And one of the teams in Lunar X Prize plans to use it, I believe. It even seems like a dedicated amateur team might ease their way into space that way, too (at least if by "space" we mean strictly "just a bit above 100km", suborbital flight)
...a single manufacturer rules, producing a few nearly perfect products in a graceful, gradual schedule.
Nintendo handhelds?;)
After having used both the Apple SDK and the Android SDK pretty extensively, you can see why Android will win in the marketplace, and win so quickly. Never has there been such a beautifully organized, transparent, open, easy zero-to-development experience.
And BTW, Symbian (well, also MeeGo) will probably give plenty of that once totally moved to Qt, which is kinda...cute. Can be used with them already. Especially considering that for all practical purposes, Symbian has won the sales already - while its half of smartphone market is still less than 20% of total Nokia sales (that is still a bit higher proportion than the average of the market), so with Symbian supplanting more and more of S40 range...
That said, yeah, Android has surely a bright future. Also bada OS, with the goal of quickly finding its way on large proportion of Samsung phones (21% of total market)
While I sympathize with what your post meant to convey, the key data that you mention are not exactly accurate...
First "marketshare doubling every quarter" naturally can't last;)...plus "2nd place" only when looking at sales in one, rather small market and a bit ill-defined category of "smartphones".
But most importantly, when it comes to "Every major cellphone maker standardizing on the platform" - no. Just no. Nokia won't do it. Samsung - not quite (yes, they might have few now and then; but their bada OS is what Samsung bets on). LG and SE also aren't exactly dedicated (while having some Android devices, they use also other smartphone OSes; and ship much more of those). Above are the 4 largest manufacturers, with 73% of mobile phones sold worldwide (N 37%, S 21%, LG 11%, SE 5%). The biggest one standardizing on Android, Motorola, has just 5%.
Thing is...in the place where this particular event took place, they're not exactly isolated. In around 2 or 3 weeks, few major streets in every city will be blocked, mobile loudspeakers spewing their bs (the ones typically attached near the entry of churches are almost always on during mass BTW, even if hardly anybody attends...why? And bells are really bells here, not some puny little...thing), public transport disrupted, walking outside the flow blocking those streets (or...not showing proper "respect") quite risky, tons of dead, slippery (fresh petals) plant matter on streets impacting traction, dozens young birch-trees destroyed (per parish; and yes, there is much more of those than you can imagine - one per 3600 people in a 38 million country the size of many smallish US states), priests very openly drinking alcohol in public places (which is theoretically forbidden); and all of this, for added fun, concieved really as an alternative / continuation of an old...pagan festival!
Plus generally summer season, with pilgrimadges blocking "secondary" (still rather important, but not that crucial) roadways; speakers carried on backs of some dude, spewing bs and out of tune singing of some priest (yes, they seem to almost never carry the speaker, they use microphone on an extension cord!). Hm, what kind of stereotype about deeply faithfull people that might be confirming, if they haven't figured out that there are many better roads available?... (the ones without scorching asphalt & traffic)
I keep waiting for Android actually proving itself in "can run cheap devices"; so far...pretty much nothing. Not in comparison to Symbian, which certainly have shown it can run on cheap (but still very durable) hardware; with cheapest Symbian phones not much more expensive than 100 bucks now...without contract. Seems to be working, with half of all smartphone sales... (and that is still less than 20% of what Nokia sells; there's plenty of room for new users) With UI built around Qt, it should be rather nice, too (also for devs)
Seriously, look up original, non-beautified descriptions of heaven. It's in the Bible... They are, essentially, about a Borg collective.
And "oh, they might have been wrong" is an invalid argument - if established part of given mythology, about such important (don't pretend it's not, it's what in large part keeps people with religion) issue were to be wrong...then why do you follow other tennets of such faith, given by the same people, from the same (primitive) period?
Oh, I'm sorry, somebody for whom EN is his 3rd language got this one thing wrong, irrelevant to the point being made...while simply using quite direct equivalent of one common term from my place (90+% Catholic): "Jesus from / of Nazareth"
Hey, I don't know your market all that well. But let me put it this way - the offer I mentioned is the best one here. I could just as easily (however little sense this would have) get one comparable to the "old rate" that I also mentioned; and people here...do use those, too.
Couple that with people on/. mentioning sometimes some reasonably decent US MVNO (that might be one keyword...there's even a list on Wiki), and it's quite likely you can get some much more decent deals.
Is it meaningless? Perhaps, perhaps not. The idea that we should *not* attempt to better people's situations seems to be a...not commonly held ideal.
