I dunno, maybe it's all a charade. The good cop-bad cop system applied to OS releases.
One release sucks, but it does its job. (the real job of the OS release is to make stuff obsolete so that people buy new one, that's why vendors will ship with the new windows even if they rewrote it in COBOL). Also it's suckyness makes the round in the media who could have talked about more interesting things. The release after is just a polished up version that more or less works and people rave about it because it doesn't get in the way. Another round of media exposure. In the end nothing much changed but they did two releases instead of an update.
Back in the day it was payola to radio djs and buying back your own records in the stores.
Now it's scripted youtube visits.
Same tactics from the producers, but also same behavior from consumers who have to know if something is popular before adopting it. I suggest not looking at counters when choosing stuff for yourself.
Redmond, CEO office. Ballmer is practicing chair throwing against a human wall of Microsoft interns. Fling...... "OUCH! THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER ONE SIR!" Fling.....
A well dressed executive gets in, and says: "Your Sanctity, I have some bad news and some good news. We have a new vulnerability on IE" Ballmer mutters among himself: "Damn, with the undisclosed ones it's the fifth one today... and it's only 10 am..." The chairs get thrown with more energy. The human wall crumbles. Finally Ballmer adds: "And the good news are?" - "Well, it affects only IE on XP and below" - "No fucking problem, then! God, I have to give those russian hackers a medal. You know what? let's go have a drink. CHAMPAGNE!"
I forgot to comment on the yahweh ordered massacres.
The "no kill" and "no adultery" are in the same set of rules, which are reportedly the only ones coming directly from the God and that settles my point.
If you want to go OT and discuss the right of a God to tell you to not kill in general but orders you to kill in some occasions, simply accept that by being God he has that right, and that such thing poses no problems as long as you treat it as any other event. Let me explain.
From whose authority did the kill orders came? the God. From whose authority comes the thou shalt not kill? the God.
The first can override the other depending on circumstances. Like all orders can be overridden by the same authority who issues them in all societies and organizations.
At this moment, usually people go up in arms and say OH BUT THEN YOU CONDONE EVERY KIND OF MURDERING AS LONG AS THE PERPETRATOR THINKS HE IS WORKING FOR GOD YOU TERRORIST OH GOD OH GOD OH WAIT
Nope. A murderer is a murderer and must be treated as such no matter what, even by those who share his religion. And this is the MOST OBVIOUS reaction. To be left alone, in fact, a god driven murderer should
1- live in a theocracy. God may forgive you, still you have to give back to Caesar, there are human laws to obey. 2- Or, on trial be able to prove that: he received an unmistakable order from an entity and prove that entity as the only, all powerful, God of the Bible.
This is practically and theoretically impossible. Get a grip. You treat the murderer as murderer and if the same God who ordered you to kill wants to save you he will, in his own ways. Problem, atheists? Problem, believers?
The problem is when people think they do God's orders, or pretend they do God's orders. THEN, I agree, following blindly a religion becomes a problem. Of the follower, not of the religion itself. I can find mathematically sound excuses to shave off billions of people from this planet in the name of long term survivability. Is Math evil then? Athyisst pls.
> No, you're douching. We all have those imperatives
No way any human and animal societies could form if we had them, no matter if they originated instinctually or culturally. Maybe we disagree on the meaning of "imperative".
The downwards spiral comes when business people take over technical people in a company. Sometimes they are inside from the beginning. So a company does a downwards spiral till it becomes a corporation (yes I assume different parameters for success than the business people), gets bought or goes bankrupt. Let's all thank the credit dominated economy.
I think a notable exception was Apple, where Jobs did the business people part while being more attached to the company than these guys usually are.
If I criticize A I must take A for granted and look for inconsistencies. If I don't take A for granted I don't criticize it, I simply refuse it and don't need to justify my position until those who assert A come with proof.
You are asking me to consider "what if A is false/misreported"? then all considerations over A are irrelevant, why bother. I was asking you to take everything into account when looking for inconsistencies. Men who sacrifice themselves give up the most important thing they have, no doubt. But you still need to consider whom those lives come from, and that non-gods cannot tell what incarnation implied for a god. Then the assertion that one sacrifice is bigger than the other becomes very very thin.
LOL but rly, a bad nothingness (what are three days for the eternal guy?) for a transcendent guy spent to save some nothingness (as we are in comparison to the galaxy, never mind the universe, never mind the creation).
