It's a good thing that your experience an accurate representation of what is typical for the rest of the population, otherwise it'd just be a worthless anecdotal data point.
I would think that if push came to shove, (1) and (3) would be roughly equal.
I think you're vastly overestimating (3). Local militarized police forces have no problem using violence against *unarmed people* from their own cities! What makes you think that military grunts (who, by and large, are not the most educated or ethical people in the nation) would have a problem opening fire on some armed insurrection of "terrorists" (because that's what everyone who opposes the status quo is) from across the country?
Most Mac users don't even care what version of OS they are using... Random Mac user tooling around with Leopard doesn't even know what they are missing in Mountain Lion
Yet for some reason, the Apple fanbois don't seem to realize that this is exactly the case with older versions of Android. It does what the owner wanted it to do when they bought it.
You know what? It makes it more difficult to have a constructive conversation when you start out with an "I told you so" with no real substance.
I don't remember much coal raking for Bush or "nailing" of Palin other than that I remember that the incidents happened. There were basically no consequences to speak of, so I'm not sure how what they endured was oh-so-much worse than what Clinton did.
The thing is, though, I'd say that all of them are douchebags and should face/have faced criminal prosecution. However, we can't even get to the part where we agree because you've started out with an us-vs-them mentality and topped it off with some nice butthurt about the librul media conspiracy.
So, TL;DR in meme form: your whining is bad and you should feel bad, because we agree but you're a dick.
You capitalize atheist. You don't know what atheism is.
It can't be false in the way you imply, because it isn't *anything*. It is the name for the absence of something. It doesn't tell you to stay home on Sundays or to eat shellfish on Tuesdays. There's no sacred document telling its followers to murder non-believers or to sacrifice Twinkies to appease... something.
There is no atheist philosophy. That doesn't even make sense. There are, however, philosophies written by atheists. Even if you considered every philosophy conceived by every atheist as a different sect of atheism, it wouldn't make sense, because they have (practically) no common tenets. It would be like calling Scientology, Abrahamic religions, and Buddhism all sects of... we'll call it religulism. Or classifying humans and plankton as the same kind of thing, because at the broadest level, both can be described as an 'organism'.
It seems that you are so steeped in your own dogma that you apparently cannot understand what it means for someone else to be free of one.
If he charged a non-insulting amount for them, I'd go to the movies more often and when I did, I'd buy snacks.
Instead, the he has driven me away with ridiculous prices for *everything* and an all-out advertising assault before the movie even starts and convinced me that watching a movie at home is the only way it'll be a pleasant experience.
There's a big difference between building a patent arsenal -- which is what every tech company has been doing for decades now -- and unleashing your 'patent' arsenal in an offensive assault in an effort to keep competitors out of the market. It's especially egregious in Apple's case, as they have practically zero R&D to speak of.
Slashdot is a news site only insofar as it links to sites that actually *do* report news. It has no (unless you count Ask Slashdot or random interviews) journalism output of its own. So you haven't really provided an example.
Give it a rest. I like how we're in a discussion about how a PRIVATE BUSINESS is being unresponsive to the customer, and you manage to get an anti-government troll in there.
Big fuckin' deal. I've had an HD TV for nearly 10 years; HD is a nice bonus, but it doesn't make a bad movie good, and the lack of it doesn't make a good game bad.
I understand this to mean "I value physical effort infinitely more than mental effort". If I hold the exact opposite definition, you wouldn't mind mind being my slave, would you? I promise you'll only be doing worthless physical labor...
I'm a programmer. I can only speak for myself, but value physical and mental effort roughly equally.
However, what in-app purchases I see on the app store disgust me. I'll use a recent example of a game I downloaded: it was a decent enough tower defense game -- one that I'd have paid a couple bucks for to compensate the developers. However, there is no paid version; the only method of compensation available is via in-app purchases, where you can buy virtual money to pay for upgrades. The lowest level purchase costs $2.99 and gets you enough money to pay for 1/2 of a level of an upgrade. There are literally hundreds of levels of upgrades. The highest level purchase is $29.99 and gets you enough for about 6 full levels.
Fuck that. That is absolutely insulting. To spend $30 and not be able to unlock pretty much everything is ridiculous -- and the game doesn't have nearly enough content to make it worthwhile to keep playing to try to max out the upgrades and see how high a score you can get; it "ends" with barely 20% of the stuff being unlocked. If there were simply a $3-$5 buy option, I'd have paid for it and wished the developers well; when they try to milk $30 purchases out of people by using a scoring system that requires a bunch of repetitive play just to have an option to even *get* the highest score, they can starve for all I care. If I'd cared enough, I'd have just written a trainer to go in and add as much cash as I wanted and then published it to the Play store as a special screw-you to the developers.
