I am a big kid. I enjoy video games, if they are challenging to my intuit. I recently bought a new computer. One of the reasons I did so was because my older machine which I considered fairly up to date (three years old) was unable to play the Sid Meirs "Railroads" software. The fact is that software is making steps by leaps and bounds and the hardware has a tough time maintaining integrity in step. So I now own an HP 7650n dual core high end multimedia computer with something like 320 gigs of hard drive space and a back up hard drive with about 200 gigs for safe storage of my music and pictures in the event of a crash. Windows Vista beckons as I get a free upgrade soon. My Radeon 1600 display adapter is allowing me to play Railroads to my hearts content while I watch the unfolding action on a really nice 22 inch monitor. I have what amounts to a small TV screen in front of me and it took some getting used to viewing everything in what is panoramic in comparison to my past machine.
But I said all that to say this...When one is a Christian, God uses every available voice to speak to His own. So, as in everything, I am being spoken to in several ways as I play Railroads. One predominate thing is the fact that one has to be established in "industry" in life. Nothing is just handed over as a free gift (except salvation itself) but I am talking about "making it" in this life. One has to have goals and dreams and objectives. Faith is able to quicken those goals because faith is an active thing and it needs activity upon which to work. Just sitting will get you a dead faith. For faith without works is dead. (James 2:20) Anyways, there is also an new understanding of parallels in life and belief. We all have a common goal....1Pe 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls. But "getting there" is the fun part....Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus has ways, but we must remember He is THE WAY. That being said, there is "more than one way to skin a cat" and so there is often more than one way to arrive at a common destination. In Railroads, there is always a need to run a parallel track to accommodate more than one train bringing more than one kind of freight to the city ahead. The track must have "crossovers" in place in order for trains to bypass each other. Or at least a siding where the one train waits while the other unloads. Another reason for the cross over track is because the mainline is the action line and sidetracks must be connected to the mainline or else the destination will not show in the trains inventory of acceptable destinations. That speaks to Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye [are] the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
I am on a day off so I took a "shower break" from this and the Lord has this thing about showers...I liken it to an analogy of Holy Ghost rain. So more came to me as I stood there drenching in His Spirit. There is nothing like a Holy Ghost rain to sluice off the dirt of the flesh!
To continue, the Railroads analogy is such that there are different levels of play, from a basic "Investor" up to a "Robber Baron." The Lord has invested a lot into us, as we were bought with a price. The price was His blood, the most expensive commodity known in all of existence. 2Co 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency
of the power may be of God, and not of us.
There are levels of play as I was saying, and each level brings harder accomplishments. So it is with our life hid with Christ in God. We are called to higher levels of play as we go on in this life. It does not get easier, but rather more and more challenging. The "lay of the land" may be such that in one stage we are laying our railroad lines upon relatively easy plains, and even then there are grades to climb and curves to negotiate. But we have also an opportunity to learn and to grow. So the engine of our faith becomes stronger and we have more pulling power to pull bigger and heavier weights. Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
We ourselves are likened unto terminals of His desire. So in Railroads, there are levels of the destination terminals....they begin with "depots" which give basic access to a city...then there are stations which increase the flow and activity is rewarded to more and greater profit. Until we arrive at a place where we have accosted the things that allow us to be upgraded to a full "Station" having a far greater ability to "traffic" in the things of God. Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
I am currently building a scenario where I must develop a line from my lowly place all the way across the map and I must secure rights to a line which will connect Los Angeles (the City of Angels) to Las Vegas ( a place of flesh and worldly desire) and so I see a trial and a terrain which is dry and dusty and mountainous and which must involve strategies and overcome circumstances and which must allow for a flow of the Good to the Evil to overcome that evil and to extrapolate a new ground in a new city...Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
This has taken on a "head of steam" as I feel the presence of the Railroad master of all time pressing in and urging us on to overcoming victories...strangely in "Railroads" the highest order is to get to be on the recognition role as "President Of The United States." In the game, that is top gun and I liken it to having arrived at the Master's feet to accept my crown of Glory, only to give it to Him once again... Rev 4:10 The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Full Version: Railroads
Ok Larry...here's one for you in regard to your new super computer... 
