I'd like for once for these articles to not assume I'm too stupid to wonder how exactly the tests were performed. Anyway, is it not possible that those who play these games with risky behavior are more sensitive to their own risky behavior in real life? How do you account for this? And why don't you compare the actual driving record versus taking one's word for it? They might be then able to correlate how long after playing games for what duration that these alleged acts of bad driving occurred. Then you can tell me when I can drive on the 405 after playing Burnout 3 for a few hours... bastiges.
I like to think of math as a language for anything quantifiable. When people "talk math" they use these math terms because these terms precisely project their thoughts into words. I think the best way to understand math is to really contemplate everyday physical phenomena. Think about vector fields in your car when the A/C is blowing and trying to reach everyone in the car. Think about parabolas when something is thrown into the air. Hell, try to do your own experiment and figure out the parameters for it. You'll soon find that you'll be looking into a lot of things that change with time and hence, require derivatives. This should segue into your pre-calc learning.
For starters, I'd say look at the basic definition of a derivative: lim[h->0] (f(x+h)-f(x))/((x+h)-x) and compare it to finding the slope of a line: (y1-y2)/(x1-x2)=rise/run. A derivative is nothing more than finding the slope of two points on a curve as the two points get closer and closer together until they lie directly on top of each other (this gives you the slope of a line tangent to a point on the curve which is equivalent to the rate of change at that point on the curve). This is the only hard conceptual part about pre-calculus, really.
And a couple other notes on learning. Intelligence, imho, is just the ability to break things down into smaller and smaller parts or to divide concepts into many little parts. Any field you learn has two parts to it: concepts and vocabulary. When you come across something "hard," figure out what is stopping you: the concepts, or the vocab. If it's the concepts, have someone explain it to you in laymen's terms. If it's the vocab, look it up at mathworld.wolfram.com or of course, www.wikipedia.com.
If the space shuttle isn't a target this won't be one either. Either because people won't waste their time or because it will have enough security. Whatever the reason is for why space shuttles and rocket launches aren't targets.
Bucks?! C'mon, it's more like cents. Someone can do a calculation on how much power is drawn from a CPU at 100% usage running 24-7 for a month multiplied by the average cost of kW-hour in the US and give us a real number.
Oh, and protein folding is potentially a pathway to assembler-based nanotechnology. Think about it: DNA is like a hard drive, the proteins that read it are like processors, and the amino acids are the output -- it's a programmable machine that makes matter with control at the molecular level. The only problem is, we don't know what configuration the amino acids will fold into, as the article says. Surely looking at it this way will get some/.ers more motivated to try this.
My bad, I thought you were a fanboy from the previous posts. Well, all i gotta say is i wnet into the game, flew around for a bit, ended up exploring the sewer, adn then i couldn't find the unemployment line and so i didn't know what to do after that because that's where i usually go after exploring the sewer in the real world (the one where people can't fly).
Well, your job sounds neat and fun and all, but if it's so great, why are you wasting time on me here on/.?
The most trollish are the ones who incite normal people into becoming trolls by flying off the handle when someone calls a doodad a hoopajoop.
And another thing. Second life won't get anywhere until the controls are more fluid, like in Unreal Tournament. It should learn from real Games instead of cursing them.
P.S. I actually haven't been modded troll yet, so:P PPS. I actually do have a lot of respect for stay-at-home moms who manage to work from home as mine did the same. Sincere apologies for calling you a bitch -- that was aimed at the 15 year-old fanboy I imagined you were for some reason.
I did try it and maybe I joined too early because no one knew anything about jobs or whatnot. I think they wanted me to pay real money to play or something. I'm too cheap for that.
It would be cool if your character could get a job in this game. Unfortunately, the game is retarded. They need a way to buy guns in the game so you can mug people.
I believe Bionic Commando for the NES (a.k.a. Hitler's Resurrection: Top Secret, translated from the Japanese) is itself a work of art. Play control, story, and overall game design come together synergistically to give a game that is more than the sum of its parts. The guard interrogation scene (fully fleshed out in the Japanese version) juxtaposes the real world concept of torture with the video game wrapper it comes in, begging the question, "Is violence a means to an end or an end in and of itself?" Overall, the game brings forth beauty from pixels and simple pushes of a button from the player, just as the works of Tim Hawkinson inspire thoughts of creativity, spirituality, and mortality.
