If something's programmed/conditioned to respond to certain stimulii, and those stimulii reflect something people recognise as emotional triggers, technically it can "feel emotions". After all, that's just what we do.
Sure, it's weird to say that, but it's technically true:)
Godwin's law is a crux for people like you to rest your weary argument on. Simply mentioning the nazis can't invalidate every single logical point regarding them, otherwise no-one could even mention. Start thinking for yourself, and stop relying on cliched pseudo-logic.
You didn't answer my question - if the guns were so successful at preventing people opposing their will, why on earth didn't they get stopped? Surely, as every country has guns, there must be no war.
How on earth is shooting a voting machine standing up for your rights? It's criminal damage. By your thinking, if you don't like someone, you're allowed to shoot them. Jesus. We stopped acting like that when we climed out of the caves, into the sunlight. Obviously you didn't.
My statement about terrorism isn't a blanket statement. If you know anything about foreign policy and international diplomacy, you'd see that. The single outcome from Bush's insane foreign policy is alienating the rest of the world. That has a serious side effect: global terrorism. Bush realises that, as he's using it to keep himself in power (and all you sheep nicely scared at home, stuck to CNN/Fox/Whatever, sucking down propaganda).
Grown ups use their minds to solve differences, not their fists. When was the last time you saw a child scrape their knee and reason away the pain? They don't - they react and get all huffy, like America is doing now. It's behaving like a 400lb toddler with a skimmed knee. It thinks it's right (in fact, it's absolutely convinced it is), yet due to its incredibly narrow world view, it can't see that it isn't, by a long way.
You seem to equate being passive with no results. That just goes to further highlight your limited perception of diplomacy. I bet, according to you, Gandhi didn't do anything.
So, if guns save people's rights, how come the Nazis walked over most of Europe? Those countries had whole armies, and some even had air forces! If you're telling me some accountants in Idaho who fire M16s at the weekend are going to be a match for whatever Bush throws at them, you need help. They ain't gonna protect shit.
"Weakness in the military" - you mean the lack of training US troops get? Getting spooked and killing each other and civilians? Launching Patriot missiles at friendly aircraft? Spraying residential areas with armor-piercing ammo? Genius.
If you support Bush's foreign policy, you support terrorism. The foreign policy will bring more harm to the US than any "love of freedom and democracy", the oft-spouted reason al-Qa'ida supposedly hates the US.
Supporting a policy like that shows how little you know about people, the world, politics and sanity.
Dude, it's slashdot. You have to expect brilliant articles being overlooked and replaced by dupes from earlier this morning. Just like you have to expect overzealous moderators and insensitive clods...
It's easy to get your feelings hurt on here, but just remember that it's slashdot. After all's said and done, this is just a website with a bunch of geeks spouting off:-P
But there are even more plugins only for windows, unfortunately. Coupled with the fact Cool Edit supports DirectX filters and any other sort of filter it can get its hands on, means linux has a lot of catch-up to play...
I'm all for linux taking over the world, but let's be reasonable about this. If we over-inflate how good linux software is, people will contribute to it less.
GIMP 2 will never oust Photoshop. Have you seen photoshop 7 lately? No other commercial software comes close, let alone OSS...
SODIPODI while functional, has an interface that looks like a car crash, and is nowhere near as intuitive as anything from Adobe
Blender 2.32 errr 3D studio max, anyone? poser? Blender has its work cut out competing.
Audacity 1.2.0 Step in the right direction, but Cool Edit and the myriad other sound apps on other platforms mostly exceed its spec and performance, unfortunately.
It's coming round - the gap between commercial, established software and OSS is closing, but it's not even close yet. A few more years, and things will get closer.
No, I think Linux needs to get its foundation in place before reaching for the stars. Cohesion is the first step... once all linux software looks and works in a similar manner, people will become accustomed to using "linux" as opposed to redhat/mandrake/whatever. Once that happens, more software will creep into the scene, pandering to the windows converts. That will lead to a larger take-up, which would means it was worthwhile for companies to make more software for linux. Once that happens, it's a chain-reaction.
