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A long Dell chat with Rahul and Mohammed
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A long Dell chat with Rahul and Mohammed
"Christopher Muto" wrote in message t... video failure, which results in a motherboard replacement 'kit' (that includes a new heat sink/fan/thermal pads) is far more common in this model than hard drive failure. on a positive note, dell seems to ship replacement drives for the xps mxxxx series with the os already loaded. but the os is probably vista and replacing it with windows 7 makes for a much better user experience (vista seems to randomly hand on these machines for unknown reasons). Did you mean "vista seems to radomly HANG on these machines"? Personally, I can't recall having this problem on mine. peter |
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On Dec 31, 3:09*pm, Bill Ghrist wrote:
On 12/30/2010 12:11 PM, wrote: On Dec 30, 6:39 am, Ben *wrote: snip Aha! Thank you. *The decades of fighting with Pakistan over Kashmir led me to the false conclusion that Muslims were a smaller minority. *Why can't we all get along? *... Ben Hi Ben...I not sure how serious you are about an answer to your question of why can't we all get along. *This is so far off topic, but I wondered that myself, so I some research a few years back. The three Abrahamic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are strong monotheistic religions and being so makes them think that their view of the Ultimate One is only true view even though the three religions evolved from the descendants of the same source--Abraham. *However, compared to Judaism, Christianity and Islam are new religions, with Christianity being an offshoot of Judaism beginning around the 1st century. Ironically prior the 3rd century (Islam came much later about the 7th or 8th Century), there were many flavors of monotheism, most notably the Christian Gnostics who believed that mainstream Christians worshiped a minor god and the Gnostics themselves worships the one true God. *The Christian Gnostics claimed to have a secret knowledge of the one true God. * To confuse things even more, two early Church fathers, Clement and Origen were Platonists with a strong mystical orientation. Origen works were later condemn as heresy and his works burned by the early Church in the 5th century. Prior to the rise of Christianity in the third and fourth centuries, mainstream religions in the Roman empire got along without fighting one another. *After the emergence of orthodox Christianity in the 4th and 5th centuries, people began to lose their lives over the issue of religions. When Islam was found around the 8th century things even got more heated. *There is some idea that Muhammad was actually a Christian monk before he had a revelation from God that led to Islam. There is so much that has gotten lost in history. Sorry for the off topic! Larry One of the biggest problems was the merging of religion with secular authority, which for Christianity started in the early fourth century, and for Islam was present pretty much from the start. *The unholy alliances between religion and the state were welcomed by political leaders as another source of power and by religious leaders as a means of promulgating the faith (often by military adventures). *This greatly expanded the scope and influence of the religious institutions, but at the cost of great damage to their spiritual integrity. *For many centuries the Roman Church, for example, was little distinguishable from other secular states. *In my opinion the damage caused by religious conflict has been due mainly to the misuse of religion by authorities (secular and religious) for personal and political aggrandizement rather than by the core values of the religions themselves. Bill Ghrist Again off topic, but I would agree with what you say. While Emperor Constantine legalized the Christian religion about 312, Emperor Theodosius's decree in the 390s, that Christianity was to be, to the exclusion of all other religions, the only religion of the Empire led to Christian dominance. I agree, it is difficult to say who co-opted whom as both the Emperor (secular authority) and the early Church equally benefited. Although I think Constantine had no idea what a beehive he inherited due to the split of many in the early Church over Christological issues. Some of them are hot button religious issues to this day. From what I understand, Theodosius's decree virtually gave Christianity a monopoly on religion in the Empire and early Church officials authority to use military force to destroy non-Christian temples and compel the populace to convert to the new religion. Of course most of the non-Christian religions went underground. Maybe this heated disagreement over early Christological issues and the early Church's use of force are the initial sources of many religious issues we are facing even today. Military adventures such as the Crusades only further inflamed issues between East and West. All that, along with what you pointed out are plausible answers to Ben's original question, "Why can't we all get along?" Larry |
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On 12/31/2010 11:57 AM, Peter Greenstein wrote:
"Christopher Muto" wrote in message t... video failure, which results in a motherboard replacement 'kit' (that includes a new heat sink/fan/thermal pads) is far more common in this model than hard drive failure. on a positive note, dell seems to ship replacement drives for the xps mxxxx series with the os already loaded. but the os is probably vista and replacing it with windows 7 makes for a much better user experience (vista seems to randomly hand on these machines for unknown reasons). Did you mean "vista seems to radomly HANG on these machines"? Personally, I can't recall having this problem on mine. peter yes. if yours works smoothly then great, but i have seen many with many issues running vista. those issues all went away when windows 7 was installed on the same machine so the isses were obviously not hardware. seems criminal that dell/microsoft didn't provide windows 7 as a free upgrade on these machines sold with vista that have problems running it. |
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