Perhaps I should have said Apple fans, but I wanted to avoid offending SuperKendall and the AC he was responding to. They were clearly saying that more pixels is bad, in case you missed it.
Well it's what happened with the old 3.5 inch screens, with the awkward 3:2 aspect ratio. Don't forget that the iPhone 5 (with the 4" screen) was not released until march 2013.
This time it's the screen resolution... Apple has always bragged about their high resolution retina displays, and now that they're lacking in that department, all of a sudden high resolution is a bad thing and Apple's retina are the "perfect resolution".
But from the perspective of ethics and morality, there is no difference — both are about equally reprehensible.
That's a moralistic fallacy. You could argue that, morally, there is no difference between murder and fraud, and not be wrong. Morality is subjective and my morals are different from yours.
So when a friend lends me a DVD and I copy it, who did I stole from? From my friend, the DVD vendor, the producer, the artists, the factory where the DVD's was produced? Because as far as I understand, the friend still gets to keep his original, unchanged DVD. So the one who whines that he was robbed was actually robbed?
Completely and utterly ridiculous. It's a copyright violation, sure, but theft of actual property? I had no clue that people exist outside Big Media that still believe that lie.
That nobody accepts it does not mean it's not as real. Most merchants in the US also don't accept Japanese Yens, for that matter.
I was arguing that paper money (or virtual money stored in a bank) does not have any inherent value, which is also the case with Bitcoin. It all merely "works" because everybody accepts it.
We gave more blood, sweat and tears in exchange for more worthless paper money (if at all). So what's the difference between "real money" and bitcoin again? In the realness department, that is?
Good point, I have actually refused to exchange my good ol' 19 inch 1920*1440 CRT screen for a flat panel. Only since AMOLED desktop screens have arrived to the consumer market have I started looking out for an upgrade.
Can someone please define a year for me? Because I think I'm missing something. I thought a year was supposed to be the time it takes for a celestial body to complete 1 revolution around a sun in a solar system. You people seem to define a year as taking 31,558,150 SI seconds.
As it so happens, a year in our solar system alone varies from 88 earth days to 250 earth years. But hey - let's not let facts get in the way of a good strawman.
That is a perfect example of the US shitting all over international law, in this case The Hague Convention of 1907, which states:
The Contracting Powers recognize that hostilities between themselves must not commence without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a reasoned declaration of war or of an ultimatum with conditional declaration of war.
Oh, but I forgot that the US didn't ratify many parts of The Hague Convention, examples of which include the following:
Declaration concerning the Prohibition of the Use of Projectiles with the Sole Object to Spread Asphyxiating Poisonous Gases
Your battery to wheels efficiency statistics conveniently left out the efficiency of the coal power plant that charged the batteries.
I was interested in your arguments up until this. The car batteries are charged by the grid, which can be powered by other energy sources than coal. In The Netherlands, for example, around 10% of energy comes from renewable sources, of which the largest contributors are biomass and wind. This excludes nuclear and imported energy, and production has been growing rapidly for the past decade.
Contrary to popular belief, there is no forced conversion in Islam. In fact, there is a crystal clear revelation about it in the qur'an. I also wouldn't know what torture and fines you're talking about.
I personally have found many lies of contemporary "orientalists" which are easily refutable, so please don't give me that crap. I don't need a meta-discussion when the details haven't been established yet.
You shamelessly keep trying to equate Islam to Christianity. A simple example in this case is that the Jews were expelled to northern Africa by the Christians after the Reconquista, while they were at the very least tolerated (you have to admit that much) by the Muslims.
As for rewriting history, it is the Christians who did that during the Reconquista, which is why I have to call it the Forgotten history of Europe. If you have any credible evidence of Muslims doing that, please provide it.
You're delusional indeed. You only have to look at Europe's forgotten history. I'm talking about the Islamic emirate of Al Andalus, which was a ray of light in a time known as Europe's "dark ages". It was the pinnacle of scientific advancement and religious tolerance of its time. It also was a major factor in the European renaissance.
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Perhaps I should have said Apple fans, but I wanted to avoid offending SuperKendall and the AC he was responding to. They were clearly saying that more pixels is bad, in case you missed it.
Well it's what happened with the old 3.5 inch screens, with the awkward 3:2 aspect ratio. Don't forget that the iPhone 5 (with the 4" screen) was not released until march 2013.
http://gizmodo.com/5847981/this-is-why-the-iphones-screen-will-always-be-35-inches
This time it's the screen resolution... Apple has always bragged about their high resolution retina displays, and now that they're lacking in that department, all of a sudden high resolution is a bad thing and Apple's retina are the "perfect resolution".
Apple - making significant disadvantages of their iDevices sound like good things (tm).
The old "perfect size / one size fits all" 3.5" display comes to mind...
Sorry, I missed the proper meaning of that 1.8 million figure.
