I think the word fundamentalist should be dropped from our lexicon. I mean, can anyone define exactly what fundamentalism is and isn't ?
I'm not racist. But the problem is that whenever most Americans hear "fundamentalist" we hear "crazy muslim who blows stuff up."
Wikipedia has a good definition for Christian fundamentalism (since that's what this is about): a "fundamental" set of Christian beliefs: the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement [Christ died for our sins], the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and the authenticity of his miracles.
Fundamentalism is going back to the basics - what does the Bible (or whatever) really say?
For those of you that are Bible-literate, think Jesus and the Saducees/Pharisees (religious legalists, for the rest of you.) The Pharisees/Saducees had all these rules piled on top of what Judaism really was. They said, "You can't do anything on the Sabbath." Jesus healed a crippled guy on the Sabbath, and they got mad. In the end, He just left them sitting there looking dumb. He said (basically), "forget all your legalistic mumbo-jumbo. Love God, love your neighbor. That pretty much covers it - don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't kill, don't covet, honor your father and mother - that's loving your neighbor. God's the only one, no idols, don't take Lord's name in vain, keep the Sabbath, that's loving God." Jesus was the fundamentalist - he went back to what the Bible said, not all the worthless, legalistic rules the modern-day religious "leaders" had piled on top.
I know a couple of scientists who are religious (Christian) and none of them understand what the deal is with the fundamentalists who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible. As far as they're concerned, they're using their God given brain to study how God does His thing. A very classic way of thinking about science. IIRC, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, etc... all thought of their scientific work as a way to worship Him.
ID != Christianity
And, by the way, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus...they all got it right. Copernicus is remembered for challenging the theories of the time and saying that the universe didn't revolve around us, and was persecuted by the then-horribly distorted and govenrmental (a position a church should never be in) Catholic church. Newton - gravity, Calculus, laws of motion, how light works, supported heliocentrism (that's Copernicus), "generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists and mathematicians in history,", "Father of modern Science?" Wait, I though he was "classical." Not to mention Galileo, who invented the telescope, supported Copernicus' (see above) theories, was the "father of modern astronomy", "father of modern physics", and "father of science." These guys got it right. The bloated, power-hungry, very wrong entity that called itself the Catholic Church (they don't still work that way, by the way) didn't.
There was quite a bit of discussion in the mailing list in May (archives), especially the question you asked and the reply, and interest in doing it outside of SOC.
The Free Earth Foundation, mainly working on NASA World Wind, is also participating. This 3D globe is somewhat similar to GE, but is very extensible and more science/classroom oriented than just looking at your house, and has a large community backing it.
Good gracious, please don't judge a PC by such horrible software as musicmatch, Corel, and iTunes! I hate all three with a passion, and uninstall Musicmatch and corel as soon as I get my computer (iTunes is necessary, but ONLY to buy songs. I quickly disassociate it with ANYTHING else and use WinAmp or even WMP instead). For some reason idiotic Corel decided to take over Window's preview, which works great for its purpose of showing you picures. I HATE how Corel assumes you want to start up their massive, complicated, and generally bad software just to look at a picture.
Please, don't judge a PC by it's bundles. There's a reason these people pay Dell to bundle - because no one wants them and no one will buy them otherwise. Get a decently de-junked and equipped PC, then tell me you are so vehemently against it.
...I thought this was announcing one of the already-existing third-party Gmail-based drives, like GSpace or GMail Drive, both of which I use. They work fine, why do I need another one?
Long live GMail!
(And a fiery death to Google Earth...but that's a different discussion.)
Does double-majoring in Computer Science/Engineering and Mathematics, with a minor in Electrical Engineering count as geek enough? That should get me a couple points at least.
Hear, hear. I despise Real so much - like MusicMatch Jukebox as well, I dislike their interface, and their "message center" thing drives me nuts. I'd even pick WMP over Real any day, but of course WinAmp is above all of them. Thank goodness for Real (and Quicktime for that matter) Alternatives.
The only thing I like about QuickTime is the panoramas, but that's another rant.
Our youth group painted the ceiling black and have a box for the members to put their unwanted CD's. We glue them (shiny side down) on the ceiling in a hexagon pattern, and it makes a nifty mirrory ceiling. Probably 60-75% of the CD's are AOL, and we've found some really cool boxes - from DVD-style to metal tins to even wooden-feeling compressed cardboard boxes. We've got about 400 up there, just 1500 to go...
No kidding. This is precisely why I hate XP - it took the wizards to a new level. I can't just change the network name of my PC, I have to run through the evil home network setup wizard again. Grr! I agree, thank goodness, and thank the Samba team!
Having a book on the shelf helps add to the validity of OpenOffice for some people - some people just don't get that something as great as OpenOffice can be given away for free - they just don't get open source. Having a book about it somehow says to them, "Oh, someone is selling a book about it, I didn't know it was real."
It's reaching another group. And that's a good thing. Besides, just because it's about Open Source doesn't mean it should be free.
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I think the word fundamentalist should be dropped from our lexicon. I mean, can anyone define exactly what fundamentalism is and isn't ?
