tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11881270842074162024-03-05T06:53:07.689+00:00A Scabbard for Biblical SoftwareDocumentation, tools, and resources for Biblical Softwarejonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-40780752899341050612015-12-31T15:00:00.001+00:002015-12-31T15:00:39.807+00:00The Bible of Many Colors<br />
<a href=" http://BibleOfManyColors.com"><br />
http://BibleOfManyColors.com</a><br />
William McDermot<br />
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Two versions in the Google Play Store:<br />
* Gratis, with advertising.<br />
* US$1.99, no advertising.<br />
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Rating: 1/10 (Unmodified score: 1.525/100)<br />
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In a blog post that has long since migrated to /dev/null, Kevin Purcell divided biblical software into three groups:<br />
* Bible Reading programs;<br />
* Public Domain programs;<br />
* Bible Study programs;<br />
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This program falls solidly in the Bible Reading program class.<br />
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The app does two things:<br />
* Download PDF files, which are then read by the PDF reader on one’s device;<br />
* Deliver advertisements to the user;<br />
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In 2014, the mobile apps industry generated US$35,000,000 in revenue,(^1) of which US$3,500,000 was from in-app advertising. The median developer receives US$400 per year, from all revenue sources in the mobile app industry(^2).<br />
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The developer frankly states that the point of in-app advertising, is to generate revenue, to cover the cost of developing this Bible version. I suspect more revenue would be generated by offering it on Kindle Select, for US$2.99. Or, if one wants to stay in the realm of Biblical software, peddle it to FaithLife, Laridian, Olive Tree, and the other organizations that sell resources for their Biblical software.<br />
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Back around 2004, in <i>The e-Sword Utility Program FAQ</i>, I mused about a Bible translation that colourized every word in the Bible that was spoken by somebody, or something. Jim Albright wrote the first version of <i>Dramatize</i>r in 2001, and last updated it in 2010. (Source code is at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dramatizer/">http://code.google.com/p/dramatizer/</a> until Google shuts down Google Code, which is scheduled for sometime in 2016.) <i>Dramatizer</i> doesn’t colourize words for one, but it does generate a worksheet that can be fed into a python script, that will colourize the Biblical text. (<i>Dramatizer</i> is Windows only. <i>Dramatizer</i> won’t run under WINE. After spending about ten minutes looking at the code, I concluded that it would be easier to rewrite the program in Python, than try to figure out what to change, so it would run under WINE.)<br />
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In the explanation of how <i>the Bible of Many Color</i>s came about, William McDermott claims it took him nine years to generate this Bible. In essence, the text is underlined in the colour of the individual that is speaking, and highlighted in the colour of the individual being referred to. <br />
As such, this version would be a useful item, if it was a resource in one’s Biblical software.<br />
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As a stand alone app, all it does, is make it easier for malware to infect one’s device, through the advertising that it displays. (The only delivery mode of malware that has higher ROI than Internet advertising, is targeted phishing.)<br />
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^1: <i>The Comprehensive App Economic Blog</i> 2014. <a href="http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/">http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/</a><br />
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^2: <a href="http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/.a/6a00e0097e337c883301b7c7ffda55970b-pi">http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/.a/6a00e0097e337c883301b7c7ffda55970b-pi</a>.Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-32884497130480457552015-05-25T16:00:00.000+00:002015-05-25T16:00:05.953+00:00Who Done It?
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<span style="color: black;">This method of Bible study ignores what is said. Instead, one asks a
series of questions about the circumstances of the communication.</span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who is speaking?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who are they speaking to?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who are they speaking about?</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br /></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who is present?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who is not present, but whose presence would be expected?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who is present, whose presence is unexpected?</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br /></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What type of building are they speaking in?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What hamlet, village, city are they speaking in?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What country are they speaking in?</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br /></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What time of day are they speaking?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What time of the week are they speaking?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What time of the month are they speaking?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What time of the year are they speaking?</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<br /></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
When are they speaking?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who is the primary audience of this passage?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Who is the secondary audience of this passage?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-12440275692623713302015-05-25T07:51:00.000+00:002015-05-25T07:51:08.733+00:00The Examination<span style="color: black;">Somebody sent me an email, asking for a copy of the sequence of questions I term <span style="color: red;"><i>The Examination</i></span>. This is something that might be useful for other people. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
This was constructed over the course of around thirty years. As I encountered questions that I thought would be useful additions, I added them, but not their source. Some of them are from reading material such as Tim LaHayes' <span style="color: blue;"><i>How To Study The Bible For Yourself</i></span>. Other questions are from studying the Bible with active non-Christians.<br />
<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red;">The Examination</span></h2>
<span style="color: black;">This covers the following questions, and points:</span>
<br />
<h4>
<span style="color: red;">What is the Context</span></h4>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Immediate Context:
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</li>
<ul>
<li value="1"><span style="color: black;">What precedes the word(s)?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1"><span style="color: black;">What follows the word(s)?</span></li>
</ul>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Remote Context:</span> </span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">What is the main theme of the chapter?</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<ul>
<li value="1"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">What is the main theme of the book?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Total Context:</span></span></div>
</li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">What does the Bible as a whole, say? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">What does the rest of the Testament say?</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<span style="color: crimson;">What is the outline of the Passage?</span></div>
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">What is the outline of the chapter?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Pay attention to the connectives</span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="__RefHeading__86301_1944947579"></a>
<span style="color: crimson;">Study parallel passages</span><br />
<ul>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
Passages in canonical works;</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Passages in non-canonical works;</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<ul><div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
</div>
</ul>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="__RefHeading__86303_1944947579"></a>
<span style="color: crimson;">What is the background of the passage?</span></div>
<ul>
<li value="1"><span style="color: #660000;">Internal sources:</span><br /><ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Study all of the Books in the entire Canon;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Take copious notes;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"></span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li value="1"><span style="color: #660000;">External sources:</span><ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Study the commentaries;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Study Greek, Hebrew, English, and Aramaic Dictionaries;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Understand the words</span></div>
<ul>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Recognize the literary style book:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Prose narrative;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Poetry;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Parabolic literature;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Apocalyptic literature;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Discourses;</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Observe the context:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">The same word usually means the same thing in the same passage, but
in a different passage may have a different meaning;</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Study the specific words:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Get all the meanings of the word;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Look at the root of the word;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Look at other words with the same gematria value;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Look at how it is used in other passages.;</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Study the figures of speech:</span></span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Pay attention to the underlying language:</span></span><span style="color: #660000;"> </span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Aramaic;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Hebrew;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Greek;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Latin;</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Make Observations about The Actions in the Passage:</span></div>
<ul>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Who is being discussed:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Who was present when it was written;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Who else was around at the time;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Who wrote the passage; </span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1"><span style="color: #660000;">Who is involved in the passage:</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<ul>
<li value="1"><span style="color: #660000;">What is the passage about: </span></li>
<ul>
<li value="1"><span style="color: black;">What else is the passage about</span>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">When was it written:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">What was the time;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">What was the date;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">What was the season;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">What was the astronomical configuration;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">When do the events in the passage take place:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">What stage in life;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">What time in physical terms;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">What astronomical configuration;</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Where do the events in the passage take place:</span></span></div>
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</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Where was the author when the passage was written:</span></span></div>
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</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Why was it written:</span></span></div>
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</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">How was it written:</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Make observations about thoughts</span></div>
<ul>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: #660000;">Literary form: </span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Prose;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Poetry;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Dialogue;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Monologue;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Words and phrases:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Key words;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Key phrases;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Recurring phrases;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Unfamiliar words;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Gematria connections;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1"><span style="color: #660000;">
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<span style="color: #660000;">
Expression:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Idiomatic expression;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Figures of Speech;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></li>
<li>
<span style="color: #660000;">Grammar:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Verb;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Noun;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Pronoun;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Conjunction;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Command;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Question;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Gerund;</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Structure of paragraphs:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">How do they relate to the others in the same verse;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">How do they relate to others in the same chapter;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">How do they relate to others in the same book;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Composition:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Repetition;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Comparison;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Contrast;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Progression;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Digression;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Cause and Effect;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Questions and Answers;</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">
<span style="color: #660000;">Literary Style:</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">Mood of the passage;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Mood of the word;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Tense of the passage;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Tense of the word;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Atmosphere;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Illustrations;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Idiomatic Expression;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Puns;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Figures of Speech;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Quotes;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Anagrams;</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">Palindromes;</span></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Answer the following:</span></div>
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<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">What principles are explicitly stated?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
What principles are implicitly stated?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
How does it apply to me?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
How do I apply in my life?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
What do I need to change to live by those principles?</span></div>
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</li>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Make up your own questions about the passage:</span></div>
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<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">Definitive --- pertaining to meaning;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Rational --- pertaining to reason;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Structural --- pertaining to relationship;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Implicational --- pertaining to things implied;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Theological --- pertaining to doctrine;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Historical --- background information;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Cultural --- background information;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Speculative --what else could be meant;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Application --- what is the personal application;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
What is the personal challenge;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Interpretation --- the meaning of the author;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Open doors to new insight;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Information --- observe significant facts;</span></div>
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</li>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Formulating good questions:</span></div>
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<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">Is the question clear and easy to understand</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Does it give enough information to guide the thinking
</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Does it have a definite answer</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Will it lead to speculation</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Does it stimulate the thought process</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Does it make a point worth discussing at this tome by this group</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Does the question reveal the answer</span></div>
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<span style="color: crimson;">What is the meaning:</span></div>
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<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">Figurative meaning;</span></div>
</li>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">
Literal meaning;</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Postmodernism;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Objectivism;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Marxism;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Maoism;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Existentialism;</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Reform Jewish theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Conservative Jewish theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Karaite theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Orthodox Jewish theology;</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Sh’ite theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Suni theology;</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Daoist theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Tibetan Buddhist theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Qua Zen Buddhist theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As transpersonal psychology;</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As metaphor; </span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">As annihilation metaphor;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">As sexual metaphor;</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As Pentecostal theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As Baptist theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As Orthodox Christian theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As Catholic Christian theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As Calvinist theology;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As Lutheran theology;</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As a tool of social control;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
As a tool of political control;</span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Some Guiding principles:</span></div>
<ul>
<li value="1">
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<span style="color: black;">What is the relevancy of the passage?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What is the universal practice?</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
What is the local practice?</span><br />
</div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Change your life to accord with the principle;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
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<span style="color: black;">
Keep a record of how you apply the principle;</span></div>
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</div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: crimson;">Study preparation</span></div>
<ul>
<li value="1">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Look for the relation of the passage to the context;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Seek to understand the passage in its original setting;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Try to visualize the scene and the event;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Find the structure of the passage;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Observe the significant facts of the passage;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Study the meanings of the words or phrases;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Look up the references or parallel passages;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Interpret the thoughts of the passage;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Make comparisons with corresponding views or customs of the present
days;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Find illustrations from one's own experiences;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Paraphrase the passage in contemporary language;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Summarize the central teaching of the passage;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Make an outline;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Draw principles or implications suggested in the text;</span></div>
</li>
<li>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 0; widows: 0;">
<span style="color: black;">
Consider personal applications;</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"><br /></span>jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-37992626678803760362015-05-23T06:33:00.000+00:002015-05-25T06:51:25.209+00:00MinistryUSE OS2 Xfce "Covenant" Towards the end of April, I tried installing <i>MinistryUSE</i>, and then <i>ChristOS</i> on my laptop. Neither of them would install. One of them decided that despite having both an open, active ethernet connection, and open, active, wireless connection to the Internet, my laptop was not connected to the Internet. The other one didn't just plain didn't like my hardware.<br />
<br />
I hate updates to GRUB. I despise them. Anything else in a distro can be updated, but GRUB. I have never seen a GRUB update, that has not required me to do a clean install of the OS. Within ten days of installing <i>Xubuntu 14.4</i>, there was an update to GRUB. And, as expected, it trashed my setup.<br />
<br />
That is when I started the test of the 8 May 2015 release of <i>MinistryUSE OS2 Xfce</i> (<a href="http://ministryuseos.weebly.com/">http://ministryuseos.weebly.com/</a>).<br />
<br />
If it didn't take me 40+ hours to configure <i>Thunderbird</i>, I'd update to the final version, which was released on 17 May 2015.<br />
<br />
Unlike previous versions, this re-spin is based upon <i>Makulu Linux</i>, rather than <i>OpenSuse</i>. You can explore the Makulu Linux home site at <a href="http://makululinux.com/home/">http://makululinux.com/home/</a> , or read a more objective description at <a href="http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=makulu">http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=makulu</a>.<br />
<br />
This is the default MinistryUSE wallpaper. <br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
Other than shipping with <i>e-Sword</i> installed, and Christian orientated wallpaper, there isn't much difference between <i>MinistryOS</i>, and <i>Makulu</i>, and stock <i>Xubuntu</i>. <br />
<br />
Changing wallpaper is as simple as a right click anywhere on the desktop, then sliding the mouse to "Desktop Settings", and selecting the new wallpaper.<br />
<br />
I changed the wallpaper on my desktop to this:<br />
<br />
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<br />
<span style="color: red;">Biblical Software</span><br />
<br />
The first time I successfully installed <i>MinistryOS</i>, <i>e-Sword</i> was not properly installed, and my attempts to re-install it failed. The second time I installed <i>MinistryOS</i>, <i>e-Sword</i> installed correctly, as part of the distro.<br />
<br />
I successfully installed a couple of programs for Windows, <span style="color: red;">without</span> having to configure <i>WINE</i>, <i>WineTricks</i>, or <i>PlayOnLinux</i>. Not having to change anything in <i>WINE</i>, for things to install successfully, is a real pleasure.<br />
(This means that there is at least one Bible Study Program that meets the criteria of <i><span style="color: #4c1130;">The 2009 SBL Bible Software Shootout</span></i>, that successfully runs on this distro.)<br />
<br />
For licensing reasons, <i>TheWord</i> is no longer included in <i>MinistryOS</i>.<br />
<br />
The first two or three releases of <i>Ubuntu Christian Edition</i> (UCE) included <i>e-Sword</i>.
