Ah.. so my post is redundant because I didn't hit submit fast enough.
Post was started when no one had posted anything. People should think before they moderate. Go ahead and give this a -1 Offtopic... but something needed to be said.
yup. If they could make a video game that somehow was a propaganda vehicle for Chavez then they would allow it. This has more to do with the fact that video games have more of a anti-communist and pro freedom and thinking point of view. Also I bet he doesn't want to see anything that promotes a pro-American view of history (Rambo, anyone?)
If they had the know how to build a video game where Hugo Chavez conquers the fat capitalists it would be legal. Apparently they don't have programmers in Venezuela.
I would guess that these machines are probably NOT located in the game room, exercise room, or other common area where prisoners congregate. Even if secure room by themselves all you need is a normal guard to watch, which I am guessing is a lot cheaper than putting a pharmacist on staff.
Stupid double negative. Depression can give you a slight advantage in one area of life... but it also causes major disadvantages in many other areas of your life. That's what I meant.
I find it much more difficult to think logically about my own emotional problems when I am depressed.
My emphasis is added there... because I think it's true. I think though the argument that seems to be made here is that you can think better analytically. I know as much as I have tried through my years of depression to think an emotional problem through analytically it has never worked.
Again.. Depression is not a good thing to have no matter what any study says. Just because it can give you a slight advantage in one area of life doesn't mean it gives you a major disadvantage in another area (or with Depression many areas) of life.
Well... along those lines I am happy to read the wikipedia article linked in above, because it is eye opening and balancing to see some of the counter arguments there (which I agree with... the depressed are also less likely to see the positive when it is there).
However, there are plenty of real world FACTS that can be used in a study like this that aren't open to alternative views of reality, and I do believe that many of these negative facts are glossed over in the mind of the "normal" non-depressed person simply for the fact that dwelling on them causes problems in functioning. For instance, if we dwell too much every day on how dangerous the roads really are we might have problems using them every day. That's a bad example, but maybe you can catch my drift from that.
I agree with this. In terms of getting pure enjoyment and satisfaction out of life I think it's much better be a little dim and therefore not be able to see all the problems. I see a ton of people like this in my day to day work and since they have a narrower view of the world (who knows if this is actually less intelligence or not though I often interpret it that way) they are much happier. They have their huge house, they love mowing their yard, they have a cusshy job doing very little somewhere, everything is OK with them so the world must be great. (Too bad they are also the ones in charge most of the time.)
I am lazy and I did a quick google and couldn't find a link...
However, I remember reading about a study in my college Psychology class that pointed to the fact that people depressed actually have a *clearer* view of reality when compared to the non-depressed. It's a rose colored glasses type of effect. When given questions about certain situations, clinically depressed persons tended to give more answers that matched up with the real-world reality of situations than the non-depressed.
In other words the world is shit I am justified in being depressed all the time.
Ok.. I am only being SEMI snarky here after thinking about this...
They ought to make some extra revenue by selling the tech to Japan. While getting a doctor's Rx out of a central machine would probably tick off Americans, the Japanese would have no trouble with it at all... think of everything they buy through those machines already!
There is a common complaint about Flash video performance in Firefox. There is a tip/fix going around that supposedly fixes it because the problem seems to be that Firefox wants to save the tabs every TEN seconds so the user can start where he/she left off after shutting down the program or after a crash.
Save every 10 seconds? That seems a bit much and it certainly seems it could contribute to heat.
Oddly... I have some anecdotal evidence from a laptop that came with Linux that backs up THAT statement. I use an N Series Dell Laptop that came with an Ubuntu installation and I've always had solid battery life. I did an upgrade of the Ubuntu distro and it continues to be true. So maybe Dell paid some attention this this? Who knows.
How about a reference to Howard Hughes and "The Conqueror" to really go back a while and screw people up.
Not only was it expensive, hated by critics, and nose dived at the box office, many people who worked on it died years later because they filmed it upwind of the Nevada nuclear test site.
I thought I read somewhere that the success of Avatar will determine if Cameron's version of Battle Angel Alita will get made... maybe I'm wrong.
So I don't know if I should root of Avatar's success or not. I would love to see Battle Angel get made into a live action move, but maybe not by Cameron?
Firefox, OpenOffice.org and multimedia on Linux continue to suck big time. Lets work on these so that if one takes the Linux plunge, that person gets pleasantly surprised.
Well... that is your PERCEPTION of Firefox, OOo and Linux Multimedia, isn't it. Actually I think Firefox on Linux works great, multimedia is pretty good (though Balkanized across several programs, and that OOo is perfect for the "office" tasks I have to do. I also have to say that Ubuntu is the only distribution of any OS (Windows and MacOS included in this statement) that has impressed me with EVERY new version I install. A lot of the perception is just simply because a lot of people haven't used it. People using it (for more than 5 minutes when it comes out of the box) is what is going to change opinions.
You're probably correct in pointing out that they make a choice. Whether they make an informed choice is another matter. I doubt there are many non-techies that truly make an informed choice about what OS they intend to use. I doubt that usage percentage has anything to do with what system is actually better and more to do with what they use at work or school or what their neighbor who is "good with computers" thinks.
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This is just sad. Worst news all week...
Ah.. so my post is redundant because I didn't hit submit fast enough.
Post was started when no one had posted anything. People should think before they moderate. Go ahead and give this a -1 Offtopic... but something needed to be said.
so.. wow.. you're saying that a huge percentage of papers being turned by my students are plagiarized? Maybe like over 50%?
I guess you shouldn't answer that. I probably don't want to know the answer...
I M glad 2 c this iz happening. I wuz so verrrry conserned about teh litteracy levels in r schools.
Now wen pepl complain 2 me abt kitz not bein litterate, it will give me lolz, the suxors.