C'mon, it's a simulator. They probably paid participants to talk on their phone. I bet at least half the people just said, "Hey, I get five bucks to talk on my phone while I play a video game! Sweet!" It doesn't take much imagination to think that the results would be different than in real life. Then again, they posted some watered down crap and not the actual research article with big scientific words that scare everyone but me. Because I'm a real man.
Of course, they have been moving the rocks up the hill for the boss who is too lazy to invent the wheelbarrow and too weak to move rocks. Naturally, he reproduces with no problem.
Anyone remember UCLA doing a form of cold fusion using pyroelectric crystals? It did not release enough energy to make it efficient as an energy source, but I recall the article saying it would make a portable neutron source. Perhaps that could be used to make a smaller and more efficient version of the Oak Ridge facility.
Now dentists like Louie Rocco of the Bronx cannot treat customers who come into his office suffering from tooth decay after a long day of driving cabs. At least he won't be punching anyone in the teeth and no one will wake up from sedation with pants mysteriously unbuttoned.
C'mon, who needs 'em? Do-it-yourself kidney transplant kit anyone? If you match the wrong bloodtype, my nose flashes red! Or maybe that was the organic "anesthetic" at work...
Are the pizza and Chinese Food used to taunt people in North Korea? Or perhaps when the robots revolt, Kim Jong Il will smell the pizza and Chinese food and come down to save the day in his abnormally long Kim Jong Il-mobile!
Slashdot Mirror
I'd like for once for these articles to not assume I'm too stupid to wonder how exactly the tests were performed. Anyway, is it not possible that those who play these games with risky behavior are more sensitive to their own risky behavior in real life? How do you account for this? And why don't you compare the actual driving record versus taking one's word for it? They might be then able to correlate how long after playing games for what duration that these alleged acts of bad driving occurred. Then you can tell me when I can drive on the 405 after playing Burnout 3 for a few hours ... bastiges.
I like to think of math as a language for anything quantifiable. When people "talk math" they use these math terms because these terms precisely project their thoughts into words. I think the best way to understand math is to really contemplate everyday physical phenomena. Think about vector fields in your car when the A/C is blowing and trying to reach everyone in the car. Think about parabolas when something is thrown into the air. Hell, try to do your own experiment and figure out the parameters for it. You'll soon find that you'll be looking into a lot of things that change with time and hence, require derivatives. This should segue into your pre-calc learning.
For starters, I'd say look at the basic definition of a derivative: lim[h->0] (f(x+h)-f(x))/((x+h)-x) and compare it to finding the slope of a line: (y1-y2)/(x1-x2)=rise/run. A derivative is nothing more than finding the slope of two points on a curve as the two points get closer and closer together until they lie directly on top of each other (this gives you the slope of a line tangent to a point on the curve which is equivalent to the rate of change at that point on the curve). This is the only hard conceptual part about pre-calculus, really.
And a couple other notes on learning. Intelligence, imho, is just the ability to break things down into smaller and smaller parts or to divide concepts into many little parts. Any field you learn has two parts to it: concepts and vocabulary. When you come across something "hard," figure out what is stopping you: the concepts, or the vocab. If it's the concepts, have someone explain it to you in laymen's terms. If it's the vocab, look it up at mathworld.wolfram.com or of course, www.wikipedia.com.
If the space shuttle isn't a target this won't be one either. Either because people won't waste their time or because it will have enough security. Whatever the reason is for why space shuttles and rocket launches aren't targets.
I can't bend that!
Shit...
I hope I can write it off as a charitable expense come April.
Thanks for all the crunching, folks.
Bucks?! C'mon, it's more like cents. Someone can do a calculation on how much power is drawn from a CPU at 100% usage running 24-7 for a month multiplied by the average cost of kW-hour in the US and give us a real number.
/.ers more motivated to try this.
Oh, and protein folding is potentially a pathway to assembler-based nanotechnology. Think about it: DNA is like a hard drive, the proteins that read it are like processors, and the amino acids are the output -- it's a programmable machine that makes matter with control at the molecular level. The only problem is, we don't know what configuration the amino acids will fold into, as the article says. Surely looking at it this way will get some
Does this mean they ride in the short Enterprise?
