Yeah, that would have been awful. If it'd happened, slavery and racism would have continued to exist until well into the 1900s, and even now, blacks would suffer bad treatment at the hands of whites.
Thank God they lost and that all blacks were equal to whites in every way from 1870 onwards. Oh, hang on...
The fact that it has a better email and usenet client (than OE) is a major reason.
You have to be joking. I'm a Mozilla advocate, but even I admit the mail client is a piece of trash.
The interface is inconsistent, and it doesn't make it obvious what is going on at any one time. There's nothing like the big 'Send/Recv' button in OE, and when you collect mail, you have no idea what's going on.
The folders are sloppily managed, and the news reader is certainly worse.
Sure, it doesn't automatically open attachments or spread viruses around.. but the user experience is more important than security to me! It's a program I have to use for hours every day!
Thanks for that, as I said, I am no science wizard. (In fact, I hated Science at school, and still don't really like science other than what is necessary to get by in engineering or programming)
I share your concerns about the 'pollution' that could be caused by these devices. And the amount of damage that could be caused by these is crazy to think about.
This is how it works in layman's terms
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For some reason I feel this is a double post, but no-one here seems to have noticed, so I must be nuts.
Here's how it works in laymans terms. I am no science wizard, but this sounds good to me..
There are things called beat frequencies that occur when you have two frequencies present. For example, if you play 20Hz into one ear, and 25Hz into the other, your brain can be 'tricked' into thinking it is hearing 5Hz (the difference between the two frequencies).
This is all well and good, but 20Hz soundwaves don't travel too good. Ultrasonic frequencies do though. Remember those TV remote controls in the 70s and 80s that used ultrasonics? You could control your neighbor's TV. (See the start of Poltergeist 1 if you forget)
But how does sending 50Khz sound waves through the air help you hear anything? Ay, well there's the rub. The concept of beat frequencies is used once again.
If you send a 50Khz sound wave from one source and pinpoint it at a certain spot, and then send a 51Khz sound wave from another source to the same spot, anyone at the place where those two beams join up will hear a 1Khz sound, thanks to beat frequencies.
That's how you can pinpoint sounds to a single place. It just took a genius to get the connection between beat frequencies and ultrasonics to work this one out. I think it's cool.
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You said..
Before anyone says anything about how I shouldn't be on the sidewalks, I am an experienced bicyclist that knows how to handle the thing. I've never come close to hitting anyone
Whereas before that you said:
So I pressed on my breaks. Well, soon as I apply just a small bit of pressure, the front tire locks up hard. I take off - a good 5 and a half feet high and about 15-20 feet forward; right at the shoulder height of the two people on the sidewalk
Okay, I guess you're too in the zone to check what you're typing, right?
The only reason I think games like Silent Scope are 'lame' is because of the lack of control you have. It's just a simple shoot-shoot-shoot game, and I'm used to games like Max Payne and GTA3 where you actually get full control.
Perhaps my problem is that I like to apply strategy to action games (yep, even Quake 3 has strategy), whereas most arcade games are about reaction times and aim.
This might be slightly off-topic, but it has to be remembered that since the 80s, arcades have REALLY had tough times.
Back in the 70s and 80s, the cost of the best games and technology was prohibitively high, so arcades did good business. Since the mid 90s (pretty much since PlayStation), however, you can buy something just as powerful as an arcade machine for home use and you don't need to go to the arcade at all.
I am somewhat saddened by the 'fall' of the arcade, and think they add a great social aspect to gaming. Imagine modern day arcades with 16 player Quake 3 style shoot-em-ups.. but it ain't going to happen for most arcades. Most arcades these days still have their crappy early 90s games (Test Drive, Sega Rally, etc) along with a bunch of lame shooting games.
Arcades are for tourists nowadays, not serious gamers. And that is sad.
I definitely think this book has some shortcomings. Not in its practicality or even in its multitude of examples, but in the attitude it presents. Here's a quote:
C is becoming irrelevant to computer scientists, as it fails to adapt to the changing environment of computer engineering. Unlike Python, C fails to embrace newer concepts such as automatic memory management and object orientation. We recommend the use of Python in place of C at any point in the development cycle to all modern day computer scientists.
I thought the point of these books was to educate people rather than slate languages. C is over 30 years old, so should it really come up for a slating because it doesn't 'embrace newer concepts'?
C is a system level language, and is still used widely, especially in OS and VM coding. The whole point is for C to remain stable. I certainly don't see Python being used in these applications, and it doesn't deserve to be used at the system level either.. Python is nothing but a glorified scripting language.
