The purpose of John Hodgman was not to "stereotype" PC users
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They have the slightly overweight balding guy in an old suit being a PC, and you don't think that's stereotyping?
You realize you missed his point entirely? The Apple commercials were NEVER talking about identifying with the users. It's personifying the OS itself, as if it has a personality. You're making the same mistake Bill Gates made about this whole thing.
Instead consider this... Bill Gates is supposed to have Aspergers, Steve Jobs is diagnosed with ADHD. Now imagine what sort of differences that could have on their OS philosophies. Notice the OS characters in the Apple commercials sort of correspond to those? Microsoft is intentionally distorting the message to make it look like Apple was stereotyping PC users, trying to make people take personal offense at a characterization of an Operating System.
I've read this and other discussions on the commercial and I think that most of us missed the joke.
Think about it... edible computers? That's STUPID... who would ever want a... ooooohhhhh, an APPLE Computer! I get it.
It's just dissing on the name Apple. Also it's attempting to make us subconsciously associate food in relation to computers as absurd. After all how many times has Apple used themes such as "lickable" and "don't eat iPod shuffle" in their commercials? This is training us to reject that.
Now if only we can find a way to give people an economic incentive not to throw ciggarette-butts, coke-cans, used-condom and broken beer bottles in the parks.
I suggest a condom deposit, which will be returned when said used condom is brought back to the store.
Google and Apple both explained why they went with Webkit instead of Gecko.
Sorry I can't find the links at the moment but basically Apple said Konquerer as a base was much smaller and cleaner, easier to get started with and to work with than Gecko.
Google said the same thing, they went with Webkit for it's speed and ability to run well on low end computers, easy to hack.
I understand that view. If you're going to go with the position that the gospels have possibly been tampered with and are not an accurate reflection of what Christ actually said then yes you can make all sorts of guesses of what Jesus really believed. If you believe that they really are an accurate record of things he's said, then it really looks like he was in full support of the Mosaic law as known in his day. Matthew 5:17-19 for example. It's sort of like the Gnostics, they claim that the Old Testament god was a fraud and that Jesus secretly revealed this knowledge, yet how do they explain Jesus constantly quoting the Hebrew scriptures, which are supposedly evil, and praising the God of those scriptures? If the Hebrew scriptures were false, then he wasn't the messiah, if they're true then their religion has no basis. Jesus' authority completely depends on the Hebrew scriptures so you can't really separate him from them. Jesus obviously didn't comment on every single item in the Mosaic law, but as the above scripture shows he was in support of it. It would certainly be an odd scripture for Christians to later insert into Jesus' teachings.
I do not find it reasonable that God would hate all homosexuals, again as a single example.
I don't find that particular concept anywhere in the Bible, but I'm sure you know that homosexuality as a sin was definitely not invented by Paul. It's mentioned several times explicitly in the Mosaic law. Again it's mentioned in 1 Co. 6:9-11. You'll notice in verse 11 it speaks of those who WERE practicers of such things such as homosexuality. So clearly there's no special hatred reserved for homosexuals, it's simply a sin such as any other. When someone accuses the Bible of being anti-homosexual I usually point out that it's equally against heterosexual fornicators and that neither sin is worse than the other.
Perhaps you were only stating that Bible thumpers claim God hates homosexuals and not that you thought it was an actual Bible teaching that was in error.
Rig up a whole bunch of these babies in parallel and they can take sudden spikes and even it out. They're great for things like bicycle powered generators where the pedaling speed makes it inappropriate for things like TVs and computers. Say if you've got to charge a bank of Lithium-polymer batteries really slowly, but your power comes in suddenly, you can buffer it with ultracaps and trickle it out to the batteries. Great stuff.
Is the way the iPhone dev Center refuses to use a cookie and remember your login info. Every stinking time you want to download the new SDK or check for new sample code, you have to log in. Again. Then you close your browser and and hour later, oop, sign in again. I've downloaded the SDKs now a total of 9 times, so I've definitely typed in my login name and password at least 20 times now. Considering there's no software update for XCode I'd imagine most other devs have too.
Yeah, I've heard of people with cochlear implants getting burned from things like defibrillators. That's another one of those things they don't tell you about when they try to convince a parent to give their kid a cochlear.
