Apple does not shit up the direction of software development for non-Apple users
Neither does Microsoft.
Microsoft contributed absolutely nothing of value to free or open source software
Really? So codeplex doesn't exist? Were you always this clueless or did someone remove your brain just recently? You should stop being religious and start thinking for your self (if possible, something I seriously doubt). Just the fact that you implicitly equates "Open Source" with "Linux" above shows that you are a bigoted religious nutcase.
socialism basically means ownership of means of production by the people equally
Since "the people" can't own something collectively and at the same time handle the day-to-day operations of said "something", some "representative" part of the population must be made to make the actual day-to-day decisions. That is how you get government, and since that government now, obviously, controls all the means of production, you have big government as an inevitable side-effect.
Actually, that would be Apple. Microsoft isn't holding up any progress at all, and is slowly turning into one of the main contributors to FOSS. Not that religious nuts like you would know, but that's OK. For those of us in the real world, Microsoft is doing quite a lot of cool stuff. Particularly in the Enterprise. The next version of Windows Server, with the announced and demonstrated features, will significantly extend Microsoft's lead in the Enterprise.
Anonymous Coward with such a small dick that he can't stand anyone disagreeing with his religious convictions nor post about the same religious convictions using his own name. Pathetic. That is what the Linux Lovers United have turned into. Pathetic in the extreme.
Please note - I currently mostly write Java for JBoss running on Linux, I have balls enough to post without hiding behind AC though, and I also have balls enough to state that WP7, irrespective of market share, has by a rather significant margin, the best developer tools out there at the moment. I also prefer it over iOS (which was my main OS until I tried WP7 for a month) and Android.
who have already written apps for iOS and Android to port them to WP7. Microsoft is trying to apply their usual MO to a market where they have no market power, and it doesn't work. Pushing platform-specific developer tools and EEE are useless when the platform is a very small minority
/. is being overrun by the religious nutcases these days. The only thing they do is sit around their computers wanking at the fantasy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop. Anyone who says anything that goes against the Gospel gets modded down. It's pathetic in the extreme. I don't envy them the (obviously) tiny sexual organs they apparently have. The "wanking" part obviously happens using tweezers.
It is really sad that your dick is so small that you feel that everybody who disagrees with your religious views have to be paid shills. I pity you, and hope that once (if) you reach puberty, things will improve a little for you. If not, you can always become join a monastery or something. Somewhere where they share your religious delusions and tiny sexual organs.
It's really sad that you feel you have such a small dick that everybody who has a different opinion than yours must be in someones pay. I pity you. Please tell your mum you should be let out of the house more.
The argument is silly. A little warming will not have the effect you seem to think. Quite contrary, a warmer earth is beneficial for most species. Higher temperatures have, historically, meant better life for plants and animals on this planet. If we prevent the next ice age (they are regular as clockwork) we will save billions of animals.
"Troll fodder" - best you could do? I pity you. Who'd you switch to with a better track record? "You are the product, and we'll sell you to whomever we god dam will" Google or "When Steve says 'no' it means no, and besides, who do you think owns 'your' device and 'your' data anyway?" Apple?
Consider how often scientific progress has brought us to the brink of extinction
Thinking deep thoughts. Considering up and down. Answer: zero. What's your point?
the intellectuals NEED the breeders, while the breeders don't need the intellectuals
The breeders need the intellectuals if they want to live much past their 35th birthday, but if they have no such desire, you are right.
if you want a society based on science, discard democracy and go seek your philosopher king
Not at all true. There is no such thing as "democracy" in a pure form. My seven month (yeah, I am an intellectual breeder) old is not allowed a vote. We have restrictions, mostly based on the concept of "competency". The definition of "competent" can change. Does changing the definition of "competent" make a society less democratic? Not according to my seven month old.
I know that atheists pride themselves on their supposed superiority because of compatibility with science.
They (we) don't, and and we can't. Atheism is absence of belief, not belief. What atheists have in common is nothing at all. Or to put it differently, I as an atheist have a belief system (which I can build superior feelings on) in the same way that a person who is not collecting stamps has the hobby of "not collecting stamps" and can build a feeling of superiority on. I wonder how many people would go around saying "I am the best non-collector of stamps in the world. I have the most comprehensive collection of no stamps from nowhere at all both sides of the Rockies".
the only way atheists get convinced of atheism
An atheist doesn't have faith. He lacks it. Funny enough, I can prove that atheism, in other words the lack of belief, is the only rational thing, but that is irrelevant.
