Banning LUA because it's a munition. I did not know that - rofl - but it sure sounds like America. Just ban a language. That has already been "exported" and has many programmers and companies perfectly adept in it. Please everyone, unlearn LUA now! Anyway I'm in Central America (Costa Rica) - I was just joking about the routers. But yeah good idea to stay as far away from American tainted merchandise as possible I guess.

And they're going to do all that with Cisco routers, right? LOL

Cow farts, and suddenly we've invented cow bowling!

Considering that we have evolved all these different sensory organs to help us survive, I'm sure that if perceiving a 4th dimension granted any biological advantage at all, we would be able to perceive it. Sorry to be anthropic about it but my field is biology not physics, lol.

Math is a tool, nothing more. The universe doesn't give a damn about math - that's an abstract human model that happens to simplify things for us so we can understand abstract concepts. No, the universe follows its own set of rules and proportion, and we make math to describe it to ourselves.

Yeah, it's like chemistry. Geometry, the actual shapes of molecules, sizes and charge distribution/volume of atoms, all of these affect chemical properties. We've gotten to the point where we can easily predict certain reactions merely by thinking a little about a given molecule. One day maybe we'll find out what's behind the geometry that's forcing the basic stuff of matter to fit together the way it does.

No, "high order" intelligence discards the idea of "soul". You mean rudimentary or average intelligence, surely.

Yes and no. If it's a machine then it's a very badly assembled, and shoddily coded machine. It keeps interrupting itself, it hardly ever stays focused on a task without a great deal of training, it produces irrational thoughts and sometimes even causes its host to act upon them. One advantage, however, is that it is capable of 100% never been seen before "creativity" once in a while, as well. Code me a machine that can do all that, and I will agree you have reproduced a human brain.

I remember being able to whistle the 300 baud handshake tone, and the modem would actually try to answer me :)

I understand, and it must be a PITA for you if you absolutely must have the latest tech, bugs and all. But the software and even firmware industry now have a policy of "release THEN patch". I've always thought this irresponsible since the trend started in the 80's (before that programs were usually shipped bug free and fully tested - of course they were simpler programs too). With the advent of the internet companies got even sloppier. I mean, who DOESN'T have an internet connection to download a patch nowadays? Sigh.

So while it's not unreasonable to insist on getting value for your money, it is unreasonable to assume that the software industry responsible for your drivers will change habits that have been entrenched for many years, just to keep you happy. Their answer will be "wait a couple months and there'll be a patch that addresses this issue".

You missed it completely, didn't you? Oh well.

Hey that sounds like a good game still I'm sure people will manage to lose all their money so why don't we put in a feature I dunno let's call it "too big to fail" so if they lose everything we just put more cash in their account. I'd play that game.

Hey that one is almost as good as: "You guys are here talking about video games DON'T YOU KNOW WE ARE AT WAR?" Honestly if you have nothing interesting to say, why are you even here?

Driver nightmares? I have zero driver problems on my PC. Of course I never buy the "bleeding edge" brand new "hot video-card for this year just in time for Christmas", either. I'm perfectly happy being one or two generations behind, where cards and drivers are less buggy. I don't think it's so much a PC vs console issue as it is an "early adopter" issue. It's not only software companies that crowd-source the "beta test" of their products, apparently.

See if you were running linux instead of windows then you wouldn't have these.... lol. Welcome to slashdot :P