It had to be removed, for licensing reasons. The solution UCE came up
with, was script that downloads, and automatically installs<i> e-Sword</i>. Maybe <i>MinistryOS</i> uses the same thing. Worst case scenario is that MinistryOS includes a script that installs <i>TheWord</i>.<br />
<br />
I ended up installing <i>Wide Margin</i>, <i><i>KJV Bible</i></i>, and<i><i> </i>Bible Edit GTK</i>. I'm working on translating the Bible, and use <i>Bible Edit </i>for that. (I'd rather use <i>BibleStudy 2009</i>, but it doesn't run under WINE.)<br />
<br />
<i>Wide Margin</i> and <i>KJV Bible</i> are basic Bible programs. Their only virtue is that opening them, displays the KJV. Something that is useful, when following the reasoning in essays such as that describing Simon Magus in the Petrine and Pauline Epistles.<br />
<br />
One caveat. Under no circumstances remove the <i>e-Sword</i> icon, on the vertical toolbar. <i>e-Sword</i> will not start from the command line, nor from clicking open with WINE, when in your file manager.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Office Suite</span><br />
<br />
The default office suite for <i>Makulu Linux</i> is <i>WPS Office</i>. This office suite does not support <span style="color: blue;"><i>ISO/IEC 26300:2006/AMD 1:2012</i></span> file formats. It claims to support MSO File Formats. Whilst it could open both Excel spreadsheets I have, (^1) it could not perform any of the calculations on those spreadsheets. I don't have any MS Word documents, so I don't know how well it handles that file format.<br />
<br />
Fortunately, installing Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and EuroOffice is a breeze. I grabbed the DEBs from the developers' website, threw them all in the same directory, including moving the files in desktop_integration into that directory, and then ran <span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">sudo dpkg -i *.deb</span></span>. It took me around forty minutes to download, and install all three office suites. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Annoyances</span>.<br />
<br />
To install <i>Makulu Linux</i>, one needs to know the correct password.<br />
Then, during the installation process, it asks for the password of <i>MinistryOS</i>. This is a different password. <br />
<br />
Secondly, <i>MinistryOS</i> creates an administrator account called <b>MinistryOS</b>.
I deleted the account. Had "Guest" status been available, I would have
switched it to that, and changed the password. (I wonder how many
people do not realize that there is a <b>MinistryOS</b>
administrator account, and proceed to neither delete it, nor change the password.
To me, this is a huge security flaw. Almost as big as the one at a
company I worked at, where the password for <b>root</b>, was "root". (I wish I could say I was joking, but in all the time I worked at that company, the password was not changed.)<br />
<br />
Thirdly, <i>SystemD</i> is used. Inasmuch as all flavours of <i>Ubuntu</i> have switched to that, it can be expected. My issue with <i>SystemD</i> is that it gets into too many things, so that when the <span style="color: #274e13;">Zero Day Exploits</span> are widely distributed in the wild, fixing the flaws means switching to one of the BSD variants.<br />
<br />
Fourthly, software designed for the Windows operating system, will not, when installed under WINE, create icons on either the desktop, or menu bar. <br />
<br />
<ul>
<li><i>e-Sword</i> will only start from the icon on the toolbar;</li>
<li>Other programs that require WINE, will only start by clicking on "<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Open With WINE Program</span></span>" when opened in your file manager;</li>
<li>Still other programs that require WINE, will only open from the command line "<span style="color: #783f04;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">wine -some -commands program.exe -some -commands</span></span>";</li>
</ul>
<br />
I've never seen, or even heard of this behavior before. <br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Replacing Ubuntu Christian Edition </span><br />
<br />
For those whose checklist for an acceptable distro, includes built-in filtering, <i>MinistryOS</i> won't make the grade. For everybody else looking to replace <i>Ubuntu Christian Edition</i>, it will make the grade.<br />
<br />
For
filtering, the only viable option, is to run your own DNS server, which
returns either 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1 for "undesirable" web hosts, as
part of your physically independent hardware firewall and router, which
plugs into the third-party pwned equipment that is provided by your ISP.<br />
<br />
^1: Both of these spreadsheets are commercially distributed, with an MSRP in the low three digits.jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-19971580281420355362015-03-22T07:12:00.001+00:002015-03-22T07:18:10.428+00:00Long time a'coming<br />
Been a long time a'coming, but now it has arrived.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i>e-Sword For Mac</i></span> on the iTunes Store. <br />
Released on 20 March 2015.<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i></i></span><br />
Cost is US$9.99. <br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.e-sword.net/mac/">http://www.e-sword.net/mac/</a> is the URL, if you want to read about it on the official webpage.<br />
<br />
I don't have a Mac, so all I can say about it is what I've gleaned from reading descriptions written by other people.<br />
<br />
User Interface is Spanish or English. (That seems strange to me. Wonder why Rick couldn't use the same strings as e-Sword for Windows?)<br />
<br />
From Rick's description, I think it has slightly more functionality/capability than e-Sword. <br />
<br />
It uses the same file format as e-Sword for the iPhone & iPad.<br />
(SQLite database engine & HTML markup language.) I'm going to call this <span style="color: #660000;"><i>e-Sword4iOS</i></span> format.<br />
<br />
<br />
My guess is that somebody over at <a href="http://biblesupport.com/">BibleSupport.com</a> is going to be working long hours, converting the existing e-Sword modules to e-Sword4iOS format.<br />
<br />
Two more platforms to go:<br />
<ul>
<li>Linux;</li>
<li>Android; </li>
</ul>
Which leads to interesting question. Which works better on Linux:<br />
<ul>
<li>e-Sword X;</li>
<li>e-Sword; </li>
</ul>
Unfortunately, I do not know of a way to purchase and install Mac software from the iTunes store, on my Linux box. I can install Mac software from sources other than the iTunes store, on my Linux box.Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-45759883124243955252015-03-15T22:15:00.000+00:002015-03-15T22:15:00.447+00:00Migrating to New SoftwareCopying an email in my inbox that I recently read for what appears to be the first time.^1<br />
<blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">From: Marcello Romani</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 23:20</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">I think the lesson here is twofold:</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;">1) before showing a new program to someone, be sure to know it well, or at least to know well the functions you want to show in that particular situation;</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;">2) persuading someone to change habits is very hard; when "habit" means "I'm used to click there, there, and there and I've got my work done" the job becomes virtually impossible; so you have to be _very_ prepared to answer the typical question: that task in my usual software is done so and so, how do I do it in the new one ? If the motivation to try a new software is not coming from the user herself, she won't be very patient when encountering difficulties, so you have to ease the learning curve yourself;</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;">Thanks for ranting publicly :-) I think your feelings are shared by many (I event felt quite the same sometimes when I first tried FOSS software years ago), so discussing them here might be helpful.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #20124d;">Marcello</span></blockquote>
<br />
<br />
<br />
^1: On the email account in question, I am several years behind in looking at what is in my inbox. For my other email accounts, the inbox is purged at least once a fortnight.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-4579251138857869012015-03-15T02:59:00.001+00:002015-03-15T02:59:34.002+00:00MinistryUse OSI received a reply from Darion Cantron, the developer of <span style="color: #660000;">MinistryUse OpenSUSE </span>and <span style="color: #660000;">Christ OS</span>. He is working on a successor to both of those distros, namely<br />
<span style="color: #660000;">MinistryUse OS</span>, available from <a href="http://ministryuseos.weebly.com/">http://ministryuseos.weebly.com/</a>. <br />
<br />
The ISO file is 3GB in size, and is hosted on mega.co.nz. Links are at<br />
<a href="http://ministryuseos.weebly.com/download.html">http://ministryuseos.weebly.com/download.html</a>.<br />
<br />
<br />The web page description is:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #274e13;">MinistryUSE OS is a Linux Remaster of Linux Mint. It's purpose is to
provide a desktop experience with all the tools commonly needed for work
in ministry. As a pastor of a small church I use my laptop every day
researching, writing, reading, reaching out using social networks,
creating, planning, and publishing. It is vital tool for the work I do.
