This kind of stunt will only serve to get a couple of snotty kids banned from setting foot on any Apple property, while irritating anyone with legitimate needs for service or support.
Emotion is certainly part of religion, but not its sole component. To claim so is to ignore thousands of years of work by those that have labored over religious texts.
Also, how are suicide bombers a murder agency? I don't see how it benefits anyone financially.
Saddam Hussein used to pay sizeable chunks of cash to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Don't know if Hezbollah or Hamas has the money to continue the practice or not.
No, I'm saying that someone who's demonstrated this kind of self-centeredness is more likely to kill additional people as opposed to only killing himself.
I can't believe a father would really kill his innocent little child.
This wasn't a normal father. He was a criminal. If he was self-centered enough to make his living by fraud and theft, then it's not that much of a stretch for him to decide that if he was going to off himself, he'd take a few people with him.
Show me a company that hasn't been able to release a key piece of software because a competitor has a patent on it.
Omnigroup wrote an excellent disk backup program for Mac OS X, which they had to pull because Dantz had a patent on keeping an index to a backup on a separate device. OmniBackup was a vastly superior product to Retrospect, but we never got to use it.
Case in point, my mother "refuses to believe that she comes from a monkey"
Strictly speaking, she didn't. What she would probably have more trouble accepting is that she and the monkey share a common, even more primitive ancestor.;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we mac developers have never had a situation (as far as I know) where a product came to market and we were still under NDA regarding its API
You're free to talk about the iPhone all you want. The development system for the phone is not the same thing as the phone itself. That is still in beta, and will be until the dev tools group is ready to call it done.
The iPhone SDK is still a beta release, and the restrictions on discussing it are precisely the same as we Apple developers have always had for developer seed releases of OS X. Jager's trolling for page hits.
The correct action is to give Larry Godwin as much rope as he wants
Not with tax money. The city council has a fiduciary duty to the people of Memphis to keep this asshole from wasting their money litigating over his hurt feelings.
It has improved into something usable, for very generous definitions of 'usable'.
My friend Scott describes MS products as asymptotically approaching usability, but never actually reaching it. I disagree with him, of course. I'd say the asymptote they approach is far, far short of usability.
As it happens, I have a friend who was a believer, so much so that he learned Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic so that he could read older versions. He ended up concluding that the translators had done so much revising that if god existed, he would have prevented the distortion.
I would say that "states' rights" is actually a misnomer. People have rights, and states have powers which are delegated to them by the people. The important thing about the states' rights doctrine is that it served to limit the concentration of power in the federal government. In my view, power is intrinsically dangerous, like radioactivity. Let too much of it get concentrated, and the results are lethal.
Actually states rights have been continually marginalized(especially since the Civil War), which isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the Civil War and several civil rights movements have proven.
It's not necessarily a good thing, either. It was the right of the Vermont militia to stop the federal troops at the border when they came to enforce the fugitive slave act a couple of years before the civil war, for one example. It's the right of the state of California to let medical marijuana patients take their medicine without harassment, for another example. Since Lincoln overthrew the Republic, states have had no power to resist federal encroachment on their citizens' liberty.
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This kind of stunt will only serve to get a couple of snotty kids banned from setting foot on any Apple property, while irritating anyone with legitimate needs for service or support.
-jcr
Emotion is certainly part of religion, but not its sole component. To claim so is to ignore thousands of years of work by those that have labored over religious texts.
Oh, please.
-jcr
Hmm, you have a source on that?
Google for "Saddam suicide bombers", and you'll see CBS and the BBC in the first couple of hits.
-jcr
Also, how are suicide bombers a murder agency? I don't see how it benefits anyone financially.
Saddam Hussein used to pay sizeable chunks of cash to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. Don't know if Hezbollah or Hamas has the money to continue the practice or not.
-jcr
Incidentally, it was Dantz's failure to update and improve Retrospect that caused Apple to come up with Time Machine.
-jcr
No, I'm saying that someone who's demonstrated this kind of self-centeredness is more likely to kill additional people as opposed to only killing himself.
-jcr
He had every right to do himself in, but killing his wife and daughter is beyond the pale. This kind of thing makes me wish I believed in hell.
-jcr
I can't believe a father would really kill his innocent little child.
This wasn't a normal father. He was a criminal. If he was self-centered enough to make his living by fraud and theft, then it's not that much of a stretch for him to decide that if he was going to off himself, he'd take a few people with him.
-jcr
Show me a company that hasn't been able to release a key piece of software because a competitor has a patent on it.
Omnigroup wrote an excellent disk backup program for Mac OS X, which they had to pull because Dantz had a patent on keeping an index to a backup on a separate device. OmniBackup was a vastly superior product to Retrospect, but we never got to use it.
-jcr
Case in point, my mother "refuses to believe that she comes from a monkey"
Strictly speaking, she didn't. What she would probably have more trouble accepting is that she and the monkey share a common, even more primitive ancestor. ;-)
-jcr
If someone is annoying you on your own forums, delete and ban him.
-jcr
I know this won't go down well with the libs at Slashdot, but Godwin is an African-American:
So are several million other people. So what?
-jcr
require extraordinary proof. Regrettably, there is none.
-jcr
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we mac developers have never had a situation (as far as I know) where a product came to market and we were still under NDA regarding its API
You're free to talk about the iPhone all you want. The development system for the phone is not the same thing as the phone itself. That is still in beta, and will be until the dev tools group is ready to call it done.
-jcr
The release status isn't determined by the filename. When ADC sends a message to developers that says the beta period is over, then it's over.
-jcr
The iPhone SDK is still a beta release, and the restrictions on discussing it are precisely the same as we Apple developers have always had for developer seed releases of OS X. Jager's trolling for page hits.
-jcr
The correct action is to give Larry Godwin as much rope as he wants
Not with tax money. The city council has a fiduciary duty to the people of Memphis to keep this asshole from wasting their money litigating over his hurt feelings.
-jcr
He's ok with God letting millions of people being murdered:
How do you infer that from anything I said?
The issue of the translations goes to the question of its existence, not whether it's good or evil.
-jcr
Religion isn't thinking, it's emotion.
-jcr
It has improved into something usable, for very generous definitions of 'usable'.
My friend Scott describes MS products as asymptotically approaching usability, but never actually reaching it. I disagree with him, of course. I'd say the asymptote they approach is far, far short of usability.
-jcr
For every one of these stories, there is one about the devout atheist who studies diligently to disprove the Bible only to become a Christian.
Maybe so, but in the former case, someone starts thinking, and in the latter, they stop.
-jcr
As it happens, I have a friend who was a believer, so much so that he learned Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic so that he could read older versions. He ended up concluding that the translators had done so much revising that if god existed, he would have prevented the distortion.
He's a happy atheist today.
-jcr
That XP sucked when it was released and gradually improved into something useable?
Well, half of that statement is true...
-jcr
I would say that "states' rights" is actually a misnomer. People have rights, and states have powers which are delegated to them by the people. The important thing about the states' rights doctrine is that it served to limit the concentration of power in the federal government. In my view, power is intrinsically dangerous, like radioactivity. Let too much of it get concentrated, and the results are lethal.
-jcr
Actually states rights have been continually marginalized(especially since the Civil War), which isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the Civil War and several civil rights movements have proven.
It's not necessarily a good thing, either. It was the right of the Vermont militia to stop the federal troops at the border when they came to enforce the fugitive slave act a couple of years before the civil war, for one example. It's the right of the state of California to let medical marijuana patients take their medicine without harassment, for another example. Since Lincoln overthrew the Republic, states have had no power to resist federal encroachment on their citizens' liberty.
-jcr