Yeah, but the Christian notion of an omniscient & omnipotent God is a later conception. The story in Genesis taken at face value depicts a God who is neither.
So the christian god... evolved to become omniscient and omnipotent? that is awesome:)
Snakes have a defect!!!
Then, they ARE in league with the devil! Grandma was right all along!
Crap, Annon, you beat me to it. It's only a defect if what you wanted is not a snake, for them is a feature. Opinions may vary but I for one don't feel so defective because I don't have gills or feathers for instance...
It all hinges on the precise meaning of the word translated "kind" in Genesis (...) Humans were created during the sixth period of creation as God's attempt to see how many of his own qualities he could squeeze into free space in the chimp genome.
Allow me to point out that an "omniscient" and "omnipotent" god would have no need to attempt anything. He's omnipotent, thus he can do anything and everything, no holds barred, no need to attempt something that he is guaranteed by definition to be able to do. And being omniscient he would know the outcome of any such attempt without trying.
The christian god is said to be both omniscient and omnipotent, which is one reason any human attempt to understand such a being or even explain his actions is futile, we simply couldn't. Note I'm not saying that such a god exists or doesn't, merely that all these rationalisations about his supposed motives are nonsense.
The remaining 40% are people who talk to themselves.
I wonder if most people don't just talk within circles. I've caught myself thinking a few times "why is this person from my +Photograpy/Cooking/Blah circle talking about $UNRELATED_TOPIC"? When I share with them I usually make my general coments to my +Smalltalk circle, Nerd comments and post to the +Geeks circle, etc. I don't make that many public posts and most of my contacts don't either. So maybe outsiders see a drop in Public posts, but how do they know for sure there is an overall drop in activity? If they talked about measured traffic I missed that bit.
Apple's products convinced an awful lot of people that they wanted Apple's products.
I have seen a quote on here somewhere that says that "there is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market." - which did not even exist before SJ. And while Apple does consistently produce decent products, I was alluding to the people who are willing to slap down money for a product they have yet to see, and have no idea whether it does anything more for them than any other product in the market.
They do pay sight unseen now, but there is a reason. Apple came out with the iPod and wiped competition off the floor. Then they came out with the iPod touch and pundits and users demanded there be an iPhone. So Apple gave them one and people still love it because it builds on stuff they know to be good; Apple has yet to drop the ball so its a pretty safe bet that the new product will be at least as good as the last (regardless of 1st gen sindrome and the like that only us nerds really care about).
Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose!:)
She's just confirming what Apple fans already knew: God works at Apple.
You misunderstand her. She said "God created iPhone", and we know that Steve also "created iPhone". Therefore Steve is God. But Steve is dead... quite the Nietzsche moment there...
When labour is out-sourced, money moves from a wealthier country to a poorer one. Eventually, they don't want your crappy jobs, or you can't afford to hire them. Robots however, only drive costs down. Economic development multiplies labour, so it takes less work to produce the same output. You just have more time on your hands to think big ideas. With universal hands-off automation, demand for labour is almost non existent, but supply is only limited by the mass of the solar system. You can't get work, but everything is free. Computer: tea: earl grey: hot.
Most people aren't as well educated as the average/. reader and these changes won't happen overnight. Displaced people will need to find something to do in the interim between losing their job and the automated utopia. And the point of my first comment is that angry, uneducated people tend to react very, very badly when you take away something that 'belonged' to them. What happens if you piss off millions of people? Even on ST before the universal replicator there was a last world war that nearly wiped off humankind.
You failed to address the point he made about the automation of automation. What happens when most jobs are replaced by robots designed by robots?
Until we have AI that's as smart as humans, there will be plenty of jobs for humans to do, so long as they get off their butt and don't sit around complaining about how their super-important job actually turned out to be so simple that a computer can do it better. We've been replacing jobs with 'robots' for decades and we still have more people working than we did when we started to do so.
Once we have AI that's as smart as humans, we're fscked. But that's still probably at least a century away.
What you fail to understand is that there may be an opportunity or even a need for people to do intelligence-intensive tasks that can't be automated, but these are much much fewer than there is intelligent and capable people able to perform those jobs. How many designers and engineers do Apple or Samsung or Google need to come up with The Next Big Thing? and how many workers (robotic or otherwise) do they need to materialize those designs?