What? 50.000 / 1.800.000 sounds like 3%
But from the perspective of ethics and morality, there is no difference — both are about equally reprehensible.
That's a moralistic fallacy. You could argue that, morally, there is no difference between murder and fraud, and not be wrong. Morality is subjective and my morals are different from yours.
Exactly. No difference whatsoever.
So when a friend lends me a DVD and I copy it, who did I stole from? From my friend, the DVD vendor, the producer, the artists, the factory where the DVD's was produced? Because as far as I understand, the friend still gets to keep his original, unchanged DVD. So the one who whines that he was robbed was actually robbed?
Completely and utterly ridiculous. It's a copyright violation, sure, but theft of actual property? I had no clue that people exist outside Big Media that still believe that lie.
That nobody accepts it does not mean it's not as real. Most merchants in the US also don't accept Japanese Yens, for that matter.
I was arguing that paper money (or virtual money stored in a bank) does not have any inherent value, which is also the case with Bitcoin. It all merely "works" because everybody accepts it.
Oh God, here we go comparing IP to actual physical property again.
We gave more blood, sweat and tears in exchange for more worthless paper money (if at all). So what's the difference between "real money" and bitcoin again? In the realness department, that is?
Read between the lines. This is filed under 'Undesirable side effects of contemporary copyright law'.
The DMCA is at it again.
The Slashdot team works all day, erry day. You should give them more crredit.
FTFY
Good point, I have actually refused to exchange my good ol' 19 inch 1920*1440 CRT screen for a flat panel. Only since AMOLED desktop screens have arrived to the consumer market have I started looking out for an upgrade.
You don't need to get an iMac to get a Unixy OS.
the other party tends to use.. a more, let's say, flexible worldview
You're just projecting your own worldview upon others and then you draw conclusions based on that fallacy.
As for context, I don't know about the bible, but the qur'an provides it. That is to say, a year that is not an earth year (moon or solar).
Can someone please define a year for me? Because I think I'm missing something. I thought a year was supposed to be the time it takes for a celestial body to complete 1 revolution around a sun in a solar system. You people seem to define a year as taking 31,558,150 SI seconds.
As it so happens, a year in our solar system alone varies from 88 earth days to 250 earth years. But hey - let's not let facts get in the way of a good strawman.
That is a perfect example of the US shitting all over international law, in this case The Hague Convention of 1907, which states:
The Contracting Powers recognize that hostilities between themselves must not commence without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a reasoned declaration of war or of an ultimatum with conditional declaration of war.
Oh, but I forgot that the US didn't ratify many parts of The Hague Convention, examples of which include the following:
Declaration concerning the Prohibition of the Use of Projectiles with the Sole Object to Spread Asphyxiating Poisonous Gases
Your battery to wheels efficiency statistics conveniently left out the efficiency of the coal power plant that charged the batteries.
I was interested in your arguments up until this. The car batteries are charged by the grid, which can be powered by other energy sources than coal. In The Netherlands, for example, around 10% of energy comes from renewable sources, of which the largest contributors are biomass and wind. This excludes nuclear and imported energy, and production has been growing rapidly for the past decade.
Even if the grid was powered by 100% coal, then coal plants on average reach an efficiency of 28%, while high efficiency plants reach 45%. Both significantly better than internal combustion engines. http://www.worldcoal.org/coal-the-environment/coal-use-the-environment/improving-efficiencies/
I'm sure they meant "tops 1000". Or should it be "1000, tops"?
Isn't that called security through obscurity? Oh, wait...
Contrary to popular belief, there is no forced conversion in Islam. In fact, there is a crystal clear revelation about it in the qur'an. I also wouldn't know what torture and fines you're talking about.
I personally have found many lies of contemporary "orientalists" which are easily refutable, so please don't give me that crap. I don't need a meta-discussion when the details haven't been established yet.
You shamelessly keep trying to equate Islam to Christianity. A simple example in this case is that the Jews were expelled to northern Africa by the Christians after the Reconquista, while they were at the very least tolerated (you have to admit that much) by the Muslims.
As for rewriting history, it is the Christians who did that during the Reconquista, which is why I have to call it the Forgotten history of Europe. If you have any credible evidence of Muslims doing that, please provide it.
You're delusional indeed. You only have to look at Europe's forgotten history. I'm talking about the Islamic emirate of Al Andalus, which was a ray of light in a time known as Europe's "dark ages". It was the pinnacle of scientific advancement and religious tolerance of its time. It also was a major factor in the European renaissance.
* There is no law in Islam that states that female testimony is not valid. Only that it takes 2 women's testimony to be counted as 1.
Only in certain cases. In most cases the testimony of women is accepted. For example in accusing her husband of adultery.
Indeed, I stand corrected. I wanted to point out that the sentence of the court has no basis.