You gotta love the fail in whining about YouTube by using Google Video to post the example of what was "censored".
YouTube has its own community standards which exclude violence and the ridicule of victims of violence, and it has a moderation system which is easily abused. And yet these people think it is some sort of personal conspiracy against them when their videos are removed.
Oh yeah? You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
Seriously, who doesn't see this as an attempt at framing all criticism of Apple as flamebait? People who call consumer products an "experience" to dismiss real deficiencies deserve to be ridiculed with popular cliches.
I really appreciate the way a MacBook is almost completely silent. That it slips into the lid of a briefcase. That its speakers, microphone, and camera are all accessible but almost invisible. That I can click, right-click, scroll, pan, and more without moving my hand from one place. That it stays out of my way while I use it, instead of calling attention to itself: no blinking lights, no flashy logos in my face, no stupid buttons all over: it is just a screen with easy-to-use input devices.
BONG! Laptop boots up, obnoxious pulsing light stops, obnoxious logo on back starts. Launches WoW, I mean, serious business application. Fan kicks in, louder than my desktop machine. Ambient music starts, hears tinny, amplified crackle due to metallic speaker grill. Big stupid unibutton is next to useless, and meta-clicking is too slow, and trackpad clicking is too accidental. Goes digging through bag, looking for wireless mouse. Wait, no, tosses aside horribly designed click-pushes-the-whole-thing-on-the-desk Apple mouse, grabs the Logitech instead.
If the universe is intelligently designed, how many were thrown away before it passed QA?
It takes a particular lack of imagination to assume that intelligence itself is not a random process, or that there is one universe, or that any conception of existence affirms or denies the possibility of a motivation behind it. The intelligent design movement (aside from it's creationist agenda) looks at complexity and is all "aw, gosh, that shore is complicated, someone must've been real smart to come up with that one!" There is absolutely nothing unscientific about ridiculing the argument-from-personal-befuddlement.
Me, I believe the universe was created exactly as was in Genesis. Everything else? Oh, that is a natural consequence, going backward in time, that resolves the consistency of the system. The universe isn't 20 billion years old because God didn't create it like in the Bible, the universe is 20 billion years old because God can't make a 6000 year old earth any more than he can make "four" without all of mathematics.
As the point of engaging in religious argument isn't so much about the search for truth as shaming people for believing in and promoting unsubstantiated nonsense, it doesn't really matter what Einstein's expertise in the field was. Einstein is good company to have, and the fact the didn't mince words (eg. childish) is useful ammunition against those who both respect him and consider religion above criticism in any form other than erudite wankery.
One doesn't need to cite an "expert" in religion (or be one in any way) to debunk its claims any more than one needs to cite (or be) Penn Jillette or James Randi to ridicule modern charlatans.
It seems mostly something that you come to on your own -- having once believed, you start to have doubts, which eventually turn into disbelief.
Accepting stories adults tell you and "believing" are two entirely different things. I remember being incredulous about religion before I stopped believing in Santa Claus. That is, I could rationalize a magic toy distribution infrastructure and a conspiracy between toy companies and a jolly fat man (for which the elves were a metaphor) longer than I could rationalize the world being created in six days and Noah's Ark and Jesus being the son of God. I remember being five, sitting in church, bored as hell, and thinking how all of it seemed like make-believe. And when I finally wrung the truth out of my mother about Santa Claus, that put the nail in Christianity, as Santa's magic was derived from the supernatural and therefore given to him by God. Anything and everything an adult had told me became suspect. I was a deist by first grade, and an atheist by third. I never stopped believing anything so much as had my assumptions realized and consequently dismissed.
I resent Einstein calling religion childish. There are a great many honorable childish things. Religion is beneath children, and is an evil that can only be dreamed up by adults to exploit those without their cynicism and depth of experience.
And by good, you mean several pages of vague, unsubstantiated fanboy whining, with only one paragraph about.NET that hints at, but does not name, the stupidity of InvokeRequired.
The ratings systems themselves are a direct response to threats from politicians, basically saying censor yourselves or we'll do it for you.
The sad thing is, at least where movies are concerned, the industry rating system is more secretive and arbitrary than it would be if government controlled it.
And let's not talk about Android until real Android-based phones start showing up on the market and we learn what sort of package signing requirements the cell phone manufacturers impose on Android applications.
"And lets not talk about the one platform that completely destroys my attempt at misdirection by being the antithesis of everything Apple represents."
The one thing you're conveniently leaving out... Windows and Symbian let you self-sign for on-device testing. You won't hear me defend the Verisign certificate racket, but that $99 (or $299) annual fee is to simply be in the developer program.
Oh, and you forgot about BlackBerry. It's a one-time fee to establish your identity, and then you can sign to your heart's content.