And I got to thinking, what if I could create an operating system with
all the tools I find helpful in my ministry so that other ministers
could use it right out of the box.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">That is what I am attempting to do here. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><br />A Linux Desktop Experience geared for Christians who want to use their computers as tools for ministry. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><br />Being
as how this project is very new, improvement will be made based upon
your feedback. So contact me through Facebook and let me know what you
think. But be kind, I do this on my free time.</span></blockquote>
The current features are:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Libreoffice for Office Suite</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Bibletime, Xiphos, E-Sword, and TheWord for Bible Study and Research</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">OpenLP for Projection Software</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Chromium Browser and Firefox Browser for Internet Browsing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Rhythmbox, VLC, and Amorak for Media Players</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Cheese and Kdenlive for Video Editing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Audacity for Audio Editing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Evolution (Pardon the name) for Email and Calendar/Planner</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">Scribus, Gimp, and Libredraw for Desktop Publishing</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #274e13;">And many Christian Wallpapers already uploading plus lots of neat features and customizations</span></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
Off the bat, on purely technical grounds, I would replace <span style="color: #4c1130;">Evolution</span> with <span style="color: #4c1130;">Thunderbird</span>. If you need to archive email, I'd suggest <span style="color: #4c1130;">Enkive</span>. It isn't that hard to configure. Time consuming, but not difficult.<br />
<br />
I have not downloaded this distro.<br />
I have not tested this distro out.<br />
<br />
Instead of testing out either of the other two distros I discovered today, I will test this one out.Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-74511237605459479012015-03-14T21:50:00.002+00:002015-03-14T21:50:46.765+00:00MinistryUse OpenSUSE<div class="tr_bq">
Wandering further into SourceForge today, I discovered a second Linux distro for Christians: <span style="color: #660000;">MinistryUse OpenSUSE</span>.</div>
<br />
Version 0.0.1 was released on Sourceforge on 15 January 2015.<br />
<br />
It can be downloaded from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ministryuseopensuse/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/ministryuseopensuse/</a>.<br />
<br />
The SourceForge description simply says:<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #274e13;">Finally an operating system specifically set up for Christians in
ministry with one of the best desktop environments available - KDE.
Xiphos for Bible Study. Chromium for web-browsing. Openlp for worship
projection software. And much more to aid in your ministry needs. As a
young minister, I use my laptop for a lot in ministry. I hope this
helps you too.</span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #274e13;">
God Bless and if you have any problems, please let me know. I'd be happy to work on it. </span></blockquote>
Under Features, we have listed:<br />
<blockquote>
<div class="content editable">
<ul class="features">
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">K Desktop environment</span></li>
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">Chromium Browser for Web</span></li>
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">Xiphos for Bible Study</span></li>
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">Openlp for Worship projection software</span></li>
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">Libreoffice for all your word processing needs</span></li>
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">Customized desktop appearance with Christian themed backgrounds</span></li>
<li class="feature"><span style="color: #274e13;">Open SUSE repositories and base</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br />
<br />
I have not downloaded this distro.<br />
I have not tested this distro. <br />
<br />
The same person develops both<span style="color: #660000;"> MinistryUse OpenSUSE</span> and <span style="color: #660000;">Christ OS</span>.<br />
I've sent an email to the developer, asking if <span style="color: #660000;">Christ OS</span>. , the successor to <span style="color: #660000;"> MinistryUse OpenSUSE</span><span style="color: #660000;"></span>. <br />
<br />Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-22463678622350692462015-03-14T19:33:00.000+00:002015-03-14T19:33:08.876+00:00Christ OS 0.0.4In wandering through SourceForge today, I stumbled across <b><span style="color: #660000;">Christ OS</span></b>. A Christian orientated Linux Distro.<br />
<br />
The 964 MB ISO image can be downloaded from<br />
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/christos/?source=directory">http://sourceforge.net/projects/christos/?source=directory</a> .<br />
<br />
Version 0.0.4 was released 11 February 2015.<br />
This distro is based on OpenSuse 13.2 KDE, which was released on 4 November 2014.<br />
<br />
The Sourceforge summary simply says:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div id="description" itemprop="description">
<span style="color: #274e13;">A new Christian
OS based on OpenSUSE 13.2 with K Desktop Environment, xiphos and
Bibletime for Bible Study, Openlp for projection software, libreoffice
for office suite, and compiz for windows manager, plus much more.
Enjoy!</span></div>
</blockquote>
I have not yet looked at this distro.<br />
The major purpose of this post, is to remind me to test it out.<br />
<br />Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-67705927371512099642015-02-24T22:54:00.000+00:002015-02-24T22:54:00.038+00:00The E-Bible<span class="patent-number"><span><span class="patent-number"><span>This patent, applied for in 2004, and published in 2006, is so glaringly obvious, that I don't see how it could possibly have flied in 2006, let alone 2004.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="patent-number"><span><span class="patent-number"><span><span class="patent-number"></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="patent-number"><br /></span>
<span class="patent-number"><span><span style="color: #20124d;">The INVENTION: The E-BIBLE™ offers consumers a rechargeable,
battery powered, hand held, electronic personal assistant with
interactive software enabling a user to electronically access <span class="patent-text-highlight">bible</span> verses.</span>»</span> </span><br />
<span class="patent-number"><br /></span>
<span class="patent-number">In 1999, an acquaintance of mine had a Palm Pilot. I don't remember if the Bible was a text file, or an application for it.
Either way, it was a rechargeable, battery powered, hand held,
electronic personal assistant with interactive software enabling a user
to electronically access bible verses.</span><br />
<br />
Furthermore, contrary to the claims within this non-patent, this non-inventor did not invent E-Bibles. <br />
<span class="patent-number"></span><br />
<br />
<span class="patent-number">Franklin has been selling electronic Bibles since at least 2000. Going by the randomly downloaded manual, I'd suggest that they were doing so by 1993, and possibly as early as 1989. (NIV copyright dates are 1973, 1978, 1984.)</span><br />
<span class="patent-number"><br /></span>
<span class="patent-number"><br /></span>
<span class="patent-number">Thankfully, the </span>the inventor of US6887081 B1 let his patent application lapse. Otherwise we'd all be in trouble.<br />
<span class="patent-number"><br /></span>
<br />
<br />
<br />
<span class="patent-number">Patent # US 20060123352 A1</span><br />
<span class="patent-number"> </span>Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-77591148908624924582015-02-23T22:23:00.000+00:002015-02-23T22:23:28.640+00:00Didn't Logos have this functionality back in 2007?In this post, I'm railing against yet another non-patent that should have been rejected on sight, and not only because it is blindingly obvious to all.<br />
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I'm using Logos as the example, because I think it had most of the features described herein, back in 2007. Regardless, I am fairly confident that a search of the Logos archives back then, will show that users were asking for them. Some, perhaps most of the listed features were discussed/requested on the mailing lists, and web forums, of other Biblical software, at least as early as 2003. <br />
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In most scenarios, neither "on a network", nor "on a computer", nor "using a mobile device", which phrase this non-patent does not use, are novel enough, to warrant granting a patent. Pretty much everything in this non-patent is a straight forward application of what people do, when they have books, file folders, pens, pencils, and blank sheets of paper, littering their desk, when they engage in an in-depth study of the Bible.<br />
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The hard copy books would include, but not be limited to:<br />
<ul>
<li>Crudon's Concordance;</li>
<li>Nave's Topical Bible;</li>
<li>Treasury of Scripture;</li>
<li>Strong's Concordance;</li>
<li>Textus Receptus;</li>
<li>Masoretic Text;</li>
<li>Glossa Ordinaria;</li>
<li>Matthew Henry's Commentary;</li>
<li>The Poor Man's Commentary; </li>
<li>The Poor Man's Dictionary of the Bible;</li>
<li>Vulgate;</li>
<li>Books of Sermons;</li>
<li>The rest of the 1,000 books that a pastor circa 1900 would be expected to have </li>
</ul>
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«<span style="color: #20124d;">A graphical user interface on a computer comprising: a search field
configured to enable a user to enter a search term, the search term
being recognized as a subject focus element; a bloom diagram window
configured to display an initial bloom diagram having the subject focus
element at a center location and resource elements related to the
subject focus element at locations surrounding the center location; a
passage window
configured to display one or more passages of a classic literary work,
the passages related to the subject focus element; and a resource
window configured to display a description of the resource elements,
wherein the resource window comprises a
cross-reference pane configured to display passages of the classic
literary work and topics related to the search term, a definition pane
configured to display definitions of the subject focus element and
definitions of words related to the subject focus
element, and a thoughts pane configured to display commentaries and
notes from respected scholars, and wherein one or more of the resource
elements are represented as dots, wherein dots are visually coded to
correspond to one of the cross-reference pane,
the definition pane, and the thoughts pane.</span>»<br />
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Translating that into plain English.<br />
<ul>
<li>Search for a word in the Bible. (Hebrew or Greek in the passage above, but IIRC, Latin, Coptic, Aramaic, and Old Church Slavonic also worked in Logos 3.);</li>
<li>Display the results as a three dimensional window that expands, contracts, or moves, as one uses a mouse to glide over the individual results;</li>
<li>As one slides over the individual result, a new window is created, that includes definitions, grammatical information, cross-references, translations into other languages, notes from other resources, such as commentaries, handbooks, critical editions, study guides, treatises, missals, etc, used by Biblical software, and other points of actual, or alleged interest that are, in theory at least, related to to the term being displayed;</li>
<li>Sliding the mouse enables one to select items from a specific point in time, theological point of view, or a geographical point, or a specific person; </li>
</ul>
Maybe I'm just mis-remembering things, and conflating them with talks at BibleTech 2009.<br />
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Aargh! I probably can't fly by adding Coptic, or Japanese^1. This non-patent specifically mentions Latin, French, and Spanish, and "Ancient Languages".<br />
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Oh wait, this requires a network. Logos 3 didn't require a networked connection, so that is new. But then "over a network" should not be enough of a novelty, to make something patentable.<br />
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That network is to be used for:<br />
<ul>
<li>Trial memberships;</li>
<li>Buying a subscription;</li>
<li>Interacting with other community members;</li>
<li>Share studies with other community members;</li>
<li>Ask questions of other community members; </li>
<li>Tutorials;</li>
<li>A database to manage those activities;</li>
</ul>
There was:<br />
<ul>
<li>The Logos Newsgroups;</li>
<li>The Logos IRC channel;</li>
<li>The Logos web forums;</li>
<li>The Logos web store;</li>
<li>Third party sites for additional Logos resources --- both gratis, and non-gratis;</li>
<li>Both official, and third party web based tutorials;</li>
<li>Camp Logos probably doesn't matter in this instance, but I'll mention it anyway;</li>
</ul>
So even there, Logos in 2007 might have scraped past those requirements. <br />
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<ul>
</ul>
<a href="https://faithlifebible.com/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Faithlife</a> is gratis ^2, and it enables users to do everything described as part of the network functionality/capability, except pay for a subscription. (In as much as in-app purchases can currently be done, a non-gratis subscription would be trivial to include.)<br />
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«I<span style="color: #20124d;">t should be understood that the routines, steps, processes, or
operations described herein may represent any module or code sequence
that can be implemented in software or firmware. In this regard, these
modules and code sequences can include
commands or instructions for executing the specific logical routines,
steps, processes, or operations within physical components. It should
further be understood that two or more of the routines, steps,
processes, and/or operations described herein may
be executed substantially simultaneously or in a different order than
explicitly described, as would be understood by one of ordinary skill in
the art. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">It should be emphasized that the above-described embodiments are merely
possible examples of implementations, merely set forth for a clear
understanding of the principles of the present disclosure. Any process
descriptions or blocks in flow
diagrams should be understood as representing modules, segments, or
portions of code which include one or more executable instructions for
implementing specific logical functions or steps in the process, and
alternate implementations are included in
which functions may not be included or executed at all, may be executed
out of order from that shown or discussed, including substantially
concurrently or in reverse order, depending on the functionality
involved, as would be understood by those
reasonably skilled in the art of the present disclosure. Many
variations and modifications may be made to the above-described
embodiment(s) without departing substantially from the spirit and
principles of the present disclosure. Further, the scope of
the present disclosure is intended to cover any and all combinations and
sub-combinations of all elements, features, and aspects discussed
above. All such modifications and variations are intended to be
included herein within the scope of the present
disclosure, and all possible claims to individual aspects or
combinations of elements or steps are intended to be supported by the
present disclosure.
