Again, you are talking in terms of narrative or emotional attachment. There's nothing wrong with that but that wasn't what I meant by the complexity. In a war game you can keep track of every movement of dozens if not hundreds of units and get the big picture of how a battle unfolds.
Complex and deep in what way? It seems as if you mean in terms of story and character development. But what about in terms of the complexity of other things like say troop movement in war or something? The battles in something like Civilization not to mention the hardcore war games are a lot more complex and deep than anything in any film or book.
Newspapers replaced the town crier. Newspapers are the 21st century equivalent of the town crier. Newspapers will be replaced by something else that has advantages and disadvantages.
Newspapers are largely full of things I don't care about and things that I don't understand why they even have like coverage of national sporting events. Aren't the multiple ESPNs and Fox Sports channels and websites enough? Why do newspapers have horoscopes? Why do they have comic strips that haven't been funny for 20+ years?
If newspapers want to survive they need to figure out what they do better than any other medium. Coverage of what the news channels talked about yesterday isn't one of them.
At least in the humanities none of these really apply. Editors don't get paid. They get to put a line on their CV that said they were an editor. It counts as part of their tenure (not as much as publishing but it counts).
In almost all journals you have to subscribe to it in order to get your paper published.
You also almost always have to sign away your rights to that intellectual property. If you want to go back to that paper and turn it into a book? You have to get permission from the publisher.
Your university wants to make it available to everyone affiliated with the university? The library has to pay to get access to it. So the university (in part, in addition to teaching and such) is paying you to write the paper and get it published and then they are paying a company to get access to it. Of course they get access to lots of other journals too.
there are few if any good reasons for academic publishing to stay closed.
Adbusters is just as much a brand as Google, Coke, Wal-Mart of any of the other corporations they criticize. They will probably try to sell you some special hipster indie cred mouse soon. They may have a point but I'm too poor to afford them.
it took me a while to figure it out too. I think he means that you should buy a bunch of cheap food on your credit card and put some lies on your resume (or LinkedIn profile) because you are going to be out of a job soon
For one thing, if the violence is truly "obscene" as defined by the Miller Test then it is banned.
Secondly, the reason why the sale of pornography to minors can be banned is because it is a genre not a medium while this law targets violence not as a genre, but as it exists in one particular medium -- in this case videogames. In the USA there are no government regulated ratings or bans on mediums. Film ratings, just like videogame ratings, are voluntary and inforced by the industry not the government. To single out videogame violence would require a mountain of evidence that it is particularly damaging to minors. No such mountain exists.
I've never been to Vegas so I have no idea what they are using. However, I remember seeing something about a machine that doesn't shuffle the deck but pushes out exactly one card at random from a stack which is in effect the same thing. Perhaps that is what Vegas uses now.
The alleged proposed law is about truth in advertising. They say they don't sell to kids. First, such a statement doesn't seem legally binding or even legally defined as "advertising." It is incredibly vague. Were Utah to sue say EA or someone else then EA could claim that in that context they meant "kids" to include anyone under the age of 7 or something.
Secondly, in most cases entertainment companies aren't the people selling the product. EA doesn't sell the games (except perhaps on their website), Gamestop and Wal-Mart do. Therefore they could argue that they are advertising the product but another party is the one selling it.
Finally, I would be surprised if this law even surfaces since 90% of everything Jacko says never happens. I'm still waiting for him to start jackandgoliath.com which he said he was going to start back in February of 2006 http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/203965.html
Actually, those studies are incredibly flawed. For example the ones by Craig Anderson are concerned with "aggression" and yet never define what they mean by "aggression." In one example Anderson mentions raising your voice. I'm no psychologist but raising your voice doesn't seem like the same thing as killing soemone...
I'm glad to see this happening. Academic publishing has terrible practices. To get published in most journals you have to join the society that publishes the journal or subscribe to the journal. Then you have to sign over your rights to your article. In effect, you have to pay them to take your intellectual property rights!
Then, the journal sells your article to a company that sells access to universities. However, the scam is that, as academics, we are at least in part getting paid to do research. So the university is paying me to write papers and then it has to turn around and pay someone else to get access to that very same article! (Of course they are getting access to lots more articles than just those published by their own university)
Now, at least in the humanities, it is common to publish some articles and then turn those articles into a book. But wait, to get those articles published I had to give away my intellectual property rights. So if I want to make any use of that article, I have to get permission from the journal. Now, permission is generally given without any problem but call me crazy but I would rather not rely on someone's "generosity" in order to use my own work.