See, you're just providing an argument why it's meanigless. Sure, we do have a morality of which "making situation of people better" is an important part (China, for example) But you established previously that the "modern concept of heaven" doesn't include that. It's merely everybody gets the heaven they wish for (which somehow fits with general wishful thinking of religions; and how their concepts were washed out over the ages due to greater understanding of reality)
"God is inherent in all things" is similarly meaningless. Somehow "hell"/"heaven" (since the distinction is meaningless already...) is now beyond "all things"? No, you've been just tricked by some social construct into thinking that you desperately need something which...(surprise!) this very same construct provides. The Church demonstrably does such things - it developing places it promotes sexual or, more generally, sexual practices which are harmful to the society...but which benefit the Church. It's like a complex gov beaurocracy set up to deal with certain problem - it has no motivation to fully eradicate the problem which assures its existence.
And that gods are not beings of meat, as we are (nice that you're almost, unitentionally admitting that we're just meat)...was the point! Meat certainly doesn't define us with "in his image", it must about...mind. And gods were quite clearly defined for a long, long time; don't kid yourself they weren't. Also Abrahamic one (where are the miracles today?!). It's just that views defining them more clearly were less competitive, with less possibility of hatching onto human societies with all the progress happening around.
It's not difficulty of reconciling omniscience (in loving god) with free will, it's an impossibility (yes, yes, "not an impossibility to gods..."; another meaningless thing, and not strictly true). By saying "for God, the cookies already exist within the world" you absolve him of any responsibility...while he has, according to mythology, the absolute one! And, funnily enough, you hint at one possible coherent explanation - that we're simply an ant farm of an amoral kid who has a bit too much power.
PS. And as for the last part - sure, the ways by which Jesus from Nazaret lived are most likely (who knows how much whitewashing there was) decently fine even in our times (though - "don't judge"?! Who are you are kidding?...). But here's the problem - demonstrably, Christians (and other religions) are less likely to follow them. Just look at the top countries in any "nice" societal factors - high human development, low crime rates, low corruption, and so on. Notice their typical levels of secularism. Now look at the same factors in the most religious countries.
Any organization that makes its living deliberately promoting delusion and superstition is not worthy of any respect of any type.
...an organisation which claims divine blessing and moral authority; but demonstrably that didn't help even its "elite" to be more virtuos. Oh well, organisational system of reinforcing the belief that the group is somehow more virtuos is easier than actually being more virtuos.
Most likely not in this case, no. But they do believe that performing rituals can "ease the suffering" of souls in purgatory (strangely, they seem to assume that almost everybody goes there; and nobody to hell...)
Yes, they got this thing cleared...quite a bit after the fact. Some other major ones quite a bit sooner, I will admit. But some other - heck, why do they promote spread of HIV, for starters? Why do they promote customs which, in so called "developing world", work nicely towards retarding societal improvement?
That shouldn't be expected from an organisation which claims divine unction and insight...
Interestingly, those who are unwilling to accept God will thus be exactly where they wanted to be. A place without God.
Or, putting it another way, everybody gets the heaven they wish for (faithfull wishing in practise for Borg collective, if early descriptions are to be believed...). Which is quite meaningless.
The only reason Hell is considered terrible is that we, as humans, are said to constantly be in the presence of God as we live.
The only reason hell (also in the sense "absence of god" of course / especially...that's something you can experience) is considered terrible is that faithfull are constantly reinforcing in themselves the notion that it is.
Further, man sees faces, religions, and all those things that are merely skin deep. God sees your soul, your heart, and your entire being. To reject God is more than just to deny his existence. To reject God is to act in a manner that goes absolutely against His will. All who live can return to God. And if you truly, absolutely don't wish to, then you can go to the place you want to, known by us as Hell.
...which has a problem when put under logical scrutiny (hey, we are supposedly made in his image! That must include logic, morality, etc.; those are actually things which define us more as humans than just our bodies) - his will was, supposedly, to...put us in such situation in the first place, certainly knowing the consequences, right? And don't forget that Abrahamic deity often displays staggeringly amoral, staggeringly...human traits.
Of course this is a PR stunt, and touching also on more local needs; a great need for more Polish heroes! (nevermind that Copernicus can't be called strictly a Pole, or that his identification relied on forensic reconstruction of facial features from the skull and comparing it with known portraits - which while quite good, is not certain) You only, y'know, need to be here...
It doesn't even have to be concious effort on the part of some caste FFS, just group dynamics; that's what religions are about.
PS. Also, they supposedly believe that it is not them who, based on deeds, determines who goes where after death, but...you know, their deity does so.
Slashdot Mirror
Apple TV?
Whatever the substantive motives for the delay in publication are - that's probably also a nice publicity stunt; viral marketing is...old again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockoon
And one of the teams in Lunar X Prize plans to use it, I believe. It even seems like a dedicated amateur team might ease their way into space that way, too (at least if by "space" we mean strictly "just a bit above 100km", suborbital flight)
...a single manufacturer rules, producing a few nearly perfect products in a graceful, gradual schedule.
