'Anything as long as there is no "deity" that knows more than they do or usurps their power?'
Interesting, you view the very concept of god to be an challenge to your ego. What power is it that you are referring to? Do you fear god having power over you? Are you afraid of not being in control of your own destiny?
'"God" obviously does that so lets just kill God!'
Such hostility you show towards something you claim to not exist. Is this you speaking or a Demon that has possessed you? Demon, what is your name? It's so sad to see you in so much pain and anguish.
'We are hardwired to kill, maim, destroy, be selfish...'
That is what original sin causes you to believe about yourself. You are buying into the lies of the father of lies.
You should read over those words you wrote and ask yourself if those are really words you would write about yourself and humanity. Don't let the bastards win. Reclaim your birth right.
You are who you are based on the total sum of your experiences. Somewhere along the line, you met up with some people who you allowed to take away your innocence and sense of wonder. What caused this fall? Was it pride? Did you find the concept of a loving God that was looking out for you offensive? Were you so full of pride of your own abilities that you believed that you could go out on your own without God in your life? Maybe your life is going so well that you do not see the need for god? Not that I would wish anything bad on anyone but sometimes an easy life can be a curse leading to pride, haughtiness and complacency. Sometimes a proud man has to hit rock bottom before they are able to re-examine their life and values to realize that they are not god themselves and they are not capable of doing anything and everything themselves.
Actually, I think you will find that children who are brought up in atheist homes are brainwashed into giving up their belief in the supernatural that everyone is born with. Children are born loving all things, trusting all things and enduring all things. It is the world that screws everyone up and takes away our innocence, hope and love.
You, as a cynical adult have forgotten what you were like when you were a child.
Where do you get your facts from? A box full of candy coated snacks with "cracker jacks" written on it?
Even this source: http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.ht ml
Does not support your claims. You also are generalizing about Buddhism. There are several branches of Buddhism and not all of them adhere to the belief in no gods.
This is another case of someone assuming USA+Europe=whole world. Europe is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. They had their chance and they blew it. One theory is centuries of xenophobia and inbreeding has lead to this change while North America is a big melting pot of ethnic groups combining in an infinite number of combinations.
You could say that Atheism is the result of genetic damage caused by a lack of genetic diversity.
We will continue to thrive and grow over here with interracial marriages while the old world will crumble and collapse it on itself fuelled by ignorance and intolerance. Speaking as a first generation immigrant from Europe to Canada, I'm glad m family left that sinking ship in time.
God put it there. This, ladies and gentlemen is the makers mark or fingerprint of God that all you atheists have been searching for to "proof" that God created us. It has been there all along in plain view.
I'm sure someone will come up with a convoluted theory requiring a number of implausible conditions or variables leading up to this phenomenon that would not require God at all but [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor]Oc cam's razor[/URL] would tell us that: "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.". Note that nowhere in that does it say that God cannot be a variable. I would argue that saying that this phenomenon is the result of God's work is a far simpler and plausible explanation than anything any of you could come up with.
I can just see the atheists twitching at this very moment with huffing and puffing at a complete loss for words.
Here we have a perfect example of an atheist who thinks they are God. Atheists do not want to believe in a personal god because they are suffering from the delusion that they are in fact god themselves. Why else would this man choose a name of God as his slashdot username? Obviously, this illustrates how all atheists are suffering from a serious mental illness and why they feel so uncomfortable at the very mention of god. It is an affront to their ego that a supernatural being outside themselves would have ultimate control over the passage of events in our universe or that they could be held accountable to God for their actions.
I rest my case.
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What new games? Given all the driver and compatibility issues, do you really think companies are going to release DirectX 10 only games any time soon? I think not.
What is in it for Apple? Apple makes money on the iPod hardware but they do not make any money on the DRM. Assuming that they were able to charge a reasonable amount for licensing the technology to other stores, how could you be sure that their costs for maintaining not only their store but the licensees would be less than the license fees?
Apple already has the lionshare of the download market so they are already in a good position to negotiate.
See above. The media companies want to dilute the bargaining power Apple currently yields.
The music execs are not concerned for the welfare of consumers. They are worried about the power Jobs has to negotiate and prevent things like hiked prices and erosion of end user rights.
Do they want me to stop buying music? If I am going to be charged for buying a new iPod, I should be able to download at least as much music as it costs for the fee right? If they are going to accuse people of being thieves, then I suppose they have no choice but to stop buying music completely and just pirate it. Way to go CRIAA. Have fun with bankruptcy.
