equates to a lower quality of life for almost every American.
Your parent's post was insightful because it is true. Your post is flamebait because it is not true.
In Christendom, if Christ is portrayed in a blatantly derogatory way (i.e the infamous Piss Christ), what happens? Christians write letters to the editor and threaten to boycott sponsors of the offender. In the Muslim world, draw a simple cartoon of the prophet Mohammed or write a book critical of the Islamic faith, and what happens? Muslims riot, destroy property, make death threats made (and sometimes carry them out).
There is a vast difference between Christianity and Islam, friend. It's true that both have been spread by force, but with Christianity that is the (exceedingly rare) exception, with Islam it is far more common.
I built EDE for NetBSD/mac68k and ran it on an upgraded Color Classic. No speed demon (not that I expected it to be) but it was at least responsive. I don't know of any other DE that I can say that for. Heck, there's even some WMs that would be sluggish at that speed.
I'm looking forward to EDE after it switches to using regular FLTK rather than the eFLTK fork. There aren't many FLTK apps, but by using the main toolkit branch at least there will be more resource sharing (and less redundant development), which is a good thing.
Anybody want to extend this WP article?
Apple should double the height of the Mini, put in a CPU that keeps pace with the ones they put in their laptops (why is the Mini so slow?), use a standard size hard drive, and they'd probably find a way to put some expansion capability in it while keeping the price down. This would address most of my needs. It's not quite as elegant a design (would look almost cubic), but would still look pretty darn slick. By changing only the height, it retains physical compatibility with some of the "stacking" peripherals that have come out.
I would really like to give Étoilé a try, but without many GNUstep apps, it seems kind of pointless. (I really wish there were a single standard for X11 menuing, so that it could be a simple run-time option to switch from shared-menubar to per-window-menubar, and all apps would respect that regardless of toolkit.) It's a chicken-or-egg proposition, though. One can hope that the relative ease with which one can built native apps for both GNUstep and OS X from the same codebase will draw developers, but so far I haven't seen much of that.
So...how hard is it to migrate my data to Postgres? Anyone have some pointers, or online references?
I want a version of OS X that will run on my Quadra 800. Think I can get Apple to listen?
The "ancient browser" I want to try giving a whirl is IE5 on Solaris. (Pathetic, I know, but this has to be one of the strangest MS creations after Bob.) Unfortunately, the archived installer binaries don't run on Solaris 10, so it looks like I'm stuck. If only it had been packaged as a simple tarball...
I've been wanting to reimplement a small web project I'd done in MySQL back in the day, and I've also wanted to learn more about PostgreSQL as well. I have a dump of the MySQL db. Can I pull this into PostgreSQL somehow? Do I need to look for converter tools?
Any one of the three biggies remaining (McCain, Obama, Hillary) would be an absolute disaster for America as far as I'm concerned.
I described this as "PsychLim: naive to criminal mindset, -10" on a Champions character I played back in the day.
And the reason they keep going is because, by and large, they don't pay for it. Third-party "insurance" picks up the tab. If you don't pay for something yourself, the tendency is to try to milk it for everything you can get. This is why universal health care is a boondoggle. It will only be more of the same problem.
In the US, calling it "insurance" is really a misnomer anymore. It's not just for unforeseen catastrophes. It's more like a payment plan system that covers even "maintenance" and routine expenses.
That right there is a good argument against universal health care. Unless you really want government intruding on and micromanaging everybody's life. You don't have to worry about it being abused - universal health care, by its very nature, is an abuse.
Simply having a vagina-sporting or melanin-enhanced person in the office will "do the world a whole lot of good"? Egads, I can't believe the loony state of leftists nowadays. Gender- and race-politics is All That Matters...who cares about actual ideas to solve real problems.
Tcl, good grief... We have people at my company that don't know anything but Tcl, thus we get web apps on our intranet written in it. Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
One thing that often gets lost is that the Crusades were a reaction to Muslim encroachment on Jerusalem and other Christian-held territories north and west of there. The Muslims even then were forcibly converting everyone in their way and killing those who resisted. The Crusades were a response to a cry for help from coreligionists that were being murdered. Did they go overboard sometimes? Probably. Did rulers use the military forces assembled for their own ends sometimes? Most likely. Did the Crusades help prevent Europe from becoming a Muslim territory by the 14th century? Definitely. Even as recently as 1683, cities as far northwest as Vienna were under military assault by Islamic forces. Revisionists like to paint the Christian West as the sole aggressor in the matter, when the truth is that Islam has been growing through military might since its inception.
No, it goes to show how the media goes about shaping the news rather than reporting it. The media is completely out of touch with mainstream America that truly does resonate with Paul's "limited government" message, to the point that they preemptively decided he cannot possibly win and does not matter. For Paul to actually do so well (all things considered) results in cognitive dissonance...they cannot believe what they are seeing, and thus ignore (don't report) it.
Thank you for clarifying.
Unfortunately, Christians are largely gullible in matters of politics. "I'm one of you!" is often enough to win their vote...then they realize too late that Their Man(TM) doesn't walk the talk. Four years later they will fall for it again.
Honestly I think it's because Christian churches don't have enough worldview education. The secularists in society tried to drive religion from the public square (by passing laws against political speech in churches, etc) and in so doing, have created a generation of Christians that are ignorant of how to properly live our their faith in the public arena. You end up with all kinds of distortions, like taking personal mandates to help the poor, etc., and applying them to government. In some ways, the secularists created the very monster they feared!
Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's. This clearly implies that there are separate spheres of activity in human life. Civil government should not try to regulate religion, and religion should not try to run the government. Some would say this means there is strict separation, but it is a religious text informing this position. This shows that religious views can (and should) influence political views--you cannot divorce one part of you decision-making ability from the others--but also that you cannot run the civil government as if it were your own household or even as if it were your church. They are distinct, and though the same principles can apply to all spheres, the implementation may be very different!
To anyone (especially Christians) who would like to gain a good foundation of what a comprehensive Christian worldview really looks like, I highly recommend The Truth Project by Dr. Del Tackett. In 12 1-hour lectures, he lays a foundation of how a biblical view informs and influences every facet of life by getting down to the very basics (what is Truth?) and building up from there.
Between those "extremes" are even-lighter desktops like Étoilé and EDE, and somewhat-heavier WMs like Enlightenment. Lots of options in the X11 world. Readers may want to take a look at this comparison to start.
If it were made of vibranium instead of aluminum, it could be Captain America's laptop.
Outlook QuoteFix! If I had any say whatsoever in IT, this would be installed on every PC.
Same here. I filter my incoming email to display as plain text. (Even Outlook can handle that.) I hate it when people say "see the blue text". Too many people raised in the MS monoculture...
In other words, "Outlook style" is the problem. Outlook QuoteFix is the solution.