Nintendo handhelds? ;)
After having used both the Apple SDK and the Android SDK pretty extensively, you can see why Android will win in the marketplace, and win so quickly. Never has there been such a beautifully organized, transparent, open, easy zero-to-development experience.
And BTW, Symbian (well, also MeeGo) will probably give plenty of that once totally moved to Qt, which is kinda...cute. Can be used with them already.
Especially considering that for all practical purposes, Symbian has won the sales already - while its half of smartphone market is still less than 20% of total Nokia sales (that is still a bit higher proportion than the average of the market), so with Symbian supplanting more and more of S40 range...
That said, yeah, Android has surely a bright future. Also bada OS, with the goal of quickly finding its way on large proportion of Samsung phones (21% of total market)
While I sympathize with what your post meant to convey, the key data that you mention are not exactly accurate...
First "marketshare doubling every quarter" naturally can't last ;)...plus "2nd place" only when looking at sales in one, rather small market and a bit ill-defined category of "smartphones".
But most importantly, when it comes to "Every major cellphone maker standardizing on the platform" - no. Just no. Nokia won't do it. Samsung - not quite (yes, they might have few now and then; but their bada OS is what Samsung bets on). LG and SE also aren't exactly dedicated (while having some Android devices, they use also other smartphone OSes; and ship much more of those).
Above are the 4 largest manufacturers, with 73% of mobile phones sold worldwide (N 37%, S 21%, LG 11%, SE 5%). The biggest one standardizing on Android, Motorola, has just 5%.
You think they have some editor? "Journalists", even? O_o
Thing is...in the place where this particular event took place, they're not exactly isolated. In around 2 or 3 weeks, few major streets in every city will be blocked, mobile loudspeakers spewing their bs (the ones typically attached near the entry of churches are almost always on during mass BTW, even if hardly anybody attends...why? And bells are really bells here, not some puny little...thing), public transport disrupted, walking outside the flow blocking those streets (or...not showing proper "respect") quite risky, tons of dead, slippery (fresh petals) plant matter on streets impacting traction, dozens young birch-trees destroyed (per parish; and yes, there is much more of those than you can imagine - one per 3600 people in a 38 million country the size of many smallish US states), priests very openly drinking alcohol in public places (which is theoretically forbidden); and all of this, for added fun, concieved really as an alternative / continuation of an old...pagan festival!
Plus generally summer season, with pilgrimadges blocking "secondary" (still rather important, but not that crucial) roadways; speakers carried on backs of some dude, spewing bs and out of tune singing of some priest (yes, they seem to almost never carry the speaker, they use microphone on an extension cord!). Hm, what kind of stereotype about deeply faithfull people that might be confirming, if they haven't figured out that there are many better roads available?... (the ones without scorching asphalt & traffic)
Consumers might be using handsets for longer than some manufacturers and carriers would like.
Maybe the list might help some people...
I keep waiting for Android actually proving itself in "can run cheap devices"; so far...pretty much nothing. Not in comparison to Symbian, which certainly have shown it can run on cheap (but still very durable) hardware; with cheapest Symbian phones not much more expensive than 100 bucks now...without contract.
Seems to be working, with half of all smartphone sales... (and that is still less than 20% of what Nokia sells; there's plenty of room for new users) With UI built around Qt, it should be rather nice, too (also for devs)
The same Apple who has 2% of mobile phone sales?
Seriously, look up original, non-beautified descriptions of heaven. It's in the Bible...
They are, essentially, about a Borg collective.
And "oh, they might have been wrong" is an invalid argument - if established part of given mythology, about such important (don't pretend it's not, it's what in large part keeps people with religion) issue were to be wrong...then why do you follow other tennets of such faith, given by the same people, from the same (primitive) period?
Planned obsolescence OTOH is certainly a desirable thing to some people...
Oh, I'm sorry, somebody for whom EN is his 3rd language got this one thing wrong, irrelevant to the point being made...while simply using quite direct equivalent of one common term from my place (90+% Catholic): "Jesus from / of Nazareth"
Hey, I don't know your market all that well. But let me put it this way - the offer I mentioned is the best one here. I could just as easily (however little sense this would have) get one comparable to the "old rate" that I also mentioned; and people here...do use those, too.
Couple that with people on /. mentioning sometimes some reasonably decent US MVNO (that might be one keyword...there's even a list on Wiki), and it's quite likely you can get some much more decent deals.
So still, social ostracism? ("have been polite, even if they are hateful" - but do you really think it doesn't impact their behaviour?)
And I guess your experience with NE could be also partially explained by your status of "outsider" there? (what are the experiences of locals?)
Is it meaningless? Perhaps, perhaps not. The idea that we should *not* attempt to better people's situations seems to be a...not commonly held ideal.
