It goes beyond that - of the four creation stories in the Bible, two are located in Genesis. Genesis 1:1-2:4 is one story, and another is in 2:4-2:25. One of the most redeemable things about the ever-popular KJV Bible is that it preserved the translations of the old Hebrew, so it's trivial to separate them out and identify which story is which. When the bible says 'the Lord' they meant one story (stories from the older Judea, who called God "Elohim"), and 'God' is the newer, Israelite stories ("Yaweh").
This becomes fascinating when you see other stories such as Noahs' Ark. While we are familiar with two of every animal, 40 days and nights, and a dove showing up, another version is told alongside it with seven of each animal, 150 days/nights, and a raven showing up.
Anywho, yeah, of the two stories in Genesis, the first (popular) one says the first day comes about *after* earth is created. So God makes the earth in some amount of time, and *then* populates it in 6 days (or, 6 'whatever's, as you correctly pointed out)
Oh, the lounge is friggin' sweet and all, but I think a lot of first class passengers don't have the status needed for lounges. I'd say 75% of the time I fly first, it's with an airline I don't have good enough status on, and/or it's not an international flight. Anecdotal, I know, but that's why I get on early. If there's a lounge, then yeah, I'm the last one on the plane:)
First class cabins, especially on long flights and most especially on non-US flights are much better than the airport terminal. You get free drinks, you can charge your iPod/laptop, and you can read all the free magazines and newspapers they provide you (again, mostly non-US). There is also the issue of overhead cabin space, although I've never had any problem with overhead bin space in first class since there's about half the people there per foot of bin space.
... it's because he was promised he would. And for the record, he *did* get the same case back. That's the 'WTF' point of the article - he got the same case back, but it the artwork was intentionally and very deliberately removed. I was going to complain that the parent of your post didn't RTFA (because the warranty was cited there as the reason for not opening the case), which means he shouldn't be responding to the article in the first place, but it looks like you didn't either. Sheesh.
Do you think there's a script out there that just automatically registers a domain once it sees a lot of DNS requests for a URL? I'd imagine someone working in conjunction with NetworkSolutions could get this working.
That's awesome. Even if the company owed you less than $1000, you could just grab the power cords/adapters for the PBX, servers, and possibly grab some RAM sticks out of the email server.
Or if you were really mean, you could just come in an take the coffee filters every day for 10 years.
...you should just RTFA before posting. Dual-layer HD-DVDs (which is what a lot of the movies are) are 30 GB. Burnable Blu-ray discs are 25GB. If you know how to fit 30GB into 25GB without compression, please share.
Actually, I think that course might cost $10,000. Not to mention all the work you have to put into levels 1-7. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewinds
No! It's not on some scale of truthfulness - a scientific theory will always be a theory. It doesn't get 'upgraded' to anything else if more evidence supports it. A theory is a model, an explanation of other facts. They can be true or untrue, but they're still theories.
Like heliocentric theory takes facts related to gravity, motion and inertia to explain why the Earth revolves around the Sun (as opposed to falling into it, as the simple law of gravity would suggest). Just because every physicist knows that the Earth revovles around the Sun doesn't mean we're going to start calling it the Fact of Gravity.
I heard starter pistols work for this, as they're coded as a 'weapon' just like a 9mm or a rifle would. And there's probably less hassle with security (although I still wouldn't try this on an international flight).
Right. The signature on the back of the card is not there for security - it's there to protect the merchant from having to pay a chargeback.
Basically, the signature is the signature to the Cardholder's Agreement you get with the card. Except that instead of the signature being on a piece of paper that no one wants to carry around, they let you sign the card itself. Once you sign it, the merchant knows that the card is valid, and they are now free to charge the card without fearing a complaint come back saying "I never authorized that!". As long as there's a signature, even if it doesn't match the person who's holding it, the merchant is not liable for fraudulent purchases.
Which is why writing "See ID" is frowned upon, and merchants will sometimes refuse to take a card with that writte on the back.
