Yes, even if your heart doesn't go Duchenne's doesn't stop degrading your muscles. It used to be that kids with it would die before the age of 12. Now many reach 20. there have been big improvements in treatment but 40 is extremely unlikely. muscles like those in the heart and lungs degrade more slowly than others but they still degrade and eventually he'll suffocate or some other muscles he needs to live will go. Unless they can build him a robotic lung as well and robotic throat muscles etc he's still going to die long before the heart does. there are far more painful diseases but it's still a horrible affliction and from such a trivial mutation. Delete one codon and you won't make it to adulthood.
Any bets on a couple of kid hackers being uncovered as the real authors after a few more weeks of news reports about how it was all spies? Sure there was some inside info needed but I can imagine some overly nationalist hacker in america, israel or elsewhere chipping away at something like this for years and gathering the needed info.
every generation. every single generation decides that the modes of entertainment of their own generation were obviously fine since they grew up fine but this generation? this generations new forms of entertainment are going to destroy the minds of the young! this time! this time we're going to see it turning them into devil worshipers or canibals or murderers because *insert any difference between the older forms of entertainment and this one*
Colour TV was going to turn them into murderers because the vibrent colour of blood would overload their senses and leave them bereft of empathy. Black and white TV was going to turn them into murderers because the addition of a moving image of what was happening was going to make everything far too real and they wouldn't be able to tell reality from fiction. Rock music was going to cause them to worship the devil because.... well just because. Radio was going to destroy them with all the sudden sounds and vivid images called up by a story told on radio shows was much more real for being heard rather than read from a book and the lack of another person there to provide a real human influance. Talkies were going to make people crazy with the realism and people would think they were inside the world of the film. Cheap mass printed books were going to destroy their minds by overloading them with information from every direction.
but this time. this time the new generations entertainment is different. this time it really is going to leave them all as psychopaths and killers. This time!
people have been saying kids wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the game world and the real since Wolfenstein 3D came out almost 18 years ago. people have grown to adulthood since then and yet still people have little trouble telling the real world from game worlds.
whilst letting the player make the right choices will not teach the player much if anything
What the fuck? So your problem with this is that the player can choose *not* to shoot the escapee?
Especially since the game ends with it. It's like sentencing the person to go to jail for half a minute
And a book that ends similarly is better how? It's a game. Do you want it to give the player an electric shock the player when they do something wrong or what?
All it does is tell a story and give the player some choices in the story. Make the good choices the story ends well. Make the bad choices and the story tells of short term rewards and long term consequences.
When you tell a fairy tale to a child about someone doing something evil do you finish it by locking them in a box for a few hours to teach them what jail is like?
Books, films, choose your own adventure books or even sitting around telling a story and playing a game can all convey the same messeges and morals. A story, even a story told through a videogame can have a moral.
Get this through your head- penalties made the problem worse. It doesn't matter if it feels better to you to punish it even more harshly. It makes the problem worse.
There is the model in your head and then there is the real world. The 2 only converge in idealized situations.
If people were perfectly rational entities they would act how you wanted them to. Unfortunately the penalties they tried already turned out to be perverse disincentives. Yes it's bad, yes it's a problem. But your whole philosophy and approach to trying to solve it and that of people who think like you only makes the problem worse.
repeating that it's a problem doesn't change that. appeals to emotion don't change that. complaining about how people delude themselves doesn't change that.
Managing a group rather than being treated as a skill(which it is, very much so) is instead treated as a position because of some waffle about all the extra responsibility they have to take on.(how often do managers actually take responsibility/the blame for a fuckup? the ones still there in any company are the ones most skilled at shifting blame elsewhere)
A skilled coder can be terrible as a manager so simply making all managers coders doens't fix it. A manager can be worth less than any of the coders he manages and yet be paid more because people have this idea that you have to be paid more than anyone *under* you.
There are other measures which can help as well and as the autoban demonstrates on paticularly good sections of road a speed limit isn't *always* nescesary. Personally I'd add requiring all motorists to carry an emergency car kit(first aid kit+traffic warning+lights) and require that people stop at any accident where there isn't already someone stopped to help. Such things seem to work well on the continent.