Thanks to this bill, it will be legal to hack Google!
Google are distributing TERABYTES of copyright information without permission thanks to their cache. They take entire sites to put on their cache.. so surely they're breaking some copyright laws.
Well, if Google has cached your site, now is the time to FIGHT BACK! Get hacking Google today. I wouldn't have said this before, but it will be LEGAL thanks to this bill! Yay!
Securing Linux is like making a reliable kit-car. It's made of lots of different parts put together to make a whole. Unfortunately, every whole has holes.
Let's put the argument into two forms. The basic, and the advanced. The basic argument is that Linus created Linux to be unsecure so that he could recruits hundreds of programmers to take up the cause. If he had written a perfect OS first time round, would it have got lots of people coding on it? No. It is also interesting to note that Linux is written in C, a language that provides no security features such as garbage collection and object orientation (used to keep things in one context, so that code cannot attack other objects).. whereas if the kernel were written in x86, these problems would not exist.
The advanced spin is that Linux suffers from 'feature gaps', a problem that doesn't exist in Windows 2000/XP thanks to Microsoft's superior code. It is a very sad fact, but logically Microsoft's programmers are smarter than those in open source, simply because they're able to earn more money. These feature gaps provide the perfect holes for DOS attacks and other such security nasties.
If you really want security, go for an operating system controlled by one company, who knows what their code does, and how to fix it if it goes wrong. The only option, in that case, is Microsoft.
I really can't understand the concept here. How can you link programming and food in such a way? It just doesn't work.
However, there are 'cookbooks' which don't relate to food at all. For example, 'The Design Cookbook,' a book that contains inspirational pictures and layouts to give designers inspiration. It's not full of recipes for food, but 'recipes' for designing.
Why couldn't there be a similar thing for programming? A book full of inspirational essays about coding, tiny tips on various algorithms, and charts illustrating how different data structures work, etc.. all stuff that you might already know but that might remind you of using a certain forgotten process in a new project.
I don't know what your cellphone technology is like in the USA (and I probably don't want to, since I can't think of a single US cellphone manufacturer or innovator), but this sort of thing is not really new in Europe, and is probably even passé in Japan.
This ArialPhone uses a base station as the actual phone bit, as having the phone actually right next to your ear like that all the time would probably give you cancer. So... this is absolutely no different to a standard Bluetooth phone with a Bluetooth headset.
Infact, it's worse, this uses 900Mhz spread spectrum, whereas Bluetooth is better because it has a cool name and better branding.
While your site looks quite good, why do we need a directory specifically for projects that accept donations? Isn't that like creating a new Google just for open source software? Why not just use the resources we already have?
Open source projects can say easily enough on their own Web pages whether they accept donations or not, and can also put this information on their SourceForge.
To that end, I think this would be an area where SourceForge could help. Sure, SourceForge might not be ideal, but it's the one place where almost all open source projects are listed.
Debian has continued to be a popular distribution as it remains stable by using proven technolgies that are behind the curve. This is in direct opposition to unstable money-grabbing distributions such as RedHat and Caldera whose daemons are barely more secure than Windows 98. Debian is the clear choice for any admin who doesn't want to have RedHat propoganda shoved down their throat.
RedHat propoganda? Jeez, if anything, this is pure Debian propoganda. I think it's bang out of order that they're attacking distributions without knowing what they're talking about.
What we need are more giant parking areas with quick Central London public transport connections!
As a Londoner, I get to see the traffic problem constantly.
London traffic can be divided into four groups. The first are local residents. The second are people driving to work. The third are deliveries/essential workers, etc. The fourth are non-commercial folks going into London for shopping or recreation.
The first group live there, so we cannot remove them. Few Central London residents have cars anyway, so this is no problem.
The second group don't want to be driving around the middle of London, but feel it is their only choice because of poor public transport.
The third group are essential. Deliveries must be made, and the road network is the only system truly capable.
The fourth group drive for convenience. I am one of those people. We would rather not spend an hour on a smelly train surrounded by (mostly) grubby folk when we can sit in our air conditioned cars listening to our own music.
It's all about convenience.
There is a large out of town car park in Greenwich. It costs £4 to park there for a day. When I want to go into Central London, I park there, get on the tube at the Millennium Dome and I am in Central London within 10 minutes. It's a good idea. It keeps me off of the central london roads, and I only have to put up with public transport for 10 minutes!
