Well, first off, the reason to play a competitive gamre is to win, not to play the game. That's why it's called a competition. I, for one, do not relish the thought of a "group swim for the fun of swimming" event at the olympics:)
But that's where swimming and say, soccer, differ.
In soccer, you are one side of the field with your team. The other team is on the other side of the field.
You are there to kick the other team's ass. That's in line with your mentality of winning.
In swimming, you are there with your team, but everyone starts at the same side of the pool. Everyone is looking to beat one another, but more importantly (or at least it should be more important), they are looking to beat their own personal records. That's not in line with your mentality.
Really, the other people in the pool don't matter, all that determines a win is a number, how fast you swam. In soccer there's no number or time, there's just the other team and how you play them.
you will also be forcing athletes to dope if they ever want to have a hope of winning. That cannot be a good thing because you're forcing them to basically destroy themselves mentally and physically.
Right now that is true, athletes are hurt by doping. But that is because doping is illegal. When a substance is illegal, it isn't handled safely because the use of it isn't regulated. If it was legal, doping would be safer because governments would take direct actions towards it.
if you were the athlete and you were all doped up because you had to and you won a race, would you not wonder whether it was you or the dope? Do we want to take that sense of achievement away from our athletes? Definitely not.
This is a good point, but right now athletes get to where they are by following strict training regiments. Couldn't by that logic, an athlete feel that their training regiment is what made them win?
nyone can have ideas. In fact, they're a dime in quantities of tens of thousands. The problem is getting those ideas implemented.
I would disagree to a point. Yes, Miyamoto is a genius in implementing games and his ideas alone can't make a game. But the idea behind Wii Music, that you don't get scored on hitting notes at the right time - you basically just jam to the music and have fun, that idea is pretty simple yet revolutionary.
If that idea got out at the wrong time, it definitly wouldn't benefit Nintendo.
I think you speak alot of truths.
Eventually there will be a turning point. People aren't going to act until the effects of global warming are in their face. Something is going to happen that will wake people up. That turning point is when changes are going to happen. Your vision of eco-fascism has weight.
You're an atheist, but I'll take loving Christianity to your pessimistic misanthropy any day.
Everywhere in your post you regard humanity as something that needs to be controlled and "fixed" and "aborted."
All we need to do with people is find how best to integrate them into our society. And that means accepting everyone.
A kid has ADHD? Give him a more structured environment to live in. A man commits a crime? Rehabilitate him.
To help people with problems, you have to have faith in humanity.
Behavior:
1. manner of behaving or acting.
2. Psychology, Animal Behavior. a. observable activity in a human or animal.
b. the aggregate of responses to internal and external stimuli.
c. a stereotyped, species-specific activity, as a courtship dance or startle reflex.
None of these include that behavior is learned, or from nurture. The debate between nature and nurture is very much alive and you can't claim one or the other to be true.
Keep in mind that the entertainment industry loves to hire slave la- I mean, interns to work for them and college kids love the opportunity to work on what they love, regardless of money.
But the IT industry is different in regards to internships. I certainly wouldn't be sitting on my ass at my IT internship for free!
An intern in the IT field can expect decent pay compared to other fields. The trick is to get your foot in the door.
I'd suggest going through some sort of program, because it will be hard to find a company that will want to hire a foreign intern for only three months.
You're at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and can not practice simple internet privacy.
And you cannot practice simple human courtesy. WTF compels you to post that?
Well since you responded to it and got modded +4 insightful, even more people are going to see it, so you're not really helping.
And since I responded to you I'm not helping either!
From what I read in the article, it sounds like the soot actually repels the radiation back out into space. This literally stops global warming. So global warming is not always there technically.
Hold pirates like precious and fragile flowers in your hand, because their lukewarm interest is the last dying ember between you and the chill of oblivion
Although I think you're wrong because the industry still has a huge base, your poetry moved me deeply.
That's a huge point to make and you're going to have to explain it. I believe that Capitalism is morally correct, because capitalism is the most efficient economic system and efficientcy brings good to everyone, making everyone happy.
I agree with this, but something to consider is that quality video is much more expensive than quality sound.
Quality video requires a new TV purchase and a new media player purchase. Quality audio is simply the speakers.
A HD TV runs in the thousands along with a bluray player in the hundreds, but as long as you're not going to exorbident lengths for sound, you can get a sound system for hundreds.
