I hate to argue

13 03 2008

Someone is wrong on the internet
Even though i am right most of the time ;) i find it meaningless to waste time arguing with people. Especially when people are just arguing for the sake of arguing. But if I argue, it is pointless to argue back, because I never argue unless I am 100% percent certain I am right, which means I am right. End of discussion.




Nice little tool

29 02 2008

I stumbled upon the following interresting little tool:
http://translate.google.com

I, was reading commeonts for a youtube clip, and there was one comment in arabic that i wanted to know what was. I first tried babelfish.altavista.com that can translate webpages but there was not a arabic transation possibility. So i googled for arabic-english translation and found translate.google.com that can translate webpages and also translate text that you can paste in.
I found it very useful.

I have used babelfish.altavista.com several times when i am trying to find some solution to some programming error and the only discussions about a certain error message have been in french or spanish. Then it has helped me to just enter te url to a page and babelfish translates it for me.
translate.google.com has the same feature as well.

It can translate Arabic, Chineese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italin, Japaneese, Korean, Portugese, Russian and Spanish to English or the other way round. Another interresting thing is that if a translation is not really good, you can improve it. This way google takes advantage of collective intelligence so that its system can be taught by experts (you) all around the world.

It also provides a widget that you can put on your webpage that translates it into a language the user desies.

I decided to put the tool to a little test.
I entered the text i wrote earlier in this blogpost.

I stumbled upon the following interresting little tool: http://translate.google.com
I, was reading commeonts for a youtube clip, and there was one comment in arabic that i wanted to know what was. I first tried babelfish.altavista.com that can translate webpages but there was not a arabic transation possibility. So i googled for arabic-english translation and found translate.google.com that can translate webpages and also translate text that you can paste in.
I found it very useful.

And had it translated into German:

Ich bin auf die folgenden interresting kleines Werkzeug: http://translate.google.com
Ich war für eine Lesung commeonts youtube Clip, und es wurde ein Kommentar in arabisch, die ich wollte wissen, was war. Babelfish.altavista.com ich zunächst versucht, die Web-Seiten zu übersetzen, aber es gab keine Möglichkeit, arabisch transation. Also i googeln für die arabisch-Englisch Übersetzungen und translate.google.com gefunden, die Web-Seiten zu übersetzen und auch übersetzen Text, den Sie einfügen können in.
Ich fand es sehr nützlich.

That was translated to French:

Je suis sur le petit outil interresting suivantes: http://translate.google.com
J’étais pour une lecture commeonts youtube clip, et il a été un commentaire en arabe, que j’ai voulu savoir ce qui était. Babelfish.altavista.com je tente tout d’abord, les pages Web à traduire, mais il n’y avait aucune possibilité de transation arabe. Also i Google pour la traduction arabe-anglais et translate.google.com trouvés, les pages Web, ainsi que de traduire de traduire le texte, que vous pouvez insérer in
Je l’ai trouvé très utile.

And that was then translated back to English:

I am on the small tool interresting: http://translate.google.com
I was for a reading commeonts youtube clip, and it was a comment in Arabic, that I wanted to know what was. Babelfish.altavista.com I try first, web pages to be translated, but there was no possibility of transaction Arabic. Also i Google for the Arabic-English translation and translate.google.com found, web pages, and to bring to translate the text, which you can insert in
I found it very useful.




A Parrallel univserse

23 11 2007

Parallel universes
I remember on 7:th grade when ajax was only a washing powder, 64Mb of RAM was extreme and you had to remember what sound card you had when you installed games. I was browsing the internet with some version of Netscape Navigator in school, looking for simpson wav files to set as windows sounds. Then i came to a page that had the subdomain www2 instead of www. I remembered i asked my teacher about the www2, (it was on computer class) and he said that we should stay on the internet and not go on astray to any other stuff. That felt spooky, i remembered that it felt like surfing on the internet in a parallel universe, it felt like the whole internet was made up of infinite parallel universes www, www2, www3 … wwwn where n->infinity. Of course, www is just a subdomain to somdedomain.com, it can just as easily be wtf.somedomain.com or, gimmeachicken.somedomain.com, and you can have subdomains to subdomains to subdomains, just look at the server db.cs.helsinki.fi or scholar.google.com, or maps.google.com