If one is a Jehovahs Witness or Seventh Day Adventist then a "soul" is simply a living, breathing creature such as birds,fish insects and mammals. In the first 2 chapters of genesis "and on the fourth day God created fish", etc... They are all referred to as "living souls". Numbers 6:6 states that touching a "dead soul" makes a person "unclean". In other words a corpse. The bible agrees with your materialist views of physical life, but many bibles have been written to change words to match preconceived religious beliefs and use phrases like "dead person", "dead body" and "corpse" to hide their original meaning. In fact soul literally means "breather".
So to answer the question, to some who believe in the bible an artificial person is just as human as we are. Now if we knew what Adams original DNA looked like and duplicated THAT then we'd theoretically have a human with superior immune system and a different ruleset for apoptosis.
As a deaf guy it saddens me when tech like this is used for military purposes and it's consumer uses are not considered.
Remember the thing where you put the transmitter on your tongue and you can hear bypassing the ears? I'd like to try one of those. But rather than look like a drooling idiot I'd love to get my hands on one of these babies. Just strap it on a hearing aid and skip the ears entirely. Way better than a cochlear implant, non-invasive and perfect sound. Nice.
How about a distributed video encoder setup? Pop in your DVD and 5 minutes later it's super-duper H.264 with all the options, heck encode into the snow codec. At the bare minimum set up distcc on it and all the geeks will love you. See how long it takes to emerge everything in Gentoo with distcc.
I dream of the day I can host my legal Wii games on the server and select one on startup. Wii Ware and the Virtual Console are steps in the right direction, I hope game companies keep moving ahead. They already made the "mistake" of making the Wiimotes and Wii Fit bluetooth devices, and it didn't kill their system sales, so let's continue the openness.
Link please? I only ask because often the Mac viruses that people point to turn out to be trojans, such as the Leap-A "worm" that requires a user to open a file that downloaded as a tgz, unzip it, then run the executable inside.
This issue has been avoided in UNIX systems for decades I believe. I remember when I was first learning about the command-line that I thought it was strange you couldn't just compile a new program and type $ a.out to launch it. That's because the current directory is not in the path. You have to type $./a.out to get the executable seen. The reason this is a system default is to prevent someone sneaking in a malicious copy of a system command such as ls into a directory where you'd accidentally use the fake one instead of the real one.
Heh... what if they finally simulate a human brain and... he's just a normal guy. "Design a better computer for us B.O.B." "Uhhh... I don't even like computers." Or what if it turns out to be stupid? Make it 100x faster and it's just STUPID FAST.:)
Thanks for the link, with it I'm starting to see MS' new strategy to compete with Apple stealing their "cool".
The Seadragon team is currently tuning its DirectX implementation, making the most of the new Windows Media Photo format, and cranking on the Photosynth Technology Preview.
So they're essentially recreating Apple's Quartz + OpenGL + standard image formats with Photosynth + DirectX + WMPF.
The real trick is finding an image with boring enough edges that you can pretend it came from the other. You'll notice on the Microsoft image demos they mostly have solid color edges except for the Planet Hollywood picture which is followed by something so busy you can't really tell where it fits in.
I got the program at least 2 years ago with one of those $50 software bundles where you save $10 on one program you really wanted and get 4 free ones thrown in. The program is cool and all but as others have said it's just a digital magic trick. I just wanted to document this prior art incase Microsoft tries to patent it.
Sure from the outside it makes no difference which one lives or dies, but someone has to experience drowning.
It's like when I was a kid and I wished I could make a copy of myself to leave at home doing homework or going to school while I get to go have fun all day. Then I realized he'd expect ME to be the one who stays home and it comes down to either a coin flip or whichever screws the other over first. There could also be even and odd day flips, but the point is he's not me, I however... still am.
So making a copy of yourself is cool and all, but you still have to die, whereas HE gets to continue living with your $$, house, etc... why do him the favor when it's not you? It's like the end of Primer, you just fight for it and whoever wanted it more or just happens to be lucky wins your life. The other is shown the door.
Besides I replied to the wrong post in the first place and this reply has nothing to do with what you stated in the first comment anyhow. I was replying to the guys who said it'd be awesome to upload consciousness into a machine, where my point was... that copy isn't YOU, you still have to die the meat-death.
It's pretty easy to understand, just watch The Prestige... YOU are the guy that falls into the water tank, the copy is the guy that bows to the audience.
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The purpose of John Hodgman was not to "stereotype" PC users
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They have the slightly overweight balding guy in an old suit being a PC, and you don't think that's stereotyping?
