Please, show me one distro that has achieved wide popularity that takes Linux and makes it watered down and its not easy to do all the power user stuff. Whenever Linux is connected to some form of package management, power-user stuff is available. It's about whether it is encouraged. In ubuntu, it is not.
I mean, hell, it doesn't even include build-essentials by default.
As far as I'm aware, there aren't any distros that water it down to impossibility, because, for that to occur, you would have to make a linux system incompatible with the power tools, which would require major rework of the operating system. Why bother when you can just put friendly GUIs on top?
PCLinuxOS though seems like a pretty good candidate for the antithesis of power-use, to the point where it turns into crap.
Yeah, except they already bundle their competitor (Live Search) with their primary profitable product (Windows &c) and it clearly isn't working, because people are using Google anyway.
Seems like M$ has strong intention turn the Zune into a phone now. I only hope that they do this well and actually INNOVATE something new and exciting! I for one would love for a good competition to be spurred between MS and Apple in the phone department... There are so many things wrong with that statement.
1) Ballmer has already stated that Microsoft is not interested in making a Zune-Phone or anything of that type; Microsoft is happy selling the operating system for phones to other companies to do with what they want on the hardware side of things.
2) Apple is hardly the only player in the smartphone market - the major ones through which Microsoft sells their WM OS are O2 and HTC which have been in the market for much, much, much longer than Apple. In fact, Microsoft actually innovated here and beat Apple to the punch!
3) M$ is a dated slashdotism. Seriously, you just look lame if you do that now.
iTunes is probably the only popular piece of software Apple has on the windows platform - but it is a very popular piece of software.
iTunes not working on SP1 would be juust a bit of a showstopper for every iPod owner who uses iTunes (a percentage of which I assume is in the 90s).
I also know several people who don't even own an iPod who use iTunes. MS wouldn't want to piss off every iPod-owning Vista user (probably a fair few) by breaking their music software.
"And the other thing that hacks me off is that this post will no doubt be modded flamebait or troll which means worse karma (got none anyhow) and therefore no voice. It's an interesting effect of the Slashdot moderation scheme that any criticism of Slashdot is suppressed. Free speech doesn't flourish here (unless you follow the herd!)"
Your point has been circumvented by your +5 insightful rating. Highly amusing.
I used to love KDE (v3 this is) but I found myself constantly redesigning and reworking my desktop layout, themes etc. because I could be happy with what I had.
After a while I figured out that KDE itself just lacks any artistic style at all, and no matter how much work you put into it, it doesn't look good.
There are a few reasons for this:
1) Everything is too big. Way too big. GNOME is the master of unobtrusive interfaces (which is exactly what an interface should be), but KDE give me a 64 pixel high bar at the bottom with all sorts of gizmos attached. When you shrink these down to a sane size, you quickly discover that KDE does not scale well to small sizes, and many of the applets begin to look cramped or strange. Fonts, buttons, widgets and icons are also, by default, too big. When I have a 1280x1024 screen I don't want most of it taken up with non-application content.
2) Menus, menus, menus, menus - Practically all the functions for an application can be found in huge menus that take up most of your screen. A couple of additional toolbars or maybe some dialogs would help in the application design.
3) Widget Spacing - No GNOME app ever seems to have difficulty with this, but KDE seems to fail horribly. GTK has default settings that allow you to space widgets not only evenly, but also with decent amounts of padding and spacing that remain even across the application. Qt must lack this sort of thing because Dolphin, Konqueror and amaroK (for example) lacks sufficient widget spacing.
4) Whoever made their icon theme was on crack - Everaldo's Crystal theme was (in my opinion) ugly as hell, and shiny for the sake of it (I much prefer matte icons), but at least it was consistent. Oxygen just sucks.
5) All the Qt skins suck, and I think we should be blaming Qt itself for this - hell, even Klearlook doesn't look as good as GNOME's Clearlooks, despite the obvious thematic similarity.
GNOME offers clearlooks (and its derivatives), tango icons, and a decent set of theming. Post-2.0 it has become alot more configurable (in fact there is little that I can't change in GNOME that I can in KDE3, and my GNOME is more customizable than KDE4)
Remember: I want my computer to be good and functional, and its interface needs to unobtrusively shift into the background while I'm working - I don't want to be distracted by this cool new skin or these fancy icons or desktop widgets. KDE had this simplicity in 2.0, and they've gone downhill ever since.
It is, as a friend of mine called it, "programmer's work". They have taken a perfectly decent looking DE and turned it into something only a programmer can produce.