DRM costs Apple money to implement and update whenever it is cracked. Apple has make their best effort to update the DRM scheme because it is part of their contract with the labels. Apple would save money if they did not have to use DRM and they would not have to update iTunes so often. It is often forgotten that many iPods were purchased long before iTMS was available in a particular market. Many also forget that many people own iPod but purchase little or no music from iTMS.
MSFT earns revenue from DRM through licensing fees and royalties from Playsforsure device manufacturers and music stores. MSFT has also implemented the Protected Media Path within Vista which will disable or degrade the performance of hardware which does not implement features to enforce DRM protections.
The WMA DRM has the added benefit of a platform lock in for the windows OS.
Many of us bought their first iPod long before iTMS came out let alone available the the country we live in. Canada did not get iTMS until December of 2004. I had bought a 2nd generation iPod in 2002. How did I manage to get music? I bought CD's and tried out eMusic for a bit.
I see that TPM has been mentioned. While my MBP has a TPM module, there are no drivers for it and the updated MBPs do not come with TPM.
Consider this, DRM costs Apple money to implement and update whenever someone cracks it. They are under contract to update it whenever it is bypassed. The DRM is added by iTunes once the download is complete because the RIAA demanded it.
Now consider why MSFT loves DRM and has implemented it deep within the OS to the point of disabling hardware functionality with the protected media path. MSFT makes money on DRM through licensing fees and it also enforces lock in for the windows OS.
I've been saying so for years now. Apple gets away with stuff that almost got M$ broken up a few years back.
+ They make products on their OS that uses private frameworks. LOTS of them. Even worse, they have the "strategic" bits in the OS so they get debugged by unsuspecting nice third party developers, then hammer them with "the" product. Look "core image" and then, some time later... "aperture". All the "Pro" Apple apps share UI look and feel that is not available to anyone else. It's nice, sleek and fast. Seen it anywhere in a third party app ?
I know you are trolling but where do you think Core Video and Image came from? It was part of Motion and they demoed those two frameworks to developers even before Motion hit the shelves. Core Animation is probably also based on things they were working on in house.
So let's see. Apple has released Core Audio, Core Data, Core Image, Core Video and Core Animation to third-party developers in the time that MSFT has released what exactly to developers to use? Got any examples? As for third party apps using Core frameworks, name any audio application ands it is using Core Audio. Use google and find out for yourself if you are not trolling. Don't be lazy.
+ Their Cocoa framework (despite the huge amount of fanboy noise) is not scaleable to a "proper" application size. STOP if you are a fanboy and think : is there any BIG application made in Cocoa today ? I mean, a BIG app ? Safari isn't even in cocoa apart from the face. The core is C++, and this is a perfect demonstration of the lack of scalability of the "developer favorite". It's just a framework to make toys and the odd utility.
Tell that to all the developers using them to create OS X specific apps.
I've been saying for years that apple no longer need third party developers. The WWDC is just a marketing "show" for steve to make a keynote (one more) and the technologies are getting down to the level of complete gadgets. Better set all those OS X developers making plenty of money straight then.
Yeah I know, I've got the bulletproof shorts on, so fire away... I won't read:D Ok, so you are admitting that you are trolling then? http://guide.apple.com/universal/
Look at the landscape of the marketplace before iTMS came on the scene. There were windows only services that were focused on subscription sales and some sales of songs but the rights granted to the purchaser varied from song to song. Some songs could be burned to the CD once, others a few more times while others not at all. Some songs could be synced to music players while others could not. It was flexible from the perspective of labels but not very consumer friendly or consistent.
Enter iTMS, Apple insisted that labels provide universal rights to all songs sold on iTMS. This meant that all songs had unlimited burns available, all songs could be transfered to the iPod and all songs could be streamed.
Apple achieved such widespread and consistent rights because of Apple controlled the entire stack and it was only available on the mac in the beginning. It was an experiment to see if that approach could work. Once iTMS had proven itself, Apple bargained hard to ensure that windows users could get the same rights in the windows version of iTunes.
Apple's entry into the windows marketplace forced competitors to bargain hard for similar universal rights for their customers as well. It was a big win for windows consumers on the other services.
I do not believe that Apple would be able to maintain that level of leverage against the labels if they licensed the DRM system to other stores.
Does he not know what an elevator pitch is?
If you can not say what is good about something in 30 seconds, then maybe it ain't as good as you think? I don't think he does. The guy is out of touch with the real world. He has been so isolated from real people with real problems that he is oblivious to the fact that there are a lot of people struggling with Windows every day.