</span>»<br />
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That is clearly an overarching reach. Unlike the usual patent, whereby substituting "Drink an <a href="http://caffeibis.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Espresso</a>" for "Eat a <a href="http://www.smarties.co.za/portal/64045" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Smartie</a>", usually enables one to avoid patent infringement, this implicitly denies that legal defence.<br />
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But perhaps the worst thing about this patent, is that any Biblical software that provides features similar to those described here, can either pay the Danegeld, or pay US$10,000,000 to have a court rule that the patent is null and void.<br />
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At least <a href="http://bibletechconference.com/speakers/" target="_blank">Tom Philpot's and Rick Brannan's respective talks</a> at BibleTech 2015, won't be a patent violation. Merely implementing the features discussed in their respective presentations will be.<br />
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FWIW, I stumbled over this patent, when looking for the one that James Convington's talk at BibleTech 2015 is most likely to infringe upon.<br />
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Going by the drawings, Biblical software on smart-phones, feature-phones, tablets, or ebook readers will violate <span class="patent-number">US 20030006969 A1. </span><br />
<span class="patent-number">A Bible reader made using an Arduino board might.</span><br />
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OTOH, Biblical Software that conforms to Palm requirements for software, will violate US5987451 A. Fortunately, that patent has expired. <br />
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Equally fortunate for Biblical software developers, is that <span class="patent-number">US 5871238 A & </span><span class="patent-number">US 4445196 A have expired. </span><br />
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^1: Shinto priests have preserved at least two ninth century Japanese manuscripts of the Bible.<br />
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^2: Whilst purchasing one of the various packages enhances the functionality, and usability of Logos, Verbum, Biblia, or other apps tailored for specific groups, doing so is not mandatory. (A forum post implied that not all Logos packages delivered content to all of their apps. So choose your Faithlife app ^4 with care.)<br />
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^3: # 8,407,617. <span class="patent-number">US 20100293498 A1 is another junk-patent related to Biblical software. </span><br />
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^4: Since the company name is Faithlife, I'm using that term for all of their software, including their desktop programs.Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-31080496618983347492015-02-11T10:47:00.000+00:002015-02-11T10:52:45.558+00:00BibleTech 2015About a fortnight ago I received an email from Logos, announcing <span style="color: #073763;">BibleTech 2015</span>. <br />
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<a href="http://bibletechconference.com/">http://bibletechconference.com/</a><br />
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30 April - 2 May.<br />
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Talks that look useful to me:<br />
<ul>
<li>LaRosa Johnson: <span style="color: blue;"><i>Battling Bible Illiteracy: Solving the Problem of Biblical Illiteracy</i></span>;</li>
<li>Jeff Jackson: <i><span style="color: blue;">Cross Interlinear: A New Way To Compare Texts</span></i>;</li>
</ul>
Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-53324531981299182512014-09-09T00:37:00.000+00:002015-02-11T11:05:38.637+00:00Context in Bible StudyExamining the verse:<br />
<ul>
<li>Instant: the entire verse; </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Near Immediate: preceding and following verse;</li>
<li>Distant Immediate: the entire Pericope; </li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Near Distant: the entire chapter;</li>
<li>Intermediate Distant: the entire book;</li>
<li>Far Distant: The set of books:</li>
</ul>
<ul><ol>
<li>Torah;</li>
<li>Poetry;</li>
<li>Major Prophets;</li>
<li>Minor Prophets;</li>
<li>History;</li>
<li>Gospels;</li>
<li>Pauline Epistles;</li>
<li>Catholic Epistles;</li>
<li>Prophecy;</li>
</ol>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Testament: </li>
<ol>
<li>The Tanakh;</li>
<li>The New Testament;</li>
<li>The Anagignoskomena; </li>
</ol>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Bible: the entire canon:</li>
<ol>
<li>The Muslim Canon;</li>
<li>The Restoration Movement Canon;</li>
<li>The Protestant Canon;</li>
<li>The Catholic Canon;</li>
<li>The Lutheran Canon;</li>
<li>The Anglican Canon;</li>
<li>The Orthodox Christian Canon;</li>
<li>The Oriental Christian Canon;</li>
<li>The non-Chalcedonian Canon;</li>
</ol>
</ul>
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Bible study that ignores each of these types of context, is Bible study as pretext.<br />
<ul>
</ul>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-2324793221971938732014-09-08T22:36:00.000+00:002016-12-04T19:38:29.030+00:00Library Size<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: purple;">I never thought I'd say this but: I think most worthwhile <b>public domain</b> content is now in e-Sword format!</span></blockquote>
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BibleSupport.com claims to have 5,218 resources for e-Sword 10.x. There are at least 5,000 resources for e-Sword, that are legally distributable, but are not available from BibleSupport.com. Round that off to 10,000 resources.<br />
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<i>QuickVerse 2013 Platinum Plus</i> claims 574 Volumes. Depending upon your POV, I'm either being very mean, or very generous, in assuming that<i> QuickVerse 2012</i> has the same number of STEP resources. <i>Findex</i> counted resources in its packages, the same that Libronix counts resources in its packages. <br />
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<i>Logos 5 Portofolio Edition</i> contains 2,585 resources. ( https://www.logos.com/comparison . That page defaults to <i>Logos Gold Edition</i>, Click on the link for <i>Portfolio Edition</i>, to see the details.) <br />
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The Maryland State Department of Education requires schools have a
library collection of at least 12,000 items. A middle school collection
is expected to have 15,000 items, whilst a high school collection is
expected to have at least 18,000 items.
(http://articles.herald-mail.com/2008-04-14/news/25088737_1_library-collection-collection-size-school-year
).<br />
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Resources for <i>e-Sword</i>, and<i> Logos</i> are counted differently. If resources were counted the same, then <i>Logos Gold Edition</i> (1,100 resources) is the more appropriate comparison. The school library counts individual volumes, which is what <i>e-Sword</i> does, rather than sets of volumes, which is what <i>Logos</i> does.<br />
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Using<i> Logos 5 Platinum Edition</i> as one's starting point, it is fairly easy for one's Logos Library to be the size of a Maryland High School Library. (I am deliberately excluding the damage to one's wallet, in the definition of "easy". If one wishes to have 18,000 volumes, with minimal impact on one's wallet, download the books from <i>The Internet Archive</i> Archive.org, and <i>Project Gutenberg </i>Gutenberg.org<i> </i>.)<br />
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Fo<i>r e-Sword 10.x</i>, getting to the minimum Maryland School library size (12,000 volumes), is doable, if STEP resources are actively sought out. Getting to Maryland High School library size (18,000 volumes) requires one to be creating resources.<br />
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In terms of "worthwhile public domain resources", the most obvious lack, for e-Sword, is in Greek and Latin material. More specifically, the complete corpus of the church councils, Papal bulls, Papal briefs, and encyclicals.<br />
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The second major omission is apocrypha and pseudepigrapha material. More specifically:<br />
<ul>
<li>The texts that made it into the Bible, and then were removed: For example, <i>3 Corinthians</i>;</li>
<li>The texts that almost made it into the Bible: For example, <i>Shepherd of Hermas</i>, <i>Acts of Paul</i>;</li>
<li>The texts that did not make it into the Bible: For example, 4 Baruch, 5 Maccabees;</li>
</ul>
The third major omission is liturgical material.<br />
Whilst:<br />
<ul>
<li> <i>Book of Common Prayer (USA) (1976)</i><i>; </i></li>
<li><i>The Scottish Communion service of 1764; </i> </li>
</ul>
are available, what is lacking are:<br />
<ul>
<li>Texts that explain the liturgy, such as James Davis' <i>Manual of the Book of Common Prayer;</i></li>
<li><i> </i>Protestant liturgies, such as <i> A Book of Common Order</i>;</li>
<li>Catholic Liturgies, such as <i>Tridentine Missae</i>;</li>
</ul>
Then there are huge swathes of Christianity, material for which, in e-Sword format, is almost completely lacking:<br />
<ul>
<li>Orthodox Christianity;</li>
<li>Oriental Christianity;</li>
<li>Celtic Christianity;</li>
</ul>
If it were not for <i>Gravel Hill Church of Christ</i> (http://www.gravelhillchurchofchrist.com/), resources for/about Restoration Movement Christianity would also be almost completely lacking.<br />
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Consequently, I disagree that <span style="color: purple;"> most worthwhile <b>public domain</b> content is now in e-Sword format.</span><br />
<br />Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-65156493382489979202013-11-06T05:35:00.000+00:002013-11-06T05:35:31.090+00:00Software Support<br />
If customer interaction with developers is perceived to be a valuable thing, then:<br />
<ul>
<li>Have several people whose sole function is to act as a liaison between developers and end-users;</li>
<li>Setup a very good customer service group:<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;">
<li>Have a web forum for each language spoken by users;</li>
<li>Have mailing lists for each language spoken by users;</li>
<li>Have micro-blogs for each language spoken by users, on at least a dozen portals that offer micro-blogging options;</li>
<li>Have a social network presence for each language spoken by users, on
the major social networking sites ---- this means roughly 250 sites,
multiplied by the number of languages used in the geographic regions
where those social networking sites dominate;</li>
<li>Offer IRC in each language spoken by users;</li>
<li>IM contacts for each language spoken by users;</li>
<li>VoIP contacts for each language spoken by users;</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Setup a good documentation creation team:<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;">
<li>Create videos showing how to use every aspect of the software;</li>
<li>Write documents (eBooks, hard copy books, PDFs) showing how to use every aspect of the software;</li>
<li>Construct a wiki that covers every aspect of the software:<ul>
<li>Installing the software;</li>
<li>Customizing the software;</li>
<li>Using the software;</li>
<li>Explains what each icon in the software is for;</li>
<li>Explains how, and when to use each icon;</li>
<li>Explains each item on each menu;</li>
<li>Explains how to use the software;</li>
<li>Includes at least ten examples, for each usage of each icon;</li>
<li>Includes functionality that is available, but has no icon;</li>
<li>Shows how to do things using a keyboard only --- no mouse allowed;</li>
<li>Shows how to work around when a mouse is required;</li>
<li>Recognizes that requiring a mouse is a major design flaw, and as such should be prohibited at all times, and in all places;</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Setup a good QA team:<ol style="list-style-type: decimal;">
<li>Use automated testing tools to crash the software;</li>
<li><span style="color: red;">If you can't use the software after throwing away the keyboard, display monitor, and mouse, the software failed QA</span>;</li>
<li>Have end-user accessible <i>Bug Tracking</i> tools;</li>
<li>Have end-user accessible <i>Request For Enhancement</i> reporting tools;</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
The major flaw in most software projects is inadequate documentation, and non-existent customer support;<br />
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Every Bible Study program that is currently (20131105) available, fails QA # 3: If you throw away your keyboard, mouse, and display monitor, you can not use the program. This is true for every platform that Biblical Software is currently available on.<br />
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jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-43632852998173532482012-10-15T15:31:00.000+00:002012-10-15T15:34:02.275+00:00e-Sword4iPadOn the 10 October 2012, Rick announced, via a popup in <span style="color: blue;"><i>e-Sword</i></span>, that<br />
<i style="color: blue;">e-Sword4iPad</i> would be released on 15 October.<br />
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It was released today. Unfortunately, I don't have an <span style="color: purple;">iPad</span>. I did search in the app store using my <span style="color: purple;">iPhone 4S</span>, to no avail. :(<br />
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This is not a review, per se, but rather impressions I've gained from reading various comments, reviews about the program, and other things.<br />
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The most comprehensive review I've seen thus far has been <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.bsreview.org/blog/author/admin" rel="author" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: whitesmoke; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Rubén Gómez">Rubén Gómez</a>' <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">on BSR. </span></span><a href="http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2012/10/e-sword-hd-for-ipad.html">http://www.bsreview.org/blog/2012/10/e-sword-hd-for-ipad.html</a> .<br />
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The YouTube video can be directly viewed at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqxDJv2akME">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqxDJv2akME </a><br />
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<b style="color: red;">Price</b>:<br />
The app costs US$4.99.<br />
Statistics from <a href="http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice">http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice</a><br />
2.7% of the apps on<span style="color: purple;"> The iTunes App Store</span> sell for US$4.99;<br />
94.55% of the apps on <span style="color: purple;">The iTunes App Store</span> sell for US4.99, or less.<br />
51.72% of the apps on <span style="color: purple;">The iTunes App Store</span> are gratis;<br />
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As such, it is within the norms of <span style="color: purple;">iOS</span> pricing.<br />
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<i style="color: red;">Potential Issue</i>:<br />
<i style="color: blue;">Logos For iPad</i>, <i style="color: blue;">Accordance</i>, and <span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">Laridian</span>'s <span style="color: blue;"><i>PocketBible</i></span> are all gratis. You do have to pay for the resources, but they can be used on other devices/platforms.<br />
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My <span style="color: purple;">iPhone</span> offers 10 categories, when typing "Bibl". Selecting "Bible", 4.042 apps are offered. My<span style="color: purple;"> iPhone</span> more or less gave up, when I tried to scroll past the 70th app in the "Bible" search.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>e-Sword4iPad</i></span> could easily get lost in those numbers.<br />
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Can current <i style="color: blue;">e-Sword</i> users generate enough buzz for it to break out of the 788 applications per day that are added to <span style="color: purple;">The iTunes App Store</span> each day?<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Supported Canon</b>:<br />
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None of the reviews or comments I've come across, have specifically discussed the supported canon. In two different video reviews, I noticed that the <i style="color: blue;">Douay-Rheims Bible</i> is available. That implies that at least the <span style="color: blue;">73 book Catholic Canon</span> is supported. This canon was also supported in <i style="color: blue;">Pocket e-Sword</i>.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Available Resources</b>:<br />
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<ul style="position: static; z-index: auto;">
<li>Only official resources can be installed. This is due to limitations imposed by security model used by<span style="color: purple;"> iOS</span>. </li>
<li>Resources use HTML, rather than RTF for presentation markup; </li>
<li>Currently, only English Language resources are available;</li>