What we need are more giant parking areas with quick Central London public transport connections!
I do not want to have to fight for a parking space in a tiny car park 15 miles out of town and then look forward to a one hour train journey in! They should be creating giant car parks like those at Greenwich where we can park cheaply and get into Central London within 15 minutes.
If they can't do that, many will continue to drive in, since most of us own a car BECAUSE WE DON'T *WANT* TO USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. I cannot stand the people on public transport, the discomfort, and having to stand! Cut the journey times, and I'll use it for 10 minutes here and there.
Did that 'nice hotels' link really have to be there? In a Slashdot story, we expect that one of the links will have part of the specific story in question. Instead, I read through an extremely vile description of a hotel in New York City. Is throughing in pointlesslinks really necessar y?
This certainly approaches the status of 'non story'.
I didn't realize Slashdot was being used as an open forum for people to solicit financial contributions these days. Even worse, the original post did not imply that financial contributions were required, and just say they needed 'help' and 'contributions'.
If GNOME needed more programmers, people to work on documentation, evangelists, etc.. then posting to Slashdot makes sense and I'm sure a lot of us would jump in.. but just having a post that solicits nothing but money is pathetic.
It's all about the money, it's all about the dum-dum-da-dum-dum-dum.
Fair enough, perhaps I shouldn't apply European problems to the USA.
So, I state it more accurately: There is no TDI Auto in the UK. This is because Brits are stupid (I'm one, btw) and don't like automatic vehicles.. hence no market demand = no supply.
The Americans are smart and like driving cars with automatic transmission, whereas their European counterparts like wrestling with sticks and drive like retards.
There are no popular automatic diesel cars, and in fact, I've never even heard of an automatic diesel car. This may be why they are extremely unpopular in the US. If they made an automatic diesel that was cost effective, I'd get one.
Okay, you're not meant to grouse about unaccepted submissions, but this joke was too tempting not to make;-) I posted this several days ago, and I have been blacklisted! Nooooooo!
The grounding in reality that you speak of seems to me to result in a person who cannot appreciate art simply for art's sake.
While I might not be interested in fantastical stories, games, or entertainment, I'm a bit of an art and architecture freak. It is easy to argue that architecture is practical, even in the most obscure forms.. but, you have a point on art. I appreciate art (Picasso being one of my favorites) because I appreciate aesthetics. Aesthetics is something that neither games, stories, or TV shows can really deliver.
Also, I should add, you refer to Star Trek as fantasy but not fantasy, since scientists were led by their ideas and reached similar conclusions. Before the scientists started their work and truly became interested, was it fantasy, or was it still on the not-fantasy fringe? If scientists hadn't reached those conclusions yet, would you still find them interesting?
Well, it has to be said that early sci-fi (mid 60s and before) was really just good old-fashioned 'fantasy'. Sci-fi in the 50s made as much logical sense as fantasy games do today. With the progression of technology, and an improvement in the understanding of the general populace, sci-fi presents less of a fantasy, and more of a reality now. To answer your question directly, I don't think sci-fi would exist as it does now if it were not for the scientific discoveries made in recent years.
Of course, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and they're usually full of shit;-)
You make a good point, but I disagree with your opinion of it.
Unfortunately, many people don't have this sort of imagination, and when confronted with this it all just seems silly, and they can't get into the story because their attempt at keeping the world within a preconceived worldview fails and suspension of disbelief cannot occur.
Why, 'unforunately'?
I am interested in things that are realistic. This does not mean they have to be real, per se, but that in the context of a certain environment, they are realistic.
For example, Star Trek TNG could be said to be reasonably realistic. Sure, we don't have transporters and warp drive yet, but it all makes a sort of scientific sense. We understand the concepts. Farscape, however, stretches the bounds of realism a little with a 'living ship'. This is a concept we cannot really grasp today, and it seems a bit like 'fantasy'.
'Fantasy' has no appeal for me, but I don't see that as being an 'unfortunately'. 'Fantasy' is departure from realism to satisfy the participants/viewers of a particular medium. Fantasy is designed solely for entertainment purposes, and is not very constructive.
Star Trek and '2001' are not true, and therefore 'a fantasy', but they are not fantasy, per se. They are realistic in their own contexts, and can give us some deep insights into matters that actually affect us. I mean, the whole idea of warp drive and transportation brought up in the Star Trek universe has inspired and led scientists to come to similar conclusions! Since when did Dungeons and Dragons or Star Wars do that?