If your game requires upgrades to do well, you'd better damn well make sure that the upgrades happen as you work through the game. Games that reset to the beginning after every play have no business going with this model. I didn't have to play through Super Mario Brothers 1000 times just to unlock all the options to get a chance to get a high score, and the fact that people somehow think this is an acceptable way for a scoring system to work now (shit like Temple Run) is just sad to me.
For a long time millions and millions of people who had no business buying a PC were buying them because of the Windows monopoly
How does this make any sense at all? People were buying PCs because they needed a PC; it had nothing to do with the Windows monopoly, unless you're one of those lusers who thinks that "PC" means "Windows".
Anyway, the writing has been on the wall for a while for the traditional PC industry; for the vast majority of people, their phones or a cheap tablet are all the computing power they'll ever need. My only concern with this is that traditional PC hardware currently enjoy economies of scale that could disappear if everyone moves to locked-down non-upgradeable tablet appliances.
That second graph is quite possibly one of the most pointlessly misleading infographics I've ever seen. A simple line graph would have been much more informative -- the stacked bar graph was a terrible choice. Those graphs still just show profit margin though, and the ongoing 'war' isn't about profit margin at all.
That aside though: continue to bask in Apple's obscene profit margins like the sucker you are. I'll continue to enjoy good hardware at competitive prices from other manufacturers.
Compared to most other sciences, climate and weather trends are *terribly* uncertain.
Uhh, bullshit? Climate science has predicted a rising temperature trend. We have had a rising temperature trend. It has predicted some consequences of higher temperatures. We have experienced some of those consequences of higher temperatures.
Charlie hits it on the head when he says "there are other reasons to do this; let's do it and quit with the doom and gloom FFS."
The doom and gloom is all coming from the naysayers who strawman everyone concerned about AGW as some sort of hysterical chicken little. AGW 'skeptics' also have plenty of their own doom and gloom predictions about how trying to do *anything* about AGW will wreck our economy (as if the economy is based on anything concrete anyway). Clean thine own house first and then maybe you can talk.
So, presuming that you think it's not ok for the Hockey Stick dudes to do that (though you offer nothing but vague innuendo to support your implication), are you now defending your misinformation because "they did it too"?
Close, but no cigar. The skeptics don't demand a continued rise in CO2, and you would likely be hard-pressed to find an AGW skeptic who believed that we should stop R&D toward the goal of reducing CO2 emissions. What the skeptics are saying is that the "OMG! OMG! CATASTROPHE! Divert all money into halting CO2 emissions NOW! (and keep giving us grants so we can continue to produce doomsday predictions) or we're all DOOMED!"
So what I read is, minus your ridiculous strawman caricature of them, you generally agree with the "warmists."
The API is free. The service is not, if you're a high-volume user, and even then it's very cheap. Why the fuck would you expect the service to be free?
This one I don't see as being as big of a warning sign.
No screen; there goes a huge chunk of the cost of a typical Android device. No battery, no cell radios. No cameras. I think it's actually completely feasible to get a decently-spec'd piece of hardware running Android out for at most somewhere in the $150-$200 range, and quite possibly even sub-$100. This is going to be basically a CPU/GPU wired up to bluetooth, wifi, storage, and AV out. You can already get things like that for really cheap.
I mean think about it -- the Wii shipped for $200ish in Japan and had far more custom hardware than this will have. That was 6 years ago.
He condemned humanity for *eternity* because they ate a fruit that they had no way of knowing was "bad" because he hadn't given them the knowledge of good and evil yet.
He sent bears to maul children for calling some dude bald.
He killed every living thing on the planet, except for what Noah was able to stuff on his ark. (and fish, presumably... though one wonders how the saltwater fish survived the sudden decrease in salinity)
Patient. That's rich.
Anyway, Xenu makes even less sense, so at least you have that to hang your hat on.
There are actually plenty of evangelical churches that consider the tithe to be mandatory for membership. A friend of mine was a pastor in one such (he's an atheist now).
He was probably an atheist while he was a pastor as well. Your parenthetical would probably more accurately be "(he's more ethical now)".
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It's a good thing that your experience an accurate representation of what is typical for the rest of the population, otherwise it'd just be a worthless anecdotal data point.
--Jeremy
I would think that if push came to shove, (1) and (3) would be roughly equal.
I think you're vastly overestimating (3). Local militarized police forces have no problem using violence against *unarmed people* from their own cities! What makes you think that military grunts (who, by and large, are not the most educated or ethical people in the nation) would have a problem opening fire on some armed insurrection of "terrorists" (because that's what everyone who opposes the status quo is) from across the country?