Kind of funny

16 05 2007

I think this is kind of funny:




Reaching the entire world in one generation

17 04 2007

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” - Matthew 28:18-19

I wonder how long Jesus had in mind it would take the church to do this. Well it has gone 2000 years since… Has something gone very wrong? I think one problem is that we as individuals do not take this command seriously nor personally, we think it’s “the church’s job” as in “there are those who get paid to do that kind of stuff”
Well my dear audience. If that is the case, we will never see the world saved.
This applies to you and me. But the problem is also that we make it too complicated.
It´s about living out the love of God where you are, being light and salt.
Instead of one trying to reach all, all should try to reach one..
I made a simple world salvation calculator that shows that in one generation every person on this planet could be saved, even if we started from 1.
We as individuals need to make disciples, who makes disciples, who makes disciples…
Just focus on one, two or three and learn them everything you know. A good leader duplicates himself. Jesus focused on 12 and taught them for three years. If we discipled one person a year (who would start to do the same) in 33 years every single man on earth would be a disciple.




The new Halo 2 multiplayer maps

17 04 2007

Today 2 new multiplayer maps for Halo 2 were released.
Tombstone
My old favorite multiplayer map from the first Halo game, “Hang ‘Em High” has been remaked to Halo 2 and released under the name “Tombstone” here is a videoclip from that map.

It is easy to identify a lot of places from Hang Em High, I feel right at home already. There is for instance the good old “Stanleys favoritställe” and “Osynligheten” (inside terminology from our multiplayer fellowship.. names for places on maps are born quickly in order to know where the other team members and especially the enemy team players are)

Desolation
The other map is a remake of “Derelict” now called “Desolation”. I didn’t play Derelict as much so it’s not as exciting as Tombstone but it looks like it will be fun playing.

p.s i had the wolume down when writing this (parent syndrom) so i haven’t heard any sound from the clips. Hope none are offending.




Dell will offer Linux presinstalled

30 03 2007

The second largest computer company Dell, will be offering Linux preinstalled on their PC’s
BBC story here…
Dell + Linux = true

They have not yet announced which linux version will be used.
Dell offered a Linux alternative on their servers, but now it seems that it will happed for the desktops/laptops as well.

Dell had launced an ideastorm website to determine what the users would want, and the loudest opinion was to have Linux supported and preinstalled as an alternative to windows on theis computers. Dell announces the results of the ideastorm here. Of 100 000 particicipants over 70% said they would use linux. Even though the “flavour” of the linux distro is not yet determined, some believe that it will be SuSE.

p.s here is some trivia




Static electricity

18 12 2006

(I thought about naming this post ‘Electricity in bed’)
I had a fever yesterday, and had an extra blanket on me when i slept to “help the fever” without draining my body of energy. Anyway, during the night, i was of course hot, I went up and had a glass of water. Then i decided that i did not need the extra blanket anymore, so i removed it.
When i removed the blanket there were sparks of static electricity and because it wast pitch black in the middle of the night they were really visible.
Big spots, from 5 to 10 cm^2, shone yellow on the surface of the felt blanket.
It made the same sound that you sometimes hear when you remove a woollen jumper.




Halo 3

15 12 2006

I guess that sometimes next spring that Halo 3 will be. Some rumors say February 9th. But anyway, it’s exiting.

Halo, is a very popular xbox game series, the original halo was released on pc, mac and xbox, Halo two only on xbox, and for Halo 3 you must have xbox 360.

The most fun think with halo are the multiplayer games, where you can hook up xboxes in a local network, or over the internet. Wen we play we usually play in teams and are all in the same room.

The most revoluting change from halo 1 to halo 2 was that you could have dual weapons in your hands (two of the smaller weapons simultaneously in either hand). One change for halo 3 seems to be that you can see what other multiplayers have as their secondary weapon (or the one they are not using), it used to be invisible, but now it is hanging on their back, this means that when you sneek up on someone that is let’s say sniping, you won’t be overwhelmed if they suddenly draw up a shotgun (designed for close combat) and kills you with one shot, because you see that they have a shotgun, and maby change tactics.

For those that don’t know what halo multiplayer is, and for those that haven’t played in a while, here is a sample for you.




3D desktop - BumpTop

14 12 2006

This is quite interrestion. A new way of using the desktop.