Do you thing a guy that sweats blood while in prayer before getting arrested is going to suffer death like a normal man or not? Because if you think it was just a show, get your different version of the gospel and let's discuss that one instead.
And what do people give up when they are killed? the remaining years between that moment and a certain death, in a life they owe to the creator. It's partially paying a debt, not giving up anything.
What does a god give up when he incarnates? Nothing but he gets the "inconvenience" of suffering like us, but it was a voluntary act, the god owes you nothing.
And it is stupid to draw the line here and discuss the balance between some years and some "inconvenience" because part of the religion is about reward. Personally I think the reward shouldn't even bother people because religion is about having a perspective and act accordingly. But it's part of the religion so you must also take into account that any sacrifice by men is going to be rewarded.
Free to believe that the reward, wait, the whole story, is a scam, NOT FREE to remove things from your considerations, if I claim Porsches are shitty cars, they make a terrible noise and barely make 50mph, maybe I should consider what a gearbox does, right?
GP might have subtly referenced the film, but he wrote Christians, so a hollywood flick defines Christians. That is trolling.
BTW I don`t care what is Art, show whatever you want on your site but first make sure the visitor, or the parent who is responsible for him, has an idea of what`s going to get.
Valid for Gibson, for this guy, for lemonparty-style trollsites, for the idiot who planted fake hung ppl on trees as a form of art. They get into trials for such actions? good.
That's the problem I see in science fiction. We see only one direction, technologic advancement. What if conscience is not really bound by space and time, and can "tune to" different places and different times? You don't need radio, nor space travel, to see what others are up to. And possibly our planet is as interesting for the rest of the universe as an ant colony in patagonia is for the average slashdotter.
The joke is racist and ignorant, but a system where jokes are considered for censorship is fascist and I'm not going to submit to this politically correct stuff. Today racism, tomorrow political opinions, the day after tomorrow The Truth.
You didn't like the joke, mod it down all the way, or come up with your own deplorable jokes, that's Freedom and I respect that.
Nobody said that Nokia was in perfect shape before hiring Elop. I'd say that hiring him and not dumping it pronto after an ex microsoft employee proposes a microsoft centric strategy defines perfectly the sorry state of Nokia.
They had the first real smartphones (after owning some android 4 and trying mtp and ftp to shuttle files around, I'd say the only real smartphones) and they were the best hardware manufacturers. If they screwed up there are two possible reasons:
1- their board was made of fools (I never believe in incompetence at those levels) 2- the financial/banking/media system which de facto owns all corporations didn't like nokia empowerment of individuals (AN OPEN NETWORKABLE DEVICE IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND???) and they put them in line. Now that they sell toys like everybody else they might even see some resurgence, but my bet is they will get bought by MS.
In 2012 my linux desktop systems never went above 30 gig, excluding data (/home). And a live system is chock full of apps in 2-4 gb. So these drives make plenty of sense. I wouldn't even use them for data which gets rewritten a lot.
The problem from my POV is that ok, people will get used to win8, and then? Then they are cripples whenever they have to work on past desktops. Or alternative desktops.
And when it will be over? next year microsoft execs decide that some other UI changes will help differentiating their system from the competition, preventing os switching, and implement those. And people will bitch and submit again.
BTW I think Canonical wanted to do something similar with their own DE, but you see it's quite a different matter when you have free software. And God bless the gazillion distros. If we had only a couple all the energy would be spent discussing instead of implementing stuff.
Robby the robot briefly interrupted his oiljob, clicked for a while, and finally said: "Mr. Ray, while you pursuit your vision, beware of the monsters from the Id."
The Singularity is a great idea, but you know, The Internet was a great idea too, and look what's it's turning into. The problem is not how cool is the tech, it is who controls it de facto.
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno, maybe it's all a charade. The good cop-bad cop system applied to OS releases.
One release sucks, but it does its job. (the real job of the OS release is to make stuff obsolete so that people buy new one, that's why vendors will ship with the new windows even if they rewrote it in COBOL). Also it's suckyness makes the round in the media who could have talked about more interesting things.
The release after is just a polished up version that more or less works and people rave about it because it doesn't get in the way. Another round of media exposure.
In the end nothing much changed but they did two releases instead of an update.
Back in the day it was payola to radio djs and buying back your own records in the stores.
Now it's scripted youtube visits.
Same tactics from the producers, but also same behavior from consumers who have to know if something is popular before adopting it.
I suggest not looking at counters when choosing stuff for yourself.