My sound system for my computer which I've also used for TV movie watching cost me only sixety dollars.
Granted it's not loud enough or perfectly defined enough to really be an audiophile's delight, but I have decerning enough tastes and it satisfies me.
But people def should think more about audio, I know "The Man Who Knew Too Much" would have been unbearable without sound;)
do you think he might be exaggerating some so that the pay cuts would not be implemented?
That's the word on the streets.
He's just throwing something in Arnie's face to make it hard for him.
I doubt this is REALLY a problem.
The funny thing is, this has been going on before this. Teachers in Cali have been simply getting IOUs from the state instead of money for years.
It's just that the government workers are taking action when it happens to them.
Just because a virus was infected by another virus doesn't make it living.
That "mamavirus" always had the possibility that it would be infected, it always provided the environment for a smaller virus to leech off it. But by the logic presented, until it is infected by the smaller virus or there is an example of the smaller virus, it is not living. That doesn't make sense for the virus to be defined as not living before, and then living after it is infected. To say that the proof of something being living is that it CAN support a virus would be a valid point, and that point would support the arguement that viruses are living, but the arguement presented is wrong.
Whether or not a virus is living is not for me to know, but this infomation alone, while cool, doesn't make viruses living.
workers rights do require regulation in a capitalist economy, otherwise they get screwed.
Well the regulation in this case is that the company is being sued through the legislation system.
The force of Capitalism is ensuring that these workers have the ability to hire some lawyer and squeeze their company for money.
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Well, first off, the reason to play a competitive gamre is to win, not to play the game. That's why it's called a competition. I, for one, do not relish the thought of a "group swim for the fun of swimming" event at the olympics :)
But that's where swimming and say, soccer, differ.
In soccer, you are one side of the field with your team. The other team is on the other side of the field.
You are there to kick the other team's ass. That's in line with your mentality of winning.
In swimming, you are there with your team, but everyone starts at the same side of the pool. Everyone is looking to beat one another, but more importantly (or at least it should be more important), they are looking to beat their own personal records. That's not in line with your mentality.
Really, the other people in the pool don't matter, all that determines a win is a number, how fast you swam. In soccer there's no number or time, there's just the other team and how you play them.
you will also be forcing athletes to dope if they ever want to have a hope of winning. That cannot be a good thing because you're forcing them to basically destroy themselves mentally and physically.
Right now that is true, athletes are hurt by doping. But that is because doping is illegal. When a substance is illegal, it isn't handled safely because the use of it isn't regulated. If it was legal, doping would be safer because governments would take direct actions towards it.
if you were the athlete and you were all doped up because you had to and you won a race, would you not wonder whether it was you or the dope? Do we want to take that sense of achievement away from our athletes? Definitely not.
This is a good point, but right now athletes get to where they are by following strict training regiments. Couldn't by that logic, an athlete feel that their training regiment is what made them win?
nyone can have ideas. In fact, they're a dime in quantities of tens of thousands. The problem is getting those ideas implemented.
I would disagree to a point. Yes, Miyamoto is a genius in implementing games and his ideas alone can't make a game. But the idea behind Wii Music, that you don't get scored on hitting notes at the right time - you basically just jam to the music and have fun, that idea is pretty simple yet revolutionary.
If that idea got out at the wrong time, it definitly wouldn't benefit Nintendo.
I think you speak alot of truths.
Eventually there will be a turning point. People aren't going to act until the effects of global warming are in their face. Something is going to happen that will wake people up. That turning point is when changes are going to happen.
Your vision of eco-fascism has weight.
Reduced Carbon Green City
Yeah! That really rolls off the tongue!
You're an atheist, but I'll take loving Christianity to your pessimistic misanthropy any day.
Everywhere in your post you regard humanity as something that needs to be controlled and "fixed" and "aborted."
All we need to do with people is find how best to integrate them into our society. And that means accepting everyone.
A kid has ADHD? Give him a more structured environment to live in. A man commits a crime? Rehabilitate him.
To help people with problems, you have to have faith in humanity.
Behavior: 1. manner of behaving or acting. 2. Psychology, Animal Behavior. a. observable activity in a human or animal. b. the aggregate of responses to internal and external stimuli. c. a stereotyped, species-specific activity, as a courtship dance or startle reflex.