</ul>
I expect a utility that enables users to create their own resources, will be available within three months. Installing those resources probably will require the user to jailbreak the device.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Search</b>:<br />
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Basic search functionality is available. I haven't seen anything about Boolean or Regex search.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>2009 SBL Bible Software Shootout</b></span>:<br />
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Inasmuch as only English language resources are available, it fails all five criteria. This should change, when resources in Biblical languages are released.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Synopsis</b>:<br />
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If I had an <span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">iPad</span>, I'd install and use it. However, it is not yet compelling enough for me to specifically purchase an <span style="color: purple;">iPad</span>.<br />
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<br />jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-86558440228684832282012-08-24T00:52:00.001+00:002012-08-24T00:52:28.231+00:001 & 1/8 MAs of 20120822:23:56:00 UT, <a href="http://biblesupport.com/">BibleSupport.com</a> users had downloaded 1 145 146 resources. At the current rate, it should have 2 000 000 downloads by 1 March 2013.<br />
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In terms of users, that figure implies that the average user has downloaded 38.9161 resources.<br />
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To get on the list of top 20 down-loaders, one has to have downloaded 4 366 resources. To be in the top five, one needs to have downloaded 11 631 resources.<br />
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I don't know how that works, since the site currently offers 6 466 different files.<br />
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In terms of uploading resources:<br />
<ul>
<li>14 resources will squeak one into twentieth place;</li>
<li>52 resources will drop one into tenth place;</li>
<li>143 resources will edge one into fifth place;</li>
<li>3 681 resources will get one into first place; </li>
</ul>
Create a resource. Provide it for <i>e-Sword 8.x</i>, <i>e-Sword 9.x</i>, <i>Pocket e-Sword</i>, and <i>MySword</i>, and an instant four resources.<br />
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Meanwhile, <a href="http://wordmodules.com/">WordModules.com</a> continues to grow:<br />
<ul>
<li>1714 members;</li>
<li>294 resources;</li>
<li>42 682 downloads;</li>
</ul>
That is an average of 24.901 downloads per user.<br />
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I noticed in passing that the top seventeen downloaders had retrieved at least 309 resources each.<br />
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For those wishing to submit resources:<br />
<ul>
<li>Two will put one in the top forteen; </li>
<li>Five resources will place one in the top ten;</li>
<li>Eighteen will place one in the top five;</li>
<li>One hundred and twenty-eight will place one in top place;</li>
</ul>
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For both sites, (<a href="http://biblesupport.com/">BibleSupport.com</a> & <a href="http://wordmodules.com/">WordModules.com</a>) the emphasis is on resource quality, over resource quantity. <br />
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The criteria for what constitutes "high quality" resources is the same for both sites:<br />
<ul>
<li>The text is faithful to the original;</li>
<li>Font parameters can be adjusted by the user;</li>
<li>If there are images in the original, they are to be included within the resources;</li>
<li>All scripture citations are correctly tooltipped;</li>
<li>Presentation markup is consistent with other resources for the same software;</li>
<li>Text flow must be consistent, regardless of screen size;</li>
<li>Content is consistent for the type of resource that is constructed; </li>
</ul>
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<br />Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-89970698097317570832012-06-28T02:04:00.000+00:002012-06-28T02:04:25.650+00:00Cyclical Resources<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Resources for e-Sword appear, and occasionally disappear. The <i style="color: blue;">NA-26</i>, and its relatives (<i style="color: blue;">NA-27</i>, <i style="color: blue;">USB3</i>, <i style="color: blue;">USB4</i>, <i style="color: blue;">BHS</i>) are probably the best known resources that make a reappearance, only to disappear again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">None of those <i>e-Sword</i> resources contains a fraction of the information that is available in the hard copy. AFAIK, there is no group of resources in the e-Sword world, that comes close to containing the data in the hardcopy of those books. Nonetheless, some users find those resources useful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">About a week ago, a question about the copyright status of <i style="color: blue;">NA-26</i> was raised on <a href="http://biblesupport.com/">BibleSupport.com</a>. (That thread has since been deleted.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The specific question was</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>(2) To observe any special restrictions that may govern the use of particular texts or bodies of material as stipulated in the aforementioned documentation; </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Doesn't this mean that even if you are not distributing it for commercial purposes (which is discussed in point one of the CCAT user agreement), this text might still be restricted? </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Copyright and licensing issues can be extremely thorny. The individual simply wants assurance that their use of <i style="color: blue;">NA-26</i> is legal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the United States, copyright law, at least in theory, covers distribution. It does not cover usage. How the content was originally obtained is basically irrelevant--- a point that a number of former habituates of <i>Cellophane Square</i> greatly appreciated, especially when the police tried to confiscate their newly purchased albums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In other countries, copyright law can extend into how the content was obtained.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For all five resources (<i style="color: blue;">NA-26</i><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">,</span></span><i style="color: blue;"> NA-27</i>, <i style="color: blue;">USB3</i>, <i style="color: blue;">USB4</i>, <i style="color: blue;">BHS</i><span style="color: black;">), CCAT is the acknowledged source of the etext. This is where things start to get legally confusing, and tricky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
<ul style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>The University of Pennsylvania</i> had a license from <i>The German Bible Society</i> to use those texts in their <i>CCAT project</i>; </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>CCAT </i>distributed a number of texts under a license that restricted usage to academic research;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>CCAT</i> put some texts online, with their own license, which prohibited commercial usage, and restricted non-academic research usage;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>CCAT</i> removed the texts licensed from <i>The German Bible Society</i> from their online site, citing a license misunderstanding, demuring from clarifying what is meant, or being referred to;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>The German Bible Society </i>announces that they will not grant permission to distribute their content to any free Bible software. A clarification from them implies that both gratis and libre software are included the prohibition;</span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>e-Sword-users.org</i> put the <i>e-Sword</i> resources online, removed them, and puts them back up. The specific resources imply</span><span style="color: black;"> that users have to sign, and adhere to the <i style="color: blue;">CCAT license</i>.</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Furthermore:</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><i>The German Bible Society</i> has never granted anybody associated with <i>e-Sword </i>permission to distribute their content;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The intent of the <i style="color: blue;">CCAT License</i> is to prohibit mass re-distribution;</span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Consequently, the odds are that the <i style="color: black;">e-Sword</i> resources were never legally distributed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">One of the first response to the question was that the Bible should not be subject to copyright, because God wrote it. Most courts in the United States would dismiss it out of hand, citing</span> <i>Urantia Foundation v. Maaherra, 895 F. Supp. 1329 - Dist. Court, D. Arizona 1995</i><span style="color: black;">. In the South, the court might declare that since this involves God, then it is a matter of religion. Something that the court frequently tried to do in </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>McMurtry v. Society Ordo Templi Orientis Case # 85-2897 US Court of Appeals, Ninth District. 819 F 2d 1146</i><span style="color: black;">, and the rest of the lawsuits involving those two organizations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A more pertinent question is what does <i>The German Bible Society</i> hold a copyright of? Their content comprises of a synthetic text. A text that they believe accurately represents what was originally written. A text that does not reflect any specific extent manuscript.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As far as current scholarship is concerned, we do not have holographic texts written by the authors of either the Tanakh, or the New Testament. What we do have, is texts that are copies, with errors, of what was originally written. The original text is in the public domain. A specific edition might be under copyright, depending upon the degree of "creativity" that is involved in deciphering the specific manuscript that the edition represents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of the respondents on that thread pointed out that <i>The German Bible Society</i> had neither submitted a DMCA take down notice, nor filed a lawsuit, and hence the distribution must be legal. After all, they reasoned, a year is long enough to take such action. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">DMCA take down notices are fairly easy to file. (Disclaimer: I've probably filed half a dozen since 2000. I've also been the recipient of about the same number. Only one went to court, and that case was dismissed with prejudice, because it involved deep links, which the court ruled did not violate copyright.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">From both a financial and public relations point of view, filing lawsuits is a bad practice. </span></div>
<ul style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Juries can be finicky.; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Judges can rule against a party, simply because the lawyer angers the judge;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Expert witnesses can be challenged, with the court ruling that they are not qualified to give testimony in their alleged area of expertise;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Other things can go wrong;</span></li>
</ul>
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">In a theoretical copyright infringement lawsuit in the United States, involving <i style="color: blue;">NA-26</i>, there would be reams of technical testimony, showing how and why each word was used in that work, and how it is, or is not a deviation from other texts. The main point being how it conforms to the criteria laid out under US Copyright law, that makes it a copyrightable work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the United States, "sweat of the brow" does not automatically mean "copyrightable". In Europe, "sweat of the brow" implies "copyrightable". </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">If the theoretical lawsuit were in Europe, an alleged infringer in the United States would ignore it, due to lack of jurisdiction. Likewise, a European court would ignore any rulings made in the United States, due to lack of jurisdiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-45542064542896955742012-06-26T17:29:00.000+00:002012-06-28T16:29:02.399+00:00One year and fifteen days laterBack on 13 June 2011, <a href="http://biblesupport.com/">BibleSupport.com</a> opened to the general public.<br />
<br />
Current statistics are:<br />
<ul>
<li>22,895 subscribers;</li>
<li>96 <i>Pocket e-Sword </i>Resources;</li>
<li>404 <i>MySword</i> Resources;</li>
<li>1,979 <i>e-Sword 8.x</i> resources;</li>
<li>33 Utility Programs;</li>
<li>1,024 items to be converted into <i>e-Sword</i> resources;</li>
<li>2,880 resources for <i>e-Sword 9.x</i> and <i>e-Sword 9.x</i>.</li>
</ul>
All of these figures are significantly higher that <i>e-Sword-users.org</i> had, after its first year.<br />
<br />
It has also spawned an offspring site: <a href="http://wordmodules.com/">WordModules.com</a>, for resources for <i>TheWord</i>. This is a Bible Study program for <i>Windows</i>, to which many <i>e-Sword</i> users have migrated<i></i>. (I'll post my review of <i>TheWord</i> later this quarter.)<br />
<br />
One virtue of <i>BibleSupport</i>, is that it imposes a degree of quality control that <i>e-Sword-users</i> never had. On the flipside, <i>e-Sword-users</i> did not impose any theological constraints on resources, which <i>BibleSupport</i> does do.jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-30426851535343481862012-06-26T17:03:00.003+00:002012-06-26T17:03:53.546+00:00Ichthux<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Earlier today, a request to remove <i>Ichthux</i> from the <i>Ubuntu Launchpad </i>was filed.</div>
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ichthux-meta/+bug/1017907">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ichthux-meta/+bug/1017907</a></pre>
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<i style="color: blue;">Ichthux</i> was the first Christian orientated Linux distro to be publicly released. </div>
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In 2000, a set of utilities to be installed on <i>Windows 2000</i>, to create a desktop suitable for Christians, was released. I do not remember the name of the publisher. Their offerings included:</div>
<ul>
<li>Wallpaper;</li>
<li>Clipart;</li>
<li>Fonts;</li>
<li>Templates;</li>
<li>Desktop theme;</li>
</ul>
I don't remember what else it contained.<br />
<br />
By way of comparison, when Ichthux was originally released in 2003, it contained:<br />
<ul>
<li>Desktop Themes;</li>
<li>Bookmarks for Christian websites;</li>
<li>Fonts;</li>
<li>Templates;</li>
<li>Biblical Software. (<i>Bibletime</i>);</li>
</ul>
The big difference between the product for <i>Win2K</i> and <i>Ichthux</i> was the Bible software.<br />
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In 2006.<i>Ichthux</i> switched from being an independent distro, to a metapackage for <i>Kubuntu</i>. <br />
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<br /></div>jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-44098687225005283342012-05-21T19:47:00.000+00:002012-06-28T22:36:44.871+00:00Has damaged my trust in e swordResponding here, because it pertains to all software.<br />
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I simply cannot understand why any Christian would wish to
make available this or any other book from other religions or faiths or
ways?</blockquote>
<br />
Despite the best efforts of Christians, there are people who do not consider Christianity to be the only way to salvation.
For those who wish to work with, and convert adherants of other
religions and faiths, it can be extremely helpful to know the basic
Sacred Texts, beliefs, teachings, and practices of those religions and faiths.<br />
<br />
There are three basic approaches to witnessing, and converting people:<br />
<ul>
<li>Bribery;</li>
<li>Argument;</li>
<li>Respectful Discourse;</li>
</ul>
<i>Bribery</i> works for as long as the person paying the bribe, keeps it up. Something that Christian missionaries first discovered more than two hundred years ago, but some persist in doing.<br />
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<i>Arguments</i> do not convince anybody, of anything. All they prove is who can shout the loudest, for the longest period of time, and impress the most people.<br />
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<i>Respectful Discourse</i> includes discussing the sacred texts, religious beliefs, teachings, and practices with the potentical convert. Not trash-talk, a la Jerry Springer. It means squarely addressing issues which the potential convert percieves to be Christian teachings, beliefs, and practices, and also conflict with their sense of religious belief, practice, and teachings. <br />
