Good old Pascal's Wager, an act of craven cowardice and an insult to God Almighty. Pascal's Wager is predicated on God being so stupid that He can't tell you're going through the motions out of fear and that you don't actually have faith. I'm sorry, but if God does exist, I'm not going to stand in front of him as a liar and insult Him to His face. And as for "what will you say to God?", there is nothing I can say, no case to plead, nothing to explain because God knows all. He (if He exists) knows why I didn't believe in Him. I will either burn or not, but I will do it with a clean conscience.
In what you might call spiritual terms, yes. Morality is largely a human construct.
If morality is a human construct, then it is arbitrary.
Yes. But so are morals handed down from a god.
As a social species we need rules of conduct, but the nature of those rules has varied wildly in time and space.
Surely there are some rules you like and some you don't. If morality is arbitrary, on what do you base your objections to the rules you don't like?
There are lots of rules I don't like. As for my objections, well, my objection to slavery, which is moral as long as I don't beat my slaves to death, should be fairly obvious.
Slackware wasn't my first attempt at Linux, that was SLS version 1.0 (kernel 0.95), downloaded from a BBS onto floppies. But Slackware was the second-longest distro I used, way back in the day. Today I use Ubuntu, but only on a low-power web-surfing machine.
What else are those people going to do? Move to Windows? Linux? They're solid Mac users. A lack of hardware updates and such doesn't matter. Their sales are still strong with little to no new investment.
I moved to Windows. I was a solid Mac user for 11 years. It's all I had (save the file server, never run a Mac file server in a mixed environment). Apple fell so far behind the curve on what I needed that I jumped ship and haven't looked back. The thing is, I really like MacOS (or Apple OS, or whatever the hell they;re calling this week) and I like the quality of the Mac hardware. The 2013 Mac Pro was the sign that my market segment had been abandoned. I waited as long as I could for a proper pro workstation update, but ran out of time. So, I went back to building my own computer and sold off all of my Macs.
Agreed. I ran Mac Pros (I started with a G5 Power Mac, actually) all the way through the 2012 model year. Stayed on a 12-core (dual 6-core) Mac Pro until 2016, when I could no longer defend the use of the machine any longer. No support for modern NVidia cards meant no support for the software I was using that was increasingly going CUDA. And the 2013 Mac Pro? What a joke.
My Win10 workstation runs circles around my Mac Pro and gives me the flexibility to use whatever video cards best suit my needs. I can't see a professional of any stripe using a Mac anymore.
Though that's not quite true, Neurons, in particular, are not replaced, you die with what you were born with.
But those neurons take in water, salts, glucose etc. and dispose of waste products, break down dead organelles, etc. They are not the same matter from minute to minute, let alone year to year.
*sigh* Don't know the forest from the trees, do you?
What's the point? You (the person being "backed up") is still dead. There might someday be a copy of you, but you, the you alive right now, the one reading this, is dead. You won't wake up in the future. You won't come back. You will be dead.
The problem is that it's the crap that's staying. While Pacific Rim disappears, Atlantic Rim stays. Just look in any of the genre categories: mountains of garbage and few, if any, remaining gems. The main reason I even have a subscription anymore is that my wife watches a few programs on it.
I had a Mac. Matter of fact, I've had several. From a G5 Power Mac to a 2012 dual 6-core Xeon Mac Pro. But Apple doesn't support Nvidia cards, which I need for my software. While I was able to modify my old Mac Pro to fit one in, the 2013+ units have no ability to install anything but the included, already out-of-date AMD video cards in them. And after waiting a year for GTX-10x0 support to come, I gave up and sold my Mac Pro and built a new rendering monster that does everything I need.
It seems Apple doesn't give a wet fart about power users anymore. But their competition is more than happy to roll around in my money like little piggies.
I started here after reading an interview with Dave Taylor, formerly of id Software. Stuck around for a while. Wandered to greener pastures and come back every once in a while to see how the old girl is doing.
To be fair, I did walk to school in the snow. They didn't send cold weather buses until it was below -40f. And while the hills were small, I did have to walk up them both ways.
It took them four years to discover they screwed the pooch? Really? How much of their pro market share did they lose before they realized they stepped in dog crap with the 2013 model? I know I've left Apple behind.
AR with what? Phones? Maybe. Their desktops? Please. The GPUs in their desktops are garbage. Even the ones in the Mac Pros. I was a Mac user for ten years (sold my 2012 Mac Pro last month) and I I have always been disappointed by their choice of graphics chips.
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Good old Pascal's Wager, an act of craven cowardice and an insult to God Almighty. Pascal's Wager is predicated on God being so stupid that He can't tell you're going through the motions out of fear and that you don't actually have faith. I'm sorry, but if God does exist, I'm not going to stand in front of him as a liar and insult Him to His face. And as for "what will you say to God?", there is nothing I can say, no case to plead, nothing to explain because God knows all. He (if He exists) knows why I didn't believe in Him. I will either burn or not, but I will do it with a clean conscience.