--Jeremy
Most Mac users don't even care what version of OS they are using ... Random Mac user tooling around with Leopard doesn't even know what they are missing in Mountain Lion
Yet for some reason, the Apple fanbois don't seem to realize that this is exactly the case with older versions of Android. It does what the owner wanted it to do when they bought it.
--Jeremy
Opera Mini isn't a real web browser. Opera Mobile is. Good try though.
--Jeremy
You know what? It makes it more difficult to have a constructive conversation when you start out with an "I told you so" with no real substance.
I don't remember much coal raking for Bush or "nailing" of Palin other than that I remember that the incidents happened. There were basically no consequences to speak of, so I'm not sure how what they endured was oh-so-much worse than what Clinton did.
The thing is, though, I'd say that all of them are douchebags and should face/have faced criminal prosecution. However, we can't even get to the part where we agree because you've started out with an us-vs-them mentality and topped it off with some nice butthurt about the librul media conspiracy.
So, TL;DR in meme form: your whining is bad and you should feel bad, because we agree but you're a dick.
--Jeremy
Yes, and the term RINO doesn't exist.
--Jeremy
You capitalize atheist. You don't know what atheism is.
It can't be false in the way you imply, because it isn't *anything*. It is the name for the absence of something. It doesn't tell you to stay home on Sundays or to eat shellfish on Tuesdays. There's no sacred document telling its followers to murder non-believers or to sacrifice Twinkies to appease ... something.
There is no atheist philosophy. That doesn't even make sense. There are, however, philosophies written by atheists. Even if you considered every philosophy conceived by every atheist as a different sect of atheism, it wouldn't make sense, because they have (practically) no common tenets. It would be like calling Scientology, Abrahamic religions, and Buddhism all sects of ... we'll call it religulism. Or classifying humans and plankton as the same kind of thing, because at the broadest level, both can be described as an 'organism'.
It seems that you are so steeped in your own dogma that you apparently cannot understand what it means for someone else to be free of one.
--Jeremy
If he charged a non-insulting amount for them, I'd go to the movies more often and when I did, I'd buy snacks.
Instead, the he has driven me away with ridiculous prices for *everything* and an all-out advertising assault before the movie even starts and convinced me that watching a movie at home is the only way it'll be a pleasant experience.
--Jeremy
There's a big difference between building a patent arsenal -- which is what every tech company has been doing for decades now -- and unleashing your 'patent' arsenal in an offensive assault in an effort to keep competitors out of the market. It's especially egregious in Apple's case, as they have practically zero R&D to speak of.
--Jeremy
Slashdot is a news site only insofar as it links to sites that actually *do* report news. It has no (unless you count Ask Slashdot or random interviews) journalism output of its own. So you haven't really provided an example.
--Jeremy
Give it a rest. I like how we're in a discussion about how a PRIVATE BUSINESS is being unresponsive to the customer, and you manage to get an anti-government troll in there.
--Jeremy
Because the contraction for "would have" -- "would've" -- sounds a lot like "would of".
--Jeremy
*sigh*
Yet more job-killing technology. Congress should do everything it can to preserve the important jobs that chauffeurs perform.
--Jeremy
Big fuckin' deal. I've had an HD TV for nearly 10 years; HD is a nice bonus, but it doesn't make a bad movie good, and the lack of it doesn't make a good game bad.
--Jeremy
I understand this to mean "I value physical effort infinitely more than mental effort". If I hold the exact opposite definition, you wouldn't mind mind being my slave, would you? I promise you'll only be doing worthless physical labor...
I'm a programmer. I can only speak for myself, but value physical and mental effort roughly equally.
However, what in-app purchases I see on the app store disgust me. I'll use a recent example of a game I downloaded: it was a decent enough tower defense game -- one that I'd have paid a couple bucks for to compensate the developers. However, there is no paid version; the only method of compensation available is via in-app purchases, where you can buy virtual money to pay for upgrades. The lowest level purchase costs $2.99 and gets you enough money to pay for 1/2 of a level of an upgrade. There are literally hundreds of levels of upgrades. The highest level purchase is $29.99 and gets you enough for about 6 full levels.
Fuck that. That is absolutely insulting. To spend $30 and not be able to unlock pretty much everything is ridiculous -- and the game doesn't have nearly enough content to make it worthwhile to keep playing to try to max out the upgrades and see how high a score you can get; it "ends" with barely 20% of the stuff being unlocked. If there were simply a $3-$5 buy option, I'd have paid for it and wished the developers well; when they try to milk $30 purchases out of people by using a scoring system that requires a bunch of repetitive play just to have an option to even *get* the highest score, they can starve for all I care. If I'd cared enough, I'd have just written a trainer to go in and add as much cash as I wanted and then published it to the Play store as a special screw-you to the developers.