None of these include that behavior is learned, or from nurture. The debate between nature and nurture is very much alive and you can't claim one or the other to be true.
Keep in mind that the entertainment industry loves to hire slave la- I mean, interns to work for them and college kids love the opportunity to work on what they love, regardless of money.
But the IT industry is different in regards to internships. I certainly wouldn't be sitting on my ass at my IT internship for free!
An intern in the IT field can expect decent pay compared to other fields. The trick is to get your foot in the door.
I'd suggest going through some sort of program, because it will be hard to find a company that will want to hire a foreign intern for only three months.
They will make a pain for you to get a visa
if you have a funny sounding name you will be put in all kind of sinister lists
your laptop may be confiscated on arrival for no reason whatsoever.
You got most of them, but there are still a few more American stereotypes you could squeeze in there.
I know you can do better dude!
Living in Canada is like being in a loft apartment over a really great party.
You're at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology and can not practice simple internet privacy.
And you cannot practice simple human courtesy. WTF compels you to post that?
Well since you responded to it and got modded +4 insightful, even more people are going to see it, so you're not really helping.
And since I responded to you I'm not helping either!
From what I read in the article, it sounds like the soot actually repels the radiation back out into space. This literally stops global warming. So global warming is not always there technically.
Hold pirates like precious and fragile flowers in your hand, because their lukewarm interest is the last dying ember between you and the chill of oblivion
Although I think you're wrong because the industry still has a huge base, your poetry moved me deeply.
Capitalism is morally wrong
That's a huge point to make and you're going to have to explain it. I believe that Capitalism is morally correct, because capitalism is the most efficient economic system and efficientcy brings good to everyone, making everyone happy.
[Janulaitis] expects the IT employment picture will stay the same until after the election, when everything gets "settled out."
Mostly short term. But there were some long term ideas expressed, for example outsourcing won't be going anywhere.
I agree with this, but something to consider is that quality video is much more expensive than quality sound.
;)
Quality video requires a new TV purchase and a new media player purchase. Quality audio is simply the speakers.
A HD TV runs in the thousands along with a bluray player in the hundreds, but as long as you're not going to exorbident lengths for sound, you can get a sound system for hundreds.
My sound system for my computer which I've also used for TV movie watching cost me only sixety dollars.
Granted it's not loud enough or perfectly defined enough to really be an audiophile's delight, but I have decerning enough tastes and it satisfies me.
But people def should think more about audio, I know "The Man Who Knew Too Much" would have been unbearable without sound
do you think he might be exaggerating some so that the pay cuts would not be implemented?
That's the word on the streets.
He's just throwing something in Arnie's face to make it hard for him.
I doubt this is REALLY a problem.
The funny thing is, this has been going on before this. Teachers in Cali have been simply getting IOUs from the state instead of money for years.
It's just that the government workers are taking action when it happens to them.
The page looks fine on IE too.
...Not that I use Internet Explorer or anything!
Just because a virus was infected by another virus doesn't make it living.
That "mamavirus" always had the possibility that it would be infected, it always provided the environment for a smaller virus to leech off it. But by the logic presented, until it is infected by the smaller virus or there is an example of the smaller virus, it is not living. That doesn't make sense for the virus to be defined as not living before, and then living after it is infected. To say that the proof of something being living is that it CAN support a virus would be a valid point, and that point would support the arguement that viruses are living, but the arguement presented is wrong.
Whether or not a virus is living is not for me to know, but this infomation alone, while cool, doesn't make viruses living.
workers rights do require regulation in a capitalist economy, otherwise they get screwed.
Well the regulation in this case is that the company is being sued through the legislation system.
The force of Capitalism is ensuring that these workers have the ability to hire some lawyer and squeeze their company for money.
random comment, capitalism sucks.
Random comment: I love Capitalism.
Eh it's Apple, we can scapegoat them!
There was a DoD satellite and a NASA thingie on board when it failed.
Also there's plans to make deliveries to ISS once the shuttles are through.
Did it have the mortal remains of any famous actors onboard?
From TFA
the ashes of 208 people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper and James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty in the original Star Trek television show
Sounds pretty cool, I may try it out, although it doesn't sound like it's very newbie friendly...
Jumping in WoW is my life.
I feel crippled in a game where I can't jump.