My bad, I thought you were a fanboy from the previous posts. Well, all i gotta say is i wnet into the game, flew around for a bit, ended up exploring the sewer, adn then i couldn't find the unemployment line and so i didn't know what to do after that because that's where i usually go after exploring the sewer in the real world (the one where people can't fly).
/.?
:P
Well, your job sounds neat and fun and all, but if it's so great, why are you wasting time on me here on
The most trollish are the ones who incite normal people into becoming trolls by flying off the handle when someone calls a doodad a hoopajoop.
And another thing. Second life won't get anywhere until the controls are more fluid, like in Unreal Tournament. It should learn from real Games instead of cursing them.
P.S. I actually haven't been modded troll yet, so
PPS. I actually do have a lot of respect for stay-at-home moms who manage to work from home as mine did the same. Sincere apologies for calling you a bitch -- that was aimed at the 15 year-old fanboy I imagined you were for some reason.
No wonder you play the game. You're a loser FTW!
Dude, you got pranked dude. You can't tell a real troll from a faker (i.e., school of Sacha Baron-Cohen).
I got two degrees from MIT, bitch. Suck my Course VI diplomas.
whatever. 2-d games are where it's at. oh sorry, 2-d platforms. they need to make a 2-d MMORPG. Then I'd finally be happy and stop cutting myself.
I did try it and maybe I joined too early because no one knew anything about jobs or whatnot. I think they wanted me to pay real money to play or something. I'm too cheap for that.
And I already live in the "Real GTA".
It would be cool if your character could get a job in this game. Unfortunately, the game is retarded. They need a way to buy guns in the game so you can mug people.
Or better yet, just make GTA into a MMORPG.
I believe Bionic Commando for the NES (a.k.a. Hitler's Resurrection: Top Secret, translated from the Japanese) is itself a work of art. Play control, story, and overall game design come together synergistically to give a game that is more than the sum of its parts. The guard interrogation scene (fully fleshed out in the Japanese version) juxtaposes the real world concept of torture with the video game wrapper it comes in, begging the question, "Is violence a means to an end or an end in and of itself?" Overall, the game brings forth beauty from pixels and simple pushes of a button from the player, just as the works of Tim Hawkinson inspire thoughts of creativity, spirituality, and mortality.
C'mon, it's a simulator. They probably paid participants to talk on their phone. I bet at least half the people just said, "Hey, I get five bucks to talk on my phone while I play a video game! Sweet!" It doesn't take much imagination to think that the results would be different than in real life. Then again, they posted some watered down crap and not the actual research article with big scientific words that scare everyone but me. Because I'm a real man.
Of course, they have been moving the rocks up the hill for the boss who is too lazy to invent the wheelbarrow and too weak to move rocks. Naturally, he reproduces with no problem.
Anyone remember UCLA doing a form of cold fusion using pyroelectric crystals? It did not release enough energy to make it efficient as an energy source, but I recall the article saying it would make a portable neutron source. Perhaps that could be used to make a smaller and more efficient version of the Oak Ridge facility.
Now dentists like Louie Rocco of the Bronx cannot treat customers who come into his office suffering from tooth decay after a long day of driving cabs. At least he won't be punching anyone in the teeth and no one will wake up from sedation with pants mysteriously unbuttoned.
C'mon, who needs 'em? Do-it-yourself kidney transplant kit anyone? If you match the wrong bloodtype, my nose flashes red! Or maybe that was the organic "anesthetic" at work...
Are the pizza and Chinese Food used to taunt people in North Korea? Or perhaps when the robots revolt, Kim Jong Il will smell the pizza and Chinese food and come down to save the day in his abnormally long Kim Jong Il-mobile!
"...I'd buy that for a dollar!"
Yeah, I totally hate it when the Vietnam war pre-empts the Simpsons. I mean, Gulf of Tonkin -- wtf?!
That's good, but my explanation is more concise. And it has a monkey in it.
saru mo ki kara ochiru
"Even monkeys fall from trees."
I'm guessing that's a British billion (i.e., an American million)...
This sounds like a goddamn awful idea for a stupid idiotic show. Why don't you bring back that show, Deadly Games? Screw CSI. Watch "The OC" instead.