I pause and try to make it recognizable by saying "hey, Ubuntu looks and feels a lot like OS/X, which is itself essentially BSD with eye candy."
If OS X was "essentially BSD with eye candy", then any BSD could run the same software OS X runs, don't you think?
Cocoa, Carbon, QuickTime, Bonjour, Quartz, etc. You call that "eye candy"?
There should be an ICANN website where you veto typosquatters
Too prone to abuse, as others have said. IMO the only way to go about this is to have a central authority who gets to decide - by using pure and simple common sense - if a domain was registered in bad faith. If this is the case, the registrant may lose all his other domains/be forbidden to register for some time/etc.
I am willing to bet that releasing the books in electronic format for free hasn't increased his popularity by more than 1%. Exactly. The whole "give it away for free, gain popularity and sales" concept is totally delusional. What will happen 99,99% of the times is more like "give it away for free and get ignored". And when you are ignored, you don't get slashdotted, so all the armchair marketers in the world won't know that their "brilliant" theory has failed.
So, have I met enough hallmarks yet No, you didn't, because an atheist can be fully atheist even if:
- he doesn't believe that "every person of faith is a nutter", or any of the other so-called dogmas you've just made up;
- doesn't read Dawkins' books or "hang around with Dawkins' crowd";
- doesn't consider Dawkins a "leader" or takes PhD's opinions as fact;
On the other hand, a catholic is not really catholic if he doesn't:
- believe catholic dogmas (and those are real dogmas, not stuff I'm making up);
- read the holy books;
- hang around other catholics at church on Sunday;
- consider the pope as his religious leader.
So, my opinion was based purely on what I saw in these reports: the "scientists" protesting someone from speaking because the scientists disagree with their views/opinions.
No, not because "they disagree". Because he would have gone to the University to essentially say that science is nothing without faith, which is an insult to everything a University is.
If it was just a metter of disagreement over the pope's views, they should be protesting everyday. Come to Italy some time, we get pope and/or cardinals at morning/noon/afternoon/evening/night TV news, for chrissake. And a ruling class that's ever ready to kiss every holy butt.
The sad thing is that anyone thinks this needs to be proven.
The sad thing is that there still are people in this world who think things don't necessarily need to be proven to believe them.
It is because of Isaac Newton's religious beliefs that he brought so much knowledge to our world.
Oh really? Had he been an Atheist he couldn't have done it? Go ahead and prove it.
Justice. It is from religion that we get the idea that all men are created equal, that equality before the law, equality of rights, equality of worth are good and right and true.
Gee, you truly are ignorant. The concept of equality of people comes from the French revolution, an eminently Atheistic movement. Not from religion. A religion-based world like the Middle Ages' society was far from egalitarian.
Now, to turn things around, all the things mentioned to me -- the crusades and so on -- don't appear to me to be related to religion at all. Religion was no more inherent to the Crusades than Nationalism was to the Holocaust.
Oh sure. The fact that crusaders went to the holy land to kill the unfaithful is mere coincidence. Damn. I wonder who is the idiot who modded you "Insightful".
Where in the Holley bible does it say anything that he contradicted?
I have heard things like this before but no one seems to know where the bible says the sun moves around the earth or the earth is flat.
It doesn't say that the world is flat, but it does imply that the Sun revolves around the Earth. I don't remember the details, so everybody feel free to add or correct, but here's the approximate tale.
There was a battle between God's elect people and their enemies. Things weren't going well for God's favored party and the Sun was about to set. So God said to an elect leader: "raise your arms to the sky in prayer, and I will stop the Sun from revolving for as long as you can keep them up". So he did, and this gave them extra time to beat their enemies.
He had a looking glass he could point at the sky, And cardinal Bellarmino, Galileo's main inquisitor whose stance has been defended by Ratzinger, refused to even look through it when invited to do so, rejecting Galileo's claims on theological grounds.
If the church doesn't change with the times, it will die. That's what I'm hoping for. Instead we're seeing a resurgence, and a continuous interference in Italy's political affairs.
This piece of news only makes me prouder to be completely Intel-free (only PowerPC Macs and an AMD-based PC here). Not that I had anything against Intel so far, but from now on I'll never buy anything Intel-based.
Trying to pass off competition bashing as objective news is already bad, but trying to sabotage a charity-funded non-profit association really means being the scum of earth.
I'll take Motif over GTK any day of the week. I'm still using mwm because it's faster, cleaner and more elegant than any other Unix window manager I've seen.
Slashdot Mirror
No, it isn't.
P.S.: not to mention AppleEvents/AppleScript. Try and find anything that comes close on any other OS.
Cocoa, Carbon, QuickTime, Bonjour, Quartz, etc. You call that "eye candy"?
True. Product naming has become a completely different art after the invention of the search engine.
I too had doubts about spammers making real money, until I read the actual figures. There are more idiots in this world than most of us would suspect.
Wild guess: because in the latter case the author didn't agree to giving his own work away?
And when you are ignored, you don't get slashdotted, so all the armchair marketers in the world won't know that their "brilliant" theory has failed.
- he doesn't believe that "every person of faith is a nutter", or any of the other so-called dogmas you've just made up;
- doesn't read Dawkins' books or "hang around with Dawkins' crowd";
- doesn't consider Dawkins a "leader" or takes PhD's opinions as fact;
On the other hand, a catholic is not really catholic if he doesn't:
- believe catholic dogmas (and those are real dogmas, not stuff I'm making up);
- read the holy books;
- hang around other catholics at church on Sunday;
- consider the pope as his religious leader.
Are you starting to grasp the difference yet?
If it was just a metter of disagreement over the pope's views, they should be protesting everyday. Come to Italy some time, we get pope and/or cardinals at morning/noon/afternoon/evening/night TV news, for chrissake. And a ruling class that's ever ready to kiss every holy butt.
The sad thing is that there still are people in this world who think things don't necessarily need to be proven to believe them.
It is because of Isaac Newton's religious beliefs that he brought so much knowledge to our world.
Oh really? Had he been an Atheist he couldn't have done it? Go ahead and prove it.
Gee, you truly are ignorant. The concept of equality of people comes from the French revolution, an eminently Atheistic movement. Not from religion. A religion-based world like the Middle Ages' society was far from egalitarian.
Oh sure. The fact that crusaders went to the holy land to kill the unfaithful is mere coincidence. Damn. I wonder who is the idiot who modded you "Insightful".
There was a battle between God's elect people and their enemies. Things weren't going well for God's favored party and the Sun was about to set. So God said to an elect leader: "raise your arms to the sky in prayer, and I will stop the Sun from revolving for as long as you can keep them up". So he did, and this gave them extra time to beat their enemies.
This piece of news only makes me prouder to be completely Intel-free (only PowerPC Macs and an AMD-based PC here). Not that I had anything against Intel so far, but from now on I'll never buy anything Intel-based.
Trying to pass off competition bashing as objective news is already bad, but trying to sabotage a charity-funded non-profit association really means being the scum of earth.