The whole point is that this, like everything else in Buffy-world, is caused by some really bad creature.
Must it must be a f'king dumb 'bad creature'. If I were a bad creature and could get people to do stupid shit, I'd have it so that Sarah Michelle Gellar rips her clothes off.
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as say, The Confederacy winning the US Civil War.
Yeah, that would have been awful. If it'd happened, slavery and racism would have continued to exist until well into the 1900s, and even now, blacks would suffer bad treatment at the hands of whites.
Thank God they lost and that all blacks were equal to whites in every way from 1870 onwards. Oh, hang on...
The fact that it has a better email and usenet client (than OE) is a major reason.
You have to be joking. I'm a Mozilla advocate, but even I admit the mail client is a piece of trash.
The interface is inconsistent, and it doesn't make it obvious what is going on at any one time. There's nothing like the big 'Send/Recv' button in OE, and when you collect mail, you have no idea what's going on.
The folders are sloppily managed, and the news reader is certainly worse.
Sure, it doesn't automatically open attachments or spread viruses around.. but the user experience is more important than security to me! It's a program I have to use for hours every day!
Thanks for that, as I said, I am no science wizard. (In fact, I hated Science at school, and still don't really like science other than what is necessary to get by in engineering or programming)
I share your concerns about the 'pollution' that could be caused by these devices. And the amount of damage that could be caused by these is crazy to think about.
For some reason I feel this is a double post, but no-one here seems to have noticed, so I must be nuts.
Here's how it works in laymans terms. I am no science wizard, but this sounds good to me..
There are things called beat frequencies that occur when you have two frequencies present. For example, if you play 20Hz into one ear, and 25Hz into the other, your brain can be 'tricked' into thinking it is hearing 5Hz (the difference between the two frequencies).
This is all well and good, but 20Hz soundwaves don't travel too good. Ultrasonic frequencies do though. Remember those TV remote controls in the 70s and 80s that used ultrasonics? You could control your neighbor's TV. (See the start of Poltergeist 1 if you forget)
But how does sending 50Khz sound waves through the air help you hear anything? Ay, well there's the rub. The concept of beat frequencies is used once again.
If you send a 50Khz sound wave from one source and pinpoint it at a certain spot, and then send a 51Khz sound wave from another source to the same spot, anyone at the place where those two beams join up will hear a 1Khz sound, thanks to beat frequencies.
That's how you can pinpoint sounds to a single place. It just took a genius to get the connection between beat frequencies and ultrasonics to work this one out. I think it's cool.
You said..
Before anyone says anything about how I shouldn't be on the sidewalks, I am an experienced bicyclist that knows how to handle the thing. I've never come close to hitting anyone
Whereas before that you said:
So I pressed on my breaks. Well, soon as I apply just a small bit of pressure, the front tire locks up hard. I take off - a good 5 and a half feet high and about 15-20 feet forward; right at the shoulder height of the two people on the sidewalk
Okay, I guess you're too in the zone to check what you're typing, right?
The only reason I think games like Silent Scope are 'lame' is because of the lack of control you have. It's just a simple shoot-shoot-shoot game, and I'm used to games like Max Payne and GTA3 where you actually get full control.
Perhaps my problem is that I like to apply strategy to action games (yep, even Quake 3 has strategy), whereas most arcade games are about reaction times and aim.
I want this at a local arcade soon!
This might be slightly off-topic, but it has to be remembered that since the 80s, arcades have REALLY had tough times.
Back in the 70s and 80s, the cost of the best games and technology was prohibitively high, so arcades did good business. Since the mid 90s (pretty much since PlayStation), however, you can buy something just as powerful as an arcade machine for home use and you don't need to go to the arcade at all.
I am somewhat saddened by the 'fall' of the arcade, and think they add a great social aspect to gaming. Imagine modern day arcades with 16 player Quake 3 style shoot-em-ups.. but it ain't going to happen for most arcades. Most arcades these days still have their crappy early 90s games (Test Drive, Sega Rally, etc) along with a bunch of lame shooting games.
Arcades are for tourists nowadays, not serious gamers. And that is sad.
C is a system level language, and is still used widely, especially in OS and VM coding. The whole point is for C to remain stable. I certainly don't see Python being used in these applications, and it doesn't deserve to be used at the system level either.. Python is nothing but a glorified scripting language.
Thanks to this bill, it will be legal to hack Google!
Google are distributing TERABYTES of copyright information without permission thanks to their cache. They take entire sites to put on their cache.. so surely they're breaking some copyright laws.
