> At least stop animation / claymation is tangible and real.
You want Lord of the Rings by Ray Harryhausen?
Here's news for you: stagecraft and cinematography are, in the end, all illusion. The red cloth that spills out in opera death scenes? Not real blood either.
> Faramir, instead of being noble, was more like his brother
I think Tolkein made Faramir impossibly perfect, but I think both Tolkein and Jackson omitted character development at both ends. Tolkein has Faramir boasting that he wouldn't pick up the ring if he saw it lying at the side of the road, but never even put that boast to the test. What, is he better than Gandalf and Isuldur combined? Jackson, on the other hand, doesn't include the boast at all.
If you can't come up with a Reply that disproves the Argument, then the whole discourse stops at the Argument. The Rebuttal never occurs and is therefore not fallacious.
Actually, that's kind of another definition of the No True Scotsman fallacy, involving moving the definition around in order to invalidate a rebuttal.
At any rate, you did include the counterexample in the argument: "aside from movies based off books that read like a movie". Those books are not True Scotsmen.
It's a rhetorical fallacy, so it's a a bit subjective. Especially that one, which involves subjective judgments about category membership.
Okay, that looked -- no, was really nasty. Sorry about that. I do stand by my sentiment against armchair directing, but it didn't need to come out that vitriolic.
> The problem was, the Saturn used three main processors and was difficult to program. The PS on the other side, could be programmed very easily
That was not *the* problem, because Sony later came out with the PS2, which also had three processors that had to work together -- and wildly different ones at that (EE, the two slightly different VPs, and the GS) -- and it was a roaring success, utterly demolishing the much more straightforward Dreamcast. But Sony had momentum from the PS1 (and backward compatibility!) and bundled one of those newfangled "DVD Players" in with it, while Sega was still smarting over its market mistakes.
Technology is just a piece of the business, but it's still just a piece all the same. Sega failed in its business for reasons unrelated to the technology.
Notice how all the people saying "not all scientists believe in (global warming|evolutionary theory)" quote actual numbers. Because it tends to make them look silly to say "0.03% of scientists surveyed do not believe in (global warming|evolutionary theory)".
This is a tired old tactic: manufacture doubt from consensus and what I call "Proof through Scorn". The Evolutionists are particularly sad about it, since they can't even come up with a falsifiable alternative hypothesis, only leer smugly and repeat "Are you SURE? Are you SURE you're SURE? Are you SURE you're SURE you're..." blah blah ad nauseum.
The scientific community, like any, has its biases that have impeded progress on occasion. But it has an even stronger bias toward rigor and the truth. Who the fuck is Ben Stein, and why does he think he's in the slightest bit qualified?
You've explained the advantages of textfiles pretty well, but there's something to be said about GUI configurations: a well-done GUI makes it impossible to enter invalid data. You may not know whether that checked box took when you press "ok" (I have a couple apps that fail to persist configs out of the gui configurator due to a typo) but you do know that whatever configuration it edited, it added a "yes" or "no", or a 1 or a 0 or a "true" or "false", and not "FALS"
There's really no good reason that a proper configuration tool can't provide the best of both.
Are you kidding? Make it a cause celebre for its reinstantiation and strenghtening? All you have to do if you're the FBI is to release documents that have everything but the page numbers redacted. Or simply ignore FOIA entirely. Or if you're the Executive branch, simply declare yourself above FOIA.
The moldings on Monster cables have a very distinct look (they have a little badge on them with the Monster logo for one) and from the pictures I've seen of the Blue Jeans cables, they look not a bit alike.
This guy's written a template reply for anyone who gets a letter from Monster. Bravo.
They're just cables. The DRM is implemented in the endpoints. HDCP is actually fairly lightweight stuff, and one proposed attack on it could probably be programmed into a FPGA. Of course they already know about that and are planning on making all that HDMI stuff obsolete with DisplayPort, which has 128-bit AES encryption built in.
It's all so absurd though, because no one even wants to get at the raw bitstream. It's way too much data to capture, and aside from the insane amount of CPU power it would require to recompress it, it's already been decoded from a lossy video codec, and recompressing it would introduce all kinds of artifacts, whereas ripping it straight from the source data has no such problem.
Monster's connections aren't solid, they're too tight. People equate cable thickness and connector tension with a "solid" feel and therefore quality, so they bulk up the insulation and make the connectors at the tightest end of the tolerance.. This often ends up damaging the jacks they plug into unless you're really careful when pulling them out.
TOSlink cables are sort of a pain, and take a lot of finagling to get out sometimes, but the only TOSlink cable I had where the plastic shroud at the end actually broke off was a Monster cable (I got it with my equipment as a promotional thing). The thin vinyl "fabric" wrapping has also torn away from the plugs.
Possibly I could get a free replacement for that cable, though I think it's just on their "high end" gear. But frankly it would cost less to just buy a cable off amazon or overstock.com.
As long as you stuff it so it seals normally. If you overstuff it to where you have to use a bunch of tape like one poster suggested... hell they'll probably figure it's full of anthrax.