If anything, Wikipedia teaches kids not to have blind trust in self-proclaimed experts, both on the Internet and off. The "trusted expert" gimmick has been used to lie in advertising and politics since the beginning of mass media. It's so damn obvious, you have to seriously question the intelligence and/or agenda of anyone parroting the "Wikipedia is full of lies!" meme. (Yes, I'm laughing at you, Andrew Keen.)
Isn't it funny how "I'm not an Apple fanboy" is always followed by a bunch of spurious nonsense? You can't tell him why he's wrong, but by the gods, you're going to try anyway. Apple has been slighted! We must be avenged!
You're right, I'm not. I don't usually waste my time with less-than-alpha development tools that render useless every device they have touched. I expected Apple, with a platform shipping for nearly a year, to be a little more mature than say, Android.
But just think - I could have had a whole collection iBricks! Wouldn't that have been fun!
What kind of moron goes $2K in the hole to AT&T just so he can have a second test device?
I have around 30 grand in hardware, but I only own one Touch. Why would I need a second one? None of the other mobile companies have ever bricked my devices before.
Wait, so you mean the name isn't an explicit metaphor likening its users to mindless birds, sharing every tiny, half-formed thought that crosses their pea-sized brain to everyone within ear-shot?
And because I don't want to hear it, they're trying to frame this as something wrong with me?
For not being plausible, there sure are a lot of people calling on God to save them during moments of suffering and death.
Of course they do, God made them to suffer, so only God can make it stop. We're all victims, pleading with a serial killer before He finishes His grisly work.
"A cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree."
vs.
"A rock from space covered in particular chemicals crashed into the earth three billion years ago, and through a process of self-replication and environmental pressure, these chemicals produced more complex molecular structures, leading to life as we know it."
Oh, and you really should understand how very little $25K is compared to the value of a house - particularly one with a private drive.
Did you read the TF Smoking Gun article? The house is worth $160K. They're upset because the pictures show everyone the kind of squalor they live in.
Their "driveway" could very well be a county road, even if they own the property surrounding it. After all, it had to get on Google Maps from somewhere. This entire case could be the result of these hicks believing that putting up a sign allows them to restrict access to the road.
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You gotta love the fail in whining about YouTube by using Google Video to post the example of what was "censored".
YouTube has its own community standards which exclude violence and the ridicule of victims of violence, and it has a moderation system which is easily abused. And yet these people think it is some sort of personal conspiracy against them when their videos are removed.
Oh yeah? You talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.
Seriously, who doesn't see this as an attempt at framing all criticism of Apple as flamebait? People who call consumer products an "experience" to dismiss real deficiencies deserve to be ridiculed with popular cliches.
I really appreciate the way a MacBook is almost completely silent. That it slips into the lid of a briefcase. That its speakers, microphone, and camera are all accessible but almost invisible. That I can click, right-click, scroll, pan, and more without moving my hand from one place. That it stays out of my way while I use it, instead of calling attention to itself: no blinking lights, no flashy logos in my face, no stupid buttons all over: it is just a screen with easy-to-use input devices.
BONG! Laptop boots up, obnoxious pulsing light stops, obnoxious logo on back starts. Launches WoW, I mean, serious business application. Fan kicks in, louder than my desktop machine. Ambient music starts, hears tinny, amplified crackle due to metallic speaker grill. Big stupid unibutton is next to useless, and meta-clicking is too slow, and trackpad clicking is too accidental. Goes digging through bag, looking for wireless mouse. Wait, no, tosses aside horribly designed click-pushes-the-whole-thing-on-the-desk Apple mouse, grabs the Logitech instead.
If the universe is intelligently designed, how many were thrown away before it passed QA?
It takes a particular lack of imagination to assume that intelligence itself is not a random process, or that there is one universe, or that any conception of existence affirms or denies the possibility of a motivation behind it. The intelligent design movement (aside from it's creationist agenda) looks at complexity and is all "aw, gosh, that shore is complicated, someone must've been real smart to come up with that one!" There is absolutely nothing unscientific about ridiculing the argument-from-personal-befuddlement.
Me, I believe the universe was created exactly as was in Genesis. Everything else? Oh, that is a natural consequence, going backward in time, that resolves the consistency of the system. The universe isn't 20 billion years old because God didn't create it like in the Bible, the universe is 20 billion years old because God can't make a 6000 year old earth any more than he can make "four" without all of mathematics.
As the point of engaging in religious argument isn't so much about the search for truth as shaming people for believing in and promoting unsubstantiated nonsense, it doesn't really matter what Einstein's expertise in the field was. Einstein is good company to have, and the fact the didn't mince words (eg. childish) is useful ammunition against those who both respect him and consider religion above criticism in any form other than erudite wankery.
One doesn't need to cite an "expert" in religion (or be one in any way) to debunk its claims any more than one needs to cite (or be) Penn Jillette or James Randi to ridicule modern charlatans.
It seems mostly something that you come to on your own -- having once believed, you start to have doubts, which eventually turn into disbelief.
