In Islam, a core belief is the belief of predestination (qada' and qadar) meaning what has happened, is happening and will happen is already written. As humans we are given the gift of "free will" [......]
You're a scientist and you can't see that those two things are mutually exclusive?
How come there was an evening and a morning before there were lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night?
And if it took 5 days to create the earth, how come it only took one day to create many billions of stars and planets - when all those stars and planets are at least as complex as the earth is?
[......] the stupidity of putting trees with fruit on that man (with a childlike innocence and therefore CAN"T be blamed for eating them) wasn't allowed to eat!
Either god's an idiot or an arsehole. Either way, i can't see any reason to worship it!
My only objection is to point out that a lot of Luther's protestation was that ONLY scripture is free from error; men-- even men in the vatican-- can make terrible errors, questions of their actual faith aside.
And who wrote the scriptures? Not god, that's for sure!
But god didn't exist until we invented it, either. From that, i can only assume we're more gullible and scared of death than we were before we invented god. Where did we go wrong?
I like the idea of ebook readers, and i'd like to be able to carry several books around for the weight of one. But, after more than 30 years of working with computers on and off, i just don't want to read a book on an electronic display. There's something considerably more comfortable about reading from paper that rather than a screen.
Paper books are more robust, too. These days i drive dump trucks in a mine and i can read a paper book while i'm sitting under the digger being loaded - and chuck it onto the dash when i've got to drive off quickly. I don't think an ebook reader would survive being chucked about like that for long!
One day, maybe, ebook readers will be able to compete with paper - but that day isn't on the horizon yet.
Hmmmm.... Having said that, i think everyone i know who has Apple computers are women (almost entirely notebooks). But i do know one man who owns an iPhone.
The iPhone, like all Apple products, is really just a piece of high-tech, fashionable jewellery. Jewellery generally tends to appeal to women more than men.
They've got no choice. They fought it as long and hard as they could. The only options for them now are the easy way or the hard way - and they're welcoming the easy way.
But, of course, the government wants to make it as favourable as possible for them as they're still major shareholders.
Not a moment too soon! Telstra should have been split up when it was privatised. Their constant anti-competitive antics have held Australian telecoms back ever since.
Yeah, but.... When you've installed it, you'll inevitably have to update half the packages. It's less downloading to install a basic system from the live CD and then install all the rest over the net. That way you install the latest versions straight off.
It's an aggregator. I've got friends and family scattered all over the world. If we all had to email each other separately and email photos to each other etc, it would be so time consuming it just wouldn't happen and mostly we wouldn't keep in touch at all. Facebook puts it all in one place and makes keeping in touch fairly effortless.
It's the difference between going to the pub to meet up with your mates and visiting each of them in their homes.
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And you're better than them because you do your ego wanking on slashdot, rather than facebook?
Not necessarily. There are a vast amount of fields of knowledge that people can be interested in. If you think technology is the only one that should be important to people, that makes you narrow minded.
i have been around since 82 using bbs's on my c64 and amiga 500.
I've been working with computers since 79, but i'm not silly enough to believe that they're the most important thing in life - or even that they're all that important at all, really, on a cosmic scale.
[......] I honestly do not know a single person in meatspace like the folks in the article and somehwat you who have no apparent interest in any technology that we all use, other than having someone else do it so you can use it.
That's probably just the sort of people you know, then. In my experience, the majority of people aren't interested in how stuff works - they just want it to work.
i thought it was pretty clear that html5 isn't even going to get off the ground...
It's pretty clear to me that html5 is already well and truly off the ground. Youtube serves up html5 for a start - and there's not many sites that are bigger than youtube.
If you just heard the song; without the marketing, the media-pumping, or even a picture of her.
I did. And i liked it straight away. (And, no, i'm not 15, i'm 52.) I went on to listen to a bit more and i liked a lot of it, so i bought some tracks. The songs are well written and the performance and production is good quality.
To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think? More importantly, how widely do you think her songs would be played by then?
Who cares? I'm listening to it now. That's all that matters with music - or any of the arts, really. Nobody, at any time, ever, has been able to say "this song/poem/play/book will still be enjoyed in 50 years". Not about anything.
Why not be honest (with yourself, as much as anything) and just say you don't like it. The fact that you don't like it doesn't make it bad - and i'm just as guilty of feeling that way about music i don't like as anyone else is!
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If there were a god, it would have given me a "like" button to click on on your post!
In Islam, a core belief is the belief of predestination (qada' and qadar) meaning what has happened, is happening and will happen is already written. As humans we are given the gift of "free will" [......]
You're a scientist and you can't see that those two things are mutually exclusive?
Do you honestly think centuries of theologians just didn't think of that?
