Blind "Churches"

During the sermon of openly gay bishop Gene Robinson, a young man stands up in the crowd calling him a heretic and calling for him to repent. The crown then starts to clap, not for the man standing up for biblical truth, but to silence him. The only biblical voice in that entire "church" was drowned out by the congregation singing praises to their god while he was being dragged away. This is deeply troubling and disturbing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7504472.stm

How quickly we forget history

Whether you are for or against the war in Iraq, let us be reminded who beat the drum in the first place. None other than Colin Powell, who now is backpedaling.

Deciphering Windows 7 numbers

Warming: this post will be more geeky than most of my others.

Microsoft has made a lot of operating systems. With the recently announced Windows 7 being the official name, how did they determine the number 7? In this chart I am only taking into account major version numbers, not the server lines, and not interim releases (like Windows 98se).

First a quick history:
Historic line - The number determined by release date.
DOS Line - Based on MS DOS. 16-bit
32-bit NT Line - Written completely from the ground up and no relation to the 16-bit version except for name and look.
Consumer line - What was sold to mainstream consumers.
64-bit line - Windows completely rewritten to 64-bit.



For those saying Microsoft is rushing Windows 7 because of the bad Vista press, this is completely untrue. Just looking at the historic release date one can see a 2-3, sometimes 5 year time frame between Windows versions, so a 3 year time frame between Vista and Windows 7 is not unheard of. Calling Windows 7 the 14th version of Windows would not be accurate as there have been different lines of Windows for different markets. We can see Microsoft is going with the numbering system that was sold to mainstream consumers, starting with Windows 3.

When Microsoft releases Windows 8 as only 64-bit, then we will get into another naming snafu, as that will technically be the 4th version of the 64-bit platform. Also, since Windows 7 will be the last 32-bit version, and every modern computer is 64-bit, it makes no sense not to buy a computer with 64-bit Vista or get 64-bit Windows 7 when it is released. The industry support is there now, and its due time consumers make the switch.

Everything else aside, I'm enjoying Vista now, Windows 7 is a name that will work, and I look forward to it in the next two years.

Goodbye Analog

Television will finally switch to all digital in February of next year, and I will be throwing a going away analog party. For those that have not made the switch, here is a brief tutorial.



Best line, "Will all of this make Jack Benny come back?".

Human rights for the dead, not the living

California just passed a law that gives dead people rights. The exhibit that shows actual human bodies on display for $25 a ticket, is getting these human remains from "unclaimed" dead body trafficking in China. This is not to say what is being done at these displays is permissible or that I oppose the newly passed law, I just find it funny that people are fighting for the rights of dead people, and not the rights of those who are living, whether they be unborn or elderly. Most illogical, and morally inconsistent.