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Comment Downloading 90% of app at 1st run can be expensive (Score 1) 568

Basically, you buy/download the app from the app store, then first run of the app downloads all the graphical resources that would take up the bulk of the space and store them in the SD card.

Which can be expensive if you download the app over USB or Wi-Fi at home but then first-run it while on 3G, and it spends a sizable percent of your monthly transfer allowance downloading the resources.

Comment Re:Atheists Unite... as a religion (Score 1) 845

Distinct in the sense of being orthogonal. It is possible to believe there is no god while admitting that you do not know that there is no god. Knowledge is the intersection of truth and belief, and since the truth value of the god hypothesis can never be conclusively determined, the most we can ever achieve is a strong suspicion. Atheists, by and large, are agnostics. But people who call themselves agnostics are different from atheists, in my experience, in their willingness to entertain the possibility rather than reject it. I agree with the earlier poster who thought this was an odd notion, because there is an uncountably infinite number of unfalsifiable propositions to entertain. What makes the god hypothesis worthy of this special consideration, when we casually reject all the others?

Incidentally, dictionary.com defines disbelief as "the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true" which strikes me more as not believing there is a god than believing there is no god. So, by your definition, you're an atheist if you believe there is no god OR if you merely refuse to believe there is one.

Comment Re:Ground vs Air (Score 1) 136

Technically, a plane is easier to "drive" than a car. You don't have to worry about gears, mirrors, brake, clutch, indicators etc....

The difficulty with a plane is the "piloting" part. All the protocols that need to be followed (particularly before and during take off and during and after landing)

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