For "linux on the desktop" to exist, linux has to be a useable, approachable OS. Not a recording studio;)
Of course there was no game labelled "GTA:4", but there was a 4th game in the GTA series. However, "GTA: Vice City" is longer to type and has no indication (to those less informed about this series, as few as there may be) to its position in the GTA series.
Well, seeing as 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all out on the PC, I'm pretty sure 5 will be, too. They do, however, stagger the releases (GTA3/PC was released over 6 months after its PS/2 counterpart), which technically makes it 'exclusive' for consoles for a few months, at least:)
You're talking as if GTA4 was a bad game... it's clearly one of their most successful games ever, and the series has one of the largest followings around.
I think we'd be lucky if it was the GTA engine with minimal improvements in a new locale:) we'd be guaranteed a great game.
Get it right, numbnuts - don't make blanket statements like that, it just shows how little you know on the subject. If you knew what liberalism meant, you'd realise how stupid you sound.
"I heard on NPR a week or two ago, from an author who wrote about the 1918 pandemic, that in one instance a man boarded a trolley. Before the trolley got to the end of the line, the conductor and several passengers were dead."
How did he get on the trolley in the first place? Shouldn't he have died minutes after he got it? If that was the case, the whole world would have died out:) I think it's a slight exaggeration:)
Seriously, if you can't get Windows Media Player to work, your computer's drivers are faulty. Media Player, on a properly configured machine, which yours isn't by the sounds of things, works flawlessly. Make sure you have WHQL-certified drivers for your cards, and you're set.
If it's such a shitty product, why doesn't it give everyone issues? Why did Microsoft release it, if it can't even play videos properly? Why does it work perfectly for the vast majority of people? By your logic, if two Ford Explorers have faulty seatbelts and loose ashtrays, they all do.
Look, you can't say that Quicktime is a good video player, or the act of installing video codecs on a mac is a dream. Macs, for video, have a long way to go. Windows offers a unified, system-wide method of using codecs of every variety, in any combination. It even downloads them for you, if you don't have them. You can't even watch full-screen videos in QuickTime without buying the professional version, for crying out loud. 'nuff said.
We can get video to work on a mac, it just takes about 6 times the effort. Hunting out which codecs you need, trying to find them, trying to install them. Trying to get QuickTime to not crash when you open it, etc. It's hardly a streamlined process.
Seriously, if you can't get a windows PC to play a DVD, I wonder how you manage to get out of bed in a morning without killing yourself with your slippers.
I've authored video on different windows PCs, and even low-end crappy PCs do a good job of it (provided you have the disk space to spare).
What do you suggest is better for video production and watching? It certainly isn't Linux, that's for sure, and it certainly isn't a mac.
Silly me, I forgot this was slashdot. How dare I voice my concerns over the small-mindedness of the average American... bad dave420! naughty dave420! no soup for you!
Take Sweden, for example. 10mb connections are standard in many, many houses across Sweden. As for Singapore's national network (ethernet speeds across the whole country), I guess they don't count either.
America isn't the biggest player in many things these days, just in egos, it seems.
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Sure, it's weird to say that, but it's technically true :)
You didn't answer my question - if the guns were so successful at preventing people opposing their will, why on earth didn't they get stopped? Surely, as every country has guns, there must be no war.
How on earth is shooting a voting machine standing up for your rights? It's criminal damage. By your thinking, if you don't like someone, you're allowed to shoot them. Jesus. We stopped acting like that when we climed out of the caves, into the sunlight. Obviously you didn't.
My statement about terrorism isn't a blanket statement. If you know anything about foreign policy and international diplomacy, you'd see that. The single outcome from Bush's insane foreign policy is alienating the rest of the world. That has a serious side effect: global terrorism. Bush realises that, as he's using it to keep himself in power (and all you sheep nicely scared at home, stuck to CNN/Fox/Whatever, sucking down propaganda).
Grown ups use their minds to solve differences, not their fists. When was the last time you saw a child scrape their knee and reason away the pain? They don't - they react and get all huffy, like America is doing now. It's behaving like a 400lb toddler with a skimmed knee. It thinks it's right (in fact, it's absolutely convinced it is), yet due to its incredibly narrow world view, it can't see that it isn't, by a long way.