True, but still the conclusions of the article are wrong. If A is to blame, then removing A is the solution. Imagine two thieves:
- "Look at the newspaper, they banned iPhones and iPads!!!"
- "Damn, we can't steal anymore!!! Well, I'm gonna become a truck driver."
If it's not iPhones, it's the next profitable thing.
Nothing wrong happened.
Redmond, CEO office. Ballmer is practicing chair throwing against a human wall of Microsoft interns.
Fling......
"OUCH! THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER ONE SIR!"
Fling.....
A well dressed executive gets in, and says: "Your Sanctity, I have some bad news and some good news. We have a new vulnerability on IE"
Ballmer mutters among himself: "Damn, with the undisclosed ones it's the fifth one today... and it's only 10 am..."
The chairs get thrown with more energy. The human wall crumbles.
Finally Ballmer adds: "And the good news are?"
- "Well, it affects only IE on XP and below"
- "No fucking problem, then! God, I have to give those russian hackers a medal. You know what? let's go have a drink. CHAMPAGNE!"
I forgot to comment on the yahweh ordered massacres.
The "no kill" and "no adultery" are in the same set of rules, which are reportedly the only ones coming directly from the God and that settles my point.
If you want to go OT and discuss the right of a God to tell you to not kill in general but orders you to kill in some occasions, simply accept that by being God he has that right, and that such thing poses no problems as long as you treat it as any other event. Let me explain.
From whose authority did the kill orders came? the God.
From whose authority comes the thou shalt not kill? the God.
The first can override the other depending on circumstances. Like all orders can be overridden by the same authority who issues them in all societies and organizations.
At this moment, usually people go up in arms and say OH BUT THEN YOU CONDONE EVERY KIND OF MURDERING AS LONG AS THE PERPETRATOR THINKS HE IS WORKING FOR GOD YOU TERRORIST OH GOD OH GOD OH WAIT
Nope. A murderer is a murderer and must be treated as such no matter what, even by those who share his religion. And this is the MOST OBVIOUS reaction.
To be left alone, in fact, a god driven murderer should
1- live in a theocracy. God may forgive you, still you have to give back to Caesar, there are human laws to obey.
2- Or, on trial be able to prove that: he received an unmistakable order from an entity and prove that entity as the only, all powerful, God of the Bible.
This is practically and theoretically impossible. Get a grip.
You treat the murderer as murderer and if the same God who ordered you to kill wants to save you he will, in his own ways. Problem, atheists? Problem, believers?
The problem is when people think they do God's orders, or pretend they do God's orders. THEN, I agree, following blindly a religion becomes a problem. Of the follower, not of the religion itself. I can find mathematically sound excuses to shave off billions of people from this planet in the name of long term survivability. Is Math evil then? Athyisst pls.
> No, you're douching. We all have those imperatives
No way any human and animal societies could form if we had them, no matter if they originated instinctually or culturally. Maybe we disagree on the meaning of "imperative".
The downwards spiral comes when business people take over technical people in a company. Sometimes they are inside from the beginning. So a company does a downwards spiral till it becomes a corporation (yes I assume different parameters for success than the business people), gets bought or goes bankrupt. Let's all thank the credit dominated economy.
I think a notable exception was Apple, where Jobs did the business people part while being more attached to the company than these guys usually are.
Nice to know you have the "biological imperative" to kill steal and go with someone other's wife... but I am digressing.
The problem is that killing is frowned upon by the same religion, so I don't see how showing a gun can be tolerated more than showing a penis.
"The gun is good the penis is bad" is another religion.
If I criticize A I must take A for granted and look for inconsistencies.
If I don't take A for granted I don't criticize it, I simply refuse it and don't need to justify my position until those who assert A come with proof.
You are asking me to consider "what if A is false/misreported"? then all considerations over A are irrelevant, why bother.
I was asking you to take everything into account when looking for inconsistencies.
Men who sacrifice themselves give up the most important thing they have, no doubt. But you still need to consider whom those lives come from, and that non-gods cannot tell what incarnation implied for a god. Then the assertion that one sacrifice is bigger than the other becomes very very thin.
Far more, I don't think so. If they are, that's irrelevant. The guy had to defeat death and let us (theologically speaking) choose how.
LOL but rly, a bad nothingness (what are three days for the eternal guy?) for a transcendent guy spent to save some nothingness (as we are in comparison to the galaxy, never mind the universe, never mind the creation).
