If google really wanted to boost their own pagerankings, why go to the trouble of making keywords for specific pages? Wouldn't it be easier to tweak the algorithm so that google pages automatically get a certain number of points (or however they do it) bonus?
My tv is so ancient it doesn't handle secondary audio, so i'm glad they do it this was. I have a laptop and listened to it on my headphones while watching it on tv.
The main advantage to having it being downloadable via another program is that it is kind of like the old push technology so that you can subscribe to it and forget about it so that next week's episode will be downloaded automatically.
But you aren't supposed to stream it. This was realeased earlier this week so that in the US you could download it before the show was on. Maybe I'm just have slow reaction times but I had to pause and fast forward the mp3 a few time to get it in sync with the episode, especially after commercials. With a streaming mp3 that wouldn't really be practical with buffering and such especially since there are part where you can hear the show in the background of the mp3 and so being off by a fraction of a second is irritating.
As far as boring, well, it is just as interesting as most other commentary tracks on DVD's. I taped the show, watched it and then rewatched it Saturday morning with the commentary and enjoyed it a lot. I think it is even better than most dvd commentaries because I haven't seen the next episode unlike most commentaries where presumably you have either seen the film or watched the entire season of the show.
First of all, either you are Jack Thompson or you are just cutting and pasting from his web site (5th paragraph).
Secondly, I don't know the specifics of the other studies, but the study done at IU Medical was 1) funded in part by The Center for Successful Parenting which already beleives that media can lead to violent actions and is simply looking for support for their beliefs which makes the findings suspect in my opinion.
2) according to the press release for the IU study says that the kids didn't even PLAY videogames but:
watched a car racing video game that had excitement without violent content and a James Bond video game that had excitement and moderately violent content. While watching the video games, the youths were scanned with fMRI to determine changes in brain activity.
The youths were not actually playing the video game because of the limitations imposed by the MRI equipment, but they did have the feeling of participation since they pushed a response button each time they thought the video character should take action.
I don't know, but that makes it sound like WATCHING violence is problematic, not playing violent games.
Just because a study is published doesn't mean that it is unbiased or that the popular media won't distort the findings into something much more sensational.
The main reason that universities limit the access to the online databases is money. They license those databases from companies and if one university let anyone access them online, then what motivation would other universities have to pay the licencing fees? Here at IU to access them from off campus you have to use vpn to get into the databases
I never said anything about what I WANTED, but what I think they will do. Personally, I don't really have any interest in ANY HL2 expansion packs. And for the record, the soldier's name was Adrian Sheppard.
If we look at the first HL expansion packs, we had one featuring a soldier and one featuring Barney. Even though the original Blue Shift expansion pack started life as headed for the Dreamcast, I would think that a Barney expansion pack would make sense for HL2. While an Alyx one would make sense with how she is used in the game, might there be a chance that there would be an expansion pack that follows the spirit of Opposing Force and features a soldier?
As I recall, the issue wasn't copyright so much as attributing Cage as co-writer which implied he had some input into it or was done with the blessing of his family.
I like the Caprica stuff, but the Cylon in teh head is too similar in premise to what Farscape did for me to enjoy it too much. We'll see how it plays out though to see if there are enough twists to make it interesting.
I worked as a cashier in a casino (that bills itself as the most popular riverboat casino in the world if anyone wants to figure out which one) for at total of 2 and 1/2 years and while I remember several instances of counterfeit money, I don't remember EVER seeing counterfeit chips. I have seen chips from other casinos, but not forged ones.
While I didn't work in Vegas, I am highly sceptical this happens. If they said it was to prevent employee theft, I would have an easier time beleiving it (although to be effective it would require every exit being covered, which would seemingly be cost prohibitive).
