You do your fellow atheists a great disservice by failing to realize that no evidence is required to *believe*.
Only if you are intellectually dishonest. An honest person actually cares if their beliefs are based in reality or not. If you don’t care if what you believe is true then sure, believe what you want.
Upgrades are a low priority for Win8. They want to nail the experience on a tablet form factor. That's their focus right now. They know that only a small number of people actually upgrade. Most people get a new OS by buying new hardware. That's even more true in this age of semi-disposable tablets and netbooks.
It's a difference with a critical distinction. In principle the layman could learn what is needed to reproduce the experiments etc. More importantly, this means that the science experts are real experts and their knowledge tends towards agreement. There are no real experts in religion. Stuff that one person makes up isn't any more or less valid than the stuff another person makes up. In science the layman takes a leap of trust which is very different than a leap of faith.
You are both right. I think BiosHakr was talking about 64bit. 32bit Windows 7 systems just ask if you are sure but on 64bit you have to turn off signature verification or apply a test signature and turn on test signing.
XBox isn't a monopoly. Windows Live isn't a monopoly. Zune is about as far from a monopoly as you can get. The online office apps that it works with are free to all. MS of 2010 isn't the MS of 2000.
It's Ballmer now. Gates is off saving lives and doing good. Plus Ballmer's first name is also Steve.
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Does the app store allow you to redownload items you've paid for or would you have to buy them again when your phone dies? In any case, regular backups are always a good thing.
I think Charge of the Light Brigade is actually an example of why our technology is a good thing morally speaking. The charge was a disaster because of poor information and communication. If our technology can give us better information and help us communicate, we'll attack the wrong target less often and fewer people near the target will die.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I had a feeling someone was going to use the "Easier for beginning user" argument. I kept this in mind when I recently taught my young son to use a mouse for the first time. In just a few min he completely understood the distinction between single click, double click and right click. I don't think it would have been any easier to teach him to option click.
You're thoughts about how the whole paradigm needs to shift may have merit. I don't disagree but that's not the world we live in now. My original question is still about why Apple refuses to move on. It seems that they are the ones doing things because that's the way they've always done them. Most people I know that use Macs use multi-button mice. Apples refusal to ship a proper mouse seems like pure stubbornness off the worst kind and their attempts at improving the mouse seem misplaced when they won't even do a basic mouse right first.
But yes, I would like five button mice to be standard. Five buttons fits within the 7+-2 things that people are able to hold in mind at the same time and the functions for the five buttons have been standardized within the Windows ecosystem at least, for years now.
I hear this all the time from mac people and I don't get it. Sure maybe it's not that hard to use a second hand and it's not THAT big of a deal but why stick with it at all? What's the benefit of using two hands for an operation that only takes one on a proper mouse?
I talked to a MS PM about this once. He made an interesting point that Apple is a competitor on some level but it's much more considered to be a customer. Microsoft's Apple Business Unit is one of a handful of groups that is profitable year after year. So MS has some very good reasons to care what Apple does.
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You do your fellow atheists a great disservice by failing to realize that no evidence is required to *believe*.
Only if you are intellectually dishonest. An honest person actually cares if their beliefs are based in reality or not. If you don’t care if what you believe is true then sure, believe what you want.
Also, most of the people I know who own Mac laptops also have Windows loaded.
To be fair, many of us remember life without the internet. Heck, I even remember when you had to get up and walk across the room to change channels.
Hey now! no need to go dragging your "facts" into this.
Upgrades are a low priority for Win8. They want to nail the experience on a tablet form factor. That's their focus right now. They know that only a small number of people actually upgrade. Most people get a new OS by buying new hardware. That's even more true in this age of semi-disposable tablets and netbooks.
It's a difference with a critical distinction. In principle the layman could learn what is needed to reproduce the experiments etc. More importantly, this means that the science experts are real experts and their knowledge tends towards agreement. There are no real experts in religion. Stuff that one person makes up isn't any more or less valid than the stuff another person makes up. In science the layman takes a leap of trust which is very different than a leap of faith.
It's your turn to do something useful.
The ipod owes its success to the marketing department. As a player it isn't really anything special (yes I own one and I also own several others).
You can link any email address to live. So you can keep the gmail address and still get the 25GB storage and other live goodness. Pretty sweet right?
You are both right. I think BiosHakr was talking about 64bit. 32bit Windows 7 systems just ask if you are sure but on 64bit you have to turn off signature verification or apply a test signature and turn on test signing.
Where do you go? Just get Office. really not a big deal.
No true Scotsman fallacy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
XBox isn't a monopoly. Windows Live isn't a monopoly. Zune is about as far from a monopoly as you can get. The online office apps that it works with are free to all. MS of 2010 isn't the MS of 2000.
It's Ballmer now. Gates is off saving lives and doing good. Plus Ballmer's first name is also Steve.
Does the app store allow you to redownload items you've paid for or would you have to buy them again when your phone dies? In any case, regular backups are always a good thing.
I think Charge of the Light Brigade is actually an example of why our technology is a good thing morally speaking. The charge was a disaster because of poor information and communication. If our technology can give us better information and help us communicate, we'll attack the wrong target less often and fewer people near the target will die.
If I spend that much on wine I'm not going to spit it out. That's just crazy talk right there!
That's a good question. Does anyone really know or are we assuming the question implies an answer?
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I had a feeling someone was going to use the "Easier for beginning user" argument. I kept this in mind when I recently taught my young son to use a mouse for the first time. In just a few min he completely understood the distinction between single click, double click and right click. I don't think it would have been any easier to teach him to option click.
You're thoughts about how the whole paradigm needs to shift may have merit. I don't disagree but that's not the world we live in now. My original question is still about why Apple refuses to move on. It seems that they are the ones doing things because that's the way they've always done them. Most people I know that use Macs use multi-button mice. Apples refusal to ship a proper mouse seems like pure stubbornness off the worst kind and their attempts at improving the mouse seem misplaced when they won't even do a basic mouse right first.
But yes, I would like five button mice to be standard. Five buttons fits within the 7+-2 things that people are able to hold in mind at the same time and the functions for the five buttons have been standardized within the Windows ecosystem at least, for years now.
I hear this all the time from mac people and I don't get it. Sure maybe it's not that hard to use a second hand and it's not THAT big of a deal but why stick with it at all? What's the benefit of using two hands for an operation that only takes one on a proper mouse?
I talked to a MS PM about this once. He made an interesting point that Apple is a competitor on some level but it's much more considered to be a customer. Microsoft's Apple Business Unit is one of a handful of groups that is profitable year after year. So MS has some very good reasons to care what Apple does.
Who pays for that wasted, unused hardware?
If it impacts cost of goods it impacts your wallet.
Whew! We were hoping you would get tired of it soon.
Guys!?! Pack it up!
He's finally tired of it so we can quit now. Come on, let's go.
I call dibs on the gun.