I think you've never tried to read a normal screen in the sun.
Granted, this is/. where no one's seen the sun in years. . .
Certainly for some, maybe even many people a tablet or phone is a perfectly acceptable eBook reading device -- for the rest of us, it seems half as ridiculous as taking my desktop PC with me jogging to listen to mp3s.
Unlike all the filesharing and other streaming outfits, the RIAA has something to lose in a fight with Amazon. Specifically, money they're making through Amazon right now.
I'm not saying they're not stupid, crazy, or willful enough to get a lawsuit going anyway, but unlike basically all the other cases they have the only incentive that matters, money, to think twice about how they approach Amazon instead of just trying to rabidly crush them.
My general point here is that atheism cannot provide that. Everything becomes relative.
I disagree. What's your proof?
You might as well say that gravity only works because God says so, physics can't provide that.
Either something like the Golden Rule is ethically good regardless of whether Confucius or Jesus or someone else said it, or you've got tyrannically enforced "do it or I'll fucking spank you" morality. Not only can ethics exist objectively without a God, that's the only possible angle that makes any logical sense.
But if Office and Windows play nice with smartphones, then other tools can interact with Office and Wndows, dramatically reducing the value of Microsoft's proprietary format lock-in.
I don't necessarily see how this follows -- it feels like you skipped a ???? step and went on to profit.
That being said, the APIs for interacting with Office and for writing plugins etc. for Office have been pretty good for a few years now, so maybe what you're waiting for already happened and no one outside of the custom business application world cared that much.
Disclaimer: I haven't had iTunes on a machine for a year or two now, but it used to be that every time iTunes updated you had to uncheck some boxes or you'd get Safari. Almost all of the less technical people I know have Safari on their machines and no idea how it got there.
There are things Western Civilization did get from Christianity, but it's clear to anyone paying enough attention to history that those things also could have been picked up from other places if there was no Christianity.
Wrong! I spent years using it almost exclusively in college.
It's good for some things. It's not a truly terrible tool for anything that it could conceivably be used for. But... that doesn't mean it's the best possible tool for web development, or even an especially good one.
Using Emacs as your main tool for web development is like pounding nails in with your fist instead of a hammer. Sure, you could do it, but other than a misguided need to prove your masculinity and/or street cred, why would you?
What's worse, instead of making you seem like a badass, it mostly makes you look like somebody who doesn't understand the concept of their being a right tool for a job. Special butterfly keystrokes notwithstanding, Emacs isn't the best tool for every job, including this one. Nor is any pure text editor, honestly.
You're the geek equivalent of someone who, when asked what might be good to eat in a particular restaurant, launches off on a five minute rant about how meat is murder.
Do knife-manufacturers pay costs when someone uses one of their products in a unintended manner? No, MAFIAA, I'm not hilighting an unexploited opportunity.
I think you'd have a hard time convincing any jury not solely gathered from the ranks of/. posters that illegal filesharing is an unintended use of Limewire.
And let's be honest: Yes, it can be used to share non-copyrighted files, but that isn't the main reason anyone I've ever met installed Limewire or any other similar program.
Are the laws around filesharing right now stupid? Absolutely. But let's have an honest conversation about that, not one in which we proclaim that the Limewires of the world are really meant to share our perfectly innocent vacation photos -- which no one, not even here, really believes.
But if you want to pretend that any given gay men are just as likely to like sports as musical theater, I'm certainly not stopping you.
It might depend on the crowd and especially on the sport.
None of the gay dudes I know are into musical theatre, but they all love soccer. Go figure. (But have no interest in the mainstream American dude sports like football.)
If they will not talk to you without a degree, thats not the company you want to work for.
Not to bash on you too much, but that's incredibly naive.
There are crap programmers with degrees; there are also crap programmers without degrees. There are crap jobs that want degrees, and crap jobs that don't care.
But a person who is pragmatic and who actually wants the best outcome for themselves will want to be able to pick their job based on factors which actually matter instead of ruling out a lot of them based on something stupid.
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The more I dig into the details of this, the more it seems to eerily parallel the case against Microsoft a decade or so ago.
So basically they're saying: "We can't do that? Okay, then no one else should be able to, either."
I don't think that's unreasonable, assuming you think the EU getting involved in these things was reasonable in the first place.
Of course, we also had touch screens 30 years ago and the thought of using them as a UI for everything seemed ridiculous then.
So maybe these, too, are ideas that will someday have their day in the sun?
I think dedicated eBook Readers will die.
I think you've never tried to read a normal screen in the sun.
Granted, this is /. where no one's seen the sun in years. . .
Certainly for some, maybe even many people a tablet or phone is a perfectly acceptable eBook reading device -- for the rest of us, it seems half as ridiculous as taking my desktop PC with me jogging to listen to mp3s.
I was waiting for someone to make this point.
Unlike all the filesharing and other streaming outfits, the RIAA has something to lose in a fight with Amazon. Specifically, money they're making through Amazon right now.