For counterfeiting chips to be effective, you would have to have a lot of chips, and prefereably a lot of high denomination chips. At least in the casino i worked in, surveillance knows who has the chips already so if someone they have never seen before walks in with even an ammount as small as $5000 in chips, there is a good chance they are going to know. Cashing in anything over $10,000 gets reported to the government anyway (again, unless Vegas is different, but I think that is part of RICO laws), so I don't see counterfeiting chips being effective when you can fake money ans spend it everywhere.
The problem is that in America there are no laws against selling R-rated (our 2nd highest and practicly higest since getting theaters to run an NC-17 rated film is extremely difficult) film to a child. The film ratings are volentarily enforced, like the videogame ratings, only the MPAA will threaten theaters that get caught selling kids tickets to R-rated films. However, I would be surprised if a 14 year old would be stopped from buying a horror DVD from a chain store. That there aren't laws against that, but people seem so eager to create them for videogames makes it seem like yet another moral panic.
But calculators are set up the same way as the numeric keypad and calculators existed before nearly all other keypads. I would imagine that touch tone phones started the trend of going the other way, but I don't know why. The straight dope has an article on it but it doesn't have much in the way of solid facts.
I know that when I was using an adding machine heavilly I would have broke your fingers if you had changed the order of the keys (of course adding machines and calculators have a different order for hitting the +-=. whatever keys which still screws me up!).
Damn kids! Back in my day, it first appeared serialized in Warrior magazine, along side MarvelMan and other works. After Warrior magazine went under, DC eventually got it and then it was finished as a 12 issue miniseries.
I look at it like this, in any given medium there are so many works that are great, good, or even just ok, that I can never consume all of them, so I need to make some sort of criteria on what I read, listen to, watch, play, or whatever. There is always some really entertaining thing I'm going to miss out on, so not agreeing with someone is reason enough.
If that means I have to miss out on something great -- be it a book, movie, game, song, painting, or whatever -- then so be it, there are plenty of other great works out there that I haven't gotten to yet.
Some folks on here have suggested some of Orson Scott Card's fiction. I would also like to suggest some read his non-fiction. He is an outspoken critic of homosexuality and gay marriage.
I read those works by Orson Scott Card and they were enough to convince me that I didn't want to read any of his fiction. Your mileage may vary, but it doesn't hurt to be an informed consumer.
Except IE and Firefox are programs, and they con prevent someone from installing a program, I seriously doubt that Google would go to the trouble of blocking web sites.
there's an asian market across the street from my office and they have tons of calling cards advertizing really cheap rates. The other international markets I have been to have had them as well, so go find one and see what they have.
This is basically the same argument that people used when film came along. Then sound film and some people really freaked out. I don't see any great decline in imagination caused by films, and I don't really see one caused by videogames either.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I was playing Yar's Revenge, I wasn't really imagining ANYTHING. I was busy playing the game and trying not to get killed. The imagination happened afterwards. In fact, in the case of Yar's Revenge, the little minicomic that came with it did more to spur my imagination than anything in the game.
Sure, it took imagination to identify with the dot in Adventure, but the ability to imagine better pictures than are on the screen is only one kind of imagination. I know that some of the things I've seen my 20+ year old friends do in GTA3 were pretty imaginative. Go to google and do a search for any popular game title followed by "fanfic" and you will see people writing stories inspired by their favorite games.
The line between reality and fantasy is another issue and, at least in my mind, different than saysing that today's games do not encourage a sense of imagination. They might not do it for you, just as a lot of the games people have listed under this story don't do it for me, but I think the imagination of our culture as a whole is in no danger of stagnating.
I still fail to see how the cable company could do anything if I am selling my dsl. That would be like Aquafina trying to sue me for selling tap water.
As long as I didn't try to imply I was part of the cable company or interfere with their hardware, either intentionally or unintentionally, and the dsl company is ok with it, as in the case of Speakeasy, then the cable company can't do anything to me (unless they hire a lobyist and get some new laws passed).
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For those who are interested in the rumored Apple-Sony connection, this could be seen as a way for Apple to please Sony...