Well, if Google has cached your site, now is the time to FIGHT BACK! Get hacking Google today. I wouldn't have said this before, but it will be LEGAL thanks to this bill! Yay!
Hack your favourite search engine.. TODAY!
Securing Linux is like making a reliable kit-car. It's made of lots of different parts put together to make a whole. Unfortunately, every whole has holes.
Let's put the argument into two forms. The basic, and the advanced. The basic argument is that Linus created Linux to be unsecure so that he could recruits hundreds of programmers to take up the cause. If he had written a perfect OS first time round, would it have got lots of people coding on it? No. It is also interesting to note that Linux is written in C, a language that provides no security features such as garbage collection and object orientation (used to keep things in one context, so that code cannot attack other objects).. whereas if the kernel were written in x86, these problems would not exist.
The advanced spin is that Linux suffers from 'feature gaps', a problem that doesn't exist in Windows 2000/XP thanks to Microsoft's superior code. It is a very sad fact, but logically Microsoft's programmers are smarter than those in open source, simply because they're able to earn more money. These feature gaps provide the perfect holes for DOS attacks and other such security nasties.
If you really want security, go for an operating system controlled by one company, who knows what their code does, and how to fix it if it goes wrong. The only option, in that case, is Microsoft.
I really can't understand the concept here. How can you link programming and food in such a way? It just doesn't work.
However, there are 'cookbooks' which don't relate to food at all. For example, 'The Design Cookbook,' a book that contains inspirational pictures and layouts to give designers inspiration. It's not full of recipes for food, but 'recipes' for designing.
Why couldn't there be a similar thing for programming? A book full of inspirational essays about coding, tiny tips on various algorithms, and charts illustrating how different data structures work, etc.. all stuff that you might already know but that might remind you of using a certain forgotten process in a new project.
I don't know what your cellphone technology is like in the USA (and I probably don't want to, since I can't think of a single US cellphone manufacturer or innovator), but this sort of thing is not really new in Europe, and is probably even passé in Japan.
This ArialPhone uses a base station as the actual phone bit, as having the phone actually right next to your ear like that all the time would probably give you cancer. So... this is absolutely no different to a standard Bluetooth phone with a Bluetooth headset.
Infact, it's worse, this uses 900Mhz spread spectrum, whereas Bluetooth is better because it has a cool name and better branding.
(like the Weather Channel funding Radeon 8500 drivers)
;-)
Yeah, someone has to though. ATI sure don't seem to spend anything on developing their own drivers.
While your site looks quite good, why do we need a directory specifically for projects that accept donations? Isn't that like creating a new Google just for open source software? Why not just use the resources we already have?
Open source projects can say easily enough on their own Web pages whether they accept donations or not, and can also put this information on their SourceForge.
To that end, I think this would be an area where SourceForge could help. Sure, SourceForge might not be ideal, but it's the one place where almost all open source projects are listed.
Or am I wrong? Is Debian really that much better?
I'd rather play Tic-Tac-Toe or some good old Global Thermonuclear War on that screen.
What we need are more giant parking areas with quick Central London public transport connections!
As a Londoner, I get to see the traffic problem constantly.
London traffic can be divided into four groups. The first are local residents. The second are people driving to work. The third are deliveries/essential workers, etc. The fourth are non-commercial folks going into London for shopping or recreation.
The first group live there, so we cannot remove them. Few Central London residents have cars anyway, so this is no problem.
The second group don't want to be driving around the middle of London, but feel it is their only choice because of poor public transport.
The third group are essential. Deliveries must be made, and the road network is the only system truly capable.
The fourth group drive for convenience. I am one of those people. We would rather not spend an hour on a smelly train surrounded by (mostly) grubby folk when we can sit in our air conditioned cars listening to our own music.
It's all about convenience.
There is a large out of town car park in Greenwich. It costs £4 to park there for a day. When I want to go into Central London, I park there, get on the tube at the Millennium Dome and I am in Central London within 10 minutes. It's a good idea. It keeps me off of the central london roads, and I only have to put up with public transport for 10 minutes!
What we need are more giant parking areas with quick Central London public transport connections!
I do not want to have to fight for a parking space in a tiny car park 15 miles out of town and then look forward to a one hour train journey in! They should be creating giant car parks like those at Greenwich where we can park cheaply and get into Central London within 15 minutes.
