I admit I go a bit crazy with followers/following on Twitter, but I long since figured I was smart to only use Facebook for people I know in real life (maybe a few close online contacts, especially those I later see in RL [such as talking with someone on a fansite and later meeting them at a concert]
who do you mean? names please. not sure what to feed into Google there. a lot of economics and 1912 searches turn up Milton Friedman (because that was his birth year) [BTW, Friedman did win the 1976 Nobel]
I *am* a business major, and one of the most consistent themes from my professors is that responsible behavior is supposedly financially better in the long run anyways, in addition to whatever ethical/moral claims involved.
I'm reminded of a blog post I read wherein a guy defended his gas-guzzling muscle car (which he liked anyway) by saying it held together much longer than a regular vehicle would, the higher gasoline usage being offset by the lower use of manufacturing resources.
Strangely, the remnant of my father's business is just starting to get orders from Asia, so maybe 'Free Trade' is finally coming around to the point where manufacturing costs in the US are competitive with Asia in this regard, but there really is no one ready or willing to meet the manufacturing demand if it ever really comes back. You can probably ditto this sentiment for US shoe manufacturing, furniture, etc.
I keep on hearing that higher-tech and/or more-efficient manufacturing is a major way to compete with hordes of cheap outsourced labor.
I tried visualizing the waveforms via Audacity: My copies of Please Please Me and Hard Day's Night are in mono, but I notice a very pronounced difference in channels for Beatles For Sale, and only a slight difference in the channels on Help!
[Just tested track 1 of each album: I Saw Her Standing There, A Hard Day's Night, No Reply and Help]
Yes, I noticed that modern music tends to have less-radical differences between the channels; the first time I saw/heard noticeable difference between channels was earlier Zeppelin material - Whole Lotta Love, for instance.
I suppose, like any audio effect, it can be used effectively or ineffectively.
To the best of my knowledge, any profession that involves getting up in front of huge numbers of people requires a certain kind of ego - or projection of an ego whether it be the real person or not. Most actors, musicians etc. get up there and act a part. Some of them are really bad at it.
I assume the last section of your quote implies the converse as well: that some are good at it?
The meta-commenter of my subject line? Lady Gaga.
"Art is a lie; I fight every day to make it real"
"The minute you say something about who you are, people think you're just playing the 'edgy card' and that's not what I want people to think of me as."
"It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or a lie, I should say for which we kill. We are nothing without our image, without our rejection, without the spiritual hologram of who we perceive ourselves to be, or rather to become in the future."
"I can tell you who Lady Gaga is, but even after I show you, you're still not gonna really know."
"Me embodying the position that I’m analyzing is the very thing that makes it so powerful."
A bunch of her other quotes seem to indicate this attitude in action rather than directly getting "meta" like the aforementioned comments do.
The Outrage (1964 Western remake of Kurosawa's Rashomon) - didn't care to see much more of that. Japanese film class professor showed us a clip of that one almost because it was comically bad.
reminded of reading about Michael Phelps' 11000-calorie diet or something. He and those like him in activity level can burn it off....in his case, might also be munchies form the weed he was pictured smoking.:)
At many fast-food restaurants, they give you a drink cup and you head over to the machine yourself. That makes it real easy to get water (as well as free refills of the sugary stuff)
Haven't tried asking for water at a place with a behind-the-counter soda machine, but I don't see why not.
('Extra ice' as a cold replacement/workaround? I normally order my drinks with no or little ice so I get more actual beverage rather than something diluted)
not going to get into artificial-sweetener arguments, BTW
As mentioned in my post above (http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1777224&cid=33476934), some sports engender a higher activity level than others. Considering what you said, the challenge seems to be making a good selection of game activity [perhaps one outside of the standard team sports]
fast re-entry: we were playing in a gym with a basketball court; bouncing a shot off the backboard brought someone back in as well as a catch.
also, we often used time limits or other methods (such as relaxing the midcourt-line rule) to keep the game from being dragged out when there were only a few people left.
I actually played a lot of dodgeball this summer, and most of the time I did spend running around the court. However, everyone in the group was motivated. [The lazy people would dodge (pun intended) the activity] (Also, we played under a ruleset where people who got knocked out generally got put back in quickly, so there wasn't a whole lot of sideline time.)
Basketball and soccer are similarly tooled towards running around the field of play.
Baseball, softball, kickball and cricket are more of a problem if raw physical activity is what you want, as their design mainly seems to entail short bursts of activity.
Volleyball, football and ultimate frisbee seem somewhere in the middle in this regard, IMHO.
Bicycle-riding to and from the gym was more exercise though.:)
Big legal businesses are most certainly no saints, but they seem a much better idea than terrorists, the mafia, or your common street thug.
I notice a strikingly similar series of issues with gun control; ironic since one is a far-left idea, one a far-right idea; the libertarians at least seem right in this regard.
Slashdot Mirror
Internet distribution *does* help punch through the dominant media organizations' control (whether news media or recorded-music media)
reminded of MC Lars' "Turn Your Cell Phone Off", where one of the jokes about phone disasters entails a guy being buried with a ringing phone.
I admit I go a bit crazy with followers/following on Twitter, but I long since figured I was smart to only use Facebook for people I know in real life (maybe a few close online contacts, especially those I later see in RL [such as talking with someone on a fansite and later meeting them at a concert]
who do you mean? names please.
not sure what to feed into Google there.
a lot of economics and 1912 searches turn up Milton Friedman (because that was his birth year) [BTW, Friedman did win the 1976 Nobel]
I *am* a business major, and one of the most consistent themes from my professors is that responsible behavior is supposedly financially better in the long run anyways, in addition to whatever ethical/moral claims involved.
