As a Muslim, even though I'm offended by the film, I don't think such a big deal should be made out of this. The only way to win the game of inflammatory Internet actions/comments/videos is to not play.
Sorry for the incorrect claim. I only used Visual Studio a few times, and that was for some basic automation, so I guess that impression stuck with me. And how exactly is Xcode "shit?"
As a fairly religious person, I don't see any theological basis to fear robots. It's not like you're actually creating new life or anything. It's just another machine.
Writing "slashdot fuck beta" in the search bar (sans quotes) has the first page full of, well, "fuck beta," aside from an odd link about Google Glass beta testing.
The Mac App store is only another method of reaching apps. You can still download and install anything you want off the Internet. Gatekeeper is easily overridden too. Plus, you can muck about with the software on various levels using Terminal and other tools. It's more of a case of shutting off low-level access to people who don't have the patience to read a few guides and/or don't know what they're doing. Also, since Darwin is open source, there are a lot of third-party kernel extensions installable. The hardware for both Macs and iOS devices is repairable, if iFixit is anything to go by, although modifiability is an issue with the smaller laptops, and near-impossible with the phones and tablets, but not a lot of people are going to mod phones, and you can order the laptops at higher tech-specs. What you said about software is mostly true for iOS, but then again, who's going to mod a mobile OS? The iOS App Store's selection of apps covers most things anyway.
I'm saying that the core concepts of religion are not disprovable, not that they're not hypotheses and that they're absolute truths that should be accepted by all. You can debate those in a metaphysical discussion, but not in a scientific one (due to the way the scientific method works, see Wikipedia). Try disproving the existence of God or the afterlife. The scientific method simply doesn't apply to those situations. In the end, whether you're going to believe or not is entirely your choice, and this discussion isn't going to change anyone's opinions, beliefs or preconceptions. Let's agree to disagree.
The core concepts of religion (the existence of a higher power, the afterlife, etc.) are non-disprovable concepts, so they don't conflict with the scientific method (as they are not covered by it), which works by disproving hypotheses. The rest (disprovable stuff) can be explained as metaphors. I know may people successful in a STEM field who are religious.
Islam does not command its followers to ignore all but that which is stated in Qur'an. It even has passages promoting learning and science. I'm sure it's the same with Christianity. In the end, the problem's with people sadly not knowing their scripture and subscribing to silly notions such as "The God of the Gaps"/doing unnecessary things not stated in their holy book which have been passed down by word-of-mouth. The Islamic Golden Age shows that religion and science can coexist perfectly well.
What about Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Diamond Age and other books in the cyberpunk sub-genre? Good stories, even if they're not as "deep" or thoughtful as those on your list.
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Isn't a new model on the way? I'd recommend waiting for that. They fixed plenty of hardware issues and all.
They can't object to anyone using Google Slides/Keynote/LibreOffice, then, right?
The fine art of trolling existed that far back?
As a Muslim, even though I'm offended by the film, I don't think such a big deal should be made out of this. The only way to win the game of inflammatory Internet actions/comments/videos is to not play.
Sorry for the incorrect claim. I only used Visual Studio a few times, and that was for some basic automation, so I guess that impression stuck with me. And how exactly is Xcode "shit?"
As a fairly religious person, I don't see any theological basis to fear robots. It's not like you're actually creating new life or anything. It's just another machine.
Don't the two have different focuses? The functions Visual Studio provides seems to be divided between Automator and Xcode on OS X.
I'm a faithful Microsoft developer and an Apple fan-boy
Wait, what?
Hollywood starlets
Thank you for reminding me about some of those plastic surgery train-wrecks. Urgh.
But it had a lot of gamy-ness. "Interactive Movie" is most often used to refer to games that involve little gameplay.
What'll happen when we dig too deep?
Locked down? Only if you can't configure GateKeeper and/or can't read a few guides.
Writing "slashdot fuck beta" in the search bar (sans quotes) has the first page full of, well, "fuck beta," aside from an odd link about Google Glass beta testing.
The Mac App store is only another method of reaching apps. You can still download and install anything you want off the Internet. Gatekeeper is easily overridden too. Plus, you can muck about with the software on various levels using Terminal and other tools. It's more of a case of shutting off low-level access to people who don't have the patience to read a few guides and/or don't know what they're doing. Also, since Darwin is open source, there are a lot of third-party kernel extensions installable. The hardware for both Macs and iOS devices is repairable, if iFixit is anything to go by, although modifiability is an issue with the smaller laptops, and near-impossible with the phones and tablets, but not a lot of people are going to mod phones, and you can order the laptops at higher tech-specs. What you said about software is mostly true for iOS, but then again, who's going to mod a mobile OS? The iOS App Store's selection of apps covers most things anyway.
I'm saying that the core concepts of religion are not disprovable, not that they're not hypotheses and that they're absolute truths that should be accepted by all. You can debate those in a metaphysical discussion, but not in a scientific one (due to the way the scientific method works, see Wikipedia). Try disproving the existence of God or the afterlife. The scientific method simply doesn't apply to those situations. In the end, whether you're going to believe or not is entirely your choice, and this discussion isn't going to change anyone's opinions, beliefs or preconceptions. Let's agree to disagree.
The core concepts of religion (the existence of a higher power, the afterlife, etc.) are non-disprovable concepts, so they don't conflict with the scientific method (as they are not covered by it), which works by disproving hypotheses. The rest (disprovable stuff) can be explained as metaphors. I know may people successful in a STEM field who are religious.
Islam does not command its followers to ignore all but that which is stated in Qur'an. It even has passages promoting learning and science. I'm sure it's the same with Christianity. In the end, the problem's with people sadly not knowing their scripture and subscribing to silly notions such as "The God of the Gaps"/doing unnecessary things not stated in their holy book which have been passed down by word-of-mouth. The Islamic Golden Age shows that religion and science can coexist perfectly well.
I'm thinking it'll run on ROS, so yes, maybe a specialized version of Linux.
What about Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive, The Diamond Age and other books in the cyberpunk sub-genre? Good stories, even if they're not as "deep" or thoughtful as those on your list.