The number of people keeps rising, if automation takes over all menial tasks in, say, 30 years, there will be close to 11 BILLION people in the planet. Sadly, the vast majority of them will live in infrahuman conditions just like they do now, a ghastly and miserable existence of dispair while they wait for starvation to end their suffering. The kicker is that people in first world countries will soon start to join them by the thousands, then by the millions when there is no menial minimum-wage work available and most creative intelligence-intensive jobs are already taken.
Best case scenario would be to put everyone on welfare, provide food and shelter and let them dedicate themselves to the pursuit of their interests and leisure activities. The problem with that is, well, people. Individuals may make good use of the chance, but individuals don't live isolated from their society, and they will just become a mass of disaffected and resentful people with no hope. Just like it is already happening today in the UK and in the ghettos of the US. And machines are nowhere near taking over low-brow jobs yet.
Another problem is the rabid nationalism and bloodthirsty mood of some of the large economic powers (again UK and US, but throw in China and Russia too). They already know how to incentivate economies by killing surplus population off in random (or resource) wars far from home. Out of sight, out of mind. War is a good way to employ all those restless unemployed "parasites" living off welfare and too lazy to train themselves to do more elaborate jobs that aren't available anyway...[/rant]
I've never heard of a high level boss who is reallly good at his job.
You head it here first! My boss is not only very competent, he does a great job. Nobody — him included — is perfect, but having flaws, even big ones (although not this case) would not negate other abilities and accomplishments.
IMHO, 7 out of 10 people that complain about their bosses just fixate on things that they disagree with or that annoy them and refuse to see the big picture.
2. If customers have no better choice than you, then you're the best choice available. Either the lowest price, fastest delivery, best product, or any combination of these. Again, being the best is a good thing.
#2 may be literally true but the conclusion you draw is false: You may be the best choice available, but there are very questionable or downright illegal reasons why, i.e., monopoly, coercion, anticompetitive behaviour. So you're "the best" because you're the only, but it doesn't follow that this is necessarily good. Just wanted to point that out, in general I agree with you:)
No Anonymous Cowards, for starters:)
But on a more serious note, you can follow and be followed exactly like twitter except that you can publish a full-fledged post rather than a 140 char headline or note pointing to the actual post elsewhere. In this particular scenario, cuts a layer of middlemen.
I think the drive is pretty much that schools can be used by governments as indoctrination camps. Subject kids all their lives to surveillance and privacy invasion and most will get used to it even if told about amendments and fluff. Couple that with forcing most kids to go to such schools, and you create a new batch of citizens that will think and act more like serfs than citizens. Why would anybody raise an eyebrow at the government snooping their every move and controlling their every action if they grew up that way?
It says a woman's vagina, not "female". ALL female mammals have vaginas, so specifying it looks like a woman's as opposed to, say, a giraffe's is not a mistake. Particularly when the game deals with many different sorts of creatures.
First of all: the home screen web apps are not a bit slower than they were before the update, nor are the App Store apps one bit faster - the only thing that makes home screen web apps "second class iOS citizens" is that they are now much faster in Safari.
What's being discussed here is exactly that along with the fact that there is NO reason for this, since in theory webkit should be the engine behind both Safari and web apps. Safari is nothing but the GUI to the web and in any sane OS the default browser would run anything web. Ergo, something "fishy" is suspected behind the speed difference that should not exist.
(...) It's kind of like going to a golf game and talking about nothing but who made the golf balls, clubs and shoes while not caring about the score.
No actual entertainment will take place. Nothing to see here, move along.
So, nobody could possibly enjoy socializing and just having a chat. For "real" entertainment to occur people must conform to rigid parameters. I guess I don't enjoy any "real" entertainment either when I watch a bad movie solely for the purpose of ripping it to pieces with friends, I should just watch it silently and without distraction. I think not.
I've been on the waiting list for google's phone service for ages because its not available on my country. With something like this it will make Facebook even more widespread and convenient for regular folks and it will make it even harder for google to compete 'socially'. I know lots of people still think that the goog is unbeatable and can't be unseated but Facebook is making all the right moves and all the right noises, and they are expanding their tentacles outside of their walled garden.
A lot of commentators seem to think that all they want is to suck content and people inside Facebook but these kind of partnerships and integrations such as their comment board initiative will help them spread and break outside of their own realm as well.
