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Comment Re: PC gaming is dead (Score 1) 225

But that's a whole different debate and not exclusive to the PC Master Race crowd, as console gamers also complain about excessive QTE and overly easy games (Order 1886 is a good recent example). There are dumb downed easy games on PC as well. It's not some phenomenon that's due to consoles. I hear the same bitching and moaning about the dumbing down for MMOs as well. I hear it for the new Diablo from veteran Diablo players who think the loot rates are stupid high compared to the older games. To some degree it's the, "back in my day...something something...fifteen feet of snow...something something...both ways!" argument.

Comment Re: PC gaming is dead (Score 1) 225

I don't deny that the PC is the more powerful platform. What I'm talking about is the sentiment that PC elitists have that console gamers are not real or can't be hard/core gamers. Trying to associate the console gamer with the casual smartphone gamer. When the fact of the matter is that consoles were a big part of the initial evolution of video games.

Comment Re:Secure Boot is Windows only .. (Score 1) 161

By jbolden

No it wasn't. IBM for Z-Series and I-Series was involved in secure boot technology long before Intel and Microsoft were even part of it. Linux by the early 2000s had lots of secure boot advocates. As soon as Microsoft seriously planned to introduce secure boot they started working with Linux vendors like RedHat, Suse, HP... to make sure it would work with Linux.

Sounds like they did...

Comment Re:you care more for your own kind, its science! (Score 1) 251

So then suggesting that secular humanism is a better option based on your argument is incorrect. As no argument has established that racism would not find justifications under humanism or that religion causes racism. This, "religion has historically been used to justify racism more than fight against racism," does not support this, "so we are better off with some kind of secular humanism."

Comment Re:Blackberry (Score 1) 445

They have two clearly distinct user interfaces in Windows 10. So I don't understand why you're saying what you're saying.

I'm not seeing how we think it's impossible to allow enabling of the desktop user interface when the user has attached a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to the phone. Or when a touch screen is added that the metro user interface can be enabled. They're not mutually exclusive interfaces.

Comment Re:you care more for your own kind, its science! (Score 1) 251

Abolitionists and the Civil Rights movements all reference religious ideology to justify their movements. I'm not sure you can claim that we're better off with secular humanism then. In fact, you wouldn't be, because the overt problems of racism (the ones you'd be implying were supported by religion) were caused because those people viewed other races as less human, i.e. animals. If you view another person as not being a human, then you being a "secular humanist" would not apply morality rules as if the other person was a human. You can own a dog (i.e. the dog is your property), because the dog is not a human. Similarly, if another person is not considered a human or less of a human, then they can be owned (i.e. your slave).

But before we debate that, can you please establish how religion causes racism.

Comment Re:Define 'desktop' ... (Score 1) 445

Because they're giving away Win 10 to all Windows users for the first year supposedly. That'd be my biggest reason. Why pay later when I can get it free for now. Then the question becomes, why wouldn't you want to upgrade?

Besides that, I'd say because Windows 10 will allow greater portability of software between your devices (phone, console, tablet). Of course that assumes you have those. The other reason would be because of added features.

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