Accepting stories adults tell you and "believing" are two entirely different things. I remember being incredulous about religion before I stopped believing in Santa Claus. That is, I could rationalize a magic toy distribution infrastructure and a conspiracy between toy companies and a jolly fat man (for which the elves were a metaphor) longer than I could rationalize the world being created in six days and Noah's Ark and Jesus being the son of God. I remember being five, sitting in church, bored as hell, and thinking how all of it seemed like make-believe. And when I finally wrung the truth out of my mother about Santa Claus, that put the nail in Christianity, as Santa's magic was derived from the supernatural and therefore given to him by God. Anything and everything an adult had told me became suspect. I was a deist by first grade, and an atheist by third. I never stopped believing anything so much as had my assumptions realized and consequently dismissed.
I resent Einstein calling religion childish. There are a great many honorable childish things. Religion is beneath children, and is an evil that can only be dreamed up by adults to exploit those without their cynicism and depth of experience.
Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard.
Why would that even matter? You're breaking the EULA, so you're stealing the software anyway.
And by good, you mean several pages of vague, unsubstantiated fanboy whining, with only one paragraph about .NET that hints at, but does not name, the stupidity of InvokeRequired.
The ratings systems themselves are a direct response to threats from politicians, basically saying censor yourselves or we'll do it for you.
The sad thing is, at least where movies are concerned, the industry rating system is more secretive and arbitrary than it would be if government controlled it.
No, they'll deny this. It "proves" that animals have souls.
I propose we monitor all government communication for evidence of corruption.
And let's not talk about Android until real Android-based phones start showing up on the market and we learn what sort of package signing requirements the cell phone manufacturers impose on Android applications.
"And lets not talk about the one platform that completely destroys my attempt at misdirection by being the antithesis of everything Apple represents."
The one thing you're conveniently leaving out... Windows and Symbian let you self-sign for on-device testing. You won't hear me defend the Verisign certificate racket, but that $99 (or $299) annual fee is to simply be in the developer program.
Oh, and you forgot about BlackBerry. It's a one-time fee to establish your identity, and then you can sign to your heart's content.
The answers to your question are:
MIT > Harvard > DeVry
That depends. Do you like apples?
Yes.
They don't.
I think anyone who asks these things is lacking in initiative.
If anything, Wikipedia teaches kids not to have blind trust in self-proclaimed experts, both on the Internet and off. The "trusted expert" gimmick has been used to lie in advertising and politics since the beginning of mass media. It's so damn obvious, you have to seriously question the intelligence and/or agenda of anyone parroting the "Wikipedia is full of lies!" meme. (Yes, I'm laughing at you, Andrew Keen.)
You tell 'em, comrade. The path to utopia is ideological purity. Any capitalist who fails isn't a real capitalist.
Isn't it funny how "I'm not an Apple fanboy" is always followed by a bunch of spurious nonsense? You can't tell him why he's wrong, but by the gods, you're going to try anyway. Apple has been slighted! We must be avenged!
You're right, I'm not. I don't usually waste my time with less-than-alpha development tools that render useless every device they have touched. I expected Apple, with a platform shipping for nearly a year, to be a little more mature than say, Android.
But just think - I could have had a whole collection iBricks! Wouldn't that have been fun!
WTF? Two girls one cup? On YouTube? That ain't going to last long. I think what you meant to post was this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw
What kind of moron goes $2K in the hole to AT&T just so he can have a second test device?
I have around 30 grand in hardware, but I only own one Touch. Why would I need a second one? None of the other mobile companies have ever bricked my devices before.
Why didn't he just move the console to living room? Was it too heavy?
Wait, so you mean the name isn't an explicit metaphor likening its users to mindless birds, sharing every tiny, half-formed thought that crosses their pea-sized brain to everyone within ear-shot?
And because I don't want to hear it, they're trying to frame this as something wrong with me?
For not being plausible, there sure are a lot of people calling on God to save them during moments of suffering and death.
Of course they do, God made them to suffer, so only God can make it stop. We're all victims, pleading with a serial killer before He finishes His grisly work.
"A cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree."
vs.
"A rock from space covered in particular chemicals crashed into the earth three billion years ago, and through a process of self-replication and environmental pressure, these chemicals produced more complex molecular structures, leading to life as we know it."
Yeah, Christianity is so much more plausible.
They reside at 1567 Oakridge Lane. Tell me, did the post office have to get special permission to deliver their mail?
The weak argument is all these people inventing of "privacy rights" out of whole cloth.
Oh, and you really should understand how very little $25K is compared to the value of a house - particularly one with a private drive.
Did you read the TF Smoking Gun article? The house is worth $160K. They're upset because the pictures show everyone the kind of squalor they live in.
Their "driveway" could very well be a county road, even if they own the property surrounding it. After all, it had to get on Google Maps from somewhere. This entire case could be the result of these hicks believing that putting up a sign allows them to restrict access to the road.