Determinism of behavior of the Universe is very much an issue of scientific research -- we already know that it is not in general but most likely is in probablistic description of processes. This means, for practical purposes we can use deterministic descriptions and may have to acknowledge limitation of their scope in presence of truly random processes (as in, my computer definitely can add "DISREGARD THIS, I SUCK COCKS" to the end of this comment, just the probability is extremely low).
"Free will", on the other hand, belongs to the domain of art and fiction.
I'm not at all religious and strongly doubt god exists, but to deny the existence of one's own self-awareness and soul I think requires a very special kind of blindness.
No, you are absolutely definitely religious if you believe that.
Free will has NOTHING to do with determinism. Free will has no meaning except from the point of view of whoever exercises it, and he can not predict his own behavior without predicting deciding to predict his behavior ad infinitum, what makes no sense. For everyone else, the question is absolutely irrelevant, so ability or inability to predict anyone else's actions is completely meaningless.
Is this new trend similar to the gui vs CLI wars? X was hated and used in the UNIX community too back in the late 1980s similar to Gnome-Shell/Unity today as well.
That's not true. Some loudmouthed idiots wrote a book that disses Unix, however everyone else accepted X11. By 1990 there was already a virtual-desktop window manager.
So it's confirmed -- Microsoft not only is run by evil and stupid people, they are now stupid enough to hinder their own evil plans. Before (under Gates) it was the opposite -- evil enough to rescue their stupid plans.
Of course, It is biased -- but it is biased exactly as much as US non-Fox media.
Fox News is special -- it's pretty much extreme right-wing propaganda editorials overlayed on top of "official" already-biased news. Pravda at it worst had less bias than those editorials, however Americans can easily point out "normal" news from Fox that sound exactly like ones from CNN, and pretend that it's something sane. It is not.
And yet industrial (or any other) espionage is not an act of war while sabotage definitely is. There is a reason why there was no sabotage between countries that already have nuclear weapons (tall tales about gas pipelines notwithstanding).
Comcast cable box for cable channels. HDHomerun for OTA channels. Hauppauge HD PVR for capture from Comcast box. Firewire for Comcast box control (because HD PVR IR transmitter is broken under Linux).
MythTV for watching/recording/skipping commercials. MythTV frontend-only setup on a laptop/in other rooms.
(optionally) HDFury to deal with HDMI outputs (though Comcast boxes have usable component output). (optionally) Bluray player with Netflix and other things that don't work on Linux.
For one, loads of people need MS Word. Not OpenOffice (or whatever is the new name for it). My sister (pro-photograph) needs Photoshop, not the fscking Gimp. You can argue they/truly need/ it. But one way or another, why should they run an OS that lacks they prefered applications, when they run one that has?
That's a problem with ADVERTISEMENT. People use whatever they hear about all the time.
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But that won't affect your actions at the point in question, therefore it's irrelevant.
Determinism of behavior of the Universe is very much an issue of scientific research -- we already know that it is not in general but most likely is in probablistic description of processes. This means, for practical purposes we can use deterministic descriptions and may have to acknowledge limitation of their scope in presence of truly random processes (as in, my computer definitely can add "DISREGARD THIS, I SUCK COCKS" to the end of this comment, just the probability is extremely low).
"Free will", on the other hand, belongs to the domain of art and fiction.
I'm not at all religious and strongly doubt god exists, but to deny the existence of one's own self-awareness and soul I think requires a very special kind of blindness.
No, you are absolutely definitely religious if you believe that.
but obviously there's a small and subtle implication that free will at least *hints* at a non-deterministic universe.
No. Stupid people want to be something special, operating outside of the laws of nature. They are not and they do not.
Those "philosophers" are actually theologists, and should go back to their stupid cults.
or if determinism necessarily frees us all of ultimate responsibilty.
No, it does not.
and questions of free will
Free will has NOTHING to do with determinism. Free will has no meaning except from the point of view of whoever exercises it, and he can not predict his own behavior without predicting deciding to predict his behavior ad infinitum, what makes no sense. For everyone else, the question is absolutely irrelevant, so ability or inability to predict anyone else's actions is completely meaningless.
No. You just didn't get the memo.
Is this new trend similar to the gui vs CLI wars? X was hated and used in the UNIX community too back in the late 1980s similar to Gnome-Shell/Unity today as well.
That's not true. Some loudmouthed idiots wrote a book that disses Unix, however everyone else accepted X11. By 1990 there was already a virtual-desktop window manager.
Emails, Facebook posts, sharing photos & videos... they're creating kinds of content.
No.
Did you not see Microsoft's intention to insulate themselves from x86 when they released .net?
That attempt failed, and Microsoft is reversing that direction (but they kept UI and API initially based on that idea).
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So it's confirmed -- Microsoft not only is run by evil and stupid people, they are now stupid enough to hinder their own evil plans. Before (under Gates) it was the opposite -- evil enough to rescue their stupid plans.
a windows user touched you as a child didn't they, that's the only way to explain your fuming, irrational rants.
When I was a child, Windows did not exist yet.
it's time to relax and realize it's just an operating system, you shouldn't be emotionally attached to it.
It's "only" the direction of technology development for the foreseeable future that is now tainted by Microsoft mode of thinking.
Of course, It is biased -- but it is biased exactly as much as US non-Fox media.
Fox News is special -- it's pretty much extreme right-wing propaganda editorials overlayed on top of "official" already-biased news. Pravda at it worst had less bias than those editorials, however Americans can easily point out "normal" news from Fox that sound exactly like ones from CNN, and pretend that it's something sane. It is not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage - also espionage, not war.
That would be an act of war. And this is exactly why it could not possibly happen.
And yet industrial (or any other) espionage is not an act of war while sabotage definitely is. There is a reason why there was no sabotage between countries that already have nuclear weapons (tall tales about gas pipelines notwithstanding).
Comcast cable box for cable channels.
HDHomerun for OTA channels.
Hauppauge HD PVR for capture from Comcast box.
Firewire for Comcast box control (because HD PVR IR transmitter is broken under Linux).
MythTV for watching/recording/skipping commercials.
MythTV frontend-only setup on a laptop/in other rooms.
(optionally) HDFury to deal with HDMI outputs (though Comcast boxes have usable component output).
(optionally) Bluray player with Netflix and other things that don't work on Linux.
He is most likely a Microsoft astroturfer, so all his posts are compilations of what someone else said negative about Linux.
For one, loads of people need MS Word. Not OpenOffice (or whatever is the new name for it). My sister (pro-photograph) needs Photoshop, not the fscking Gimp. You can argue they /truly need/ it. But one way or another, why should they run an OS that lacks they prefered applications, when they run one that has?
That's a problem with ADVERTISEMENT. People use whatever they hear about all the time.
That's not a console or shell, that's what Microsoft programmers think, console and shell should be like. In other words, complete idiosyncratic shit.
Am I the only one who doesn't see that as a problem?
No, but there are a lot of Microsoft astroturfers in this thread.
You see it as biased because you treat US media spin as the norm.
It certainly does if there's a kernel update.
Unlikely, I grant you. But not by any stretch of the imagination impossible.
There are very few things impossible. However Ubuntu never crashed after kernel updates.
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