Plenty of ideologies have been proven to be wrong, yet plenty of atheists uphold them : e.g. socialist atheists... you can mathematically prove socialism will fail
Really, so ideologies can be proven "wrong"? Socialism has been "proven wrong". You really don't understand neither "prove", "mathematically", "wrong" or "socialism" do you? The statement quoted is moronic. Please note - I view my self as a libertarian, so don't try to finger me as a socialist apologist.
As we all know saving and protecting the weak is pretty much the cornerstone of the Christian faith, and it makes appearances in other faiths with less emphasis too
That last part "with less emphasis" is an insult to a number of religions (some even atheist in their nature) that have a significantly higher such emphasis than Christianity has. One could even argue that socialism clearly has a higher such emphasis, but only marginally. Going by what is written about the dude, Jesus appeared to have very clear socialist tendencies.
but evolution theory is diametrically opposite this
Ah, so you know nothing about evolution either. BTW, evolution is not the name of the theory that Christians do not approve of. Evolution is not a theory, it is a mechanism. Doubting evolution is equivalent to doubting gravity. We can see evolution working every day. The theory you nutcases hate is the theory of "Common ancestry" or "Common heritage", ie, the theory that we all descend from less evolved life forms. Everyone who thinks that "evolution" as such doesn't exist is an un-educated moron. Buy a male and a female dog, make them have little puppies. If the puppies come out identical to either parent "evolution" is wrong, if they differ in any way, the puppies "evolved". The problematic point for Christians is whether this documented process (evolution) can lead to speciation and thereby to (in reverse) a common origin for different species.
if you assume that there is some way to express fitness
Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups. You just fucked up. Get an education.
So how can an atheist, without denying his "faith", advocate helping infirm people
Easily. Most infirm people I have met I have also had fondness for. Leaving them out to die seems unreasonably cruel, so why would I? I have the same feeling for many other species than humans. Funnily, this (called empathy) has had very important benefits for humans according to most studies I have seen. This behavior can also be seen in many animals, and it is widely accepted as a positive evolutionary trait in flock-animals. It can also be said to be individually beneficial, I do not know that I will stay healthy, so advocating a positive attitude towards infirm people is a good insurance policy for me. Low cost, significant benefit should I become infirm. If you had more than two years of elementary school education, you would probably have notice
Yeah, and in "whenever" my 8086 DOS PC would freeze every time I tried to start Word Perfect off the B: diskette drive. I will therefore not even consider trying to use Windows 7.
WinPhone 7.5 is still inferior compared to the major competition
I would love to see some specifics here. I moved from the iPhone world to WP7 some time back, and I am enjoying the significantly improved user experience. Now just waiting on Skype, just slightly surprised that it's not here yet.
Seriously? OpenGL? You are joking right? Compared to what? Direct3D? In V3 OpenGL stopped making me want to shoot my self when using it, but that's about as far as it went. Slowly getting better, with "slowly" being the operative word, not "better".
Someone gotta get some serious speciation going here. I think the current guesstimate of the number of species on this planet is a few orders of magnitude lower than billions. Somewhere around 8 million last I heard.
Religious nut-case alert. They are all the same. Any word against the "truth" and they yell treason or worse. Go get some knowledge, and you'll drop your religious superstitions.
PS. Yes, I think it has been documented that the world is heating up. No, I don't think that is a significant threat to human kind, I don't even think it is on my top five list. Neither are nuclear weapons for that matter.
There are two main reasons that glaciers are melting faster today than they have been historically (since the beginning of this latest ice age). One is that the temperature seems to be increasing. This is, for many glaciers, not the main culprit however. Deforestation is. A thorough study of the glacier of Mt. Kilimanjaro showed that a rather small amount of the melting could be attributed to increasing temperatures, the majority was caused by deforestation.
Why does deforestation impact the glacier thus? Sublimation. Forests adds moisture to the air. Remove the forest and air goes much drier. Drier air means a significant increase in ice/snow sublimation, and poof goes the glacier. This would happen even with zero increase in temperature.
The question is about development for Phone development. The vast majority of issues listed in those lists are irrelevant for Phone development. You don't need threaded debugging. You don't need MFC. Source Control integration is for whimps, use Git from the command line or one of the excellent Git graphical front ends. You don't need ASP for the phone. You don't need report design for the phone. So, for mobile development, which specific feature are you missing from that list?
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Apple does not shit up the direction of software development for non-Apple users
Neither does Microsoft.