All it probably just plays Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up" in a loop.
yup. If they could make a video game that somehow was a propaganda vehicle for Chavez then they would allow it. This has more to do with the fact that video games have more of a anti-communist and pro freedom and thinking point of view. Also I bet he doesn't want to see anything that promotes a pro-American view of history (Rambo, anyone?)
If they had the know how to build a video game where Hugo Chavez conquers the fat capitalists it would be legal. Apparently they don't have programmers in Venezuela.
I would guess that these machines are probably NOT located in the game room, exercise room, or other common area where prisoners congregate. Even if secure room by themselves all you need is a normal guard to watch, which I am guessing is a lot cheaper than putting a pharmacist on staff.
Stupid double negative. Depression can give you a slight advantage in one area of life... but it also causes major disadvantages in many other areas of your life. That's what I meant.
I find it much more difficult to think logically about my own emotional problems when I am depressed.
My emphasis is added there... because I think it's true. I think though the argument that seems to be made here is that you can think better analytically. I know as much as I have tried through my years of depression to think an emotional problem through analytically it has never worked.
Again.. Depression is not a good thing to have no matter what any study says. Just because it can give you a slight advantage in one area of life doesn't mean it gives you a major disadvantage in another area (or with Depression many areas) of life.
Well... along those lines I am happy to read the wikipedia article linked in above, because it is eye opening and balancing to see some of the counter arguments there (which I agree with... the depressed are also less likely to see the positive when it is there).
However, there are plenty of real world FACTS that can be used in a study like this that aren't open to alternative views of reality, and I do believe that many of these negative facts are glossed over in the mind of the "normal" non-depressed person simply for the fact that dwelling on them causes problems in functioning. For instance, if we dwell too much every day on how dangerous the roads really are we might have problems using them every day. That's a bad example, but maybe you can catch my drift from that.
I agree with this. In terms of getting pure enjoyment and satisfaction out of life I think it's much better be a little dim and therefore not be able to see all the problems. I see a ton of people like this in my day to day work and since they have a narrower view of the world (who knows if this is actually less intelligence or not though I often interpret it that way) they are much happier. They have their huge house, they love mowing their yard, they have a cusshy job doing very little somewhere, everything is OK with them so the world must be great. (Too bad they are also the ones in charge most of the time.)
I am lazy and I did a quick google and couldn't find a link...
However, I remember reading about a study in my college Psychology class that pointed to the fact that people depressed actually have a *clearer* view of reality when compared to the non-depressed. It's a rose colored glasses type of effect. When given questions about certain situations, clinically depressed persons tended to give more answers that matched up with the real-world reality of situations than the non-depressed.
In other words the world is shit I am justified in being depressed all the time.
Ok.. I am only being SEMI snarky here after thinking about this...
They ought to make some extra revenue by selling the tech to Japan. While getting a doctor's Rx out of a central machine would probably tick off Americans, the Japanese would have no trouble with it at all... think of everything they buy through those machines already!
When someone talks about a "security chip" my immediate thought is they are talking about DRM.
Hopefully there is none trying to get snuck through the back door here (less of an issue since we are talking Sun, maybe).
use your cabin reading light to create a production by making shadows with your fingers.
There is a common complaint about Flash video performance in Firefox. There is a tip/fix going around that supposedly fixes it because the problem seems to be that Firefox wants to save the tabs every TEN seconds so the user can start where he/she left off after shutting down the program or after a crash.
Save every 10 seconds? That seems a bit much and it certainly seems it could contribute to heat.
Oddly... I have some anecdotal evidence from a laptop that came with Linux that backs up THAT statement. I use an N Series Dell Laptop that came with an Ubuntu installation and I've always had solid battery life. I did an upgrade of the Ubuntu distro and it continues to be true. So maybe Dell paid some attention this this? Who knows.
How about a reference to Howard Hughes and "The Conqueror" to really go back a while and screw people up.
Not only was it expensive, hated by critics, and nose dived at the box office, many people who worked on it died years later because they filmed it upwind of the Nevada nuclear test site.
The Last Airbender is the next M. Night Shyamalan movie.
I haven't seen the Nickelodeon series, but since M. Night is directing it is likely going to have killer plants and mood rings.
I thought I read somewhere that the success of Avatar will determine if Cameron's version of Battle Angel Alita will get made... maybe I'm wrong.
So I don't know if I should root of Avatar's success or not. I would love to see Battle Angel get made into a live action move, but maybe not by Cameron?
Oh I'm so confused...
why do worms hate 'mericans?
Keep your private information private by not posting it on Facebook!
So is being able to get support and applications.
This argument AGAIN? This is the same one used against MacOS for 20 years now. There's plenty of support and aps, just not at Wal-Mart.
Firefox, OpenOffice.org and multimedia on Linux continue to suck big time. Lets work on these so that if one takes the Linux plunge, that person gets pleasantly surprised.
Well... that is your PERCEPTION of Firefox, OOo and Linux Multimedia, isn't it. Actually I think Firefox on Linux works great, multimedia is pretty good (though Balkanized across several programs, and that OOo is perfect for the "office" tasks I have to do. I also have to say that Ubuntu is the only distribution of any OS (Windows and MacOS included in this statement) that has impressed me with EVERY new version I install. A lot of the perception is just simply because a lot of people haven't used it. People using it (for more than 5 minutes when it comes out of the box) is what is going to change opinions.
You're probably correct in pointing out that they make a choice. Whether they make an informed choice is another matter. I doubt there are many non-techies that truly make an informed choice about what OS they intend to use. I doubt that usage percentage has anything to do with what system is actually better and more to do with what they use at work or school or what their neighbor who is "good with computers" thinks.