IANADSD (I am not a deep sea diver) WDYJUAULAAATIEIATDTPOTAESYKIWNBUA? - Why did you just use an unnecessarily long abbreviatory acronym and then immediately expand it and thus defeat the purpose of the abbreviation, especially since you know it will never be used again?
In the United States, those in middle-to-low income groups often get very poor health insurance from their employer, or worse, depend on Medicare/aid grants from the government.
This means that only those with money have proper access to health care, treatment and diagnosis.
In Australia, private cover is only designed to be an add-on for existing government-provided cover via the Pharmaceutical benefits scheme and Medicare. Medicare levies are paid on an income-ramped scale, and you can be exempt in some cases from paying altogether.
In this way, those that can afford good health care (i.e high incomes) enable those who cannot (low incomes) with at least a baseline medical cover that is far more extensive than the government health grants in the US of A.
This introduction of a credit-rating style scheme only makes the problem worse. Someone may have been unemployed and become very ill, and ended up being unable to pay medical bills promptly/at all. They may later have become employed - perhaps even at a high income, but will therefore still be cursed with a poor medical credit rating and be turned away from healthcare.
No one should be denied medical treatment in this way, and the fact that this system is being developed suggests there is something wrong with excessively privatized health like in the United States.
Channel Ten doesn't get much viewers in general for news/current affairs, it's like trying to get something serious out of a network that largely features American sitcoms and cartoons produced by the FOX network.
Channel Nine is only slightly better in terms of commercial content, and it DOES compete with the ABC, and, as far as I know (I don't have exact metrics) it gets substantially more viewers. Channel Ten doesn't have a current affairs show. Channel Nine does, but it is so mind-bogglingly terrible and sensationalist that I want to take an axe to my expensive TV.
Here in Australia, we have one network that is government funded and does not fall victim to any form of sensationalism.
The Australian Broadcasting Commission, ambiguously referred to as the ABC, is entirely funded by the government and therefore has no interest in ratings. The news and current affairs coverage is usually top-notch, although occasionally it demonstrates a slight left-wing bias.
I switch to Channel Ten, and I see Sandra Sully cutting to some recycled footage while talking about some cloning technology, and concluding the story with "Of course, human cloning is still many years away." Then, they use computer effects to duplicate Sandra Sully, and the two Sandras say in unison.. "or is it?".. followed by 15 minutes of someone rambling on about "Entertainment News", followed by a cut to the loud and annoying weatherman who spends more time advertising charities than talking about the weather, then cut back to Sandra Sully who will engage in some useless banter with the sport guy. And the sports report is just a veiled advertisement for the sports programme they have on later that night, and then they do some "Australian Idol" news, and finish up to pictures of the beach.
ABC is at least a safe haven of real journalism. I'm not even sure the people working at Channel Ten are even journalists.
No, they're not taking it that far. They're just trying to pressure developers into making managed consumer-level applications for Vista rather than write them in C++ or somesuch.
.NET applications are "managed code" in that they are executed by an interpreter and are not fully compiled into native binaries.
This means that, with proper assemblies, one can have cross-platform development.
The other thing is it decreases dramatically the chances of things like buffer overruns and other security holes.
Java is another example of managed code, but I don't think it does quite as well in terms of performance.
You're talking about package management, not managed software:)
The Volkswagen was a mass produced car, the first of it's kind. This was how it was publicly accessible - it was made for utility not class.
That is why it was called the Volkswagen.
This new People's car is aimed at making the existing mass produced cars cheaper for access by poorer countries. Totally different concept, totally different idea, just a similar name.
...pyramid spirituality has suffered a rapid decline, offset by the sudden increase in Trapezoid Spirituality, purported to have greater healing effects - at half price!
Furthermore, the Egyptian government has shelved plans to sue the estate of Blaise Pascal after deciding that his triangle for expanding binomials was "not pyramid-y enough" to pursue further legal action.
Mono was a brilliant idea.
Like it or not,.NET has begun taking over windows desktop application development, and windows-based web development (haha).
Mono provides interoperability and portability, effectively allowing developers to make cross-platform applications simply and easily without using a monstrosity like Java.
If you denounce Mono because it implements a Microsoftian CLI, then you're just being idealistically stupid. You don't even have to use an MS-developed language if you don't want to.
Take a look at Boo, for example. Totally open-source pythonesque language implemented for the open-source mono CLI. But hey! It works on Windows too! Great way to expand audience and attract developers to minority platforms.