See, you're just providing an argument why it's meanigless. Sure, we do have a morality of which "making situation of people better" is an important part (China, for example)
But you established previously that the "modern concept of heaven" doesn't include that. It's merely everybody gets the heaven they wish for (which somehow fits with general wishful thinking of religions; and how their concepts were washed out over the ages due to greater understanding of reality)
"God is inherent in all things" is similarly meaningless. Somehow "hell"/"heaven" (since the distinction is meaningless already...) is now beyond "all things"?
No, you've been just tricked by some social construct into thinking that you desperately need something which...(surprise!) this very same construct provides. The Church demonstrably does such things - it developing places it promotes sexual or, more generally, sexual practices which are harmful to the society...but which benefit the Church.
It's like a complex gov beaurocracy set up to deal with certain problem - it has no motivation to fully eradicate the problem which assures its existence.
And that gods are not beings of meat, as we are (nice that you're almost, unitentionally admitting that we're just meat)...was the point! Meat certainly doesn't define us with "in his image", it must about...mind.
And gods were quite clearly defined for a long, long time; don't kid yourself they weren't. Also Abrahamic one (where are the miracles today?!). It's just that views defining them more clearly were less competitive, with less possibility of hatching onto human societies with all the progress happening around.
It's not difficulty of reconciling omniscience (in loving god) with free will, it's an impossibility (yes, yes, "not an impossibility to gods..."; another meaningless thing, and not strictly true). By saying "for God, the cookies already exist within the world" you absolve him of any responsibility...while he has, according to mythology, the absolute one! And, funnily enough, you hint at one possible coherent explanation - that we're simply an ant farm of an amoral kid who has a bit too much power.
PS. And as for the last part - sure, the ways by which Jesus from Nazaret lived are most likely (who knows how much whitewashing there was) decently fine even in our times (though - "don't judge"?! Who are you are kidding?...). But here's the problem - demonstrably, Christians (and other religions) are less likely to follow them. Just look at the top countries in any "nice" societal factors - high human development, low crime rates, low corruption, and so on. Notice their typical levels of secularism. Now look at the same factors in the most religious countries.
Any organization that makes its living deliberately promoting delusion and superstition is not worthy of any respect of any type.
...an organisation which claims divine blessing and moral authority; but demonstrably that didn't help even its "elite" to be more virtuos.
Oh well, organisational system of reinforcing the belief that the group is somehow more virtuos is easier than actually being more virtuos.
"Kill them. For the Lord knows those who are His."
Most likely not in this case, no. But they do believe that performing rituals can "ease the suffering" of souls in purgatory (strangely, they seem to assume that almost everybody goes there; and nobody to hell...)
Any reason why you look only at Virgin Mobile? Customers tying themselves, in practise, to one carrier doesn't help...
And surely you know how to disable updates.
Symptomatic reactionism.
Yes, they got this thing cleared...quite a bit after the fact. Some other major ones quite a bit sooner, I will admit. But some other - heck, why do they promote spread of HIV, for starters? Why do they promote customs which, in so called "developing world", work nicely towards retarding societal improvement?
That shouldn't be expected from an organisation which claims divine unction and insight...
Fallability of man which...was "given" to man, right?
Interestingly, those who are unwilling to accept God will thus be exactly where they wanted to be. A place without God.
Or, putting it another way, everybody gets the heaven they wish for (faithfull wishing in practise for Borg collective, if early descriptions are to be believed...). Which is quite meaningless.
The only reason Hell is considered terrible is that we, as humans, are said to constantly be in the presence of God as we live.
The only reason hell (also in the sense "absence of god" of course / especially...that's something you can experience) is considered terrible is that faithfull are constantly reinforcing in themselves the notion that it is.
Further, man sees faces, religions, and all those things that are merely skin deep. God sees your soul, your heart, and your entire being. To reject God is more than just to deny his existence. To reject God is to act in a manner that goes absolutely against His will. All who live can return to God. And if you truly, absolutely don't wish to, then you can go to the place you want to, known by us as Hell.
...which has a problem when put under logical scrutiny (hey, we are supposedly made in his image! That must include logic, morality, etc.; those are actually things which define us more as humans than just our bodies) - his will was, supposedly, to...put us in such situation in the first place, certainly knowing the consequences, right?
And don't forget that Abrahamic deity often displays staggeringly amoral, staggeringly...human traits.
Of course this is a PR stunt, and touching also on more local needs; a great need for more Polish heroes! (nevermind that Copernicus can't be called strictly a Pole, or that his identification relied on forensic reconstruction of facial features from the skull and comparing it with known portraits - which while quite good, is not certain) You only, y'know, need to be here...
It doesn't even have to be concious effort on the part of some caste FFS, just group dynamics; that's what religions are about.
PS. Also, they supposedly believe that it is not them who, based on deeds, determines who goes where after death, but...you know, their deity does so.