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Apple UK ads say there isnt any spyware... Yes there is and there are programs to deal with them such as intego's internet barrier, smithmicro's internet cleanup and securemac's MacScan antispyware..... Apple should face reality. they do the security updates... Do you work for Intego? A while back Intego tried spreading FUD like you are spreading in an effort to get more people to buy their software. Are you aware that what they call spyware may be cookies that track you from site to site? It is not actually spyware but stupid people fall for the FUD all the time.
There are also some virus checkers on OS X as well. Does that mean you think there are viruses too? Virus checkers on OS X exist to filter out windows viruses from being spread by shared documents.
Listen pal. You are judging people for trying to put food on the table and get ahead in life. Do you work for money? Are you a sell out? What give you the right to judge other people differently than you would be judged just because they are in the entertainment business? Did you notice the world "business" at the end of it? None of these people you put on a pedestal are in it just to provide you with joy and happiness. They are also there to make a living while doing something they enjoy.
How much does a dinner with drinks, cab fare, club cover charges and drinks cost where you live? When I was a heavy party guy in my mid-20's, I'd sometimes use up a couple hundred bucks in a weekend. If drinks are involved, a cab is pretty much a must.
That might seem like a lot but the cost of living is pretty high here on the west coast. Having said that, I don't go out for drinks often these days.
One of my secrets is that I don't own or use a car. Having a decent wage in IT without a car leaves me with a lot of spare cash. Cars a money pits that will suck your last penny if given the chance. Public transit is perfectly acceptable for getting to work and cabs are fine for getting to places when public transit is not an option or desirable.
If you are making a decent wage but own a car, get rid of it and if you smoke, quit. You will be surprised how much money you have then. Too often, I see people making plenty of money complaining about a lack of money.
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Interesting, you view the very concept of god to be an challenge to your ego. What power is it that you are referring to? Do you fear god having power over you? Are you afraid of not being in control of your own destiny?
'"God" obviously does that so lets just kill God!'
Such hostility you show towards something you claim to not exist. Is this you speaking or a Demon that has possessed you? Demon, what is your name? It's so sad to see you in so much pain and anguish.
'We are hardwired to kill, maim, destroy, be selfish...'
That is what original sin causes you to believe about yourself. You are buying into the lies of the father of lies. You should read over those words you wrote and ask yourself if those are really words you would write about yourself and humanity. Don't let the bastards win. Reclaim your birth right.
Hardwired or not, you still have free will.
You, as a cynical adult have forgotten what you were like when you were a child.
How about they work on curing assholes first?
Even this source:t ml
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.h
Does not support your claims. You also are generalizing about Buddhism. There are several branches of Buddhism and not all of them adhere to the belief in no gods.
You could say that Atheism is the result of genetic damage caused by a lack of genetic diversity.
We will continue to thrive and grow over here with interracial marriages while the old world will crumble and collapse it on itself fuelled by ignorance and intolerance. Speaking as a first generation immigrant from Europe to Canada, I'm glad m family left that sinking ship in time.
Freud also rambled at length about incest. I would hardly consider him to be a reputable source of anything.
I'm sure someone will come up with a convoluted theory requiring a number of implausible conditions or variables leading up to this phenomenon that would not require God at all but [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_Razor]Oc cam's razor[/URL] would tell us that: "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.". Note that nowhere in that does it say that God cannot be a variable. I would argue that saying that this phenomenon is the result of God's work is a far simpler and plausible explanation than anything any of you could come up with.
I can just see the atheists twitching at this very moment with huffing and puffing at a complete loss for words.
I rest my case.
What new games? Given all the driver and compatibility issues, do you really think companies are going to release DirectX 10 only games any time soon? I think not.
Apple already has the lionshare of the download market so they are already in a good position to negotiate.
See above. The media companies want to dilute the bargaining power Apple currently yields.
The music execs are not concerned for the welfare of consumers. They are worried about the power Jobs has to negotiate and prevent things like hiked prices and erosion of end user rights.
How often do you swap ram? I think this is a moot point.
Everything is proceeding just as I've foreseen. - The Emperor
Do they want me to stop buying music? If I am going to be charged for buying a new iPod, I should be able to download at least as much music as it costs for the fee right? If they are going to accuse people of being thieves, then I suppose they have no choice but to stop buying music completely and just pirate it. Way to go CRIAA. Have fun with bankruptcy.