Finally, at least in the humanities, a lot of journals are ran by societies which are at least theoretically organized by academics themselves in order to advance the field that they are devoted to. So why is it that a society organized by us and for us is taking our intellectual property? When I raised this issue to the editor of one such journal he was shocked and refused to even entertain the notion of allowing us to keep our intellectual property because "that's how the journal makes money." This isn't to imply that academic publishers are sitting on piles of money or anything that kind of attitude doesn't really seem to have the right attitude to me.
There are a couple problems with using that approach in the USA. First, the G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 ratings are owned by the MPAA. They won't let anyone else use them. That's why games and television have their own ratings. Secondly, in the USA no medium has their ratings enforced by law. Film ratings, just like videogame ratings, are enforced by the industry itself.
In addition to the fact that the specific film mention is already released in other countries, I think it would be much more likely that fans are the ones rating the films than it is that the film companies are doing it. If the film is based on a book, a play, or a remake, it already has a built in audience who will be fanatical about it and if it stars a famous actor then there will almost certainly be a group of people who will give a movie 5 stars site unseen because they love that actor so much.
Well, unlike the zune the ipod actually has a user accessable calendar and clock in it so it actually has a good reason to keep track of the date.
In all likelihood, the zune keeps track of the date so that it can tell if you have authenticated your drmed music within the allowed number of days or something like that
The website for Cygnus System, Inc. states: "ygnus Systems, Inc. focuses on the unique computing, networking and application needs of small to midsized businesses and offices in the southeastern Michigan area. " and the bottom of the website says they are in Taylor, MI http://www.cygnus-sys.com/AboutUs
If the article confuses Indiana with Michigan then maybe it is confused about the lawsuit as well?
So even though Top Gear USA isn't on yet you know it was "destroyed" by Americanizing it? Has Top Gear Australia also been destroyed by Australianizing it?
A better question is when there are tons of channels on cable devoted solely to sports why are sports interrupting regular programming in the first place?
If you want to watch football, baseball, basketball, or hockey or whatever that is great but why does it have to be on when something else I want to watch is on at that same time every other week?
If it is a book for pleasure, well I usually read in bed before going to sleep and don't have a Kindle or similar device so I'll go with the used book (or the library book).
If it is for research, then I'll take the ebook any way I can find it (as long as it is DRM free or can easily be made so). I prefer scholarly books in electronic form so much that I will scan in books if I can't find an electronic version.
If it is a new book in my field then there probably isn't a pirated copy out there so I'll have to buy it or get it from the library. If there's a pirated version out there, I'll take it.
I'm GenX if that actually does have any relevance.
It is nice that she isn't going to jail but still pleading guilty is a horrible outcome. While she might have been found guilty, having her plead guilty is just crap. You should never have to plead guilty to anything if you didn't do anything wrong.
Not that it is likely that many people will read this but I got my login to the beta and used it a bit.
I'm in the humanities so perhaps the experience of people in the sciences will vary. However, I'm not terribly impressed. It has potential but as it is there doesn't seem to be much that it offers that Google Scholar doesn't and it has things that don't seem to be of much use at all.
Most of my search results came from Sage Publishing which typically show up in Google Scholar results anyway. If they get other publishers on board then they might have something worthwhile.
However, it isn't entirely clear who they are attempting to serve because part of what is so infuriating is that by default they also include wikipedia search results.Wikipedia is great but having the entry for my search term show up in the results just clutters it because it doesn't offer anything more than just using google to search wikipedia. It also includes patents as well. For 99% of searches it won't result in anything so I'm not sure why that is in there either.
The power of the search is also questionable because they don't tell you if they do boolean, if putting quotes around phrases does anything, or any sort of advanced searches so there's no way of knowing if any of your fancy search techniques are doing anything or not.
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As I said, there are more books out there than I'll ever get to read. Yes it is true that the politics of a person can be separated from their writing but why should I have to do that.
Yes, if I were sitting around with absolutely nothing good to read and I refused to read Card because I don't like his opinion on homosexuality then I would be limiting my self. However, as I said, I can read 24-7 for the rest of my life and never run out of books to read. Why should I choose to read a book by someone I know I disagree with when there are lots of books out there I haven't read yet by people who I don't (at least to my knowledge) strongly disagree with.
Disliking someone because of their politics is, of course, a form of bigotry, but is it any more a form of bigotry than not reading mystery novels because I don't like them? Are the people who don't like Sci-fi and so would never read Card in the first place somehow less better off?
I'll never run out of books to read and so I'm not going to read Card's stuff. Sure Card might be the greatest thing ever but how isn't to say that whatever else I read isn't just as good and thought provoking?
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Again, you are talking in terms of narrative or emotional attachment. There's nothing wrong with that but that wasn't what I meant by the complexity. In a war game you can keep track of every movement of dozens if not hundreds of units and get the big picture of how a battle unfolds.
