Researchers have found that depressed people performed poorly on the video game compared, suggesting that their hippocampi (where spatial memory is based) were not working properly.
Or maybe depressed people just hasn't tried hard enough to play the game? Or maybe depressed people are under influence of some drug that makes the game harder to them? Or...
This type of conclusion remembers me the joke of the scientist that put an spider on the table and knocks on the table. The spider runs away. Then, he put the spider back on the table again and again, cutting away one of it's legs everytime and again knocking the table, and the spider runs everytime. Finally, the scientist cuts the last leg of the spider, knocks on the table several times and the spider don't run.
His conclusion: "The spiders hears with it's legs..."
The problem of the academic world with wikipedia is 5% about quality e 95% about jealousy. In fact, the so-called academic world thinks that is outrageous that anyone can write about a topic that they studied 20 years to master, even if the final text quality (for the general public point of view) is almost the same.
I'm not advocating that ANY academic person thinks like this. I'm telling that the majority of the academic people that CRITICIZE wikipedia thinks this way. They just can't bear with anyone writing about their feudal territory.
The question is that DRM simply do not exist. Anything (ANYTHING) that can be played, can be copied. This is that simple... The original DVD encryption (CSS), that tooks million of dollars to be developed and was broken down for a 15yo boy alone in a boring afternoon, was the first example. The AACS (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray reincarnation of the same crap) was an even bigger shame, being broken almost instantly, after years in development and all that bullshit about being "unbreakable"...
The "community" (i.e., the consumers that are tired of being extorted until the last penny, paying again and again for the same content) is just taking action and creating ways to avoid the limitations that the fat and slow-moving rheumatic turtles called MPAA and RIAA impose in things that they have PAID for... So, they want to DRM the musics or movies? PK... The same community will beak every DRM scheme they try to impose.
The only sad thing is that the millions they spend creating the inocuous DRM systems are transformed in overpriced products. Maybe, if they stop spending their (our?) money to impose limits on everything, and focuses only in producing cheaper and DRM-free products, everyone could just live happy forever...
I agree that cases like the 30 years-old marijuana possession are ridiculous. But looking in the big picture, this is poetic justice!
On the article, one of the men that could not cross the border talks about being in a full room for three hours, like a criminal, to be turned away. For years (way before 9/11), the U.S. act like this with a good chunk of the visitors. More than that: in some countries, you need to wait hours in a line just to an interview with someone in the consulate when you try to get a visa to travel to USA. And, after those hours on the line, the consulate representative can just tell you that you can't get a visa, and is not obligated to tell you why.
Please note that I'm obviously not saying that the MAJORITY of the americans agree with it. I know lovely people from the USA, and like all the countries on earth (and universe:-)), there's good people and bad people in the USA. But i'm telling that maybe now can be easier to those people that are (wrongfully, in my opinion) turned away from Canada to understand why 90% of the world have a bad vision of the USA. Only when the good people on the USA (and I believe they are the vast majority) starts to REALLY take pressure on the fascist government that took place there, they will be forced to change behaviour.
(The discussion went off-topic, then everything I'm stating here refers just to TV, not wikipedia:-) )
That's not a case of fiction shows. Point me out ONE channel that produce documentaries like BBC... And Discovery Channel don't count, because they have an agreement with BBC and uses BBC's documentaries.
The commercial TV operates only based on audience. Star Trek is the most famous example: a show that was cancelled because "was not profitable", that turned out to be one of the most profitables franchises ever. And it was cancelled just because the audience wasn't big enough.
The non-commercial TVs are free of these chains. And can concentrate it's efforts on quality.
And, just for records, I'm not from england.:-)
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Or maybe depressed people just hasn't tried hard enough to play the game? Or maybe depressed people are under influence of some drug that makes the game harder to them? Or...
This type of conclusion remembers me the joke of the scientist that put an spider on the table and knocks on the table. The spider runs away. Then, he put the spider back on the table again and again, cutting away one of it's legs everytime and again knocking the table, and the spider runs everytime. Finally, the scientist cuts the last leg of the spider, knocks on the table several times and the spider don't run.
His conclusion: "The spiders hears with it's legs..."
The problem of the academic world with wikipedia is 5% about quality e 95% about jealousy. In fact, the so-called academic world thinks that is outrageous that anyone can write about a topic that they studied 20 years to master, even if the final text quality (for the general public point of view) is almost the same. I'm not advocating that ANY academic person thinks like this. I'm telling that the majority of the academic people that CRITICIZE wikipedia thinks this way. They just can't bear with anyone writing about their feudal territory.
The question is that DRM simply do not exist. Anything (ANYTHING) that can be played, can be copied. This is that simple... The original DVD encryption (CSS), that tooks million of dollars to be developed and was broken down for a 15yo boy alone in a boring afternoon, was the first example. The AACS (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray reincarnation of the same crap) was an even bigger shame, being broken almost instantly, after years in development and all that bullshit about being "unbreakable"...
The "community" (i.e., the consumers that are tired of being extorted until the last penny, paying again and again for the same content) is just taking action and creating ways to avoid the limitations that the fat and slow-moving rheumatic turtles called MPAA and RIAA impose in things that they have PAID for... So, they want to DRM the musics or movies? PK... The same community will beak every DRM scheme they try to impose.
The only sad thing is that the millions they spend creating the inocuous DRM systems are transformed in overpriced products. Maybe, if they stop spending their (our?) money to impose limits on everything, and focuses only in producing cheaper and DRM-free products, everyone could just live happy forever...
I agree that cases like the 30 years-old marijuana possession are ridiculous. But looking in the big picture, this is poetic justice!
:-)), there's good people and bad people in the USA. But i'm telling that maybe now can be easier to those people that are (wrongfully, in my opinion) turned away from Canada to understand why 90% of the world have a bad vision of the USA. Only when the good people on the USA (and I believe they are the vast majority) starts to REALLY take pressure on the fascist government that took place there, they will be forced to change behaviour.
On the article, one of the men that could not cross the border talks about being in a full room for three hours, like a criminal, to be turned away. For years (way before 9/11), the U.S. act like this with a good chunk of the visitors. More than that: in some countries, you need to wait hours in a line just to an interview with someone in the consulate when you try to get a visa to travel to USA. And, after those hours on the line, the consulate representative can just tell you that you can't get a visa, and is not obligated to tell you why.
Please note that I'm obviously not saying that the MAJORITY of the americans agree with it. I know lovely people from the USA, and like all the countries on earth (and universe
Oh, yeah! To bit or not to bit, that's the question!
(The discussion went off-topic, then everything I'm stating here refers just to TV, not wikipedia :-) )
That's not a case of fiction shows. Point me out ONE channel that produce documentaries like BBC... And Discovery Channel don't count, because they have an agreement with BBC and uses BBC's documentaries.
The commercial TV operates only based on audience. Star Trek is the most famous example: a show that was cancelled because "was not profitable", that turned out to be one of the most profitables franchises ever. And it was cancelled just because the audience wasn't big enough.
The non-commercial TVs are free of these chains. And can concentrate it's efforts on quality.
And, just for records, I'm not from england. :-)