If your game requires upgrades to do well, you'd better damn well make sure that the upgrades happen as you work through the game. Games that reset to the beginning after every play have no business going with this model. I didn't have to play through Super Mario Brothers 1000 times just to unlock all the options to get a chance to get a high score, and the fact that people somehow think this is an acceptable way for a scoring system to work now (shit like Temple Run) is just sad to me.
--Jeremy
For a long time millions and millions of people who had no business buying a PC were buying them because of the Windows monopoly
How does this make any sense at all? People were buying PCs because they needed a PC; it had nothing to do with the Windows monopoly, unless you're one of those lusers who thinks that "PC" means "Windows".
Anyway, the writing has been on the wall for a while for the traditional PC industry; for the vast majority of people, their phones or a cheap tablet are all the computing power they'll ever need. My only concern with this is that traditional PC hardware currently enjoy economies of scale that could disappear if everyone moves to locked-down non-upgradeable tablet appliances.
--Jeremy
That second graph is quite possibly one of the most pointlessly misleading infographics I've ever seen. A simple line graph would have been much more informative -- the stacked bar graph was a terrible choice. Those graphs still just show profit margin though, and the ongoing 'war' isn't about profit margin at all.
That aside though: continue to bask in Apple's obscene profit margins like the sucker you are. I'll continue to enjoy good hardware at competitive prices from other manufacturers.
--Jeremy
Look up. That's thing you see flying over your head is the point of the GP post.
--Jeremy
Compared to most other sciences, climate and weather trends are *terribly* uncertain.
Uhh, bullshit? Climate science has predicted a rising temperature trend. We have had a rising temperature trend. It has predicted some consequences of higher temperatures. We have experienced some of those consequences of higher temperatures.
Charlie hits it on the head when he says "there are other reasons to do this; let's do it and quit with the doom and gloom FFS."
The doom and gloom is all coming from the naysayers who strawman everyone concerned about AGW as some sort of hysterical chicken little. AGW 'skeptics' also have plenty of their own doom and gloom predictions about how trying to do *anything* about AGW will wreck our economy (as if the economy is based on anything concrete anyway). Clean thine own house first and then maybe you can talk.
--Jeremy
So, presuming that you think it's not ok for the Hockey Stick dudes to do that (though you offer nothing but vague innuendo to support your implication), are you now defending your misinformation because "they did it too"?
--Jeremy
Close, but no cigar. The skeptics don't demand a continued rise in CO2, and you would likely be hard-pressed to find an AGW skeptic who believed that we should stop R&D toward the goal of reducing CO2 emissions. What the skeptics are saying is that the "OMG! OMG! CATASTROPHE! Divert all money into halting CO2 emissions NOW! (and keep giving us grants so we can continue to produce doomsday predictions) or we're all DOOMED!"
So what I read is, minus your ridiculous strawman caricature of them, you generally agree with the "warmists."
--Jeremy
The API is free. The service is not, if you're a high-volume user, and even then it's very cheap. Why the fuck would you expect the service to be free?
--Jeremy
Promise of "killer" opening price-point of $99.
This one I don't see as being as big of a warning sign.
No screen; there goes a huge chunk of the cost of a typical Android device. No battery, no cell radios. No cameras. I think it's actually completely feasible to get a decently-spec'd piece of hardware running Android out for at most somewhere in the $150-$200 range, and quite possibly even sub-$100. This is going to be basically a CPU/GPU wired up to bluetooth, wifi, storage, and AV out. You can already get things like that for really cheap.
I mean think about it -- the Wii shipped for $200ish in Japan and had far more custom hardware than this will have. That was 6 years ago.
--Jeremy
Patient?
He condemned humanity for *eternity* because they ate a fruit that they had no way of knowing was "bad" because he hadn't given them the knowledge of good and evil yet.
He sent bears to maul children for calling some dude bald.
He killed every living thing on the planet, except for what Noah was able to stuff on his ark. (and fish, presumably ... though one wonders how the saltwater fish survived the sudden decrease in salinity)
Patient. That's rich.
Anyway, Xenu makes even less sense, so at least you have that to hang your hat on.
--Jeremy
There are actually plenty of evangelical churches that consider the tithe to be mandatory for membership. A friend of mine was a pastor in one such (he's an atheist now).
He was probably an atheist while he was a pastor as well. Your parenthetical would probably more accurately be "(he's more ethical now)".
--Jeremy