Yes, and now that the rentiers will make even more money for no labor, the displaced workers are doubly fucked.
As a general rule, it's a good idea to have some compassion for your fellow members of the species.
Rand Paul called - and is he pissed at you
Clerics who also ate food, so I guess we can skip the clerics part and just say the medical advances were due to food/trousers/surviving a Wednesday/etc.. Unless you can demonstrate how their religious teachings are directly responsible for the discoveries, you don't really have a point.
Which of course, they are not. The Dark ages, when at least Christianity was at it's zenith, weren't exactly the healthiest times in the areas they inhabited.
Can you objectively describe that as a creator refusing to communicate?
Yes.
From a deity who used to be in pretty regular communication with his subjects, from Garden of eden, the destroying the world via flood after telling one family to prepare, to destroying cities with fire and brimstone (after telling one family again, to constant rules in Leviticus to moses on the mountain getting commandments to burning bushes to arks of covenant to all that contact in the bible......
To what? Wouldn't it be somethinng if a modern day miracle happened that was outside of physics, and God showed up and we'd actually know? Seemed to happen all the time in the past.
But hey - we've been waiting 2000 years now, and Jesus said he was going to return before the apostles all died anyhow.
So I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
A very real problem for the religious folks is that their purported creator seems to refuse to communicate with his (her?) creations.
Hey, Give God a break. Sure, he used to create universes, and destroy worlds and rebuild them. But it's hard work, and today, he's hard pressed to make images of his kid on toast, and the kid's mother from salt stains under bridges.
they're just chucking the text they type through some heuristic analysis
Otherwise known as watching them, your pedantry notwithstanding.
The internetz ain't wut it uzed to be I'll tell you wat.
Back in the day, we would all be going to Facebook, and telling everyone we were so tired of life, and were going to end it all on every post, then start up a "I hate it when" internet search thread to rival "I hate it when a Gerbil eats the universe."
Doesn't anyone remember us bitch slapping People Magazine when we all ganged up and elected Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf as the most beautiful perosn in the world in their first online polling? Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to win, but we showed them.
but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Including the fear of being perceived as being childish?
There is a huge gulf between being childish, and being childlike. Childlike is a very positive thing, eagerness to learn, wonder at the universe, and vivacity.
Childish? More of a description of the asshat behavious of adults than of children.
Once again, Microsoft's DRM is punishing the innocent customer.
Why should they care? Its an abusive relationship, and most people will always return. Seriously though, this whole topic is bringing back memories of why I left for greener pastures. Bad service, bad upgrades, not allowing people to use things they legitimately paid for, and a whole bibleful of bad advice from users.
A better solution is to just man-up and learn to use Windows 8.x..
For the set of really shitty better solutions, perhaps.
How about a nice tool that looks at your machine, gathers a list of required drivers, then forms up a list of packages to be rolled into a one-shot image?
Linux Mint?
Why? Because they can get through when you can't. I'm going to have to drop them a note
No rendering engine is 100% with CSS3 and HTML5 and that's what they're all gearing towards so I don't really care if it's WebKIt, Blink, or Gecko. Also, while a lot of browsers may use WebKit, they don't all neccesarily use the same version so you're in the boat of X being compatible with one browser, but not the other, anyway. Also, I am a Web Dev.
So maybe you view all the various rendering issues as "Job Security"?
Microsoft wants a monoculture (with Trident) and that's bad. Microsoft avoids a monoculture (by not using Webkit) and that's bad too I really pity the Spartan developers. To people like you, there is literally nothing they can do 'right'.
I hate to Reply twice to the same message; but THIS illustrates my point:
List of WebKit-Based Browsers (and other Applications)
Microsoft wants a monoculture (with Trident) and that's bad. Microsoft avoids a monoculture (by not using Webkit) and that's bad too I really pity the Spartan developers. To people like you, there is literally nothing they can do 'right'.
No, you missed my point:
My point was: Sometimes (and this is one, IMHO), "Monocultures" (especially when they involve the implementation of community-agreed-upon "standards" (like approved HTML versions)) are actually HELPFUL to those who Develop against those STANDARDS (and ultimately, to everyone who is "touched" by the implementation thereof.
In other words, I was saying that, since nearly all Browsers are WebKit-based at this point, wouldn't it make sense for any new Browsers (not JUST MS') to throw-in with WebKit (and possibly help improve it along the way!), so that there IS a "monoculture" in this one particular case.
I don't know about you, but if I were a Web Developer I would WANT a "monoculture" when it comes to HTML STANDARDS-Interpretation and Rendering.
For example, how would the internet even exist if various TCP/IP stacks returned different "endian" (or different-length) values in certain "header" fields? Isn't that just a different version of the "My Browser doesn't implement that Tag the same way as your Browser (or doesn't render it at all)" bullshit that drives Web Devs. CA-RAY-ZEE???
What really irks me is that the opposite of skeumorphic doesn't have to be "postmodern fugly".
Absolutely. There are a couple real problems with the ultra flat approach, ala Metro. It reminds many of us of Commodore 64 graphics. Which were okay at the time, because that's all the computer could handle. But now?
It feels like the designers have swung the pendulum so far in the opposite direction that they've eliminated a lot of helpful and attractive design elements, such as the judicious use of borders, bevels, gradients, gloss, and transparency.
Definitely. The world is 3-D. There are shadows and highights. and they can be used to emphasize something, like where to click. We're getting some feedback from that stuff.
I've had a website I've designed flat (hey gotta do as the boss tells us) and people were having trouble figuring out where to click. Yes, there were rollovers, but they had to find them first. So I added a little embossing and a subtle border accent, and the problem went right away.
Skeumorphics, giving us a clue as to what to do. A flat block of color with some words might be something to push, or might be a design element. This thingy over here that looks like a real world button? Maybe it's a button. I use a little skeumorphics in database UI design even. Funny part is when its done right, no one notices. But they "intuitively" find their way around better. Done flat, it is a number salad.
Flat design is only one step away from "mystery meat" web design - a concept straight from Beelzabub to destroy humanity. It is a bad trend in response to overdone skeumorphics, and ends up being worse.
Exactly. Lets not go back to that. Last thing we want is a webkit monoculture.
Excuse me; but if you are NOT being sarcastic, isn't the exact problem that makes web development such a PITA, even today, the fact that there are multiple HTML parsers? And didn't the rise of the OPEN SOURCE WebKit at least reduce that to a dull roar (at least until Google had to throw their weight around with their express desire to unseat WebKit)?
So, I see this as yet another attempt by Microsoft to cause developers to have to code exceptions for multiple browsers, and knowing MS' still-largest marketshare, they are setting up another "Code for Spartan" situation like they enjoyed with IE 6.
While the rest of their goals SOUND laudable, MS shows that they are talking out both sides of their ass with their newest attempt to fork us, and web development... Yet again.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