I think criticizing a religion is protected by free speech, but threats against a person, or group of people, no matter how large, are not not necessarily so. Among the several things the First Amendment doesn't protect (fire in a crowded theater, sedition...), out-and-out threats are in there.
Now, that being said, I think the statements he made should be considered criticisms, not threats. It's not like he said he was going to kill every Scientologist.
In your case, just roll through the light after a stop. They won't go off if you're going slow enough (12 mph in the DC area). This is to prevent the camera going off when people get out of the way of oncoming emergency vehicles.
Same here. I have my own mail server and have email clients on all my machines, but the first thing I do when I get email is to auto-forward to a GMail account. The email is now available anywhere, on anyone's computer, and it will be stored at a facility managed by professionals, so if something ever happens to my host or server, the email is still stored somewhere.
Well, the poster is still correct. While it's true anything you write (even if it's jotted on the back of a napkin) is copyrighted, it's not *registered* with the gov't, which means they never get a copy of it, and as such, it may be a little harder to prove that you wrote such-and-such and whatever date.
True. And if you don't know how, just click the "Cite this article" link available on every page of Wikipedia, and then choose your format (APA, Chicago... etc.)
There is no doubt that if you are designing a system from scratch, the metric system is superior....no. For an engineer working on a shuttle, sure. But for day-to-day use? Forget it. Say I want to measure the distance from here to a nearby tree. You know what I do? I walk. How many times do I put my foot down toe-to-toe? 27? Great. 27'. Now what's that in meters? Oh easy. Step one - mark off the distance on a really long tape measure you have lying around. Step two - take that length and divide that by the length of an imaginary line going from the North Pole to the equator (oh, and you have to walk through Paris - in a straight line too! No walking around buildings!). Step three - multiply by 10,000,000. Yeah, great system.
You want a temp scale? Stick a thermometer in your mouth, and then stick it in an ice/salt mix. You now have 0 and 96 marked off. Using a compass, or a piece of paper, and you can easily mark of 12 equal markings from 0 to 96. You think Celsius is better? Okay, you've got 0 and 100. How many equal markings can you make with a compass, a straightedge, and a piece of paper? You can only divide in in halves and be left with round numbers? So it's 35 degrees on your C scale. Too bad the closest mark is at 50. Not too accurate for you.
While there are several viewpoints on how he made his scale - people are reasonably sure that his 100 degrees came from his body temperature. Or, in keeping with the spirit of practicality of the rest of the Imperial system, he made his body temp 96 degrees. The reason is that zero degrees is what it is, was because that temp was relatively easy to attain - it's the temperature of an ice/salt mixture. The reason for the 96? Same reason as why there's 12 inches in a foot - it's trivial to divide the scale by 2, 3, 5, and 6. In other words, you can make a Fahrenheit thermometer with relatively few materials. (not that it's hard to boil water, but I think that Fahrenheit wanted something even easier - no fire req'd).
Except for one thing -- US currency is the only currency in the world that makes that distinct crumpling sound when it's handled. No other currency or (very few) people have successfully duplicated it. Which is why it's the US's #1 counterfeiting technique, and it appears to be part of the reason why there's been so little change.
Now, agreed, they should be different colors, sizes, and have textures. And personally, I wouldn't mind plastic money, as it could be washed. Just playing the devil's advocate here. The US seems proud of its money, and I suppose it *is* rather recognizable, so the US is just very slow to adopt change.
When I go on vacation, I just make sure my coworkers know I'm away so they can handle any new problems, and I make sure the projects I'm working on can hold still for a couple of days. If people check email while they're away, it's really their own doing. Plan ahead, disconnect, and just deal with a busy Monday when you get back.
Granted, I haven't been on a long vacation in three years. Most of mine are three days here and there, but the same concepts apply. My last vacation to Mexico with some buddies, and I didn't check email once, and I made one phone call back home (to the girlfriend, pretty much required). My next trip is to go snowmobiling in Canada. My cell phone won't work, and that's fine with me. The idea of a vacation is to get away. Do it!