Nope, that's why I said I was going to oversimplify. Besides taxes may work differently were you're at than where I am, however the point I was making wasn't about the tax system but the attitudes of people towards wealth differences. I repeat: "some people dislike that those making more money than them pay a smaller part of their overall income than them". I honestly don't know enough to put forth a more detailed example anyway and I bet you're right that the more money people make the more ways they find to keep that money. That's just a different issue:)
I'd rather not waste any tax money at all. I know that will never happen, but iPads? They are nowhere near as useful as netbooks, and yet they cost more. Is there really some type of program that will only run on iPads?
There are thousands of "apps" for that:P
Having said that I agree with you, I have a netbook and not a tablet because I can do stuff with it that tablet's can't do (particularly iPads, I can't install python or visual basic or LibreOffice on them, for example). And in fact TFA sort-of-agrees too, as they mention in the caveats section that these things are more of a complement or companion than a substitute for laptops or PCs.
People tend to like iPads because of their instant-on, instant-load response times. Anecdote: yesterday my wife was going to google something, grabbed her notebook and turned it on. By the time it booted, she logged in and opened firefox, she got distracted by the process and forgot what was it that she was going to search for. I usually put mine to sleep rather than shutting it down and resume time is nearly instantaneous. If she'd been using hers like this or had she been using an iPad, she might have gotten straight into the search app and gotten the answer she wanted. In summary, its a matter of convenience, and electronic 'pads' that respond nearly as quick as paper don't get in the way of what you want to do as computers can. Neither is perfect yet.
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Yeah, but the Christian notion of an omniscient & omnipotent God is a later conception. The story in Genesis taken at face value depicts a God who is neither.
So the christian god... evolved to become omniscient and omnipotent? that is awesome :)
Snakes have a defect!!! Then, they ARE in league with the devil! Grandma was right all along!
Crap, Annon, you beat me to it. It's only a defect if what you wanted is not a snake, for them is a feature. Opinions may vary but I for one don't feel so defective because I don't have gills or feathers for instance...
It all hinges on the precise meaning of the word translated "kind" in Genesis (...) Humans were created during the sixth period of creation as God's attempt to see how many of his own qualities he could squeeze into free space in the chimp genome.
Allow me to point out that an "omniscient" and "omnipotent" god would have no need to attempt anything. He's omnipotent, thus he can do anything and everything, no holds barred, no need to attempt something that he is guaranteed by definition to be able to do. And being omniscient he would know the outcome of any such attempt without trying.
The christian god is said to be both omniscient and omnipotent, which is one reason any human attempt to understand such a being or even explain his actions is futile, we simply couldn't. Note I'm not saying that such a god exists or doesn't, merely that all these rationalisations about his supposed motives are nonsense.
The remaining 40% are people who talk to themselves.
I wonder if most people don't just talk within circles. I've caught myself thinking a few times "why is this person from my +Photograpy/Cooking/Blah circle talking about $UNRELATED_TOPIC"? When I share with them I usually make my general coments to my +Smalltalk circle, Nerd comments and post to the +Geeks circle, etc. I don't make that many public posts and most of my contacts don't either. So maybe outsiders see a drop in Public posts, but how do they know for sure there is an overall drop in activity? If they talked about measured traffic I missed that bit.
Apple's products convinced an awful lot of people that they wanted Apple's products.
I have seen a quote on here somewhere that says that "there is no tablet market, there is only an iPad market." - which did not even exist before SJ. And while Apple does consistently produce decent products, I was alluding to the people who are willing to slap down money for a product they have yet to see, and have no idea whether it does anything more for them than any other product in the market.
They do pay sight unseen now, but there is a reason. Apple came out with the iPod and wiped competition off the floor. Then they came out with the iPod touch and pundits and users demanded there be an iPhone. So Apple gave them one and people still love it because it builds on stuff they know to be good; Apple has yet to drop the ball so its a pretty safe bet that the new product will be at least as good as the last (regardless of 1st gen sindrome and the like that only us nerds really care about).
You missed the best part when she defended herself:
Rebels mad cuz I used iPhone to tell you Steve Jobs is in hell.God created iPhone for that purpose! :)
She's just confirming what Apple fans already knew: God works at Apple.
You misunderstand her. She said "God created iPhone", and we know that Steve also "created iPhone". Therefore Steve is God. But Steve is dead... quite the Nietzsche moment there...