I'm not racist. But the problem is that whenever most Americans hear "fundamentalist" we hear "crazy muslim who blows stuff up."
Wikipedia has a good definition for Christian fundamentalism (since that's what this is about):
a "fundamental" set of Christian beliefs: the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Christ, the doctrine of substitutionary atonement [Christ died for our sins], the bodily resurrection of Jesus, and the authenticity of his miracles.
Fundamentalism is going back to the basics - what does the Bible (or whatever) really say?
For those of you that are Bible-literate, think Jesus and the Saducees/Pharisees (religious legalists, for the rest of you.) The Pharisees/Saducees had all these rules piled on top of what Judaism really was. They said, "You can't do anything on the Sabbath." Jesus healed a crippled guy on the Sabbath, and they got mad. In the end, He just left them sitting there looking dumb. He said (basically), "forget all your legalistic mumbo-jumbo. Love God, love your neighbor. That pretty much covers it - don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't kill, don't covet, honor your father and mother - that's loving your neighbor. God's the only one, no idols, don't take Lord's name in vain, keep the Sabbath, that's loving God." Jesus was the fundamentalist - he went back to what the Bible said, not all the worthless, legalistic rules the modern-day religious "leaders" had piled on top.
I know a couple of scientists who are religious (Christian) and none of them understand what the deal is with the fundamentalists who insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible. As far as they're concerned, they're using their God given brain to study how God does His thing. A very classic way of thinking about science. IIRC, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, etc... all thought of their scientific work as a way to worship Him.
ID != Christianity
And, by the way, Newton, Galileo, Copernicus...they all got it right. Copernicus is remembered for challenging the theories of the time and saying that the universe didn't revolve around us, and was persecuted by the then-horribly distorted and govenrmental (a position a church should never be in) Catholic church. Newton - gravity, Calculus, laws of motion, how light works, supported heliocentrism (that's Copernicus), "generally regarded as one of the most influential scientists and mathematicians in history,", "Father of modern Science?" Wait, I though he was "classical." Not to mention Galileo, who invented the telescope, supported Copernicus' (see above) theories, was the "father of modern astronomy", "father of modern physics", and "father of science." These guys got it right. The bloated, power-hungry, very wrong entity that called itself the Catholic Church (they don't still work that way, by the way) didn't.
There was quite a bit of discussion in the mailing list in May (archives), especially the question you asked and the reply, and interest in doing it outside of SOC.
Sorry for the confusion.
The Free Earth Foundation, mainly working on NASA World Wind, is also participating. This 3D globe is somewhat similar to GE, but is very extensible and more science/classroom oriented than just looking at your house, and has a large community backing it.
Good gracious, please don't judge a PC by such horrible software as musicmatch, Corel, and iTunes! I hate all three with a passion, and uninstall Musicmatch and corel as soon as I get my computer (iTunes is necessary, but ONLY to buy songs. I quickly disassociate it with ANYTHING else and use WinAmp or even WMP instead). For some reason idiotic Corel decided to take over Window's preview, which works great for its purpose of showing you picures. I HATE how Corel assumes you want to start up their massive, complicated, and generally bad software just to look at a picture. Please, don't judge a PC by it's bundles. There's a reason these people pay Dell to bundle - because no one wants them and no one will buy them otherwise. Get a decently de-junked and equipped PC, then tell me you are so vehemently against it.
You'd be a pol-sci-phil geek. Kind of like a gaming nerd. Not a really truly pure 100% geek, but some geek involved.
Sort of.
...I thought this was announcing one of the already-existing third-party Gmail-based drives, like GSpace or GMail Drive, both of which I use. They work fine, why do I need another one? Long live GMail! (And a fiery death to Google Earth...but that's a different discussion.)
Does double-majoring in Computer Science/Engineering and Mathematics, with a minor in Electrical Engineering count as geek enough? That should get me a couple points at least.
Hear, hear. I despise Real so much - like MusicMatch Jukebox as well, I dislike their interface, and their "message center" thing drives me nuts. I'd even pick WMP over Real any day, but of course WinAmp is above all of them. Thank goodness for Real (and Quicktime for that matter) Alternatives. The only thing I like about QuickTime is the panoramas, but that's another rant.
Our youth group painted the ceiling black and have a box for the members to put their unwanted CD's. We glue them (shiny side down) on the ceiling in a hexagon pattern, and it makes a nifty mirrory ceiling. Probably 60-75% of the CD's are AOL, and we've found some really cool boxes - from DVD-style to metal tins to even wooden-feeling compressed cardboard boxes. We've got about 400 up there, just 1500 to go...
No kidding. This is precisely why I hate XP - it took the wizards to a new level. I can't just change the network name of my PC, I have to run through the evil home network setup wizard again. Grr! I agree, thank goodness, and thank the Samba team!
Having a book on the shelf helps add to the validity of OpenOffice for some people - some people just don't get that something as great as OpenOffice can be given away for free - they just don't get open source. Having a book about it somehow says to them, "Oh, someone is selling a book about it, I didn't know it was real." It's reaching another group. And that's a good thing. Besides, just because it's about Open Source doesn't mean it should be free.