You are talking about high school here? This isn't a College prep course for the "real world". They aren't going to get a job at a high paying graphic design firm right out of 12th grade!
I did.
Come on! Just use what you have and if you want to introduce the free tools as well - go ahead. PhotoShop is a highly specialized tool used by professionals IN THE FEILD. If they want to learn PhotoShop they should have to take a corporate course or graphic design college.
I take it you've never actually USED Photoshop. Basic photoshop-literacy and practice can and should be taught in high school - or literacy in use of programs such as the GIMP. Essentially, they follow similar principles, and achieve similar purposes. What you learn in one, can easily be scaled to the other. It is the defacto standard for the industry, so education and training for it should be more readily available than corporate or private colleges. To be a graphic designer, you don't actually need to have such qualifications, often a decent understanding of optics and constrast, plus salience, plus photoshop/whatever skills, plus a portfolio, is all you need to get in. A qualification from a private college is definitely not necessary in the industry.
Besides that fact, Whether you do get PhotoShop CS3 or not, in 4 years when they start looking for a job it will be obsolete anyway. The only difference between PhotoShop 7 and CS2 is a couple more features to convert it to bloatware and THAT'S IT! Say thank you that you even have those older programs. Students in Africa and Asia struggle to find a computer running Windows 95!!!
Funny, I found students in Asia (when I was there) running laptops with Linux or XP largely, and I'm talking developing or semi-developing countries like Thailand, China and Taiwan. As for Photoshop CS3 being obsolete in a few years.. it has nothing to do with the question. He was asking if it would be better to teach obsolete versions of industry standards, or free equivalents. Photoshop CS3 actually has a variety of new features from CS2 that I find increasingly useful, particularly in the extended edition. It's not bloatware, it's just heavy-duty industry workware. Sure, they could trim down on the RAM requirement, but then if you were actually doing proper graphic design (i.e for paper documents or banners) and not just web design stuff or photo editing, then often you're dealing with ALOT of layers on a VERY VERY LARGE image that can consume a helluva lot of RAM. Photoshop edits those with less complaint and RAM guzzling than the GIMP.
Also, I suppose it goes without saying that you should check your spelling and grammar next time you post.
And now, finally, for my answer to the question: Go with the free alternatives, because your students can download them and practice at home, and the basic skills they'll learn will scale into graphic design tools such as photoshop fairly smoothly.
My business took this a step further.
We have our own Jabber service for purely internal use, and jabber clients running not only on our workstations but also on employee's PDA phones.
Businesses are more likely to consider implementing their own IM server/comms through Jabber or somesuch rather than simply use a service primarily targeted to non-business audiences like YIM.
I don't agree with Linus' comments on KDE/GNOME.
Aside from the fact that KDE (and Qt) in general looks worse (regardless of theme) than GTK2 and GNOME (at least, with a clearlooks skin), and the fact that KDE doesn't know how to name its applications properly, Gnome does not have the mentality that "Functionality confuses users", they simply have the time-honored software development principle at heart:
Keep it simple, stupid.
The other thing to note is, this guy is obviously both a wanker and an MS sellout, but that certainly doesn't mean it should terminate our support for GNOME as a reliable and worthwhile piece of software. Particularly seeing as the rest of the GNOME team don't endorse his ideas.
We should also be facing up to the facts. This isn't Slashdotland (and I shudder to think of what that would entail), and hence any format Microsoft push hard enough will eventually become a de facto standard. At least, this way, we can say that our competing products already have total support for the latest MS formats (that is, once it DOES become de facto standard) to the average luddite that your slashdot zealotry causes you to attempt to convert to FOSS.
Really, I can't think of anything that the Kernel hasn't handled brilliantly.
All new hardware these days is making use of existing buses and ports that have decent kernel support. The major things that need improvement are:
* ALSA - Particularly SBLive and Emu10k1 cards like the Audigy series.. * CUPS - Lexmark Printers, old Canon printers etc. etc. * X11 - This is a real stickler.. Alot of the restricted drivers seem to hate power management. If we could get some decent GPLed nvidia or ati (particularly ati) drivers that be a good start.
Unfortunately these 300 developers don't have the expertise to work on userland experience.
The hardware is made available for use by the kernel fine though, so what I suggest those kernel developers do is give the userland developers a shove on.
More realistically, they should work on improving power management. My restricted drivers all hate hibernating.. so maybe the hibernating process could be improved on the kernel end so that the restricted drivers work more seamlessly? I'm running a ton of custom acpi module unloading scripts that work but not cleanly enough....
