Ok, so you know jack shit then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

I also suggest, as a starting point, reading the Church of England article as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

And being a protestant myself, we definitely believe in the Holy Trinity.

You need to retake religious studies :) Seriously, your entire understanding of Christianity is wrong.

Catholicism is Christianity in entirety - it has essentially two main branches, Roman Catholic, and Protestant (or Church of England based Christianity, and also includes most other non-Roman Catholic Christian branches such as Baptists, Methodist etc, which are all offshoots of the CoE branch). But both sit under the label of Catholicism.

Protestants most certainly believe in the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and while they believe Jesus was mortal, that forms the basis of being able to rise from the dead - his divinity after crucifixion comes from him conquering death and rising again. Oh, and they most definitely believe he is the Son of God.

Your idea of how salvation occurs is also completely broken for both branches of Catholicism - simply leading a good life won't get you any brownie points, you have to believe in Jesus Christ and the fundamental tenet that he died for humanities sins on the cross.

Wait, how the heck did I misspell Egyptian? And for that matter, how the heck did Safari's spelling correction not flag it? Yikes.

I'm going to plead the "late at night" defense.

The only limitations I've ever had with Windows on Apple computers are limitations *Apple* put in place.

Try this - replace the internal DVD drive on a 17" MBP with a hard disk:

1. Bootcamp won't allow you to install Windows on anything other the primary hard disk
2. The EFI firmware will specifically refuse to boot Windows on the second hard disk
3. The EFI firmware will specifically refuse to boot OSX on the second hard disk
4. The EFI firmware will specifically refuse to boot the Windows installation media from anything other than the internal DVD drive
5. The EFI firmware will specifically refuse to book the OSX installation media from anything other than the internal DVD drive
6. The EFI firmware will specifically refuse to allow the Windows installation to write to it, so Windows cannot set the boot partition

So these days I have a 10GB OSX partition on the primary hard disk which I never boot into, and the final act of doing all the installations was a fun case of swapping the DVD drive in and out.

I've never had anything like as many issues installing Windows on non-Apple hardware.

Nope, no fire sale, just a very busy store - seems it got busier after the Phones4U store next door to the EE store closed down. I was in the store perhaps 45 minutes, and the staff were never idle, there was a decent, steady stream of customers and probably a good 20 phones sold during that time.

And who said they were buying the "exact same product"? There was perhaps 7 or 8 different Windows Phone models on show, of which the Lumia 930 was but one - the rest of the Lumia range was represented, as were several HTCs.

You also know what they say: "Lies, damn lies and statistics". Pick any period before a new product launch and I bet you can show sales declining - the new flagship WP Lumia series was announced during Q2 2014, but not released until Q3 2014, and other Lumia updates didn't happen until later in Q3 or the start of Q4, so lets see what the sales results for Q3 show before declaring WP dead on the basis of the Q2 results.

The complexity will come in the outfitting, which for the two aforementioned Royal Navy carriers will come after the ship has been floated and moved out of the construction dock - however, even ignoring the outfitting of the carrier, I am still amazed that the Korean shipyard can build several copies of a much larger ship and deliver them in a time shorter than our shipyards can complete the hull of one single carrier (HMS Queen Elizabeth, laid down in 2009, floated in 2014, still being outfitted). Even going by first joining of major sub assemblies, the RN carrier took 3 years between that and first floating.

Wow, 7 years of support!

That would out do the original iPhone (released June 2007, last software update February 2010, less than 3 years of support), the iPhone 3G (released July 2008, last software updated November 2010, less than 2.5 years of support) and the iPad 1 (released April 2010, last software update May 2012, just over 2 years of support).

Bring on that 7 years, it sounds positively fantastic!

Did it? Who declared that? They seemed to be selling fairly well when I was in my local EE store yesterday, buying my two Lumia 930s :) At least another 5 Windows Phones were sold while I was being dealt with, and the store had a full display and demo area set aside for Cortana, which was drawing some interest.

I am seeing more and more Windows Phones in the wild these days - yup, anecdotal evidence etc, but its something to be noted none the less.

20 of the worlds largest vessels, built and delivered in a couple of years, now *thats* a production line worthy of the name!

The size of the vessel may be whats being pushed as the impressive thing here, but really its the fact that they can push out 13 of these at a time - instant fleet renewal! I can't think of one western shipyard which comes close to that capacity - even the two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers are having to be built one after each other due to shipyard limitations, and thats just two vessels, not 13!

Why should you ever have to go to Apple in the first instance for that information? A database covering all the likely candidates shouldn't be more than a few MB in size, and could be kept up to date via Apple Update - and if the database doesn't hold the information, or the mail server doesn't respond to a test connection, then the user can be asked "check online for server details?" and then the app hits Apples servers.

We went through all of this with Microsoft Update, and the Slashdot consensus then was "do it locally, MS shouldn't get any user specific information" and yet here we are seemingly giving Apple a free reign...

I'm pretty sure in the UK a wind jammer would be known as a clipper.

They profess to believe in the same God as Jews and Christians, but they don't believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God, they believe he was another prophet like Mohammed - that means that they don't actually believe in the same God as Christians, they believe in a much earlier Judeo God, which is essentially the Jewish God.

In essence, the Muslim faith is a branch off of Judaism rather than Christianity, as they flat out reject the basic tenant of Christianity. This is important because the Christian faith believes that the Jews have essentially rejected the new covenant, and won't make it into heaven through their current path, so Christianity views Islam in the same way - they might indeed worship the same God, but they worship him under an older set of rules which no longer apply - Christianity has its path to salvation well defined as being through Jesus, which both the Jewish and Islamic faiths have rejected.

Two words: Little Snitch.