You seem to equate being passive with no results. That just goes to further highlight your limited perception of diplomacy. I bet, according to you, Gandhi didn't do anything.
this ain't technical support ;)
I think the fact it can't do anything is more of a problem when it comes to helping old/disabled people... :)
"Weakness in the military" - you mean the lack of training US troops get? Getting spooked and killing each other and civilians? Launching Patriot missiles at friendly aircraft? Spraying residential areas with armor-piercing ammo? Genius.
If you support Bush's foreign policy, you support terrorism. The foreign policy will bring more harm to the US than any "love of freedom and democracy", the oft-spouted reason al-Qa'ida supposedly hates the US.
Supporting a policy like that shows how little you know about people, the world, politics and sanity.
It's easy to get your feelings hurt on here, but just remember that it's slashdot. After all's said and done, this is just a website with a bunch of geeks spouting off :-P
And long may it continue... ;)
Jesus meant to go to Australia, but, err... he was watching Divorce Court on TV, and kind of forgot. or something.
check this out Closed source, but free as in beer/hookers/whatever :-P
But there are even more plugins only for windows, unfortunately. Coupled with the fact Cool Edit supports DirectX filters and any other sort of filter it can get its hands on, means linux has a lot of catch-up to play...
GIMP 2 will never oust Photoshop. Have you seen photoshop 7 lately? No other commercial software comes close, let alone OSS...
SODIPODI while functional, has an interface that looks like a car crash, and is nowhere near as intuitive as anything from Adobe
Blender 2.32 errr 3D studio max, anyone? poser? Blender has its work cut out competing.
Audacity 1.2.0 Step in the right direction, but Cool Edit and the myriad other sound apps on other platforms mostly exceed its spec and performance, unfortunately.
It's coming round - the gap between commercial, established software and OSS is closing, but it's not even close yet. A few more years, and things will get closer.
For "linux on the desktop" to exist, linux has to be a useable, approachable OS. Not a recording studio ;)
And that indicates it's the 4th game in the series how, exactly? :-P that was my point
strange, huh?
Of course there was no game labelled "GTA:4", but there was a 4th game in the GTA series. However, "GTA: Vice City" is longer to type and has no indication (to those less informed about this series, as few as there may be) to its position in the GTA series.
Well, seeing as 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all out on the PC, I'm pretty sure 5 will be, too. They do, however, stagger the releases (GTA3/PC was released over 6 months after its PS/2 counterpart), which technically makes it 'exclusive' for consoles for a few months, at least :)
I think we'd be lucky if it was the GTA engine with minimal improvements in a new locale :) we'd be guaranteed a great game.
Get it right, numbnuts - don't make blanket statements like that, it just shows how little you know on the subject. If you knew what liberalism meant, you'd realise how stupid you sound.
With about 100 times as many civil servants to keep it going, mind you...
How did he get on the trolley in the first place? Shouldn't he have died minutes after he got it? If that was the case, the whole world would have died out :) I think it's a slight exaggeration :)
If it's such a shitty product, why doesn't it give everyone issues? Why did Microsoft release it, if it can't even play videos properly? Why does it work perfectly for the vast majority of people? By your logic, if two Ford Explorers have faulty seatbelts and loose ashtrays, they all do.
We can get video to work on a mac, it just takes about 6 times the effort. Hunting out which codecs you need, trying to find them, trying to install them. Trying to get QuickTime to not crash when you open it, etc. It's hardly a streamlined process.
I've authored video on different windows PCs, and even low-end crappy PCs do a good job of it (provided you have the disk space to spare).
What do you suggest is better for video production and watching? It certainly isn't Linux, that's for sure, and it certainly isn't a mac.
Silly me, I forgot this was slashdot. How dare I voice my concerns over the small-mindedness of the average American... bad dave420! naughty dave420! no soup for you!
Congratulations, moderators - another fine piece of work. Way to act impartially! woo!
Take Sweden, for example. 10mb connections are standard in many, many houses across Sweden. As for Singapore's national network (ethernet speeds across the whole country), I guess they don't count either.
America isn't the biggest player in many things these days, just in egos, it seems.