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/fullreport.pdf
On page 3 it says that one of the hijackers did not have any ID - it didn't say whether or not the others were valid.
On page 169 though, it appears that they did have an organization affiliated with Al-Queda that did facilitate the production of fake IDs.
Other sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5594385/
Say that "many" of the hijackers used fake IDs.
Yeah, that's ClearType - a very nice Microsoft innovation that uses subpixels of LCD displays to make smoother text (basically it will address each R, G, and B segment of each LCD pixel rather than just giving the pixel a color value). For some inane reason, it's off by default on XP, and IE7 is the first app to use it by default.
If you can take advantage of ClearType that means that a) you're running XP, and b) you've got an LCD monitor. To use ClearType in all applications (including Office and Firefox), right-click the desktop -> Properties -> Appearance -> Effects..., then select ClearType under the "... smooth fonts" item.
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This becomes fascinating when you see other stories such as Noahs' Ark. While we are familiar with two of every animal, 40 days and nights, and a dove showing up, another version is told alongside it with seven of each animal, 150 days/nights, and a raven showing up.
Anywho, yeah, of the two stories in Genesis, the first (popular) one says the first day comes about *after* earth is created. So God makes the earth in some amount of time, and *then* populates it in 6 days (or, 6 'whatever's, as you correctly pointed out)
Oh, the lounge is friggin' sweet and all, but I think a lot of first class passengers don't have the status needed for lounges. I'd say 75% of the time I fly first, it's with an airline I don't have good enough status on, and/or it's not an international flight. Anecdotal, I know, but that's why I get on early. If there's a lounge, then yeah, I'm the last one on the plane :)
First class cabins, especially on long flights and most especially on non-US flights are much better than the airport terminal. You get free drinks, you can charge your iPod/laptop, and you can read all the free magazines and newspapers they provide you (again, mostly non-US). There is also the issue of overhead cabin space, although I've never had any problem with overhead bin space in first class since there's about half the people there per foot of bin space.
... it's because he was promised he would. And for the record, he *did* get the same case back. That's the 'WTF' point of the article - he got the same case back, but it the artwork was intentionally and very deliberately removed. I was going to complain that the parent of your post didn't RTFA (because the warranty was cited there as the reason for not opening the case), which means he shouldn't be responding to the article in the first place, but it looks like you didn't either. Sheesh.
Do you think there's a script out there that just automatically registers a domain once it sees a lot of DNS requests for a URL? I'd imagine someone working in conjunction with NetworkSolutions could get this working.
Or if you were really mean, you could just come in an take the coffee filters every day for 10 years.
...you should just RTFA before posting. Dual-layer HD-DVDs (which is what a lot of the movies are) are 30 GB. Burnable Blu-ray discs are 25GB. If you know how to fit 30GB into 25GB without compression, please share.
Actually, I think that course might cost $10,000. Not to mention all the work you have to put into levels 1-7. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewinds
Like heliocentric theory takes facts related to gravity, motion and inertia to explain why the Earth revolves around the Sun (as opposed to falling into it, as the simple law of gravity would suggest). Just because every physicist knows that the Earth revovles around the Sun doesn't mean we're going to start calling it the Fact of Gravity.
I heard starter pistols work for this, as they're coded as a 'weapon' just like a 9mm or a rifle would. And there's probably less hassle with security (although I still wouldn't try this on an international flight).
Basically, the signature is the signature to the Cardholder's Agreement you get with the card. Except that instead of the signature being on a piece of paper that no one wants to carry around, they let you sign the card itself. Once you sign it, the merchant knows that the card is valid, and they are now free to charge the card without fearing a complaint come back saying "I never authorized that!". As long as there's a signature, even if it doesn't match the person who's holding it, the merchant is not liable for fraudulent purchases.
