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14 years ago @ Technologizer - More About the Apple C... · 1 reply · 0 points

Yup! Why do you make so many assumptions based on insufficient data? You're only hurting yourself.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - Banning Gay "Cure" App... · 1 reply · +3 points

Who's being emotional here?

I'm sorry, but I have met a lot of people in my life, of almost every walk of life. I think I have a better feel for what people in general will do than you--especially the people that specific app tried to target.

Turn off your emotional, knee-jerk reactions and try to think rationally; you're only hurting your own argument--which is why your reputation score here is so low.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - Banning Gay "Cure" App... · 0 replies · +2 points

You just hit the nail on the head: " How do you know what's true and what isn't?" You can listen to ten different clergymen teach about the exact same passage in the Bible and probably get ten different interpretations out of it. I'm not saying the Bible isn't a guide, but you should follow the intent of the lessons, not the letter--in 2000 years, the letter has changed many times.

But one thing stands out: Christianity was built on the words of Christ the teacher. He taught things like "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", and "Judge not, lest ye be judged". Stop trying to pick meaning out of isolated passages and learn the lessons of the parables. The Old Testament is a history of the Jewish people, the New Testament is a collection of stories and books hand-picked by the Catholic Church 1200 years ago and longer. We've lost the original meanings. We've lost much of the original writings.
If the only thing we learn from the Bible is tolerance and fairness to others, that would be a huge step forward for mankind.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - Banning Gay "Cure" App... · 0 replies · 0 points

You give yourself the lie in your own words. The King James Bible from which your quote originates does NOT use the word Homosexual, and the word that is used refers to a male prostitute and prostitution in general rather than the specific sexual bent of the offender. More recent versions of the Bible have changed to word to suit their own meaning, essentially ignoring the word's original meaning. Quite honestly, the only accurate translation of the Bible would be one translated directly from the original languages, not translations of translations of translations.

15 years ago @ Mac Help from Maciverse - What your iPod says ab... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well, let's see. I own an iPhone 4, but I use it most for phone calls and navigation help; combined with reading email and sometimes tagging music for identification and download.
I also own an iPod classic--at 80GB it manages to hold all my iTunes music, or all my videos, but not both. Considering my video library is growing, I'm going to need a 250 next time.
I own Nanos, but they're a v.1 and v.2 model, not one of these v.5s. They replaced my original iPod v.1 which died after serving as the primary audio source in my car for 4 years, winter and summer along the NEC. Interestingly, only the battery died--the unit itself would work still if I bothered to replace that battery.

Now, what does that say about me?

15 years ago @ Technologizer - Banning Gay "Cure" App... · 0 replies · -3 points

To tell you the truth, vereth01 didn't express a personal opinion one way or the other about homosexuals; he was merely pointing out that one group will believe one way and another the other way. In essence, your own post expresses more bigotry than his as a result.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - Banning Gay "Cure" App... · 3 replies · +2 points

And what's your scientific basis for contesting my opinion?

Simple psychology says that some will download it out of curiosity, but the people the app is targeted at are significantly more likely to ignore it than download it.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - Banning Gay "Cure" App... · 5 replies · -2 points

About the only people who would download and try to use a 'Cure' app are the people who are already homophobic. Personally, I'd say ignore it and let it die an ignoble death by neglect. Anything else simply draws attention to it and makes it a political target.

As for the checkpoint app, honestly if a person is drunk enough to get tagged by one of these checkpoints, they're probably too drunk to even understand the warning when the app triggers it. I, personally, know when I can feel the effects of alcohol and stop... but then, I'm a personal 'control freak' who needs to be in control of themselves at all times--a totally separate issue.

The arguments like jitnol's above totally overlook the main purpose of such devices, though I won't deny that some locations are misused. That misuse can be challenged, if you can prove it with even a little work on your own. Where I live, those red-light cams have certainly reduced the number of collisions at the intersections where they're placed; speed cams also work, especially when they're matched with a display indicating the target vehicle's speed as it approaches. People speed, whether it's legal or not; those who speed excessively are dangerous. People who blatantly ignore traffic laws need to realize that they're not only breaking the law, but endangering others.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - More Patent Madness: M... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yet more proof that our patent system is messed up. Then again, since I don't use the Nook itself, I really don't know how similar the Nook's operations are to what Microsoft is claiming ownership. Seems to me like too many software companies are patenting procedures that were part of "dead tree" policies long before computers hit the desktop.

Things like 'margin notes' (annotating text) or 'select text and adjust' were once done on machines like the IBM Selectric and other advanced typewriters. Even the old Dos-level word processors gave that ability and that's certainly prior art.
Superimposition? Display of content before the page fully loads? Ok, maybe, but if you ask me that's picking nits.

If you ask me, and this is strictly an opinion, Microsoft realizes that they screwed up their tablet concept ten years ago and is now trying to use Android to make up for that loss. It seems that since they can't do anything about Android itself, they're hitting anything in the third-party GUIs that looks anything like a Windows component.

15 years ago @ Technologizer - More Patent Madness: M... · 0 replies · +1 points

I have one simple question:
Exactly WHAT Microsoft patents does Android infringe? I'll grant that MS owns some part of, I think, Red Hat, but as far as I know Android draws nothing from Red Hat that's not in every other version of Linux. I don't see how Microsoft can lay claim to any part of Linux in general, which is the core underneath Android.

I'm honestly asking as somebody who doesn't know, not asking a rhetorical or sarcastic question.

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