Complex and deep in what way? It seems as if you mean in terms of story and character development. But what about in terms of the complexity of other things like say troop movement in war or something? The battles in something like Civilization not to mention the hardcore war games are a lot more complex and deep than anything in any film or book.
Newspapers replaced the town crier. Newspapers are the 21st century equivalent of the town crier. Newspapers will be replaced by something else that has advantages and disadvantages.
Newspapers are largely full of things I don't care about and things that I don't understand why they even have like coverage of national sporting events. Aren't the multiple ESPNs and Fox Sports channels and websites enough? Why do newspapers have horoscopes? Why do they have comic strips that haven't been funny for 20+ years?
If newspapers want to survive they need to figure out what they do better than any other medium. Coverage of what the news channels talked about yesterday isn't one of them.
At least in the humanities none of these really apply. Editors don't get paid. They get to put a line on their CV that said they were an editor. It counts as part of their tenure (not as much as publishing but it counts).
In almost all journals you have to subscribe to it in order to get your paper published.
You also almost always have to sign away your rights to that intellectual property. If you want to go back to that paper and turn it into a book? You have to get permission from the publisher.
Your university wants to make it available to everyone affiliated with the university? The library has to pay to get access to it. So the university (in part, in addition to teaching and such) is paying you to write the paper and get it published and then they are paying a company to get access to it. Of course they get access to lots of other journals too.
there are few if any good reasons for academic publishing to stay closed.
Adbusters is just as much a brand as Google, Coke, Wal-Mart of any of the other corporations they criticize. They will probably try to sell you some special hipster indie cred mouse soon. They may have a point but I'm too poor to afford them.
it took me a while to figure it out too. I think he means that you should buy a bunch of cheap food on your credit card and put some lies on your resume (or LinkedIn profile) because you are going to be out of a job soon
For one thing, if the violence is truly "obscene" as defined by the Miller Test then it is banned.
Secondly, the reason why the sale of pornography to minors can be banned is because it is a genre not a medium while this law targets violence not as a genre, but as it exists in one particular medium -- in this case videogames. In the USA there are no government regulated ratings or bans on mediums. Film ratings, just like videogame ratings, are voluntary and inforced by the industry not the government. To single out videogame violence would require a mountain of evidence that it is particularly damaging to minors. No such mountain exists.
I've never been to Vegas so I have no idea what they are using. However, I remember seeing something about a machine that doesn't shuffle the deck but pushes out exactly one card at random from a stack which is in effect the same thing. Perhaps that is what Vegas uses now.
His money comes from his wife. Apparently she is actually a respected lawyer and a partner in a large law firm.
The alleged proposed law is about truth in advertising. They say they don't sell to kids. First, such a statement doesn't seem legally binding or even legally defined as "advertising." It is incredibly vague. Were Utah to sue say EA or someone else then EA could claim that in that context they meant "kids" to include anyone under the age of 7 or something.
Secondly, in most cases entertainment companies aren't the people selling the product. EA doesn't sell the games (except perhaps on their website), Gamestop and Wal-Mart do. Therefore they could argue that they are advertising the product but another party is the one selling it.
Finally, I would be surprised if this law even surfaces since 90% of everything Jacko says never happens. I'm still waiting for him to start jackandgoliath.com which he said he was going to start back in February of 2006 http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/203965.html
Actually, those studies are incredibly flawed. For example the ones by Craig Anderson are concerned with "aggression" and yet never define what they mean by "aggression." In one example Anderson mentions raising your voice. I'm no psychologist but raising your voice doesn't seem like the same thing as killing soemone...
I'm glad to see this happening. Academic publishing has terrible practices. To get published in most journals you have to join the society that publishes the journal or subscribe to the journal. Then you have to sign over your rights to your article. In effect, you have to pay them to take your intellectual property rights!
Then, the journal sells your article to a company that sells access to universities. However, the scam is that, as academics, we are at least in part getting paid to do research. So the university is paying me to write papers and then it has to turn around and pay someone else to get access to that very same article! (Of course they are getting access to lots more articles than just those published by their own university)
Now, at least in the humanities, it is common to publish some articles and then turn those articles into a book. But wait, to get those articles published I had to give away my intellectual property rights. So if I want to make any use of that article, I have to get permission from the journal. Now, permission is generally given without any problem but call me crazy but I would rather not rely on someone's "generosity" in order to use my own work.
Finally, at least in the humanities, a lot of journals are ran by societies which are at least theoretically organized by academics themselves in order to advance the field that they are devoted to. So why is it that a society organized by us and for us is taking our intellectual property? When I raised this issue to the editor of one such journal he was shocked and refused to even entertain the notion of allowing us to keep our intellectual property because "that's how the journal makes money." This isn't to imply that academic publishers are sitting on piles of money or anything that kind of attitude doesn't really seem to have the right attitude to me.