He does use every available voice to speak to his own Larry. He won't loose any of his own so he comes to us in our diamonds and rust in order to speak the truth in love. You can't take it with you. For some this is very hard???
Huh!!! What joy! This song just popped into my mind!
The crown of life...the only thing that will fit in that bag.
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How Big Is the Internet?
Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: Internet Life
Eric Schmidt knows the answer
By: Alina Plesu, Technology and Science Editor
It’s a well-known fact that the search engines are indexing only a small part of the entire Internet content.
But what is the Internet’s exact size, especially since the 2005 boom has added 17 million new sites?
In his speech at the annual conference of the National Advertisers Association, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, said that, from the data recorded by the search engine, it seems that, at this specific moment, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.
Even Google, which is considered currently the best search engine ever, has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now, Schmidt said.Google CEO, said that, from the data recorded by the search engine, it seems that, at this specific moment, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.
Even Google, which is considered currently the best search engine ever, has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now, Schmidt said.
Google has been indexing information for 7 years, and if you want to have an idea on how fast this process is, it seems that, in order to index the 5 million terabytes of data, the search engine would need 300 years. And this would be valid only if nobody posted new content on the Internet...
It would be interesting to find out how much are the other search engines indexing compared to Google, so we can have a complete image of what is currently accessible.
Category: SOFTPEDIA NEWS :: Internet Life
Eric Schmidt knows the answer
By: Alina Plesu, Technology and Science Editor
It’s a well-known fact that the search engines are indexing only a small part of the entire Internet content.
But what is the Internet’s exact size, especially since the 2005 boom has added 17 million new sites?
In his speech at the annual conference of the National Advertisers Association, Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, said that, from the data recorded by the search engine, it seems that, at this specific moment, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.
Even Google, which is considered currently the best search engine ever, has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now, Schmidt said.Google CEO, said that, from the data recorded by the search engine, it seems that, at this specific moment, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes.
Even Google, which is considered currently the best search engine ever, has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now, Schmidt said.
Google has been indexing information for 7 years, and if you want to have an idea on how fast this process is, it seems that, in order to index the 5 million terabytes of data, the search engine would need 300 years. And this would be valid only if nobody posted new content on the Internet...
It would be interesting to find out how much are the other search engines indexing compared to Google, so we can have a complete image of what is currently accessible.
He does use every available voice to speak to his own Larry. He won't loose any of his own so he comes to us in our diamonds and rust in order to speak the truth in love. You can't take it with you. For some this is very hard???
Huh!!! What joy! This song just popped into my mind!
QUOTE
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'The Sunny Side Of The Street' lyrics by BILLIE HOLIDAY
Grab your coat and get your hat.
Leave your worry on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step.
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street.
I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade,
But now I'm not afraid.
This rover crossed over.
If I never have a cent,
I'll be rich as Rockefeller.
Gonna set my feet
On the sunny side of the street.
Grab your coat and get your hat.
Leave your worry on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step.
Live can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street.
I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade,
But now I'm not afraid.
This rover crossed over.
If I never have a cent,
I'll be rich as Rockefeller
With gold dust at my feet
On the sunny side of the street.
'The Sunny Side Of The Street' lyrics by BILLIE HOLIDAY
Grab your coat and get your hat.
Leave your worry on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step.
Life can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street.
I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade,
But now I'm not afraid.
This rover crossed over.
If I never have a cent,
I'll be rich as Rockefeller.
Gonna set my feet
On the sunny side of the street.
Grab your coat and get your hat.
Leave your worry on the doorstep.
Just direct your feet
To the sunny side of the street.
Can't you hear a pitter-pat?
And that happy tune is your step.
Live can be so sweet
On the sunny side of the street.
I used to walk in the shade
With those blues on parade,
But now I'm not afraid.
This rover crossed over.
If I never have a cent,
I'll be rich as Rockefeller
With gold dust at my feet
On the sunny side of the street.
The crown of life...the only thing that will fit in that bag.
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