Basically it has to be in suitable condition for mailing as a first-class letter, even if it's overweight. Snopes has the links to the actual USPS regs on it.
Ah right, BackOrifice, from CdC. That actually had some uses back in the day as a remote admin tool for places that were too cheap to spring for a real system management server.
I'm saying that even in modern vernacular, "gimp" still means "cripple".
Hey, I'm not defending it, it's actually a whole lot worse than the pop culture meaning. You'll get a gasp or two then a sly chuckle if it were just the Pulp Fiction reference. But a really insulting epithet for a physically handicapped person is an "HR Moment". Those defending the name should take note that they still have to defend the name constantly, which is not exactly a good way to start a pitch.
Makes me wonder what else out there has similarly unmarketable names. The scheme compiler called Stalin comes immediately to mind.
Most video cards supporting HDMI have DVI connectors, but support HDCP just fine. The only difference as far as the video path is concerned is form factor.
> Starting with 10.5, I believe OS X allows a process to set a flag preventing debuggers from attaching
It requires the cooperation of the debugger. Recompile the debugger and it ignores the flag. It was meant to keep Apple's sooper-seekrit Intellectual Property in iTunes and the like away from the filthy unwashed. I'm sure recompiling is a DMCA violation of course, so it served its purpose.
> Thought Nvidia 8xxxm-series are better than ATI HD x2xxx ones aswell.
They sure are... where's the AGP version? Last nVidia AGP out there was a 7800 and they arbitrarily cut the render pipelines in half for that one. Why, to punish people for being on AGP?
Meantime I've purchased an AGP X1950 then a HD3850 that's fully functional, save for the more limited texture bandwidth from the AGP bus, and frankly that's just not noticeable.
Yeah, I probably could have upgraded mobos, but I'm a sucker for incremental costs.
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> At least stop animation / claymation is tangible and real.
You want Lord of the Rings by Ray Harryhausen?
Here's news for you: stagecraft and cinematography are, in the end, all illusion. The red cloth that spills out in opera death scenes? Not real blood either.
> Faramir, instead of being noble, was more like his brother
I think Tolkein made Faramir impossibly perfect, but I think both Tolkein and Jackson omitted character development at both ends. Tolkein has Faramir boasting that he wouldn't pick up the ring if he saw it lying at the side of the road, but never even put that boast to the test. What, is he better than Gandalf and Isuldur combined? Jackson, on the other hand, doesn't include the boast at all.
If you can't come up with a Reply that disproves the Argument, then the whole discourse stops at the Argument. The Rebuttal never occurs and is therefore not fallacious.
Actually, that's kind of another definition of the No True Scotsman fallacy, involving moving the definition around in order to invalidate a rebuttal.
At any rate, you did include the counterexample in the argument: "aside from movies based off books that read like a movie". Those books are not True Scotsmen.
It's a rhetorical fallacy, so it's a a bit subjective. Especially that one, which involves subjective judgments about category membership.
Okay, that looked -- no, was really nasty. Sorry about that. I do stand by my sentiment against armchair directing, but it didn't need to come out that vitriolic.
Yeah, that Tom Bombadil was just so integral to the story.
Jackson did the best he could. I lay good odds that your realization of the movie would have sucked. Immensely.
> The problem was, the Saturn used three main processors and was difficult to program. The PS on the other side, could be programmed very easily
That was not *the* problem, because Sony later came out with the PS2, which also had three processors that had to work together -- and wildly different ones at that (EE, the two slightly different VPs, and the GS) -- and it was a roaring success, utterly demolishing the much more straightforward Dreamcast. But Sony had momentum from the PS1 (and backward compatibility!) and bundled one of those newfangled "DVD Players" in with it, while Sega was still smarting over its market mistakes.
Technology is just a piece of the business, but it's still just a piece all the same. Sega failed in its business for reasons unrelated to the technology.
Bah, that's the ANTI-Evolutionists. My brain has evolved to require coffee before it can be fully employed in posting.
Notice how all the people saying "not all scientists believe in (global warming|evolutionary theory)" quote actual numbers. Because it tends to make them look silly to say "0.03% of scientists surveyed do not believe in (global warming|evolutionary theory)".
..." blah blah ad nauseum.
This is a tired old tactic: manufacture doubt from consensus and what I call "Proof through Scorn". The Evolutionists are particularly sad about it, since they can't even come up with a falsifiable alternative hypothesis, only leer smugly and repeat "Are you SURE? Are you SURE you're SURE? Are you SURE you're SURE you're
The scientific community, like any, has its biases that have impeded progress on occasion. But it has an even stronger bias toward rigor and the truth. Who the fuck is Ben Stein, and why does he think he's in the slightest bit qualified?
You've explained the advantages of textfiles pretty well, but there's something to be said about GUI configurations: a well-done GUI makes it impossible to enter invalid data. You may not know whether that checked box took when you press "ok" (I have a couple apps that fail to persist configs out of the gui configurator due to a typo) but you do know that whatever configuration it edited, it added a "yes" or "no", or a 1 or a 0 or a "true" or "false", and not "FALS"
There's really no good reason that a proper configuration tool can't provide the best of both.