<br />
By way of example:<br />
<ul>
<li>A Hindu will never take their Japa Mala into a laundry room, kitchen, or bathroom, because those places are "unclean", and as such, it is disrespectful to Krishna, to do so;</li>
<li>A Muslim will never place the Q'ran on the ground, because doing so shows disrespect to Allah;</li>
<li>A Muslim will take two or so minutes, five times a day, to say a prayer to Allah, regardless of how easy it is to do so;</li>
</ul>
In Acts 17, Paul demonstrates how a knowledge of the religious beliefs and practices of the target group, can be used to convert them to Christianity.<br />
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has damaged my trust in e sword,</blockquote>
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A resource made by a third party, distributed on a third party web site, damages your trust in e-Sword?<br />
<br />
One
of the issues in giving users the ability to create, and distribute
content for their Biblical software, or any other software, is that
users will create content and extensions that offends the sensibilities of the software
developers.<br />
<br />
This implicitly recognized by licenses which prohibit the use of the program "<i>to criticize, undermine, subvert, or in any way question the accuracy and integrity of biblical Christianity</i>". and "<i>may not be used anywhere but in a House of Christian worship</i>".<br />
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Is faith in God so weak, that it can be damaged by reading that the "wrong" work is available? <br />
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<br />jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-48939505882639760562012-05-16T17:55:00.000+00:002012-05-16T17:55:20.525+00:00Advertising on this siteAs of 20120515, my AdSense account is awaiting approval.<br />
I don't know how long it will take, or even if it will be approved.<br />
<br />
I have no idea how much revenue, if any, it will generate.<br />
<br />
The majority of the revenue I receive will go towards paying medical bills. <br />
<br />
The current estimate is that diagnosis will cost US$10,000. If the doctors find what they expect to find, then treatment should be in the US$25K - US$30K range. If something else is found, the treatment costs could be much higher. It is possible, but not probable, that the treatment costs will be lower.<br />
<br />
I do not qualify for any medical programs --- public or private. This includes all programs offered, or run by the Social Security Administration, and the State Department of Social Services. (AFAIK, I did not opt out of Social Security.)<br />
<br />
If you don't want to see the adds, then install AdBlock Plus, or a similar extension in your browser, and configure it to reject all advertising.jonathonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16488035329791188929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-54126138091626680542012-04-22T18:22:00.000+00:002012-06-28T22:41:25.702+00:00Employment at e-Sword I don't know who Rick and Phil have previously hired as independent contracts. <br />
<br />
In browsing through some social networking, and business networking sites, I was a little surprised to see several people with e-Sword as either their current, or former employer. What surprised me even more was that I did not recognize their names.<br />
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These are individuals that are not:<br />
<ul>
<li>found within the user groups;</li>
<li>BibleTech attendees;</li>
<li>listed as contributors on the various programs/tools issued by e-Sword.net;</li>
</ul>
(This post was originally written in October 2011.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-69225058930417012822012-04-22T18:10:00.002+00:002012-04-22T18:10:38.478+00:00A Linux based Christian Distro<div>
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Development of <i>Ubuntu</i> <i>Christian</i> <i>Edition</i> is stalled.<br />
Development of <i>Ichthux</i> is stalled.<br />
The Christian oriented puplets of <span style="font-style: italic;">Puppy Linux</span> have tended to be one version wonders.<br />
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Who are these distros aimed at?<br />
Why should any end user consider a Christian respin, over stock whatever:<br />
<ul>
<li>Arch;</li>
<li>CentOS;</li>
<li>Debian;</li>
<li>Fedora;</li>
<li>Red Hat,</li>
<li>SuSe;</li>
<li>Ubuntu;</li>
</ul>
The programs included in the respin are usually found in the upstream repository. The major exceptions being Windows programs that require WINE, or CrossOver:<br />
<ul>
<li><span style="font-style: italic;">e-Sword;</span></li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">In the Beginning was The Word;</li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">Interlinear Scripture Analyzer;</li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">Theophilos;</li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">Virtual Rosary;</li>
<li style="font-style: italic;">Sunday School Planner;</li>
</ul>
The minor exceptions are the wallpaper, and the other accouterments of the themes that are included within the distro. Typically, these are not distributed under a Libre license.<br />
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<i>The</i> <i>Sword</i> <i>Project</i> offers native (Linux) biblical software. In theory, all of the features and functionality of the biblical software found in the Windows world can be included. It would be much simpler for Christian Linux distros to drop the Windows software, if the front ends of <span style="font-style: italic;">The Sword Project </span>could successfully complete<span style="color: #000099;"> the 2009 SBL Biblical Software Shootout challenge</span>.<br />
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(This post was originally written on 12 January 2011.) <br />
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</div>Bible Study Softwarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04713631794985474385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1188127084207416.post-85921565894386577582012-04-18T23:44:00.005+00:002012-06-13T20:38:57.539+00:00MySword: A Review<style type="text/css">
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><i><b>1: MySword</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">This program was originally written for the Windows Mobile operating system. In November 2010, the developers decided to port their program to the Android operating system. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Program Milestones</span></span></h4>
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19 March 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.0</blockquote>
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26 March 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.1</blockquote>
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7 April 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.2</blockquote>
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21 April 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.3</blockquote>
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13 May 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.4</blockquote>
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27 May 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.5</blockquote>
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3 June 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.6</blockquote>
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4 June 2011</blockquote>
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Version 1.6.1</blockquote>
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26 July 2011</blockquote>
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Version 2.0</blockquote>
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3 September 2011</blockquote>
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Version 2.1</blockquote>
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3 October 2011</blockquote>
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Version 2.2</blockquote>
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22 October 2011</blockquote>
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Version 2.3</blockquote>
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25 October 2011</blockquote>
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Version 2.3.1</blockquote>
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6 December 2011</blockquote>
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Version 2.4</blockquote>
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18 March 2012</blockquote>
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Version 3.0</blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">I used the gratis version of </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. The </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Pro Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> and the </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Deluxe Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> offer slightly different functionality. These differences may provide for a better user experience. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Platform </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">This program should run on all versions of Android 2.1 (Éclair) through Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">There are three editions of this program:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The</span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA"> Gratis version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Pro version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Deluxe Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The standard version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> has the following minimum hardware requirements:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">600 MHz chip;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">1 GB SD card;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">256 MB Ram;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The Pro version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is designed for a cell phone. It does not appear to have any additional hardware requirements.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The Deluxe Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is designed for tablets. Its hardware requirements are:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">1024X768 pixel screen resolution<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a>;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Seven inch screen, or larger;</span></span></div>
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Operating System</h4>
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<span style="color: black;">MySword 3.0: Gratis Edition:</span><span style="color: black;"> Android 2.0, and higher; </span><span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">MySword 3.0: Pro Edition: </span><span style="color: black;">Android 3.0, and higher; </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">MySword 3.0: Deluxe Edition: Android 3.0, and higher; </span><span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">License</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The license can be found at “</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="en-ZA">>Settings >About >About >License</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The program is free to use. Source code is not available.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Paragraph five:</span></span></div>
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You can copy MySword freely for personal use and give it away to friends, relatives, etc. as long as you do not charge for it in any way.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Paragraph nine:</span></span></div>
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If you choose to redistribute the software as part of an “official” package (E.G.: your own custom CD compilation with a custom CD cover or label you must:</blockquote>
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Contact the authors to obtain written permission. All valid electronic distributions of the software … on a noticeable area of the official website so users will known whether or not distribution is legal.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">These clauses aren't mutually exclusive. However, for all practical purposes they might as well be. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA"><span style="color: red;">Scenario # 1</span>: </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Landmark Baptist Church<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote2sym" name="sdfootnote2anc"><sup>2</sup></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> decides to give a CD containing </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> to everybody who visits their booth at the local summer fair. Does the church need written permission every time they change the contents of the CD? More pointedly, does that listing obligate the church to provide a CD to all who request one? </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA"><span style="color: red;">Scenario # 2</span>: </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">10-40 Missions<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote3sym" name="sdfootnote3anc"><sup>3</sup></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> notices that Android is very popular in the geographic area it serves. </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is fairly easy to use. Oops, that listing at </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">MySword.info</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> just signed the death warrant<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote4sym" name="sdfootnote4anc"><sup>4</sup></a> for the entire staff and volunteers of the organisation. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA"><span style="color: red;">Scenario # 3</span>: </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The Abbotsford Home Church<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote5sym" name="sdfootnote5anc"><sup>5</sup></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, a duly registered unincorporated non-profit organisation decides on </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> as the Biblical software program it uses. Does any resulting distribution require written permission?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Considering the legal restrictions and prohibitions on Bible ownership and usage around the world, there is no rational for expecting Biblical software will always be obtainable from an app store. More pointedly, Biblical software in the 10-40 Belt has historically been from person to person, using floppy disks, then CDs, and then DVDs. I can't see any of those colporteurs voluntarily exposing themselves to any more risks than needed, to smuggle software into those countries. Indeed, at least one Biblical program in the Android marketplace recommends that users in those countries obtain resources through a source other than the Internet<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote6sym" name="sdfootnote6anc"><sup>6</sup></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;">One other clause that might be problematic </span>is:</span></div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<div style="color: #351c75;">
This
license is designed to ensure that MySword remains free for everyone
and is not used in any way to promote any profit generating activities
that are outside the scope of the Software.</div>
</blockquote>
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<span style="color: black;">I'm not sure what that is supposed to prohibit. It could mean:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">It can't be used as a premium to be used in premium-incentive marketing;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">One can not distribute non-gratis resources for it;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">One can not sell documentation related to it;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">One can not conduct training sessions that have a fee attached to them;</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> </span></span></li>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Cost</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The gratis edition is free.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The Pro Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> and </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Deluxe Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> are available as gift for “generous” donors. For reasons best known to the developers, they do not want what they consider to be a “generous” donation publicised.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">On 31 March 2012 iTunes store data indicated<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote7sym" name="sdfootnote7anc"><sup>7</sup></a>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">82.71% of the applications cost US$1.99, or less.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">97.69% of the applications cost US$9.99, or less.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">97.77% of the applications cost US$10.99, or less.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">TThe average price of an application is US$2.03.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">631 applications (0.001054329%) are priced between US$48.99 and US$54.99, inclusive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">69 applications (0.000115291%) are priced at US$449.99, or more.</span></span></div>