I really don't know enough about Linux's internals, I just know how to administrate it.
Uhh, buddy, does Christ God not also say that you should "be not like the hypocrites who pray loudly on street corners"? How DARE you assert that you judge yourself as someone who has received the Holy Spirit when ONLY GOD HIMSELF can truly say for certain if you have or if you haven't. Your hubris is a grievous sin against Jesus. All that link you passed on to me is hellfire quotes from Revelation of John.
The Bible does not, EVER, define cults. Nor does it define religions.
Your love of the particular King James edition of the bible is also alarming. If you are a fundamentalist (as you clearly are), then obviously the King James Bible shouldn't be good enough. It is the LEAST accurate edition of any editions to the original text. Perhaps you should be learning Hebrew, Latin and Greek and reading the oldest copies of each text of the Bible that we have instead. Surely you would then receive Christ's message more clearly, and be less of the fucking hubristic retard that you currently make yourself out to be.
Regarding your direct bible reference.. the full reference is this:
"Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God."
You clearly do not look at the scriptures contextually, and take them at rote - I accuse YOU then of not knowing the scriptures well enough to Judge.
No human truly knows the full power of God. The Ends of the Earth shall see it on the Final Day, but until then, God remains clouded and hidden from all humanity. You can only fail to err if you know both, and no human does, and therefore all humans err.
It is permissible to God for you to err, and he forgives you if you are contrite.
It is people like you who give Christians a bad name.
I hope you flame yourself in future so I won't have to.
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I thought it was already "more remote"...
Yeah, except they already bundle their competitor (Live Search) with their primary profitable product (Windows &c) and it clearly isn't working, because people are using Google anyway.
1) Ballmer has already stated that Microsoft is not interested in making a Zune-Phone or anything of that type; Microsoft is happy selling the operating system for phones to other companies to do with what they want on the hardware side of things.
2) Apple is hardly the only player in the smartphone market - the major ones through which Microsoft sells their WM OS are O2 and HTC which have been in the market for much, much, much longer than Apple. In fact, Microsoft actually innovated here and beat Apple to the punch!
3) M$ is a dated slashdotism. Seriously, you just look lame if you do that now.
iTunes is probably the only popular piece of software Apple has on the windows platform - but it is a very popular piece of software.
iTunes not working on SP1 would be juust a bit of a showstopper for every iPod owner who uses iTunes (a percentage of which I assume is in the 90s).
I also know several people who don't even own an iPod who use iTunes. MS wouldn't want to piss off every iPod-owning Vista user (probably a fair few) by breaking their music software.
"And the other thing that hacks me off is that this post will no doubt be modded flamebait or troll which means worse karma (got none anyhow) and therefore no voice. It's an interesting effect of the Slashdot moderation scheme that any criticism of Slashdot is suppressed. Free speech doesn't flourish here (unless you follow the herd!)"
Your point has been circumvented by your +5 insightful rating. Highly amusing.
Mod Parent Up! Mod Parent Up!
I used to love KDE (v3 this is) but I found myself constantly redesigning and reworking my desktop layout, themes etc. because I could be happy with what I had.
After a while I figured out that KDE itself just lacks any artistic style at all, and no matter how much work you put into it, it doesn't look good.
There are a few reasons for this:
1) Everything is too big. Way too big. GNOME is the master of unobtrusive interfaces (which is exactly what an interface should be), but KDE give me a 64 pixel high bar at the bottom with all sorts of gizmos attached. When you shrink these down to a sane size, you quickly discover that KDE does not scale well to small sizes, and many of the applets begin to look cramped or strange. Fonts, buttons, widgets and icons are also, by default, too big. When I have a 1280x1024 screen I don't want most of it taken up with non-application content.
2) Menus, menus, menus, menus - Practically all the functions for an application can be found in huge menus that take up most of your screen. A couple of additional toolbars or maybe some dialogs would help in the application design.
3) Widget Spacing - No GNOME app ever seems to have difficulty with this, but KDE seems to fail horribly. GTK has default settings that allow you to space widgets not only evenly, but also with decent amounts of padding and spacing that remain even across the application. Qt must lack this sort of thing because Dolphin, Konqueror and amaroK (for example) lacks sufficient widget spacing.
4) Whoever made their icon theme was on crack - Everaldo's Crystal theme was (in my opinion) ugly as hell, and shiny for the sake of it (I much prefer matte icons), but at least it was consistent. Oxygen just sucks.