You realize you missed his point entirely? The Apple commercials were NEVER talking about identifying with the users. It's personifying the OS itself, as if it has a personality. You're making the same mistake Bill Gates made about this whole thing.
Instead consider this... Bill Gates is supposed to have Aspergers, Steve Jobs is diagnosed with ADHD. Now imagine what sort of differences that could have on their OS philosophies. Notice the OS characters in the Apple commercials sort of correspond to those? Microsoft is intentionally distorting the message to make it look like Apple was stereotyping PC users, trying to make people take personal offense at a characterization of an Operating System.
I've read this and other discussions on the commercial and I think that most of us missed the joke.
Think about it... edible computers? That's STUPID... who would ever want a ... ooooohhhhh, an APPLE Computer! I get it.
It's just dissing on the name Apple. Also it's attempting to make us subconsciously associate food in relation to computers as absurd. After all how many times has Apple used themes such as "lickable" and "don't eat iPod shuffle" in their commercials? This is training us to reject that.
Now if only we can find a way to give people an economic incentive not to throw ciggarette-butts, coke-cans, used-condom and broken beer bottles in the parks.
I suggest a condom deposit, which will be returned when said used condom is brought back to the store.
Google and Apple both explained why they went with Webkit instead of Gecko.
Sorry I can't find the links at the moment but basically Apple said Konquerer as a base was much smaller and cleaner, easier to get started with and to work with than Gecko.
Google said the same thing, they went with Webkit for it's speed and ability to run well on low end computers, easy to hack.
I understand that view. If you're going to go with the position that the gospels have possibly been tampered with and are not an accurate reflection of what Christ actually said then yes you can make all sorts of guesses of what Jesus really believed. If you believe that they really are an accurate record of things he's said, then it really looks like he was in full support of the Mosaic law as known in his day. Matthew 5:17-19 for example. It's sort of like the Gnostics, they claim that the Old Testament god was a fraud and that Jesus secretly revealed this knowledge, yet how do they explain Jesus constantly quoting the Hebrew scriptures, which are supposedly evil, and praising the God of those scriptures? If the Hebrew scriptures were false, then he wasn't the messiah, if they're true then their religion has no basis. Jesus' authority completely depends on the Hebrew scriptures so you can't really separate him from them. Jesus obviously didn't comment on every single item in the Mosaic law, but as the above scripture shows he was in support of it. It would certainly be an odd scripture for Christians to later insert into Jesus' teachings.
I do not find it reasonable that God would hate all homosexuals, again as a single example.
I don't find that particular concept anywhere in the Bible, but I'm sure you know that homosexuality as a sin was definitely not invented by Paul. It's mentioned several times explicitly in the Mosaic law. Again it's mentioned in 1 Co. 6:9-11. You'll notice in verse 11 it speaks of those who WERE practicers of such things such as homosexuality. So clearly there's no special hatred reserved for homosexuals, it's simply a sin such as any other. When someone accuses the Bible of being anti-homosexual I usually point out that it's equally against heterosexual fornicators and that neither sin is worse than the other.
Perhaps you were only stating that Bible thumpers claim God hates homosexuals and not that you thought it was an actual Bible teaching that was in error.
Rig up a whole bunch of these babies in parallel and they can take sudden spikes and even it out. They're great for things like bicycle powered generators where the pedaling speed makes it inappropriate for things like TVs and computers. Say if you've got to charge a bank of Lithium-polymer batteries really slowly, but your power comes in suddenly, you can buffer it with ultracaps and trickle it out to the batteries. Great stuff.
"I'm Wall-E"
"and I'm a PC"
I'm deaf so where do I get my waiver? I guess I get to download movies for free then. ;)
Is the way the iPhone dev Center refuses to use a cookie and remember your login info. Every stinking time you want to download the new SDK or check for new sample code, you have to log in. Again. Then you close your browser and and hour later, oop, sign in again. I've downloaded the SDKs now a total of 9 times, so I've definitely typed in my login name and password at least 20 times now. Considering there's no software update for XCode I'd imagine most other devs have too.
Yeah, I've heard of people with cochlear implants getting burned from things like defibrillators. That's another one of those things they don't tell you about when they try to convince a parent to give their kid a cochlear.