If google really wanted to boost their own pagerankings, why go to the trouble of making keywords for specific pages? Wouldn't it be easier to tweak the algorithm so that google pages automatically get a certain number of points (or however they do it) bonus?
My tv is so ancient it doesn't handle secondary audio, so i'm glad they do it this was. I have a laptop and listened to it on my headphones while watching it on tv.
The main advantage to having it being downloadable via another program is that it is kind of like the old push technology so that you can subscribe to it and forget about it so that next week's episode will be downloaded automatically.
But you aren't supposed to stream it. This was realeased earlier this week so that in the US you could download it before the show was on. Maybe I'm just have slow reaction times but I had to pause and fast forward the mp3 a few time to get it in sync with the episode, especially after commercials. With a streaming mp3 that wouldn't really be practical with buffering and such especially since there are part where you can hear the show in the background of the mp3 and so being off by a fraction of a second is irritating.
As far as boring, well, it is just as interesting as most other commentary tracks on DVD's. I taped the show, watched it and then rewatched it Saturday morning with the commentary and enjoyed it a lot. I think it is even better than most dvd commentaries because I haven't seen the next episode unlike most commentaries where presumably you have either seen the film or watched the entire season of the show.
Secondly, I don't know the specifics of the other studies, but the study done at IU Medical was 1) funded in part by The Center for Successful Parenting which already beleives that media can lead to violent actions and is simply looking for support for their beliefs which makes the findings suspect in my opinion.
2) according to the press release for the IU study says that the kids didn't even PLAY videogames but:
I don't know, but that makes it sound like WATCHING violence is problematic, not playing violent games.
Just because a study is published doesn't mean that it is unbiased or that the popular media won't distort the findings into something much more sensational.
Can you provide a link to that study? I searched for it and couldn't find a references to it.
Thanks.
The main reason that universities limit the access to the online databases is money. They license those databases from companies and if one university let anyone access them online, then what motivation would other universities have to pay the licencing fees?
Here at IU to access them from off campus you have to use vpn to get into the databases
I never said anything about what I WANTED, but what I think they will do.
Personally, I don't really have any interest in ANY HL2 expansion packs.
And for the record, the soldier's name was Adrian Sheppard.
If we look at the first HL expansion packs, we had one featuring a soldier and one featuring Barney. Even though the original Blue Shift expansion pack started life as headed for the Dreamcast, I would think that a Barney expansion pack would make sense for HL2. While an Alyx one would make sense with how she is used in the game, might there be a chance that there would be an expansion pack that follows the spirit of Opposing Force and features a soldier?
As I recall, the issue wasn't copyright so much as attributing Cage as co-writer which implied he had some input into it or was done with the blessing of his family.
I like the Caprica stuff, but the Cylon in teh head is too similar in premise to what Farscape did for me to enjoy it too much. We'll see how it plays out though to see if there are enough twists to make it interesting.
I worked as a cashier in a casino (that bills itself as the most popular riverboat casino in the world if anyone wants to figure out which one) for at total of 2 and 1/2 years and while I remember several instances of counterfeit money, I don't remember EVER seeing counterfeit chips. I have seen chips from other casinos, but not forged ones.
While I didn't work in Vegas, I am highly sceptical this happens. If they said it was to prevent employee theft, I would have an easier time beleiving it (although to be effective it would require every exit being covered, which would seemingly be cost prohibitive).
For counterfeiting chips to be effective, you would have to have a lot of chips, and prefereably a lot of high denomination chips. At least in the casino i worked in, surveillance knows who has the chips already so if someone they have never seen before walks in with even an ammount as small as $5000 in chips, there is a good chance they are going to know. Cashing in anything over $10,000 gets reported to the government anyway (again, unless Vegas is different, but I think that is part of RICO laws), so I don't see counterfeiting chips being effective when you can fake money ans spend it everywhere.