Those ones who worked out how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, you mean?
How come there was an evening and a morning before there were lights in the firmament to divide the day from the night?
And if it took 5 days to create the earth, how come it only took one day to create many billions of stars and planets - when all those stars and planets are at least as complex as the earth is?
[......] the stupidity of putting trees with fruit on that man (with a childlike innocence and therefore CAN"T be blamed for eating them) wasn't allowed to eat!
Either god's an idiot or an arsehole. Either way, i can't see any reason to worship it!
And have a look at the Taliban's Afghanistan.
My only objection is to point out that a lot of Luther's protestation was that ONLY scripture is free from error; men-- even men in the vatican-- can make terrible errors, questions of their actual faith aside.
And who wrote the scriptures? Not god, that's for sure!
would mao or stalin work for you?
Not really. How about the Taliban?
But god didn't exist until we invented it, either. From that, i can only assume we're more gullible and scared of death than we were before we invented god. Where did we go wrong?
Where's the fucking "like" button around here???
I like the idea of ebook readers, and i'd like to be able to carry several books around for the weight of one. But, after more than 30 years of working with computers on and off, i just don't want to read a book on an electronic display. There's something considerably more comfortable about reading from paper that rather than a screen.
Paper books are more robust, too. These days i drive dump trucks in a mine and i can read a paper book while i'm sitting under the digger being loaded - and chuck it onto the dash when i've got to drive off quickly. I don't think an ebook reader would survive being chucked about like that for long!
One day, maybe, ebook readers will be able to compete with paper - but that day isn't on the horizon yet.
Hmmmm.... Having said that, i think everyone i know who has Apple computers are women (almost entirely notebooks). But i do know one man who owns an iPhone.
The iPhone, like all Apple products, is really just a piece of high-tech, fashionable jewellery. Jewellery generally tends to appeal to women more than men.
They've got no choice. They fought it as long and hard as they could. The only options for them now are the easy way or the hard way - and they're welcoming the easy way.
But, of course, the government wants to make it as favourable as possible for them as they're still major shareholders.
Not a moment too soon! Telstra should have been split up when it was privatised. Their constant anti-competitive antics have held Australian telecoms back ever since.
Yeah, but.... When you've installed it, you'll inevitably have to update half the packages. It's less downloading to install a basic system from the live CD and then install all the rest over the net. That way you install the latest versions straight off.
cat >> story.txt
does the same thing with fewer keystrokes.
It's an aggregator. I've got friends and family scattered all over the world. If we all had to email each other separately and email photos to each other etc, it would be so time consuming it just wouldn't happen and mostly we wouldn't keep in touch at all. Facebook puts it all in one place and makes keeping in touch fairly effortless.
It's the difference between going to the pub to meet up with your mates and visiting each of them in their homes.
And you're better than them because you do your ego wanking on slashdot, rather than facebook?
You won't find anybody cool on Facebook, from any generation.
You won't find anyone cool anywhere - because "cool" is a delusion. Everyone's cool or not cool to someone.
apparently you are narrow minded.
Not necessarily. There are a vast amount of fields of knowledge that people can be interested in. If you think technology is the only one that should be important to people, that makes you narrow minded.
i have been around since 82 using bbs's on my c64 and amiga 500.
I've been working with computers since 79, but i'm not silly enough to believe that they're the most important thing in life - or even that they're all that important at all, really, on a cosmic scale.
[......] I honestly do not know a single person in meatspace like the folks in the article and somehwat you who have no apparent interest in any technology that we all use, other than having someone else do it so you can use it.
That's probably just the sort of people you know, then. In my experience, the majority of people aren't interested in how stuff works - they just want it to work.
i thought it was pretty clear that html5 isn't even going to get off the ground...
It's pretty clear to me that html5 is already well and truly off the ground. Youtube serves up html5 for a start - and there's not many sites that are bigger than youtube.
Techno fans, flame away, I won't respond to them.
Looks like they didn't need to flame - they had mod points!
If you just heard the song; without the marketing, the media-pumping, or even a picture of her.
I did. And i liked it straight away. (And, no, i'm not 15, i'm 52.) I went on to listen to a bit more and i liked a lot of it, so i bought some tracks. The songs are well written and the performance and production is good quality.
To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think? More importantly, how widely do you think her songs would be played by then?
Who cares? I'm listening to it now. That's all that matters with music - or any of the arts, really. Nobody, at any time, ever, has been able to say "this song/poem/play/book will still be enjoyed in 50 years". Not about anything.
Why not be honest (with yourself, as much as anything) and just say you don't like it. The fact that you don't like it doesn't make it bad - and i'm just as guilty of feeling that way about music i don't like as anyone else is!