5) All the Qt skins suck, and I think we should be blaming Qt itself for this - hell, even Klearlook doesn't look as good as GNOME's Clearlooks, despite the obvious thematic similarity.
GNOME offers clearlooks (and its derivatives), tango icons, and a decent set of theming. Post-2.0 it has become alot more configurable (in fact there is little that I can't change in GNOME that I can in KDE3, and my GNOME is more customizable than KDE4)
Remember: I want my computer to be good and functional, and its interface needs to unobtrusively shift into the background while I'm working - I don't want to be distracted by this cool new skin or these fancy icons or desktop widgets. KDE had this simplicity in 2.0, and they've gone downhill ever since.
It is, as a friend of mine called it, "programmer's work". They have taken a perfectly decent looking DE and turned it into something only a programmer can produce.
GNOME is a dream by comparison.
Yeah, except Fibre optic cables don't make use of electromagnetic fields. Induction will get you a fat lot of nothing.
... in *search engines*?! No, into search engines.All Symbian UIQ devices have touch-screens, though I think this version of Firefox is only intended for WM5 and WM6.
I considered it, but when you read slashdot for long enough, these things just come naturally to you.
In the United States, those in middle-to-low income groups often get very poor health insurance from their employer, or worse, depend on Medicare/aid grants from the government.
This means that only those with money have proper access to health care, treatment and diagnosis.
In Australia, private cover is only designed to be an add-on for existing government-provided cover via the Pharmaceutical benefits scheme and Medicare. Medicare levies are paid on an income-ramped scale, and you can be exempt in some cases from paying altogether.
In this way, those that can afford good health care (i.e high incomes) enable those who cannot (low incomes) with at least a baseline medical cover that is far more extensive than the government health grants in the US of A.
This introduction of a credit-rating style scheme only makes the problem worse. Someone may have been unemployed and become very ill, and ended up being unable to pay medical bills promptly/at all. They may later have become employed - perhaps even at a high income, but will therefore still be cursed with a poor medical credit rating and be turned away from healthcare.
No one should be denied medical treatment in this way, and the fact that this system is being developed suggests there is something wrong with excessively privatized health like in the United States.
They are unfortunately at different times.
Channel Ten doesn't get much viewers in general for news/current affairs, it's like trying to get something serious out of a network that largely features American sitcoms and cartoons produced by the FOX network.
Channel Nine is only slightly better in terms of commercial content, and it DOES compete with the ABC, and, as far as I know (I don't have exact metrics) it gets substantially more viewers. Channel Ten doesn't have a current affairs show. Channel Nine does, but it is so mind-bogglingly terrible and sensationalist that I want to take an axe to my expensive TV.
Here in Australia, we have one network that is government funded and does not fall victim to any form of sensationalism.
The Australian Broadcasting Commission, ambiguously referred to as the ABC, is entirely funded by the government and therefore has no interest in ratings. The news and current affairs coverage is usually top-notch, although occasionally it demonstrates a slight left-wing bias.
I switch to Channel Ten, and I see Sandra Sully cutting to some recycled footage while talking about some cloning technology, and concluding the story with "Of course, human cloning is still many years away." Then, they use computer effects to duplicate Sandra Sully, and the two Sandras say in unison.. "or is it?".. followed by 15 minutes of someone rambling on about "Entertainment News", followed by a cut to the loud and annoying weatherman who spends more time advertising charities than talking about the weather, then cut back to Sandra Sully who will engage in some useless banter with the sport guy. And the sports report is just a veiled advertisement for the sports programme they have on later that night, and then they do some "Australian Idol" news, and finish up to pictures of the beach.
ABC is at least a safe haven of real journalism. I'm not even sure the people working at Channel Ten are even journalists.
No, they're not taking it that far. They're just trying to pressure developers into making managed consumer-level applications for Vista rather than write them in C++ or somesuch.
.NET applications are "managed code" in that they are executed by an interpreter and are not fully compiled into native binaries. This means that, with proper assemblies, one can have cross-platform development. The other thing is it decreases dramatically the chances of things like buffer overruns and other security holes. Java is another example of managed code, but I don't think it does quite as well in terms of performance. You're talking about package management, not managed software :)
The Volkswagen was a mass produced car, the first of it's kind. This was how it was publicly accessible - it was made for utility not class.
That is why it was called the Volkswagen.
This new People's car is aimed at making the existing mass produced cars cheaper for access by poorer countries. Totally different concept, totally different idea, just a similar name.