Quantification is impossible.
Do you thing a guy that sweats blood while in prayer before getting arrested is going to suffer death like a normal man or not? Because if you think it was just a show, get your different version of the gospel and let's discuss that one instead.
And what do people give up when they are killed? the remaining years between that moment and a certain death, in a life they owe to the creator. It's partially paying a debt, not giving up anything.
What does a god give up when he incarnates? Nothing but he gets the "inconvenience" of suffering like us, but it was a voluntary act, the god owes you nothing.
And it is stupid to draw the line here and discuss the balance between some years and some "inconvenience" because part of the religion is about reward. Personally I think the reward shouldn't even bother people because religion is about having a perspective and act accordingly. But it's part of the religion so you must also take into account that any sacrifice by men is going to be rewarded.
Free to believe that the reward, wait, the whole story, is a scam, NOT FREE to remove things from your considerations, if I claim Porsches are shitty cars, they make a terrible noise and barely make 50mph, maybe I should consider what a gearbox does, right?
GP might have subtly referenced the film, but he wrote Christians, so a hollywood flick defines Christians. That is trolling.
BTW I don`t care what is Art, show whatever you want on your site but first make sure the visitor, or the parent who is responsible for him, has an idea of what`s going to get.
Valid for Gibson, for this guy, for lemonparty-style trollsites, for the idiot who planted fake hung ppl on trees as a form of art.
They get into trials for such actions? good.
>My setup is the following: win...
first mistake? ;)
That's the problem I see in science fiction. We see only one direction, technologic advancement. What if conscience is not really bound by space and time, and can "tune to" different places and different times? You don't need radio, nor space travel, to see what others are up to. And possibly our planet is as interesting for the rest of the universe as an ant colony in patagonia is for the average slashdotter.
The joke is racist and ignorant, but a system where jokes are considered for censorship is fascist and I'm not going to submit to this politically correct stuff. Today racism, tomorrow political opinions, the day after tomorrow The Truth.
You didn't like the joke, mod it down all the way, or come up with your own deplorable jokes, that's Freedom and I respect that.
Nobody said that Nokia was in perfect shape before hiring Elop.
I'd say that hiring him and not dumping it pronto after an ex microsoft employee proposes a microsoft centric strategy defines perfectly the sorry state of Nokia.
They had the first real smartphones (after owning some android 4 and trying mtp and ftp to shuttle files around, I'd say the only real smartphones) and they were the best hardware manufacturers. If they screwed up there are two possible reasons:
1- their board was made of fools (I never believe in incompetence at those levels)
2- the financial/banking/media system which de facto owns all corporations didn't like nokia empowerment of individuals (AN OPEN NETWORKABLE DEVICE IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND???) and they put them in line. Now that they sell toys like everybody else they might even see some resurgence, but my bet is they will get bought by MS.
If the Vatican has probs with Catholic Cinese, they still can reserve .cathoric
*ducks*
>> Chuck Norris doesn't evolve.
> He doesn't need to - ecosystems adapt to him
Oh wait... then the problem arised in Soviet Russia!
I thought those pic were leaked on purpose by the VIP public relations, to keep the names floating around in the media.
But maybe this is part of the game :)
In 2012 my linux desktop systems never went above 30 gig, excluding data (/home). And a live system is chock full of apps in 2-4 gb.
So these drives make plenty of sense. I wouldn't even use them for data which gets rewritten a lot.
You're right. Chuck Norris doesn't evolve.
The implications for Darwinists are serious.
> The headline made me think that this guy somehow had it narrowed down to one actual organism.
That is difficult to envision, Chuck Norris was born so much later.
The problem from my POV is that ok, people will get used to win8, and then? Then they are cripples whenever they have to work on past desktops. Or alternative desktops.
And when it will be over? next year microsoft execs decide that some other UI changes will help differentiating their system from the competition, preventing os switching, and implement those.
And people will bitch and submit again.
BTW I think Canonical wanted to do something similar with their own DE, but you see it's quite a different matter when you have free software. And God bless the gazillion distros. If we had only a couple all the energy would be spent discussing instead of implementing stuff.
Robby the robot briefly interrupted his oiljob, clicked for a while, and finally said: "Mr. Ray, while you pursuit your vision, beware of the monsters from the Id."
The Singularity is a great idea, but you know, The Internet was a great idea too, and look what's it's turning into. The problem is not how cool is the tech, it is who controls it de facto.