If one is a Jehovahs Witness or Seventh Day Adventist then a "soul" is simply a living, breathing creature such as birds,fish insects and mammals. In the first 2 chapters of genesis "and on the fourth day God created fish", etc... They are all referred to as "living souls". Numbers 6:6 states that touching a "dead soul" makes a person "unclean". In other words a corpse. The bible agrees with your materialist views of physical life, but many bibles have been written to change words to match preconceived religious beliefs and use phrases like "dead person", "dead body" and "corpse" to hide their original meaning. In fact soul literally means "breather".
So to answer the question, to some who believe in the bible an artificial person is just as human as we are. Now if we knew what Adams original DNA looked like and duplicated THAT then we'd theoretically have a human with superior immune system and a different ruleset for apoptosis.
As a deaf guy it saddens me when tech like this is used for military purposes and it's consumer uses are not considered.
Remember the thing where you put the transmitter on your tongue and you can hear bypassing the ears? I'd like to try one of those. But rather than look like a drooling idiot I'd love to get my hands on one of these babies. Just strap it on a hearing aid and skip the ears entirely. Way better than a cochlear implant, non-invasive and perfect sound. Nice.
How about a distributed video encoder setup? Pop in your DVD and 5 minutes later it's super-duper H.264 with all the options, heck encode into the snow codec. At the bare minimum set up distcc on it and all the geeks will love you. See how long it takes to emerge everything in Gentoo with distcc.
Maybe run Electric Sheep?
Alright dude, my bad... I forget that "THE server" usually doesn't mean your own. :-) I meant on MY server.
I dream of the day I can host my legal Wii games on the server and select one on startup. Wii Ware and the Virtual Console are steps in the right direction, I hope game companies keep moving ahead. They already made the "mistake" of making the Wiimotes and Wii Fit bluetooth devices, and it didn't kill their system sales, so let's continue the openness.
Link please? I only ask because often the Mac viruses that people point to turn out to be trojans, such as the Leap-A "worm" that requires a user to open a file that downloaded as a tgz, unzip it, then run the executable inside.
This issue has been avoided in UNIX systems for decades I believe. I remember when I was first learning about the command-line that I thought it was strange you couldn't just compile a new program and type $ a.out to launch it. That's because the current directory is not in the path. You have to type $ ./a.out to get the executable seen. The reason this is a system default is to prevent someone sneaking in a malicious copy of a system command such as ls into a directory where you'd accidentally use the fake one instead of the real one.
Hey at least no more racing games with caveman wheels. YAAABAAADAAAABADOOOOOO!!!!
Heh... what if they finally simulate a human brain and... he's just a normal guy. "Design a better computer for us B.O.B." "Uhhh... I don't even like computers." Or what if it turns out to be stupid? Make it 100x faster and it's just STUPID FAST. :)
So they're essentially recreating Apple's Quartz + OpenGL + standard image formats with Photosynth + DirectX + WMPF.
Fotomagico photo zoom transition, notice the video demo at the top of the page: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/overview/storytelling/
The real trick is finding an image with boring enough edges that you can pretend it came from the other. You'll notice on the Microsoft image demos they mostly have solid color edges except for the Planet Hollywood picture which is followed by something so busy you can't really tell where it fits in.
I got the program at least 2 years ago with one of those $50 software bundles where you save $10 on one program you really wanted and get 4 free ones thrown in. The program is cool and all but as others have said it's just a digital magic trick. I just wanted to document this prior art incase Microsoft tries to patent it.
Sure from the outside it makes no difference which one lives or dies, but someone has to experience drowning.
It's like when I was a kid and I wished I could make a copy of myself to leave at home doing homework or going to school while I get to go have fun all day. Then I realized he'd expect ME to be the one who stays home and it comes down to either a coin flip or whichever screws the other over first. There could also be even and odd day flips, but the point is he's not me, I however... still am.
So making a copy of yourself is cool and all, but you still have to die, whereas HE gets to continue living with your $$, house, etc... why do him the favor when it's not you? It's like the end of Primer, you just fight for it and whoever wanted it more or just happens to be lucky wins your life. The other is shown the door.
Besides I replied to the wrong post in the first place and this reply has nothing to do with what you stated in the first comment anyhow. I was replying to the guys who said it'd be awesome to upload consciousness into a machine, where my point was... that copy isn't YOU, you still have to die the meat-death.
It's pretty easy to understand, just watch The Prestige... YOU are the guy that falls into the water tank, the copy is the guy that bows to the audience.
What's the "crosstika" symbol you mentioned? Image link please.