His final will stated that he be buried in a glossy white coffin with no visible hinges or latches. RIP Steve.
Makes sense since no longer has any user-serviceable parts. I hear his last words were: iDie
RIP Steve
Typed from my Macbook pro
When labour is out-sourced, money moves from a wealthier country to a poorer one. Eventually, they don't want your crappy jobs, or you can't afford to hire them. Robots however, only drive costs down. Economic development multiplies labour, so it takes less work to produce the same output. You just have more time on your hands to think big ideas. With universal hands-off automation, demand for labour is almost non existent, but supply is only limited by the mass of the solar system. You can't get work, but everything is free. Computer: tea: earl grey: hot.
Most people aren't as well educated as the average /. reader and these changes won't happen overnight. Displaced people will need to find something to do in the interim between losing their job and the automated utopia. And the point of my first comment is that angry, uneducated people tend to react very, very badly when you take away something that 'belonged' to them. What happens if you piss off millions of people? Even on ST before the universal replicator there was a last world war that nearly wiped off humankind.
You failed to address the point he made about the automation of automation. What happens when most jobs are replaced by robots designed by robots?
Until we have AI that's as smart as humans, there will be plenty of jobs for humans to do, so long as they get off their butt and don't sit around complaining about how their super-important job actually turned out to be so simple that a computer can do it better. We've been replacing jobs with 'robots' for decades and we still have more people working than we did when we started to do so.
Once we have AI that's as smart as humans, we're fscked. But that's still probably at least a century away.
What you fail to understand is that there may be an opportunity or even a need for people to do intelligence-intensive tasks that can't be automated, but these are much much fewer than there is intelligent and capable people able to perform those jobs. How many designers and engineers do Apple or Samsung or Google need to come up with The Next Big Thing? and how many workers (robotic or otherwise) do they need to materialize those designs?
The number of people keeps rising, if automation takes over all menial tasks in, say, 30 years, there will be close to 11 BILLION people in the planet. Sadly, the vast majority of them will live in infrahuman conditions just like they do now, a ghastly and miserable existence of dispair while they wait for starvation to end their suffering. The kicker is that people in first world countries will soon start to join them by the thousands, then by the millions when there is no menial minimum-wage work available and most creative intelligence-intensive jobs are already taken.
Best case scenario would be to put everyone on welfare, provide food and shelter and let them dedicate themselves to the pursuit of their interests and leisure activities. The problem with that is, well, people. Individuals may make good use of the chance, but individuals don't live isolated from their society, and they will just become a mass of disaffected and resentful people with no hope. Just like it is already happening today in the UK and in the ghettos of the US. And machines are nowhere near taking over low-brow jobs yet.
Another problem is the rabid nationalism and bloodthirsty mood of some of the large economic powers (again UK and US, but throw in China and Russia too). They already know how to incentivate economies by killing surplus population off in random (or resource) wars far from home. Out of sight, out of mind. War is a good way to employ all those restless unemployed "parasites" living off welfare and too lazy to train themselves to do more elaborate jobs that aren't available anyway...[/rant]
I've never heard of a high level boss who is reallly good at his job.
You head it here first! My boss is not only very competent, he does a great job. Nobody — him included — is perfect, but having flaws, even big ones (although not this case) would not negate other abilities and accomplishments.
IMHO, 7 out of 10 people that complain about their bosses just fixate on things that they disagree with or that annoy them and refuse to see the big picture.
(...)
Most likely Oracle will fail, but only after Google starts using Python bytecode for their platform instead of Java/Dalvik.
OH GOD YES PLEASE MAKE IT SO!
Damn, few things make yelp like a little girl but this one did :P
ok, that was pretty funny. And this post makes me wish I had my 5 digit UID still. =(
Ha! In your face! ;)
Also, farewell CmdrTaco, Sir!
2. If customers have no better choice than you, then you're the best choice available. Either the lowest price, fastest delivery, best product, or any combination of these. Again, being the best is a good thing.