But if 10% of that people go for it, that's doubling their market share. Sounds like a good deal to me.
The problem is that in America there are no laws against selling R-rated (our 2nd highest and practicly higest since getting theaters to run an NC-17 rated film is extremely difficult) film to a child.
The film ratings are volentarily enforced, like the videogame ratings, only the MPAA will threaten theaters that get caught selling kids tickets to R-rated films. However, I would be surprised if a 14 year old would be stopped from buying a horror DVD from a chain store.
That there aren't laws against that, but people seem so eager to create them for videogames makes it seem like yet another moral panic.
The pets'com sock puppet lives on in commercials for insurance company 1-800-Bar-None.
But calculators are set up the same way as the numeric keypad and calculators existed before nearly all other keypads. I would imagine that touch tone phones started the trend of going the other way, but I don't know why. The straight dope has an article on it but it doesn't have much in the way of solid facts. I know that when I was using an adding machine heavilly I would have broke your fingers if you had changed the order of the keys (of course adding machines and calculators have a different order for hitting the +-=. whatever keys which still screws me up!).
Damn kids! Back in my day, it first appeared serialized in Warrior magazine, along side MarvelMan and other works. After Warrior magazine went under, DC eventually got it and then it was finished as a 12 issue miniseries.
I look at it like this, in any given medium there are so many works that are great, good, or even just ok, that I can never consume all of them, so I need to make some sort of criteria on what I read, listen to, watch, play, or whatever. There is always some really entertaining thing I'm going to miss out on, so not agreeing with someone is reason enough.
If that means I have to miss out on something great -- be it a book, movie, game, song, painting, or whatever -- then so be it, there are plenty of other great works out there that I haven't gotten to yet.
Some folks on here have suggested some of Orson Scott Card's fiction. I would also like to suggest some read his non-fiction. He is an outspoken critic of homosexuality and gay marriage. I read those works by Orson Scott Card and they were enough to convince me that I didn't want to read any of his fiction. Your mileage may vary, but it doesn't hurt to be an informed consumer.
Except IE and Firefox are programs, and they con prevent someone from installing a program, I seriously doubt that Google would go to the trouble of blocking web sites.
No, Safari is indeed based on KHTML rather than Gecko.
there's an asian market across the street from my office and they have tons of calling cards advertizing really cheap rates. The other international markets I have been to have had them as well, so go find one and see what they have.
I wonder if the reason they want to make Commodore branded mp3 player is that there are already fake Commodore mp3 players on the market?
This is basically the same argument that people used when film came along. Then sound film and some people really freaked out. I don't see any great decline in imagination caused by films, and I don't really see one caused by videogames either.
I don't know about anyone else, but when I was playing Yar's Revenge, I wasn't really imagining ANYTHING. I was busy playing the game and trying not to get killed. The imagination happened afterwards. In fact, in the case of Yar's Revenge, the little minicomic that came with it did more to spur my imagination than anything in the game.
Sure, it took imagination to identify with the dot in Adventure, but the ability to imagine better pictures than are on the screen is only one kind of imagination. I know that some of the things I've seen my 20+ year old friends do in GTA3 were pretty imaginative. Go to google and do a search for any popular game title followed by "fanfic" and you will see people writing stories inspired by their favorite games.
The line between reality and fantasy is another issue and, at least in my mind, different than saysing that today's games do not encourage a sense of imagination. They might not do it for you, just as a lot of the games people have listed under this story don't do it for me, but I think the imagination of our culture as a whole is in no danger of stagnating.
I still fail to see how the cable company could do anything if I am selling my dsl. That would be like Aquafina trying to sue me for selling tap water.
As long as I didn't try to imply I was part of the cable company or interfere with their hardware, either intentionally or unintentionally, and the dsl company is ok with it, as in the case of Speakeasy, then the cable company can't do anything to me (unless they hire a lobyist and get some new laws passed).