Matthew 7 (KJV)
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Note:
1. When a religion (I) teaches its followers “believe in all the scriptures and prophets and teachings of other religion (C)” .. “but what they believe is wrong”.
Would you believe in a religion that teaches you that?
2. When a person (M) is born 6 centuries after the fact, claims to be the last prophet, to speak the word of God, and never affirms the following commandments:
Matthew 22 (KJV)
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Then who is this God?
Tonight I learnt that I’ve lost adik Irfan. Sad as it may be that I was not there for him in his last days, I am grateful that I knew him. I hoped for him to get well, for him to fight on, and for him to be at peace. I think I’ve failed, but God has taken this burden off me by bringing him away. I hope he knows that I’ve wished him well all this while, despite his stubbornness and anger, I hope that in the end he knew that my thoughts were with him all this time.
Lord, please hear my prayer…
Just a thought on the Lytro light field camera and how lateral thinking can reproduce the same refocus ability in any picture with a high speed video camera.
The basic concept of light field photography is capturing the light’s vector and then selecting the point of focus and then computing the image for display. End function is to enable focus adjustment after the “image” has been recorded.
So how can a video clip reproduce the same effect? Easy, imagine a split second video clip that captures focus from the closest point to infinity. Then in post processing, you pick where to focus, the computer then plays through the video to find the frame that has the selected point in best focus. Presto! Same effect?
So how would such a camera shift focus so fast? Moving the lens to focus would be slow. Moving the sensor wouldn’t be. With the current sensor shift image stabilizing technology, it wouldn’t be too hard to move the sensor plane to exact focus change, a-la Contax AX.
Of course there will be a “sweet spot” range of focus planes as per the Lytro, and the bigger the sensor the more distance it has to be shifted to cover minimum focus distance to infinity. There is also another factor to consider, sensor shifts would have to be done in steps rather than in a continuous movement for each frame to be captured. But to counter that problem, one could include DOF into the design of the steps so that each step covers the next “range” of sharp focus distances so in total, the effect would still effectively mimic light field capture.
And that’s only for 2D images, light field information could also be used to generate 3D images, and that would be hard to reproduce with the method above, and would probably be impossible to reproduce for 3D light field video. Maybe some genius would figure that out.
I doubt so, it is interesting to find such a wealth of information in the net be they truths, lies, factual, fictitious,.. I don’t see it as an overload. It helps me to see what each author’s thoughts are on a subject and helps my mind stay open.
I do agree that we have a brain that comprehends, therefore we have to take all the inputs we can gather before we arrive at our conclusions. I am already inclined to believe that all that was passed on to us requires our in-depth study into every detail of what is written in order to fully understand and enter into submission.
Words should never be taken out of context to be cited as if they are timeless statements. This is one of the things that I find quite appalling amongst some students of the word.
Ok enough of my thoughts on this for now. My beliefs have been strengthened even though I do not understand by how.
Lord please give me strength, wisdom and peace everyday. Thank you.
Through Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.
Of getting the piercing I lost.. and this time I’m going to get it done right :)
I am not the kind of guy who looks like the piercing type. Least of all a piercing of that type.
Anyways, memories of the feeling I once had having that piercing on me kind of made me want to have it again. It’s a little hard to find a piercer on this island who is reputed or known to do such a piercing, but I’ve tracked one down. So the next thing to do, go and have a chat with him, fix an appointment and get it!
Boo-yeah!
*I’m sorry this post needs to be as cryptic as it is cos piercings is not a topic I meant to have here, but it’s still a thought, my thought I’m keeping here.
Am I sensitive or am I seeing more and more news about tablets entering the market without 3G, or 4G, or EDGE, or GPRS? It’s 2012, the world is going to end, or so some think, and manufacturers still think they can sell unconnected tablets? And the OS they run basically NEEDS the internet to come alive.
Talk about living in a connected world and having an internet tablet that is not connected to the internet. If that’s the case, phone makers should start selling phones that don’t have 3G, 2G, or anything. Better yet, make phones that need to be connected to a hotspot to make and receive calls. Or perhaps tether it to a network connected phone.
Are these guys serious? I’m surprised that laptops, netbooks and ultrabooks don’t come with built-in 3G, HSPA or 4G abilities already. Where are all the forward thinking minds? All having a beer with S.Jobs?
CSI Miami season ends with the team still jumping to conclusions at the smallest hint, nabbing and accusing the wrong person then ditches them when another hint comes to light and repeats it on the next poor soul. If that is how the “mata” here work then “die la we all”.
While ICS for x86 works nice on my EeePC 701, the browser works nicely, fitting web pages into the small screen and all that, it can’t be overlooked that the OS seems to be sucking power like nobody’s busines. The EeePC is always hot, even when put to standby it stays warm. I can’t help but feel that there is no power management at all.
Starting tomorrow, I will be putting back WattOS as it seems to run cooler. That thought will come in another post, and a cooler running EeePC 701 for sure.
I think I updated OSX recently, like a few days ago and now Safari 5.1.5 keeps crashing. Load any page and crash like *boom* it’s gone.
There’s nothing much to say about it, just that being used to things “just work” on OSX and suddenly the staple app “just don’t work”, kind of throws me back to the Windows 3 era, or Windows 95 or 98 or something.
Since there’s no tell tale message about what’s causing Safari to crash, I finally gave in and downloaded Chrome for OSX. Works as well as the Windows version, that’s some comfort.. at least.
Well, I’ve just installed Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on my old EeePC 701 4G. Most of the stuff seems to be working well. ICS is definitely more keyboard friendly, but Android is still in essence a touch optimised OS no matter how you look at it. The great thing about it is that now I get an OS that is friendlier to this 800x480 screen.
It is not perfect, like many apps won’t run on ICS x86. Google Play! is smart enough to filter out the apps when I try to search for them, e.g. MX Video Player, Adobe Air etc. probably because the expected GPUs are not available. after al, the GMA950 is probably not as powerful as Tegra or whatever GPU that goes along with ARM chipsets.
Nonetheless, it’s good to know that ICS can be run in this old Eee. Grab your copy from android-x86.org. It’s been out for months already :p Now, if I can only figure out how to do screenshots on the Eee, it is a supported feature of ICS on the Nexus S, but requires pressing a volume button which the Eee lacks.