I'm reminded of a blog post I read wherein a guy defended his gas-guzzling muscle car (which he liked anyway) by saying it held together much longer than a regular vehicle would, the higher gasoline usage being offset by the lower use of manufacturing resources.
Strangely, the remnant of my father's business is just starting to get orders from Asia, so maybe 'Free Trade' is finally coming around to the point where manufacturing costs in the US are competitive with Asia in this regard, but there really is no one ready or willing to meet the manufacturing demand if it ever really comes back. You can probably ditto this sentiment for US shoe manufacturing, furniture, etc.
I keep on hearing that higher-tech and/or more-efficient manufacturing is a major way to compete with hordes of cheap outsourced labor.
Different costuming, props and lighting decisions are amongst the varied reasons why colorizing back-and-white films often doesn't work well.
I tried visualizing the waveforms via Audacity:
My copies of Please Please Me and Hard Day's Night are in mono, but I notice a very pronounced difference in channels for Beatles For Sale, and only a slight difference in the channels on Help!
[Just tested track 1 of each album: I Saw Her Standing There, A Hard Day's Night, No Reply and Help]
Yes, I noticed that modern music tends to have less-radical differences between the channels; the first time I saw/heard noticeable difference between channels was earlier Zeppelin material - Whole Lotta Love, for instance.
I suppose, like any audio effect, it can be used effectively or ineffectively.
lol, lots of "cast goofing around on-set" in that blooper reel
To the best of my knowledge, any profession that involves getting up in front of huge numbers of people requires a certain kind of ego - or projection of an ego whether it be the real person or not. Most actors, musicians etc. get up there and act a part. Some of them are really bad at it.
I assume the last section of your quote implies the converse as well: that some are good at it?
The meta-commenter of my subject line? Lady Gaga.
"Art is a lie; I fight every day to make it real"
"The minute you say something about who you are, people think you're just playing the 'edgy card' and that's not what I want people to think of me as."
"It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or a lie, I should say for which we kill. We are nothing without our image, without our rejection, without the spiritual hologram of who we perceive ourselves to be, or rather to become in the future."
"I can tell you who Lady Gaga is, but even after I show you, you're still not gonna really know."
"Me embodying the position that I’m analyzing is the very thing that makes it so powerful."
A bunch of her other quotes seem to indicate this attitude in action rather than directly getting "meta" like the aforementioned comments do.
The Outrage (1964 Western remake of Kurosawa's Rashomon) - didn't care to see much more of that. Japanese film class professor showed us a clip of that one almost because it was comically bad.
SNL's main problems always seemed to me to be the following:
Hit-or-miss: some skits good, some not, each episode
Dragging out for too long a joke that might have been decent the first time
It's always said "I Have Cheese", as far as I know...
reminded of reading about Michael Phelps' 11000-calorie diet or something. He and those like him in activity level can burn it off....in his case, might also be munchies form the weed he was pictured smoking. :)
...or should I say delicious cycle?
Obligatory XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/140/
the way I've thought about this before: "fried chicken deserves fat taxes, but fettucine alfredo doesn't?"
At many fast-food restaurants, they give you a drink cup and you head over to the machine yourself. That makes it real easy to get water (as well as free refills of the sugary stuff)
Haven't tried asking for water at a place with a behind-the-counter soda machine, but I don't see why not.
('Extra ice' as a cold replacement/workaround? I normally order my drinks with no or little ice so I get more actual beverage rather than something diluted)
not going to get into artificial-sweetener arguments, BTW
As mentioned in my post above (http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1777224&cid=33476934), some sports engender a higher activity level than others. Considering what you said, the challenge seems to be making a good selection of game activity [perhaps one outside of the standard team sports]
fast re-entry:
we were playing in a gym with a basketball court; bouncing a shot off the backboard brought someone back in as well as a catch.
also, we often used time limits or other methods (such as relaxing the midcourt-line rule) to keep the game from being dragged out when there were only a few people left.
I actually played a lot of dodgeball this summer, and most of the time I did spend running around the court. However, everyone in the group was motivated. [The lazy people would dodge (pun intended) the activity] (Also, we played under a ruleset where people who got knocked out generally got put back in quickly, so there wasn't a whole lot of sideline time.)
Basketball and soccer are similarly tooled towards running around the field of play.
Baseball, softball, kickball and cricket are more of a problem if raw physical activity is what you want, as their design mainly seems to entail short bursts of activity.
Volleyball, football and ultimate frisbee seem somewhere in the middle in this regard, IMHO.
Bicycle-riding to and from the gym was more exercise though. :)
I know law students that work at prostitution because it's a very high-paying job and the hours are flexible.
Dr. Hibbert paid for med school by working as a male stripper (under the stage name Malcolm Sex)
good point.
so, the continuation of such programs is not stupidity per se, but rather naked self-interest?
yes, the left/right irony is one thing I was getting at here. at leas the libertarians are consistent on stuff like this.
Big legal businesses are most certainly no saints, but they seem a much better idea than terrorists, the mafia, or your common street thug.
I notice a strikingly similar series of issues with gun control; ironic since one is a far-left idea, one a far-right idea; the libertarians at least seem right in this regard.