#2 may be literally true but the conclusion you draw is false: You may be the best choice available, but there are very questionable or downright illegal reasons why, i.e., monopoly, coercion, anticompetitive behaviour. So you're "the best" because you're the only, but it doesn't follow that this is necessarily good. Just wanted to point that out, in general I agree with you :)
No, he meant "D0rkL4rd" ;)
No Anonymous Cowards, for starters :)
But on a more serious note, you can follow and be followed exactly like twitter except that you can publish a full-fledged post rather than a 140 char headline or note pointing to the actual post elsewhere. In this particular scenario, cuts a layer of middlemen.
I think the drive is pretty much that schools can be used by governments as indoctrination camps. Subject kids all their lives to surveillance and privacy invasion and most will get used to it even if told about amendments and fluff. Couple that with forcing most kids to go to such schools, and you create a new batch of citizens that will think and act more like serfs than citizens. Why would anybody raise an eyebrow at the government snooping their every move and controlling their every action if they grew up that way?
Gah... nevermind, its in the title. I missed that. In my defense it does say "woman" in the body of the article :P
It says a woman's vagina, not "female". ALL female mammals have vaginas, so specifying it looks like a woman's as opposed to, say, a giraffe's is not a mistake. Particularly when the game deals with many different sorts of creatures.
While I completely agree with you, you should stop feeding the trolls. These big animals are becoming a commonplace over here lately.
And its a waste of valuable resources being diverted from feeding the Gnolls, Gnomes, Goblins and Orcs!
First of all: the home screen web apps are not a bit slower than they were before the update, nor are the App Store apps one bit faster - the only thing that makes home screen web apps "second class iOS citizens" is that they are now much faster in Safari.
What's being discussed here is exactly that along with the fact that there is NO reason for this, since in theory webkit should be the engine behind both Safari and web apps. Safari is nothing but the GUI to the web and in any sane OS the default browser would run anything web. Ergo, something "fishy" is suspected behind the speed difference that should not exist.
You mean it doesn't amount to "fuck" and "shit"? The media and the internet have fooled me again!
(...) It's kind of like going to a golf game and talking about nothing but who made the golf balls, clubs and shoes while not caring about the score.
No actual entertainment will take place. Nothing to see here, move along.
So, nobody could possibly enjoy socializing and just having a chat. For "real" entertainment to occur people must conform to rigid parameters. I guess I don't enjoy any "real" entertainment either when I watch a bad movie solely for the purpose of ripping it to pieces with friends, I should just watch it silently and without distraction. I think not.
I've been on the waiting list for google's phone service for ages because its not available on my country. With something like this it will make Facebook even more widespread and convenient for regular folks and it will make it even harder for google to compete 'socially'. I know lots of people still think that the goog is unbeatable and can't be unseated but Facebook is making all the right moves and all the right noises, and they are expanding their tentacles outside of their walled garden.
A lot of commentators seem to think that all they want is to suck content and people inside Facebook but these kind of partnerships and integrations such as their comment board initiative will help them spread and break outside of their own realm as well.
You also forgot that (...)
Nope, that's why I said I was going to oversimplify. Besides taxes may work differently were you're at than where I am, however the point I was making wasn't about the tax system but the attitudes of people towards wealth differences. I repeat: "some people dislike that those making more money than them pay a smaller part of their overall income than them". I honestly don't know enough to put forth a more detailed example anyway and I bet you're right that the more money people make the more ways they find to keep that money. That's just a different issue :)
I'd rather not waste any tax money at all. I know that will never happen, but iPads? They are nowhere near as useful as netbooks, and yet they cost more. Is there really some type of program that will only run on iPads?
There are thousands of "apps" for that :P
Having said that I agree with you, I have a netbook and not a tablet because I can do stuff with it that tablet's can't do (particularly iPads, I can't install python or visual basic or LibreOffice on them, for example). And in fact TFA sort-of-agrees too, as they mention in the caveats section that these things are more of a complement or companion than a substitute for laptops or PCs.
People tend to like iPads because of their instant-on, instant-load response times. Anecdote: yesterday my wife was going to google something, grabbed her notebook and turned it on. By the time it booted, she logged in and opened firefox, she got distracted by the process and forgot what was it that she was going to search for. I usually put mine to sleep rather than shutting it down and resume time is nearly instantaneous. If she'd been using hers like this or had she been using an iPad, she might have gotten straight into the search app and gotten the answer she wanted. In summary, its a matter of convenience, and electronic 'pads' that respond nearly as quick as paper don't get in the way of what you want to do as computers can. Neither is perfect yet.