Which is why writing "See ID" is frowned upon, and merchants will sometimes refuse to take a card with that writte on the back.
...and it's not even "symbolically eat his flesh"... Catholic dogma states that with transubstination, people are eating Jesus' actual flesh.
Now, that being said, I think the statements he made should be considered criticisms, not threats. It's not like he said he was going to kill every Scientologist.
In your case, just roll through the light after a stop. They won't go off if you're going slow enough (12 mph in the DC area). This is to prevent the camera going off when people get out of the way of oncoming emergency vehicles.
Same here. I have my own mail server and have email clients on all my machines, but the first thing I do when I get email is to auto-forward to a GMail account. The email is now available anywhere, on anyone's computer, and it will be stored at a facility managed by professionals, so if something ever happens to my host or server, the email is still stored somewhere.
Well, the poster is still correct. While it's true anything you write (even if it's jotted on the back of a napkin) is copyrighted, it's not *registered* with the gov't, which means they never get a copy of it, and as such, it may be a little harder to prove that you wrote such-and-such and whatever date.
It's a Slashdot joke. It's pretty tough to find a /. review that isn't 4/5, that's all.
True. And if you don't know how, just click the "Cite this article" link available on every page of Wikipedia, and then choose your format (APA, Chicago... etc.)
You want a temp scale? Stick a thermometer in your mouth, and then stick it in an ice/salt mix. You now have 0 and 96 marked off. Using a compass, or a piece of paper, and you can easily mark of 12 equal markings from 0 to 96. You think Celsius is better? Okay, you've got 0 and 100. How many equal markings can you make with a compass, a straightedge, and a piece of paper? You can only divide in in halves and be left with round numbers? So it's 35 degrees on your C scale. Too bad the closest mark is at 50. Not too accurate for you.
While there are several viewpoints on how he made his scale - people are reasonably sure that his 100 degrees came from his body temperature. Or, in keeping with the spirit of practicality of the rest of the Imperial system, he made his body temp 96 degrees. The reason is that zero degrees is what it is, was because that temp was relatively easy to attain - it's the temperature of an ice/salt mixture. The reason for the 96? Same reason as why there's 12 inches in a foot - it's trivial to divide the scale by 2, 3, 5, and 6. In other words, you can make a Fahrenheit thermometer with relatively few materials. (not that it's hard to boil water, but I think that Fahrenheit wanted something even easier - no fire req'd).
Now, agreed, they should be different colors, sizes, and have textures. And personally, I wouldn't mind plastic money, as it could be washed. Just playing the devil's advocate here. The US seems proud of its money, and I suppose it *is* rather recognizable, so the US is just very slow to adopt change.
Granted, I haven't been on a long vacation in three years. Most of mine are three days here and there, but the same concepts apply. My last vacation to Mexico with some buddies, and I didn't check email once, and I made one phone call back home (to the girlfriend, pretty much required). My next trip is to go snowmobiling in Canada. My cell phone won't work, and that's fine with me. The idea of a vacation is to get away. Do it!
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/fullreport.pdf On page 3 it says that one of the hijackers did not have any ID - it didn't say whether or not the others were valid. On page 169 though, it appears that they did have an organization affiliated with Al-Queda that did facilitate the production of fake IDs. Other sources: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5594385/ Say that "many" of the hijackers used fake IDs.
Good lord, 22 years? And I was going to make a nice comment about how this was Microsft's first innovation in a long, long, time. Thanks.
Yeah, that's ClearType - a very nice Microsoft innovation that uses subpixels of LCD displays to make smoother text (basically it will address each R, G, and B segment of each LCD pixel rather than just giving the pixel a color value). For some inane reason, it's off by default on XP, and IE7 is the first app to use it by default. If you can take advantage of ClearType that means that a) you're running XP, and b) you've got an LCD monitor. To use ClearType in all applications (including Office and Firefox), right-click the desktop -> Properties -> Appearance -> Effects..., then select ClearType under the "... smooth fonts" item.