Posts by JDX

Re: Dawkins

Really? Even most of the atheists I know find him and his works irritating biased and smug!

As an actual 'bible-bashing' Christian, "contains principles and guidelines to be a good person” is not what the bible is about. That's a massively watered down, namby-pamby don't-want-to-offend-anyone interpretation tied to the middle-England idea of Jesus as a friendly white bloke with flowing blond locks who went round telling people nice things about themselves.

Having said that, "seriously awful things in the bible" is also rather disingenuous.

Neither of those are in the bible. At the very least you have paraphrased them. And you've done the usual thing of make some statement about the bible without providing references, knowing most people will blindly believe you (ironic in the circumstances).

That aside, you can play that game - cherry-picking sentences or shorter out of context - with just about any source. The papers like to do it all the time, as do politicians.

Re: Noddy goes to the seaside

It wasn't insightful the first time either :)

I'd bet the majority commenting about the morality of the bible (whether in a positive or negative light) are doing so primarily based on what they remember from religious studies lessons as children.

Considering the majority of Christians haven't read the whole thing, and most lay-people people will happily believe just about anything you tell them about the bible/Christianity if you sound certain, I think it's a safe bet. Certainly most of what I thought the bible taught before I read it was either incorrect or came from somewhere else entirely.

Re: The Bible

It's hard to say the bible's place in the best-seller lists. Leaving aside bulk orders (which I think count?) there are so many versions. Probably a dozen or so 'mainstream' (NIV, NKJV, American standard, etc) of which many are published in different formats (plain bible, study bible, bible in a year, amplified bible). And that's before you get on to less rigid translations like The Message which are very popular but cannot really be classed as translations.

You'd have to combine the sales of dozens of different books to get a meaningful figure. Maybe this is done as a matter of course, I have no idea?

Re: Pedants would say that it's a collection of 66 books.

What about the fact many of the 'books' are letters and one is only one page long? I think you need to be more pedantic.

Of course since you suggest you haven't read it (or maybe either) it's a completely stupid supposition.

Re: Dunno the exact answer

Interesting point. The goal of distributing the bible to as many people as possible must have driven advances in technologies such as printing, as well as in understanding many many languages... people learning obscure languages purely so they can provide a translation to those people.

Re: brief history of time??

It's had WAY more impact.

Re: "and run all the important apps"

Yes but in your example, you need one person with a PC used for such things, you don't need everyone to have a PC just in case they need to do some scanning.

Of course some people need a full PC interface either for performance or input/usability reasons - just as some people actually need 4-wheel drive or a pickup truck to drive around in day-to-day.

Re: The internet is 'outside'

I like that analogy.

Re: It's the parents not the kids

While it's an important issue "it's all the parents' fault" is a bit of a glib, automatic generalisation.

@sisk

I'm sure there is truth in what you say but I think you overstate things. Many people are savvy enough to install FireFox (or Chrome) but simply install it and consider it installed. The proportion who know how to set their preferred search engine is likely higher on FF/Chrome than IE but I'd suggest is definitely not more than 50%.

Still worth a chunk of cash to MS, definitely.

Re: What do the rest pay ?

Well they surely pay a similar level of royalties, but on a far smaller scale.

re:That'd be weeks of ammunition

That rather depends on your circle of friends.

Re: Nokia has some value...

I lived with one for over a year and then bought another one. So I have about 30X more experience than you and therefore my opinion is 30X more valuable.

I have, and last time I was there you could spot the 4K TV from the other side of the store, the difference was so big.

It made every other TV look crap which possibly was a bad thing as people who couldn't have afforded 4K might've decided to buy nothing!

Re: This argument has been made before

It would be interesting to get figures on how many hours are spent watching films in cinemas per week, compared with TV. I don't know if the data is available but you could for instance find a 1-cinema town and ask how many tickets they sell per week, multiply by 2. Scale up based on town population Vs national population and compare to official TV viewing figures.

My total guess is cinema viewing is tiny in comparison, like 2% of TV watching 'man hours'. Anyone able to do some guesstimates or provide data?

Based on what counter-argument? More and more often you'll see people in a communal living area watching Youtube videos on their laptops/tablets/phones, even while the main TV is on.

If he can't see a difference between HD and 4k in the carefully contrived showroom then I suggest maybe his eyes ARE the problem.

Either than or the person who set up the demo units should be fired.

Re: But...

As you say - SOME cases. But not to the extent most people bother buying dedicated HiFi equipment any more, they just use their phone or PC.TVs are still in the "everyone has one" phase, like HiFi was 20 years ago.

I'm not so sure TVs are on the way out but it's certainly a possibility.

Re: Intel based

Who cares? If the performance/price combination matches up to expectations, what does it matter?

Re: WiFi?

My HomePlug unit acts as a WiFi network as well as having ethernet sockets - so you can simply have one WiFi network per room (I have one in the garage).

Re: Obsolete?

Especially when games consoles also have all these apps, and you can (I think) also plug in your iPad to display content from all these iOS apps on the TV... presumably Android allows this too and obviously so does a laptop.

Re: WiFi?

HomePlug might be another great option.

I thought so too.

It is a sensible thing though because often there are people who you ARE friends with, who decide to post 5 pictures of their baby/cat every day or link FB posts to every app and game they play.

Re: Does this journalist write for The Sun?

Clearly if you disagree with what was written, it's wrong/rubbish.

Re: @Ketlan

It's also not bias if it's reported as opinion, which it was.

They didn't seem that bothered about keeping their masks on either

Re: It's free....

"Tie yourself and others into proprietary formats, and be at the whim of a single entity who's only purpose is to extract as much money from their customers as possible?"

Proprietary, open formats which are a recognised standard that other major players support?

Oh, no, a company who exists to make money. If only we could all work for free!

Re: compatible Android tablets

Just highlights how/why Android is harder to develop for than iOS.

Re: I remember

In the old days you HAD to know how to do minimal coding and monkey about with your config scripts just to USE a PC effectively.

Then why are you commenting on the story you prawn?

"The new Ferrari is useless, I won't be buying one for sure. Oh, also I can't drive"