MSFT earns revenue from DRM through licensing fees and royalties from Playsforsure device manufacturers and music stores. MSFT has also implemented the Protected Media Path within Vista which will disable or degrade the performance of hardware which does not implement features to enforce DRM protections.
The WMA DRM has the added benefit of a platform lock in for the windows OS.
I see that TPM has been mentioned. While my MBP has a TPM module, there are no drivers for it and the updated MBPs do not come with TPM.
Consider this, DRM costs Apple money to implement and update whenever someone cracks it. They are under contract to update it whenever it is bypassed. The DRM is added by iTunes once the download is complete because the RIAA demanded it.
Now consider why MSFT loves DRM and has implemented it deep within the OS to the point of disabling hardware functionality with the protected media path. MSFT makes money on DRM through licensing fees and it also enforces lock in for the windows OS.
+ They make products on their OS that uses private frameworks. LOTS of them. Even worse, they have the "strategic" bits in the OS so they get debugged by unsuspecting nice third party developers, then hammer them with "the" product. Look "core image" and then, some time later... "aperture". All the "Pro" Apple apps share UI look and feel that is not available to anyone else. It's nice, sleek and fast. Seen it anywhere in a third party app ?
I know you are trolling but where do you think Core Video and Image came from? It was part of Motion and they demoed those two frameworks to developers even before Motion hit the shelves. Core Animation is probably also based on things they were working on in house.
So let's see. Apple has released Core Audio, Core Data, Core Image, Core Video and Core Animation to third-party developers in the time that MSFT has released what exactly to developers to use? Got any examples? As for third party apps using Core frameworks, name any audio application ands it is using Core Audio. Use google and find out for yourself if you are not trolling. Don't be lazy.
+ Their Cocoa framework (despite the huge amount of fanboy noise) is not scaleable to a "proper" application size. STOP if you are a fanboy and think : is there any BIG application made in Cocoa today ? I mean, a BIG app ? Safari isn't even in cocoa apart from the face. The core is C++, and this is a perfect demonstration of the lack of scalability of the "developer favorite". It's just a framework to make toys and the odd utility.Tell that to all the developers using them to create OS X specific apps. I've been saying for years that apple no longer need third party developers. The WWDC is just a marketing "show" for steve to make a keynote (one more) and the technologies are getting down to the level of complete gadgets.
Better set all those OS X developers making plenty of money straight then. Yeah I know, I've got the bulletproof shorts on, so fire away... I won't read
http://guide.apple.com/universal/
Enter iTMS, Apple insisted that labels provide universal rights to all songs sold on iTMS. This meant that all songs had unlimited burns available, all songs could be transfered to the iPod and all songs could be streamed.
Apple achieved such widespread and consistent rights because of Apple controlled the entire stack and it was only available on the mac in the beginning. It was an experiment to see if that approach could work. Once iTMS had proven itself, Apple bargained hard to ensure that windows users could get the same rights in the windows version of iTunes.
Apple's entry into the windows marketplace forced competitors to bargain hard for similar universal rights for their customers as well. It was a big win for windows consumers on the other services.
I do not believe that Apple would be able to maintain that level of leverage against the labels if they licensed the DRM system to other stores.
If you can not say what is good about something in 30 seconds, then maybe it ain't as good as you think?
I don't think he does. The guy is out of touch with the real world. He has been so isolated from real people with real problems that he is oblivious to the fact that there are a lot of people struggling with Windows every day.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/itunesrepai rtoolforvista10.html
There are also some virus checkers on OS X as well. Does that mean you think there are viruses too? Virus checkers on OS X exist to filter out windows viruses from being spread by shared documents.
Listen pal. You are judging people for trying to put food on the table and get ahead in life. Do you work for money? Are you a sell out? What give you the right to judge other people differently than you would be judged just because they are in the entertainment business? Did you notice the world "business" at the end of it? None of these people you put on a pedestal are in it just to provide you with joy and happiness. They are also there to make a living while doing something they enjoy.
Yes they are. Unfunny, tedious, awful. Well then you should get along famously then because that is exactly what you are.
That might seem like a lot but the cost of living is pretty high here on the west coast. Having said that, I don't go out for drinks often these days.
One of my secrets is that I don't own or use a car. Having a decent wage in IT without a car leaves me with a lot of spare cash. Cars a money pits that will suck your last penny if given the chance. Public transit is perfectly acceptable for getting to work and cabs are fine for getting to places when public transit is not an option or desirable.
If you are making a decent wage but own a car, get rid of it and if you smoke, quit. You will be surprised how much money you have then. Too often, I see people making plenty of money complaining about a lack of money.