Microsoft contributed absolutely nothing of value to free or open source software
Really? So codeplex doesn't exist? Were you always this clueless or did someone remove your brain just recently? You should stop being religious and start thinking for your self (if possible, something I seriously doubt). Just the fact that you implicitly equates "Open Source" with "Linux" above shows that you are a bigoted religious nutcase.
socialism basically means ownership of means of production by the people equally
Since "the people" can't own something collectively and at the same time handle the day-to-day operations of said "something", some "representative" part of the population must be made to make the actual day-to-day decisions. That is how you get government, and since that government now, obviously, controls all the means of production, you have big government as an inevitable side-effect.
Even worse, you have Tragedy of the commons and millions dying of starvation.
Sorry, they do not exist in your mums basement. Tell her to let you out once in a while.
Actually, that would be Apple. Microsoft isn't holding up any progress at all, and is slowly turning into one of the main contributors to FOSS. Not that religious nuts like you would know, but that's OK. For those of us in the real world, Microsoft is doing quite a lot of cool stuff. Particularly in the Enterprise. The next version of Windows Server, with the announced and demonstrated features, will significantly extend Microsoft's lead in the Enterprise.
Anonymous Coward with such a small dick that he can't stand anyone disagreeing with his religious convictions nor post about the same religious convictions using his own name. Pathetic. That is what the Linux Lovers United have turned into. Pathetic in the extreme.
Please note - I currently mostly write Java for JBoss running on Linux, I have balls enough to post without hiding behind AC though, and I also have balls enough to state that WP7, irrespective of market share, has by a rather significant margin, the best developer tools out there at the moment. I also prefer it over iOS (which was my main OS until I tried WP7 for a month) and Android.
who have already written apps for iOS and Android to port them to WP7. Microsoft is trying to apply their usual MO to a market where they have no market power, and it doesn't work. Pushing platform-specific developer tools and EEE are useless when the platform is a very small minority
Run back to 2007 and tell Apple that.
Sheesh
/. is being overrun by the religious nutcases these days. The only thing they do is sit around their computers wanking at the fantasy of The Year of Linux on the Desktop. Anyone who says anything that goes against the Gospel gets modded down. It's pathetic in the extreme. I don't envy them the (obviously) tiny sexual organs they apparently have. The "wanking" part obviously happens using tweezers.
It is really sad that your dick is so small that you feel that everybody who disagrees with your religious views have to be paid shills. I pity you, and hope that once (if) you reach puberty, things will improve a little for you. If not, you can always become join a monastery or something. Somewhere where they share your religious delusions and tiny sexual organs.
It's really sad that you feel you have such a small dick that everybody who has a different opinion than yours must be in someones pay. I pity you. Please tell your mum you should be let out of the house more.
The argument is silly. A little warming will not have the effect you seem to think. Quite contrary, a warmer earth is beneficial for most species. Higher temperatures have, historically, meant better life for plants and animals on this planet. If we prevent the next ice age (they are regular as clockwork) we will save billions of animals.
"Troll fodder" - best you could do? I pity you. Who'd you switch to with a better track record? "You are the product, and we'll sell you to whomever we god dam will" Google or "When Steve says 'no' it means no, and besides, who do you think owns 'your' device and 'your' data anyway?" Apple?
Who doesn't believe in Santa? I saw him just the other day!
Consider how often scientific progress has brought us to the brink of extinction
Thinking deep thoughts. Considering up and down. Answer: zero. What's your point?
the intellectuals NEED the breeders, while the breeders don't need the intellectuals
The breeders need the intellectuals if they want to live much past their 35th birthday, but if they have no such desire, you are right.
if you want a society based on science, discard democracy and go seek your philosopher king
Not at all true. There is no such thing as "democracy" in a pure form. My seven month (yeah, I am an intellectual breeder) old is not allowed a vote. We have restrictions, mostly based on the concept of "competency". The definition of "competent" can change. Does changing the definition of "competent" make a society less democratic? Not according to my seven month old.
Those religions were selected for by evolutionary pressure
As was the Ebola Virus. No need to worship that either.
I know that atheists pride themselves on their supposed superiority because of compatibility with science.
They (we) don't, and and we can't. Atheism is absence of belief, not belief. What atheists have in common is nothing at all. Or to put it differently, I as an atheist have a belief system (which I can build superior feelings on) in the same way that a person who is not collecting stamps has the hobby of "not collecting stamps" and can build a feeling of superiority on. I wonder how many people would go around saying "I am the best non-collector of stamps in the world. I have the most comprehensive collection of no stamps from nowhere at all both sides of the Rockies".
the only way atheists get convinced of atheism
An atheist doesn't have faith. He lacks it. Funny enough, I can prove that atheism, in other words the lack of belief, is the only rational thing, but that is irrelevant.