There are a couple problems with using that approach in the USA. First, the G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17 ratings are owned by the MPAA. They won't let anyone else use them. That's why games and television have their own ratings. Secondly, in the USA no medium has their ratings enforced by law. Film ratings, just like videogame ratings, are enforced by the industry itself.
In addition to the fact that the specific film mention is already released in other countries, I think it would be much more likely that fans are the ones rating the films than it is that the film companies are doing it. If the film is based on a book, a play, or a remake, it already has a built in audience who will be fanatical about it and if it stars a famous actor then there will almost certainly be a group of people who will give a movie 5 stars site unseen because they love that actor so much.
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/archives/2009/01/zune-bug-actually-a-freescale-bug-affecting-toshiba-gigabeats-too.php
Well, unlike the zune the ipod actually has a user accessable calendar and clock in it so it actually has a good reason to keep track of the date.
In all likelihood, the zune keeps track of the date so that it can tell if you have authenticated your drmed music within the allowed number of days or something like that
The website for Cygnus System, Inc. states: "ygnus Systems, Inc. focuses on the unique computing, networking and application needs of small to midsized businesses and offices in the southeastern Michigan area. " and the bottom of the website says they are in Taylor, MI http://www.cygnus-sys.com/AboutUs
If the article confuses Indiana with Michigan then maybe it is confused about the lawsuit as well?
So even though Top Gear USA isn't on yet you know it was "destroyed" by Americanizing it? Has Top Gear Australia also been destroyed by Australianizing it?
A better question is when there are tons of channels on cable devoted solely to sports why are sports interrupting regular programming in the first place?
If you want to watch football, baseball, basketball, or hockey or whatever that is great but why does it have to be on when something else I want to watch is on at that same time every other week?
How can you ever be sure of someone's intention?
That isn't the trailer. The first trailer was much shorter. I think this is it http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jk75_resident-evil-5-teaser-e3-2007-ps3x_ads
If it is a book for pleasure, well I usually read in bed before going to sleep and don't have a Kindle or similar device so I'll go with the used book (or the library book).
If it is for research, then I'll take the ebook any way I can find it (as long as it is DRM free or can easily be made so). I prefer scholarly books in electronic form so much that I will scan in books if I can't find an electronic version.
If it is a new book in my field then there probably isn't a pirated copy out there so I'll have to buy it or get it from the library. If there's a pirated version out there, I'll take it.
I'm GenX if that actually does have any relevance.
It is nice that she isn't going to jail but still pleading guilty is a horrible outcome. While she might have been found guilty, having her plead guilty is just crap. You should never have to plead guilty to anything if you didn't do anything wrong.
Not that it is likely that many people will read this but I got my login to the beta and used it a bit.
I'm in the humanities so perhaps the experience of people in the sciences will vary. However, I'm not terribly impressed. It has potential but as it is there doesn't seem to be much that it offers that Google Scholar doesn't and it has things that don't seem to be of much use at all.
Most of my search results came from Sage Publishing which typically show up in Google Scholar results anyway. If they get other publishers on board then they might have something worthwhile.
However, it isn't entirely clear who they are attempting to serve because part of what is so infuriating is that by default they also include wikipedia search results.Wikipedia is great but having the entry for my search term show up in the results just clutters it because it doesn't offer anything more than just using google to search wikipedia. It also includes patents as well. For 99% of searches it won't result in anything so I'm not sure why that is in there either.
The power of the search is also questionable because they don't tell you if they do boolean, if putting quotes around phrases does anything, or any sort of advanced searches so there's no way of knowing if any of your fancy search techniques are doing anything or not.
As I said, there are more books out there than I'll ever get to read. Yes it is true that the politics of a person can be separated from their writing but why should I have to do that.
Yes, if I were sitting around with absolutely nothing good to read and I refused to read Card because I don't like his opinion on homosexuality then I would be limiting my self. However, as I said, I can read 24-7 for the rest of my life and never run out of books to read. Why should I choose to read a book by someone I know I disagree with when there are lots of books out there I haven't read yet by people who I don't (at least to my knowledge) strongly disagree with.
Disliking someone because of their politics is, of course, a form of bigotry, but is it any more a form of bigotry than not reading mystery novels because I don't like them? Are the people who don't like Sci-fi and so would never read Card in the first place somehow less better off?
I'll never run out of books to read and so I'm not going to read Card's stuff. Sure Card might be the greatest thing ever but how isn't to say that whatever else I read isn't just as good and thought provoking?