</li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">In July 2010<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote8sym" name="sdfootnote8anc"><sup>8</sup></a>, </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The average price of all paid applications for the iPhone was US$4.31;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The average price of the top 100 paid applications for the iPhone was US$2.31;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The average price of the top 100 grossing applications is US$8.93;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The average price of all paid applications for Android was US$3.23;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The average price of the top 100 paid applications for Android was US$4.57;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Average mobile device application price<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote9sym" name="sdfootnote9anc"><sup>9</sup></a>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Android US$3.27</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Apple: US$3.62</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Ovi: US$3.47</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Palm: US$2.53</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">RIM: US$8.26</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">WinMo: US$6.99</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Average Price of top 100 applications in different Android Application Stores<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote10sym" name="sdfootnote10anc"><sup>10</sup></a>:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Handango: US$9.10;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">MobiHand: US$8.87;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Handster: US$7.98;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">PocketGear: US$7.67;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Android Market: US$6.47;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">AndroidPit: US$3.30;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">SlideME: US$3.17;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Appoke: US$2.68;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Amazon: US$2.52</span></span></div>
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<div style="color: red;">
<span style="color: black;">On 16 May 2010, <i>TechCrunch</i> reported that the average total development cost of an iPhone app was US$6,543. (<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/16/iphone-app-sales-exposed/">http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/16/iphone-app-sales-exposed/</a>). I don't have comparible data for Android. </span></div>
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<div style="color: red;">
<span style="color: black;">By way of comparison, from 2002 (<a href="http://forum.beyond3d.com/archive/index.php/t-2832.html">http://forum.beyond3d.com/archive/index.php/t-2832.html</a>) we have the following figures for developing software for game consoles:</span></div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">PlayStation €2,100.000</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Nintendo 64 €510.000 </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Dreamcast €400.000 </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Wonder Swan €400.000 </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Game Boy Advance €350.000 </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
PSone €170.000 </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">
Game Boy €34.000</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: black;"> Fast forward to January 2010, (<a href="http://www.develop-online.net/news/33625/Study-Average-dev-cost-as-high-as-28m">http://www.develop-online.net/news/33625/Study-Average-dev-cost-as-high-as-28m</a>) and we have the following quotes:</span><br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #20124d;">The average development budget for a multi-platform next-gen game is US$18,000,000 to US$28,000,000.</span></span> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="color: #20124d;">Development costs for a single platform project average US$10,000,000.</span></blockquote>
I
haven't found any reliable data on development costs for Android apps.
Given the diversity of hardware for Android, I suspect that development
are at least double that iOS development.<br />
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<div style="color: red;">
Points to ponder:</div>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: black;">The top hundred paid apps for Android cost 2.5 times that of the top hundred paid apps for iOS. (<a href="http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/android-apps-are-too-expensive">http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/android-apps-are-too-expensive</a>: 20120223 );</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">97% of the resources on the iTunes store cost less than US$10.00. (<a href="http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice">http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice</a>);</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">The average price of an app in the iTunes store is US$2.03. </span><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice">http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice</a>);</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">39 apps, or 6.51645405*10^-5 % of the apps in the iTunes store sell for more than US$500.00.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice">http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice</a>);</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">559 apps, or 0.09% of the apps sell for
US$49.99. 29 apps sell for US$48.99. 43 apps (0.01%) sell for US$54.99.
Call that 0.01% sell at around the US$50.00 price point. </span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice">http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=appprice</a>);</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">4,624 apps, or 3.82% of paid apps in the AppBrain store sell for more than US$10.00. (<a href="http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications">http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications</a>);</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">42.06% </span><span style="color: black;">(50,848) </span><span style="color: black;">of the paid apps </span><span style="color: black;"> in the AppBrain store </span><span style="color: black;">sold in the US$1.00 - US$2.50 range. </span><span style="color: black;"> (<a href="http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications">http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications</a>);</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">16.32% (19.726) of the paid apps </span><span style="color: black;"> in the AppBrain store </span><span style="color: black;">sold in the US$2.50 - US$5.00 range.</span><span style="color: black;"> (<a href="http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications">http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications</a>);</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">31.27% (37,810)</span><span style="color: black;"> of the paid apps </span><span style="color: black;"> in the AppBrain store </span><span style="color: black;">sold for less that US$1.00.</span><span style="color: black;"> (<a href="http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications">http://www.appbrain.com/stats/free-and-paid-android-applications</a>); </span></li>
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<span style="color: black;">Given all that, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">one would be forgiven for assuming that a donation in the US$5.00 range would suffice for obtaining the Pro version. One would also be wrong.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">In reading the reviews on the various Android Application stores, there is no correlation between the number of stars that are given, and criticism of this pricing policy. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">As best as I can determine, a donation of US$10.00 should enable one to upgrade to the Pro version.(I've seen reports that as little as three dollars works. I've also seen reports where twenty five dollars has not worked.)</span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Depending upon the informant, the minimum donation for the Deluxe version appears to be either US$50.00 or US$25.00. In researching this specific issue, I ran across some indicators that suggested that US$40.00 would be acceptable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Quaker theology teaches that bartering is bad for both parties, because it belittles both parties<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote11sym" name="sdfootnote11anc"><sup>11</sup></a>. The same principle applies here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Intended Audience</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">As an </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">e-Sword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> clone, the theoretical audience of the software is “new Christians who don't know how to use computers”. As a practical matter, the focus is upon those who wish to have a basic, portable set of Bible resources.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The components, for the most part, support its use for Bible Study groups, or Sunday School lessons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Usable Features</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;">Textual apparatus is not available with the gratis edition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Module management is not available with the gratis edition.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Six note/journal resources are predefined. If you want more, you'll have to migrate to the Pro version.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For some bizarre reason, maps are hidden in the journal section. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">For the initial setup, the device must have a working WiFi connection.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A premium function "Sharing" requires WiFi access, so that the content to be shared can be posted on Twitter, FaceBook, etc. </span><br />
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User extensibility</h4>
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<span style="color: black;">Tools for users to create their own <i><span style="color: #783f04;">MySword</span></i> resources are available.</span></div>
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built in macro language is available. There does not appear to be
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program.</span></span> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Accessibility</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Tablets, PDAs, and cell phones are not inherently accessible. Specific modifications depend upon the accessibility issue that needs to be met. For example, for blind individuals, a Braille display monitor needs to be included. For individuals with neuromuscular issues, a joystick needs to be included. For individuals with hearing loss, data needs to be displayed on a monitor. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Nonetheless, there are things that software developers can do, to make their program more accessible. I look at the six most common issues that are easy to fix, if one designs the software from scratch, with accessibility as a core concept. Retro-fixing software for A11Y usually results in something failing for everybody.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Colour-blindness</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">>Settings >Preferences >Colour Theme” offers four basic options:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">White with black text;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Light Gray with black text;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Black with white text;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Black with light grey text;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Whilst these aren't the ideal options, they are adequate for most forms of colour blindness. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The Pro version offers an additional six options. None of these options enhance usability for colour blind individuals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Low Vision</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">: </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">>Setting >Preferences >Text Size” offers six options:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Largest;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Larger;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Normal;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Smaller;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Smallest;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Custom;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Custom” allows one to select a text size that ranges from 20% of “normal” to 300% of “normal”. This range should be adequate for low vision users.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">No Vision</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">None of the screen readers from the Android marketplace, or other sources, functioned with this program.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Audio feedback provides no identifying data for icons, and other forms of navigation.<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Hearing loss</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">This program has neither a built in text to speech nor audio player. Basic accessibility functionality for hearing issues depends upon the hardware, and the installed audio software.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Muscular impairments</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">This program does not appear to be able to accept voice input.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Several times, in selecting resources, or adjusting settings, I noticed that the program “jumped”, and what was displayed was not what I intended to select. I could not determine if that mis-selection was due to my neuromuscular issues, or due to the hardware on my device, or due to something in the program. When I've encountered unexpected actions in other programs, the usual result has been an adjustment of the screen magnification.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Inasmuch as I have neither an external joystick, nor external keyboard, I did not try using this program with that type of hardware.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Supported Canons</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">This software supports the </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">66 Book Protestant Canon</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. As such, it is not suitable<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote12sym" name="sdfootnote12anc"><sup>12</sup></a> for Anglican<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote13sym" name="sdfootnote13anc"><sup>13</sup></a>, Catholic, Lutheran<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote14sym" name="sdfootnote14anc"><sup>14</sup></a>, or Orthodox Christians.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Versification</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">This software recognizes the KJV versification scheme only. This eliminates the standard Hebrew versification, the standard versification of the Vulgate, and some of the Greek versification schemes. A further side effect is that recent translations, such as the NIV won't be correctly rendered, because they have a number of small, but significant departures from KJV V11N.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> Supported Languages</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The User Interface (UI) is in English. A request for help in translating the UI was made on the </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">BibleSupport</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> forum, on 11 April 2012.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Biblical Language support</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The official website offers resources in Greek and Hebrew. Breathing marks, diacritic marks, and nikkud appear to be correctly placed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Resources in other Biblical languages are not currently available.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Arabic Support</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">There do not appear to be any Arabic resources for </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">I don't know Farsi well enough to say how well it displays. In comparing the text to what was displayed in </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">e-Sword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, it looked the same, and thus presumably is correct.