Right now you're safer owning a company which kills hundreds of people than owning a dog which mauls someone. The sad fact is that it's easy to protect yourself. And managers know how to play the game.
small example: here there are food safety standards for delis. A friend of mine worked in one, minimum wage job. they have to regularly test the temperature of the meat and fill out forms to record it.
the forms weren't always being filled out and sometimes they weren't falling into acceptable boundaries. These records are required by law.
So the manager sends round a memo along the lines of "I have not seen any blank *forms* but this is just to remind people that they all must be filled out, by law we must keep the fridges between *this* range and not filling them out could lead to disiplinary action"
What he meant was "Fill in forms for the missing times or you're fired, if they're not filled out saying the fridges are at the right temperature you're fired" everyone knew this.
if it came to a case of food poisoning of course the manager would be off the hook and some minimum wage 16 year old who didn't know that signing off on faked forms counted as fraud would be thrown to the wolves.
when criminal penalties don't work don't think or re-evaluate how you deal with the problem. no instead just use harsher penalties, longer sentences, hotter hot irons!
I know you couldn't resist the urge to leap in and demonstrate how knowledgeable you are but go back and read the GP. it was about *dictating* a text. not talking on a cell phone or trying to type in a text by hand.
that's talking on a cell, not dictating a text as in the GP. big difference, nobody to keep talking on the other end when the driver needs to concentrate on something. better citation please.
the top one 404's on me but the other 2 were both about talking on a cell phone *not* dictating a text which is the scenario I responded to. When chatting on the phone the other person keeps talking when something unexpected happens. when dictating that isn't an issue.
Only in the context that the world is full of absolute and total nutjobs (or people who become total nutjobs when behind a wheel) who freak out and take utterly stupid risks when they get stuck behind someone going 5 mph slower than they want to go, whatever the speed limit is it doesn't really matter. They then blame their stupid actions on the person who was driving normally "Look what he made me do!!!"
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Yes, even if your heart doesn't go Duchenne's doesn't stop degrading your muscles.
It used to be that kids with it would die before the age of 12.
Now many reach 20.
there have been big improvements in treatment but 40 is extremely unlikely.
muscles like those in the heart and lungs degrade more slowly than others but they still degrade and eventually he'll suffocate or some other muscles he needs to live will go.
Unless they can build him a robotic lung as well and robotic throat muscles etc he's still going to die long before the heart does.
there are far more painful diseases but it's still a horrible affliction and from such a trivial mutation.
Delete one codon and you won't make it to adulthood.
My mistake.Sorry about that.
You asked for a list.
You were given a list.
There ya go ColdWetDog.
Someone gave a nice list of the features GIMP is missing.
And yet you don't post anything specific and just whine.
Any bets on a couple of kid hackers being uncovered as the real authors after a few more weeks of news reports about how it was all spies?
Sure there was some inside info needed but I can imagine some overly nationalist hacker in america, israel or elsewhere chipping away at something like this for years and gathering the needed info.
wow.
you really are a bit slow on the uptake aren't you.
It's intentional and it makes a good point.
every generation.
every single generation decides that the modes of entertainment of their own generation were obviously fine since they grew up fine but this generation?
this generations new forms of entertainment are going to destroy the minds of the young!
this time!
this time we're going to see it turning them into devil worshipers or canibals or murderers because *insert any difference between the older forms of entertainment and this one*
Colour TV was going to turn them into murderers because the vibrent colour of blood would overload their senses and leave them bereft of empathy.
Black and white TV was going to turn them into murderers because the addition of a moving image of what was happening was going to make everything far too real and they wouldn't be able to tell reality from fiction.
Rock music was going to cause them to worship the devil because.... well just because.
Radio was going to destroy them with all the sudden sounds and vivid images called up by a story told on radio shows was much more real for being heard rather than read from a book and the lack of another person there to provide a real human influance.
Talkies were going to make people crazy with the realism and people would think they were inside the world of the film.
Cheap mass printed books were going to destroy their minds by overloading them with information from every direction.
but this time.
this time the new generations entertainment is different.
this time it really is going to leave them all as psychopaths and killers.
This time!
people have been saying kids wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the game world and the real since Wolfenstein 3D came out almost 18 years ago. people have grown to adulthood since then and yet still people have little trouble telling the real world from game worlds.
whilst letting the player make the right choices will not teach the player much if anything
What the fuck?