In what you might call spiritual terms, yes. Morality is largely a human construct.
If morality is a human construct, then it is arbitrary.
Yes. But so are morals handed down from a god.
As a social species we need rules of conduct, but the nature of those rules has varied wildly in time and space.
Surely there are some rules you like and some you don't. If morality is arbitrary, on what do you base your objections to the rules you don't like?
There are lots of rules I don't like. As for my objections, well, my objection to slavery, which is moral as long as I don't beat my slaves to death, should be fairly obvious.
Slackware wasn't my first attempt at Linux, that was SLS version 1.0 (kernel 0.95), downloaded from a BBS onto floppies. But Slackware was the second-longest distro I used, way back in the day. Today I use Ubuntu, but only on a low-power web-surfing machine.
What else are those people going to do? Move to Windows? Linux? They're solid Mac users. A lack of hardware updates and such doesn't matter. Their sales are still strong with little to no new investment.
I moved to Windows. I was a solid Mac user for 11 years. It's all I had (save the file server, never run a Mac file server in a mixed environment). Apple fell so far behind the curve on what I needed that I jumped ship and haven't looked back. The thing is, I really like MacOS (or Apple OS, or whatever the hell they;re calling this week) and I like the quality of the Mac hardware. The 2013 Mac Pro was the sign that my market segment had been abandoned. I waited as long as I could for a proper pro workstation update, but ran out of time. So, I went back to building my own computer and sold off all of my Macs.
Agreed. I ran Mac Pros (I started with a G5 Power Mac, actually) all the way through the 2012 model year. Stayed on a 12-core (dual 6-core) Mac Pro until 2016, when I could no longer defend the use of the machine any longer. No support for modern NVidia cards meant no support for the software I was using that was increasingly going CUDA. And the 2013 Mac Pro? What a joke.
My Win10 workstation runs circles around my Mac Pro and gives me the flexibility to use whatever video cards best suit my needs. I can't see a professional of any stripe using a Mac anymore.
But those neurons take in water, salts, glucose etc. and dispose of waste products, break down dead organelles, etc. They are not the same matter from minute to minute, let alone year to year.
*sigh* Don't know the forest from the trees, do you?
And when you go to sleep tonight, the you today will be dead.
Horseshit. I don't die because I fall asleep.
Yes, but which is preferable? A complete death where you don't come back or a mini-death where your backed up consciousness comes back?
They are the same. I'm still dead, no matter what happens. How do people not understand this?
I'm dead. That's the difference. A copy, no matter how perfect, isn't me and I don't give two farts about him. I care about me.
Now, some future civilization may need interstellar ramship pilots to seed distant planets with teraforming algae.
What's the point? You (the person being "backed up") is still dead. There might someday be a copy of you, but you, the you alive right now, the one reading this, is dead. You won't wake up in the future. You won't come back. You will be dead.
The problem is that it's the crap that's staying. While Pacific Rim disappears, Atlantic Rim stays. Just look in any of the genre categories: mountains of garbage and few, if any, remaining gems. The main reason I even have a subscription anymore is that my wife watches a few programs on it.
I had a Mac. Matter of fact, I've had several. From a G5 Power Mac to a 2012 dual 6-core Xeon Mac Pro. But Apple doesn't support Nvidia cards, which I need for my software. While I was able to modify my old Mac Pro to fit one in, the 2013+ units have no ability to install anything but the included, already out-of-date AMD video cards in them. And after waiting a year for GTX-10x0 support to come, I gave up and sold my Mac Pro and built a new rendering monster that does everything I need.
It seems Apple doesn't give a wet fart about power users anymore. But their competition is more than happy to roll around in my money like little piggies.
No, not he's not.
I started here after reading an interview with Dave Taylor, formerly of id Software. Stuck around for a while. Wandered to greener pastures and come back every once in a while to see how the old girl is doing.
Yeah! In the snow! And uphill both ways!
To be fair, I did walk to school in the snow. They didn't send cold weather buses until it was below -40f. And while the hills were small, I did have to walk up them both ways.
137? And I thought I was an old-timer.
New York City.
FTFA: "It's not narrowly important to us because we're big enough to get the deals we want," Hastings said.
Gee, thanks a lot, asshole. Nice to see you have no regard for anyone but yourself.
LGTQIAWTFBBQ.
It took them four years to discover they screwed the pooch? Really? How much of their pro market share did they lose before they realized they stepped in dog crap with the 2013 model? I know I've left Apple behind.
Repeating a lie doesn't make it true.
AR with what? Phones? Maybe. Their desktops? Please. The GPUs in their desktops are garbage. Even the ones in the Mac Pros. I was a Mac user for ten years (sold my 2012 Mac Pro last month) and I I have always been disappointed by their choice of graphics chips.
My Vive doesn't give me motion sickness. My PlayStation VR is puke city in three minutes or less. :(
Reminds me of that guy who got sacked a while back for loading SETI at Home on a bunch of servers at his work.
Is it really that hard to remember that the computers at your employer's company are not yours?