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Hebrew resources are correctly displayed in Android 3.0 and higher. (Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Search in Hebrew resources requires a virtual keyboard that supports that writing system. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">CJVK Support</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Both Traditional Chinese and Simple Chinese display correctly. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">I did not locate any Japanese resources for MySword.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The only Korean resource I looked at displays correctly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">CJKV search requires the use of an external IME. (The IME I tested search with uses a method I'm unfamiliar with.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Offline/Online Usage</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The program can be used offline.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Installation of new resources requires a connection to either the Internet, or a computer that can read/write the Android file system.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Resource Creation Tools</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The official tool for creating user resources simply converts </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">TheWord</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> resources to </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">Rob Wolfram wrote set of PERL scripts for converting </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">e-Sword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> resources to </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. These scripts are available at </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">http://www.biblesupport.com/topic/919-perl-scripts-to-convert-e-sword-9-bblx-and-cmtx-modules-to-mysword/</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. They run on both Linux and Windows platforms<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote15sym" name="sdfootnote15anc"><sup>15</sup></a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">Whilst both of these tools make migration to </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> relatively simple, they both an add an extra step to the process --- creating a resource for a different platform.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Users would also be helped if documentation describing the database requirements was publicly available. Whilst reverse engineering existing resources provides most of that data, not everything that is needed is available. (One example being the version of HTML that is supported.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Official Resources</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">There are 139 official resources, of which 37 are English translations of the Bible.</span></span></div>
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Resources on the official home site:<br />
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<li>97 Bibles.</li>
<li>12 Commentaries</li>
<li>19 Dictionaries</li>
<li>7 Books</li>
<li>1 Devotional</li>
<li>1 Sample Journal</li>
<li>2 Maps </li>
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For a total of 139 resources. <br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">User Created Resources</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">MySwordModules.com</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> consists exclusively of Baptist oriented resources converted </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA"></span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> by Pastor David Cox. </span></span></span>
This site is essentially a blog, so finding specific resources can be
awkward. He is porting resources he previously constructed for<i style="color: #783f04;"> e-Sword</i> and <i><span style="color: #783f04;">TheWord</span></i>, to <i style="color: #783f04;">MySword</i>. What he hasn't yet ported, is his original content, which is the msot useful content on his site. </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">BibleSupport.com</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> offers 366 (</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">¿</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">370?)<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote16sym" name="sdfootnote16anc"><sup>16</sup></a> resources. Of those, 137 are Bible resources<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote17sym" name="sdfootnote17anc"><sup>17</sup></a>, and 128 are book resources. </span></span></span></span></div>
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http://www.biblesupport.com/e-sword-downloads/category/26-mysword-modules/</div>
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Currently (20120331-00:00) the site offers:</div>
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<li>137 Bibles;</li>
<li>76 Commentaries;</li>
<li>19 Dictionaries;</li>
<li>127 Books;</li>
<li>3 Maps;</li>
<li>4 Devotionals;</li>
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By my count, that is 366 files. The webpage claims 370 files.</div>
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Either way, these files have been downloaded a total of 31,840 times.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">One reviewer wrote “you can now have all of your e-Sword resources with you”. Whilst theoretically true, there are three practical limitations:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">Amount of space to put the resources on<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote18sym" name="sdfootnote18anc"><sup>18</sup></a>;</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The lack of support for the </span></span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Anagignoskomena</span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">;</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">Components and functions in </span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">e-Sword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">, that are not in </span></span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">;</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">DRM</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The usual driving force behind DRM is copyright owners trying<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote19sym" name="sdfootnote19anc"><sup>19</sup></a> to prevent piracy of content that is commercially distributed. Inasmuch as the <span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">MySword</span></i></span></span></span> developers current policy is to not commercially distribute resources, DRM is not present.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Search</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The gratis version limits search to the first 100 hits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The Pro version does not restrict the number of hits.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">FT Search</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is the default search method. This looks only at the root of the word being searched. Thus, a search for “burn” will return “burn”, “burnt”, and “burning”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Boolean Search</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is implemented in the Pro Version. </span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black;">"OR" is Boolean OR;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">"NEAR" is the proximity indicator;</span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">"NEAR/#", where # is a number between 1 and 10, is the distance, in words, between the two words that are being searched for; </span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;">"-" is Boolean NOT;</span></li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">These keywords are not always acted upon. One pitfall is that due to root stemming, inexact matches may be returned.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Proximity Search</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is implemented in the Pro Version. The words have to be within ten words of each other. By using “NEAR/#”, where “#” is a number 1 and 10, words an exact distance apart can be found. Book boundaries are not crossed. Chapter and verse boundaries are crossed at whim.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Official Support</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The official support forum is at </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">http://www.flickr.com/groups/mysword/</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. Official support is also provided by email.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Official documentation is limited to what is found in the program. This information is also found on the official website.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">User Support</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">An unofficial user web forum can be found on </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">BibleSupport.com</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Video documentation:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7BH_epiS4M&feature=related</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is a 24 minute video on installing and using </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">. The text is in Spanish. There is no audio description.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><u><span lang="en-ZA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdyfjB2wjI&feature=related</span></u></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is the only other video about </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> that I could find. This video is 3 minutes and thirty one seconds long, and is in Tagalog.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">Written documentation:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">There does not appear to be any third party documentation. Considering that the program is barely a year old, that lack is not especially troubling. However, it does leave those unfamiliar with Biblical software in the lurch<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote20sym" name="sdfootnote20anc"><sup>20</sup></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Theological Orientation</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">The program is designed for Protestant Christianity. Considering the demographics of who purchases Biblical software, this is not unsurprising. However, the major Biblical software vendors do pay lip service to Catholic and Orthodox Christianity. </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">e-Sword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, upon which </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is based, also provides for Catholic and Orthodox Christianity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">User created resources are dominated by Baptist theology. This won't change, until one can create resources for <span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">MySword</span></i></span></span></span>, without first creating a resource for <span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">e-Sword</span></i></span></span></span> or <span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;">TheWord</span></i></span></span></span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">SBL Bible Software Shootout</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">For these criteria to be successfully completed, three things are needed:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Resources that have the required data;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">REGEX Search functionality;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Built in morphological analysis;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Whilst it is theoretically possible to write auxiliary programs to work around those issues, you bump into hardware limitations:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Available space for resources;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Available RAM to run the program;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Chip speed --- can the search/whatever be completed before the user thinks the program has crashed?</span></span></div>
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If one is going to go to the effort of writing the requisite resources and auxiliary software, then both <i>Laridian's <span style="color: #783f04;">PocketBible</span></i> and<i> Olive Tree's <span style="color: #783f04;">BibleReader</span></i> are more suitable option. (One can easilly create the required resources for the former. The functionality is iffy, but appears to be doable. The latter has both the required resources, and functionality.)</li>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Other things</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Currently missing features are:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Bible Reading Plans;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Verse Lists;</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Whilst those can be worked around, the inability to create resources on the Android platform hinders its usability in the field.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In the begining of April</span><span style="color: black;">, I
nearly suggested that the church I attend adopt this as their preferred
Bible Study program for Android. Within a week, I was extremely glad that I
did not make that recommendation. Between clause ten and the "<span style="color: #274e13;">pricing structure</span>", the program is too risky for a church to distribute. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">I haven't yet deleted this program from my tablet. I probably will do so once I complete a program that migrates data from </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">MySword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> to </span><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: #1a0a0d;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;"><span lang="en-ZA">e Sword</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> resources. I'm writing that program purely as a means of preserving the notes I made, when testing this software.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><i><b>2: In Conclusion</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">The gratis version is tolerable for basic Bible study. For most purposes, it is too crippled to be useful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">Until the developers come out with an explicit pricing policy, I can not recommend this program.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span lang="en-ZA">At US$10.00, the </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Pro Version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA"> is adequate for Bible study by those who utilise </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">the 66 Book Protestant Canon</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, and Bible translations that utilize the KJV versfication scheme.</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The Deluxe version</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, at US$50.00 is overpriced for what it offers. </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">The Pocket Bible Bronze Edition</span></span></i></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, from </span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span lang="en-ZA">Laridian</span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="en-ZA">, at US$49.99, offers much better value for money. </span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">This document contains twenty two footnotes<a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote22sym" name="sdfootnote22anc"><sup>22</sup></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">This document contains no end notes.</span></span></div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote2anc" name="sdfootnote2sym">2</a> I am using this name as an example. It does not reflect any specific organisation whose activities I am aware of. </div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote3anc" name="sdfootnote3sym">3</a> I made up the name of this organisation. Any resemblance to an existing organisation is completely unintentional.</div>
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<a class="sdfootnotesym" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1188127084207416&postID=8592156589438657758#sdfootnote4anc" name="sdfootnote4sym">4</a> Whilst the number of countries where mere possession of the Bible is a criminal offence, punishable by death, the number of countries that have made proselytizing by Christians a criminal offence, has increased in the last decade. The usual penalty in those countries is death.</div>
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