I'm not saying they're not stupid, crazy, or willful enough to get a lawsuit going anyway, but unlike basically all the other cases they have the only incentive that matters, money, to think twice about how they approach Amazon instead of just trying to rabidly crush them.
My general point here is that atheism cannot provide that. Everything becomes relative.
I disagree. What's your proof?
You might as well say that gravity only works because God says so, physics can't provide that.
Either something like the Golden Rule is ethically good regardless of whether Confucius or Jesus or someone else said it, or you've got tyrannically enforced "do it or I'll fucking spank you" morality. Not only can ethics exist objectively without a God, that's the only possible angle that makes any logical sense.
But if Office and Windows play nice with smartphones, then other tools can interact with Office and Wndows, dramatically reducing the value of Microsoft's proprietary format lock-in.
I don't necessarily see how this follows -- it feels like you skipped a ???? step and went on to profit.
That being said, the APIs for interacting with Office and for writing plugins etc. for Office have been pretty good for a few years now, so maybe what you're waiting for already happened and no one outside of the custom business application world cared that much.
Yeah I got my armor on before hitting the link... xD
At least it wasn't your robe and wizard hat.
Apple was being obnoxious.
Disclaimer: I haven't had iTunes on a machine for a year or two now, but it used to be that every time iTunes updated you had to uncheck some boxes or you'd get Safari. Almost all of the less technical people I know have Safari on their machines and no idea how it got there.
Clearly you don't use iTunes on Windows, or you'd have Safari installed whether you like it or not. :)
If you want it to stay dead, you'll have to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
... because Jesus invented the Golden Rule?
There are things Western Civilization did get from Christianity, but it's clear to anyone paying enough attention to history that those things also could have been picked up from other places if there was no Christianity.
I don't know. I wouldn't have modded it troll, but it's not a great post. Consider the context, which is essentially:
"Ok, so if this person has already decided they really dislike Mac OS, what does buying a Mac and installing Linux on it instead really get him?"
"It gets him Mac OS. OMG OSX is awesome."
Spoken as somebody who's never used Emacs.
Wrong! I spent years using it almost exclusively in college.
It's good for some things. It's not a truly terrible tool for anything that it could conceivably be used for. But... that doesn't mean it's the best possible tool for web development, or even an especially good one.
I don't get why he doesn't just install Linux on his Mac.
But at that point, what has using a Mac really gained you? I guess some people just love the hardware that much?
Using Emacs as your main tool for web development is like pounding nails in with your fist instead of a hammer. Sure, you could do it, but other than a misguided need to prove your masculinity and/or street cred, why would you?
What's worse, instead of making you seem like a badass, it mostly makes you look like somebody who doesn't understand the concept of their being a right tool for a job. Special butterfly keystrokes notwithstanding, Emacs isn't the best tool for every job, including this one. Nor is any pure text editor, honestly.
I understood what you were saying the first time.
It still doesn't answer the fucking question.
You're the geek equivalent of someone who, when asked what might be good to eat in a particular restaurant, launches off on a five minute rant about how meat is murder.
It's kind of a douchebag move to go on your own zealot rant instead of actually answering the question that was asked.
Just in case you were wondering.
Do knife-manufacturers pay costs when someone uses one of their products in a unintended manner? No, MAFIAA, I'm not hilighting an unexploited opportunity.
I think you'd have a hard time convincing any jury not solely gathered from the ranks of /. posters that illegal filesharing is an unintended use of Limewire.
And let's be honest: Yes, it can be used to share non-copyrighted files, but that isn't the main reason anyone I've ever met installed Limewire or any other similar program.
Are the laws around filesharing right now stupid? Absolutely. But let's have an honest conversation about that, not one in which we proclaim that the Limewires of the world are really meant to share our perfectly innocent vacation photos -- which no one, not even here, really believes.
I'm sure that stone will start producing blood any time now. Lots and lots of blood.
Hah yeah. The first time I saw that article I had to send it to several friends right away.
That's interesting... I choose not to be gay... how's that not a choice?
So you were gay before, but now you've chosen not to be?
Otherwise, I suggest to you that you probably were born not gay.
Pfffft. Slashdot moderation is run by the libertarians, not the liberals.
Out of curiousity, would you let your daughter marry a man who was formerly gay but who had changed after joining a church?
But if you want to pretend that any given gay men are just as likely to like sports as musical theater, I'm certainly not stopping you.
It might depend on the crowd and especially on the sport.
None of the gay dudes I know are into musical theatre, but they all love soccer. Go figure. (But have no interest in the mainstream American dude sports like football.)
If they will not talk to you without a degree, thats not the company you want to work for.
Not to bash on you too much, but that's incredibly naive.
There are crap programmers with degrees; there are also crap programmers without degrees. There are crap jobs that want degrees, and crap jobs that don't care.
But a person who is pragmatic and who actually wants the best outcome for themselves will want to be able to pick their job based on factors which actually matter instead of ruling out a lot of them based on something stupid.