> Will Windows play DVD's as a fresh install?
Vista does. No one cares what names you call the GP, they care that they get a lecture when they try to play a mp3.
> it was literally ironed out a week ago
So now we know what the the problem was: wrinkly chips.
> So, how long before FOIA is repealed?
Are you kidding? Make it a cause celebre for its reinstantiation and strenghtening? All you have to do if you're the FBI is to release documents that have everything but the page numbers redacted. Or simply ignore FOIA entirely. Or if you're the Executive branch, simply declare yourself above FOIA.
My response to "I've got nothing to hide" is: "Neither do I, but I don't have to prove it to you."
Your papers, please.
As far as I'm concerned, the government can spy on me all they want, because I'm not doing anything wrong and I've got nothing to hide.
What's your slashdot password then?
The moldings on Monster cables have a very distinct look (they have a little badge on them with the Monster logo for one) and from the pictures I've seen of the Blue Jeans cables, they look not a bit alike.
This guy's written a template reply for anyone who gets a letter from Monster. Bravo.
They're just cables. The DRM is implemented in the endpoints. HDCP is actually fairly lightweight stuff, and one proposed attack on it could probably be programmed into a FPGA. Of course they already know about that and are planning on making all that HDMI stuff obsolete with DisplayPort, which has 128-bit AES encryption built in.
It's all so absurd though, because no one even wants to get at the raw bitstream. It's way too much data to capture, and aside from the insane amount of CPU power it would require to recompress it, it's already been decoded from a lossy video codec, and recompressing it would introduce all kinds of artifacts, whereas ripping it straight from the source data has no such problem.
Monster's connections aren't solid, they're too tight. People equate cable thickness and connector tension with a "solid" feel and therefore quality, so they bulk up the insulation and make the connectors at the tightest end of the tolerance.. This often ends up damaging the jacks they plug into unless you're really careful when pulling them out.
TOSlink cables are sort of a pain, and take a lot of finagling to get out sometimes, but the only TOSlink cable I had where the plastic shroud at the end actually broke off was a Monster cable (I got it with my equipment as a promotional thing). The thin vinyl "fabric" wrapping has also torn away from the plugs.
Possibly I could get a free replacement for that cable, though I think it's just on their "high end" gear. But frankly it would cost less to just buy a cable off amazon or overstock.com.
Apple has for YEARS flat-out *refused* to build a Mac of this type - a normal headless box.
Has Apple ever not sold towers since it started making them?
They come out with the Mac Mini, which many said was the same thing, but it uses laptop memory and harddrives
That's what makes it, um, mini?
Seriously, it sounds like you don't want a Mac. And that is okay. Really. I don't have one either.
As long as you stuff it so it seals normally. If you overstuff it to where you have to use a bunch of tape like one poster suggested ... hell they'll probably figure it's full of anthrax.
Basically it has to be in suitable condition for mailing as a first-class letter, even if it's overweight. Snopes has the links to the actual USPS regs on it.
Ah right, BackOrifice, from CdC. That actually had some uses back in the day as a remote admin tool for places that were too cheap to spring for a real system management server.
I'm saying that even in modern vernacular, "gimp" still means "cripple".
Hey, I'm not defending it, it's actually a whole lot worse than the pop culture meaning. You'll get a gasp or two then a sly chuckle if it were just the Pulp Fiction reference. But a really insulting epithet for a physically handicapped person is an "HR Moment". Those defending the name should take note that they still have to defend the name constantly, which is not exactly a good way to start a pitch.
Makes me wonder what else out there has similarly unmarketable names. The scheme compiler called Stalin comes immediately to mind.
> Gimp is a usually derogatory term used to refer to a (male or female) sexual submissive person
It's synonymous with "cripple", as both a noun and a verb. Pulp Fiction did not invent the word.
Most video cards supporting HDMI have DVI connectors, but support HDCP just fine. The only difference as far as the video path is concerned is form factor.
> Starting with 10.5, I believe OS X allows a process to set a flag preventing debuggers from attaching
It requires the cooperation of the debugger. Recompile the debugger and it ignores the flag. It was meant to keep Apple's sooper-seekrit Intellectual Property in iTunes and the like away from the filthy unwashed. I'm sure recompiling is a DMCA violation of course, so it served its purpose.
> Thought Nvidia 8xxxm-series are better than ATI HD x2xxx ones aswell.
... where's the AGP version? Last nVidia AGP out there was a 7800 and they arbitrarily cut the render pipelines in half for that one. Why, to punish people for being on AGP?
They sure are
Meantime I've purchased an AGP X1950 then a HD3850 that's fully functional, save for the more limited texture bandwidth from the AGP bus, and frankly that's just not noticeable.
Yeah, I probably could have upgraded mobos, but I'm a sucker for incremental costs.