...pyramid spirituality has suffered a rapid decline, offset by the sudden increase in Trapezoid Spirituality, purported to have greater healing effects - at half price!
Furthermore, the Egyptian government has shelved plans to sue the estate of Blaise Pascal after deciding that his triangle for expanding binomials was "not pyramid-y enough" to pursue further legal action.
Mono was a brilliant idea. Like it or not, .NET has begun taking over windows desktop application development, and windows-based web development (haha).
Mono provides interoperability and portability, effectively allowing developers to make cross-platform applications simply and easily without using a monstrosity like Java.
If you denounce Mono because it implements a Microsoftian CLI, then you're just being idealistically stupid. You don't even have to use an MS-developed language if you don't want to.
Take a look at Boo, for example. Totally open-source pythonesque language implemented for the open-source mono CLI. But hey! It works on Windows too! Great way to expand audience and attract developers to minority platforms.
My business took this a step further. We have our own Jabber service for purely internal use, and jabber clients running not only on our workstations but also on employee's PDA phones. Businesses are more likely to consider implementing their own IM server/comms through Jabber or somesuch rather than simply use a service primarily targeted to non-business audiences like YIM.
I don't agree with Linus' comments on KDE/GNOME. Aside from the fact that KDE (and Qt) in general looks worse (regardless of theme) than GTK2 and GNOME (at least, with a clearlooks skin), and the fact that KDE doesn't know how to name its applications properly, Gnome does not have the mentality that "Functionality confuses users", they simply have the time-honored software development principle at heart: Keep it simple, stupid. The other thing to note is, this guy is obviously both a wanker and an MS sellout, but that certainly doesn't mean it should terminate our support for GNOME as a reliable and worthwhile piece of software. Particularly seeing as the rest of the GNOME team don't endorse his ideas. We should also be facing up to the facts. This isn't Slashdotland (and I shudder to think of what that would entail), and hence any format Microsoft push hard enough will eventually become a de facto standard. At least, this way, we can say that our competing products already have total support for the latest MS formats (that is, once it DOES become de facto standard) to the average luddite that your slashdot zealotry causes you to attempt to convert to FOSS.
Really, I can't think of anything that the Kernel hasn't handled brilliantly.
All new hardware these days is making use of existing buses and ports that have decent kernel support. The major things that need improvement are:
* ALSA - Particularly SBLive and Emu10k1 cards like the Audigy series..
* CUPS - Lexmark Printers, old Canon printers etc. etc.
* X11 - This is a real stickler.. Alot of the restricted drivers seem to hate power management. If we could get some decent GPLed nvidia or ati (particularly ati) drivers that be a good start.
Unfortunately these 300 developers don't have the expertise to work on userland experience.
The hardware is made available for use by the kernel fine though, so what I suggest those kernel developers do is give the userland developers a shove on.
More realistically, they should work on improving power management. My restricted drivers all hate hibernating.. so maybe the hibernating process could be improved on the kernel end so that the restricted drivers work more seamlessly? I'm running a ton of custom acpi module unloading scripts that work but not cleanly enough....
I really don't know enough about Linux's internals, I just know how to administrate it.
Uhh, buddy, does Christ God not also say that you should "be not like the hypocrites who pray loudly on street corners"? How DARE you assert that you judge yourself as someone who has received the Holy Spirit when ONLY GOD HIMSELF can truly say for certain if you have or if you haven't. Your hubris is a grievous sin against Jesus. All that link you passed on to me is hellfire quotes from Revelation of John.
The Bible does not, EVER, define cults. Nor does it define religions.
Your love of the particular King James edition of the bible is also alarming. If you are a fundamentalist (as you clearly are), then obviously the King James Bible shouldn't be good enough. It is the LEAST accurate edition of any editions to the original text. Perhaps you should be learning Hebrew, Latin and Greek and reading the oldest copies of each text of the Bible that we have instead. Surely you would then receive Christ's message more clearly, and be less of the fucking hubristic retard that you currently make yourself out to be.
Regarding your direct bible reference.. the full reference is this:
"Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God."
You clearly do not look at the scriptures contextually, and take them at rote - I accuse YOU then of not knowing the scriptures well enough to Judge.
No human truly knows the full power of God. The Ends of the Earth shall see it on the Final Day, but until then, God remains clouded and hidden from all humanity. You can only fail to err if you know both, and no human does, and therefore all humans err.
It is permissible to God for you to err, and he forgives you if you are contrite.
It is people like you who give Christians a bad name.
I hope you flame yourself in future so I won't have to.