If they can't do that, many will continue to drive in, since most of us own a car BECAUSE WE DON'T *WANT* TO USE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. I cannot stand the people on public transport, the discomfort, and having to stand! Cut the journey times, and I'll use it for 10 minutes here and there.
Did that 'nice hotels' link really have to be there? In a Slashdot story, we expect that one of the links will have part of the specific story in question. Instead, I read through an extremely vile description of a hotel in New York City. Is throughing in pointless links really necessar y?
This certainly approaches the status of 'non story'.
I didn't realize Slashdot was being used as an open forum for people to solicit financial contributions these days. Even worse, the original post did not imply that financial contributions were required, and just say they needed 'help' and 'contributions'.
If GNOME needed more programmers, people to work on documentation, evangelists, etc.. then posting to Slashdot makes sense and I'm sure a lot of us would jump in.. but just having a post that solicits nothing but money is pathetic.
It's all about the money, it's all about the dum-dum-da-dum-dum-dum.
Fair enough, perhaps I shouldn't apply European problems to the USA.
So, I state it more accurately: There is no TDI Auto in the UK. This is because Brits are stupid (I'm one, btw) and don't like automatic vehicles.. hence no market demand = no supply.
The Americans are smart and like driving cars with automatic transmission, whereas their European counterparts like wrestling with sticks and drive like retards.
There are no popular automatic diesel cars, and in fact, I've never even heard of an automatic diesel car. This may be why they are extremely unpopular in the US. If they made an automatic diesel that was cost effective, I'd get one.
Okay, you're not meant to grouse about unaccepted submissions, but this joke was too tempting not to make ;-) I posted this several days ago, and I have been blacklisted! Nooooooo!
The grounding in reality that you speak of seems to me to result in a person who cannot appreciate art simply for art's sake.
;-)
While I might not be interested in fantastical stories, games, or entertainment, I'm a bit of an art and architecture freak. It is easy to argue that architecture is practical, even in the most obscure forms.. but, you have a point on art. I appreciate art (Picasso being one of my favorites) because I appreciate aesthetics. Aesthetics is something that neither games, stories, or TV shows can really deliver.
Also, I should add, you refer to Star Trek as fantasy but not fantasy, since scientists were led by their ideas and reached similar conclusions. Before the scientists started their work and truly became interested, was it fantasy, or was it still on the not-fantasy fringe? If scientists hadn't reached those conclusions yet, would you still find them interesting?
Well, it has to be said that early sci-fi (mid 60s and before) was really just good old-fashioned 'fantasy'. Sci-fi in the 50s made as much logical sense as fantasy games do today. With the progression of technology, and an improvement in the understanding of the general populace, sci-fi presents less of a fantasy, and more of a reality now. To answer your question directly, I don't think sci-fi would exist as it does now if it were not for the scientific discoveries made in recent years.
Of course, opinions are like assholes, everyone has one, and they're usually full of shit
You make a good point, but I disagree with your opinion of it.
Unfortunately, many people don't have this sort of imagination, and when confronted with this it all just seems silly, and they can't get into the story because their attempt at keeping the world within a preconceived worldview fails and suspension of disbelief cannot occur.
Why, 'unforunately'?
I am interested in things that are realistic. This does not mean they have to be real, per se, but that in the context of a certain environment, they are realistic.
For example, Star Trek TNG could be said to be reasonably realistic. Sure, we don't have transporters and warp drive yet, but it all makes a sort of scientific sense. We understand the concepts. Farscape, however, stretches the bounds of realism a little with a 'living ship'. This is a concept we cannot really grasp today, and it seems a bit like 'fantasy'.
'Fantasy' has no appeal for me, but I don't see that as being an 'unfortunately'. 'Fantasy' is departure from realism to satisfy the participants/viewers of a particular medium. Fantasy is designed solely for entertainment purposes, and is not very constructive.
Star Trek and '2001' are not true, and therefore 'a fantasy', but they are not fantasy, per se. They are realistic in their own contexts, and can give us some deep insights into matters that actually affect us. I mean, the whole idea of warp drive and transportation brought up in the Star Trek universe has inspired and led scientists to come to similar conclusions! Since when did Dungeons and Dragons or Star Wars do that?
Yeah, I saw it. Not all of it, but I saw it.
The whole point is that this, like everything else in Buffy-world, is caused by some really bad creature.
Must it must be a f'king dumb 'bad creature'. If I were a bad creature and could get people to do stupid shit, I'd have it so that Sarah Michelle Gellar rips her clothes off.