Plenty of ideologies have been proven to be wrong, yet plenty of atheists uphold them : e.g. socialist atheists ... you can mathematically prove socialism will fail
Really, so ideologies can be proven "wrong"? Socialism has been "proven wrong". You really don't understand neither "prove", "mathematically", "wrong" or "socialism" do you? The statement quoted is moronic. Please note - I view my self as a libertarian, so don't try to finger me as a socialist apologist.
As we all know saving and protecting the weak is pretty much the cornerstone of the Christian faith, and it makes appearances in other faiths with less emphasis too
That last part "with less emphasis" is an insult to a number of religions (some even atheist in their nature) that have a significantly higher such emphasis than Christianity has. One could even argue that socialism clearly has a higher such emphasis, but only marginally. Going by what is written about the dude, Jesus appeared to have very clear socialist tendencies.
but evolution theory is diametrically opposite this
Ah, so you know nothing about evolution either. BTW, evolution is not the name of the theory that Christians do not approve of. Evolution is not a theory, it is a mechanism. Doubting evolution is equivalent to doubting gravity. We can see evolution working every day. The theory you nutcases hate is the theory of "Common ancestry" or "Common heritage", ie, the theory that we all descend from less evolved life forms. Everyone who thinks that "evolution" as such doesn't exist is an un-educated moron. Buy a male and a female dog, make them have little puppies. If the puppies come out identical to either parent "evolution" is wrong, if they differ in any way, the puppies "evolved". The problematic point for Christians is whether this documented process (evolution) can lead to speciation and thereby to (in reverse) a common origin for different species.
if you assume that there is some way to express fitness
Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups. You just fucked up. Get an education.
So how can an atheist, without denying his "faith", advocate helping infirm people
Easily. Most infirm people I have met I have also had fondness for. Leaving them out to die seems unreasonably cruel, so why would I? I have the same feeling for many other species than humans. Funnily, this (called empathy) has had very important benefits for humans according to most studies I have seen. This behavior can also be seen in many animals, and it is widely accepted as a positive evolutionary trait in flock-animals. It can also be said to be individually beneficial, I do not know that I will stay healthy, so advocating a positive attitude towards infirm people is a good insurance policy for me. Low cost, significant benefit should I become infirm. If you had more than two years of elementary school education, you would probably have notice
Atheists can be very stubborn in their beliefs
Atheism is a belief-system in the same way as "not collecting stamps" is a hobby. Get an education.
Yeah, and in "whenever" my 8086 DOS PC would freeze every time I tried to start Word Perfect off the B: diskette drive. I will therefore not even consider trying to use Windows 7.
Moron.
Damn right, and that shite DOS was a single-tasking, non-gui piece of junk so you won't even try Windows 7 or 8. Sheesh.
I am not him, but I also moved from iPhone to WP7 due to the better user experience. What do you wonder about? What would you like me to tell you?
WinPhone 7.5 is still inferior compared to the major competition
I would love to see some specifics here. I moved from the iPhone world to WP7 some time back, and I am enjoying the significantly improved user experience. Now just waiting on Skype, just slightly surprised that it's not here yet.
Seriously? OpenGL? You are joking right? Compared to what? Direct3D? In V3 OpenGL stopped making me want to shoot my self when using it, but that's about as far as it went. Slowly getting better, with "slowly" being the operative word, not "better".
billions of species
Someone gotta get some serious speciation going here. I think the current guesstimate of the number of species on this planet is a few orders of magnitude lower than billions. Somewhere around 8 million last I heard.
Religious nut-case alert. They are all the same. Any word against the "truth" and they yell treason or worse. Go get some knowledge, and you'll drop your religious superstitions.
PS. Yes, I think it has been documented that the world is heating up. No, I don't think that is a significant threat to human kind, I don't even think it is on my top five list. Neither are nuclear weapons for that matter.
There are two main reasons that glaciers are melting faster today than they have been historically (since the beginning of this latest ice age). One is that the temperature seems to be increasing. This is, for many glaciers, not the main culprit however. Deforestation is. A thorough study of the glacier of Mt. Kilimanjaro showed that a rather small amount of the melting could be attributed to increasing temperatures, the majority was caused by deforestation.
Why does deforestation impact the glacier thus? Sublimation. Forests adds moisture to the air. Remove the forest and air goes much drier. Drier air means a significant increase in ice/snow sublimation, and poof goes the glacier. This would happen even with zero increase in temperature.
The question is about development for Phone development. The vast majority of issues listed in those lists are irrelevant for Phone development. You don't need threaded debugging. You don't need MFC. Source Control integration is for whimps, use Git from the command line or one of the excellent Git graphical front ends. You don't need ASP for the phone. You don't need report design for the phone. So, for mobile development, which specific feature are you missing from that list?