So your problem with this is that the player can choose *not* to shoot the escapee?
Especially since the game ends with it. It's like sentencing the person to go to jail for half a minute
And a book that ends similarly is better how?
It's a game.
Do you want it to give the player an electric shock the player when they do something wrong or what?
All it does is tell a story and give the player some choices in the story.
Make the good choices the story ends well.
Make the bad choices and the story tells of short term rewards and long term consequences.
When you tell a fairy tale to a child about someone doing something evil do you finish it by locking them in a box for a few hours to teach them what jail is like?
Books, films, choose your own adventure books or even sitting around telling a story and playing a game can all convey the same messeges and morals.
A story, even a story told through a videogame can have a moral.
Get this through your head- penalties made the problem worse.
It doesn't matter if it feels better to you to punish it even more harshly.
It makes the problem worse.
There is the model in your head and then there is the real world.
The 2 only converge in idealized situations.
If people were perfectly rational entities they would act how you wanted them to.
Unfortunately the penalties they tried already turned out to be perverse disincentives.
Yes it's bad, yes it's a problem.
But your whole philosophy and approach to trying to solve it and that of people who think like you only makes the problem worse.
repeating that it's a problem doesn't change that. appeals to emotion don't change that. complaining about how people delude themselves doesn't change that.
The article is about how indroducing penalties made the problem worse.
Rational actors would respons how you want.
But humans are not perfectly rational actors.
Harsher penalties are as likely to make the problem even worse
Any suggestions on good areas for a recent CS grad?
Isn't that a problem is just about every field?
Managing a group rather than being treated as a skill(which it is, very much so) is instead treated as a position because of some waffle about all the extra responsibility they have to take on.(how often do managers actually take responsibility/the blame for a fuckup? the ones still there in any company are the ones most skilled at shifting blame elsewhere)
A skilled coder can be terrible as a manager so simply making all managers coders doens't fix it.
A manager can be worth less than any of the coders he manages and yet be paid more because people have this idea that you have to be paid more than anyone *under* you.
There are other measures which can help as well and as the autoban demonstrates on paticularly good sections of road a speed limit isn't *always* nescesary.
Personally I'd add requiring all motorists to carry an emergency car kit(first aid kit+traffic warning+lights) and require that people stop at any accident where there isn't already someone stopped to help.
Such things seem to work well on the continent.
" I don't trust that every single person on the road is able to make an accurate risk assessment."
don't worry, they don't trust you can make an accurate risk assessment either.
Right now you're safer owning a company which kills hundreds of people than owning a dog which mauls someone.
The sad fact is that it's easy to protect yourself.
And managers know how to play the game.
small example:
here there are food safety standards for delis.
A friend of mine worked in one, minimum wage job.
they have to regularly test the temperature of the meat and fill out forms to record it.
the forms weren't always being filled out and sometimes they weren't falling into acceptable boundaries.
These records are required by law.
So the manager sends round a memo along the lines of "I have not seen any blank *forms* but this is just to remind people that they all must be filled out, by law we must keep the fridges between *this* range and not filling them out could lead to disiplinary action"
What he meant was "Fill in forms for the missing times or you're fired, if they're not filled out saying the fridges are at the right temperature you're fired"
everyone knew this.
if it came to a case of food poisoning of course the manager would be off the hook and some minimum wage 16 year old who didn't know that signing off on faked forms counted as fraud would be thrown to the wolves.
thanks for repeating a section of my post.
did you even read what you were replying to?
Which isn't what the question was about.
it was about *dictating* a text.
not talking on a cell phone.
Can anyone on here read.... perhaps you're all driving.
when criminal penalties don't work don't think or re-evaluate how you deal with the problem.
no
instead just use harsher penalties, longer sentences, hotter hot irons!
I know you couldn't resist the urge to leap in and demonstrate how knowledgeable you are but go back and read the GP.
it was about *dictating* a text.
not talking on a cell phone or trying to type in a text by hand.
which studies about dictating texts?
try harder.
that's talking on a cell, not dictating a text as in the GP.
big difference, nobody to keep talking on the other end when the driver needs to concentrate on something.
better citation please.
the top one 404's on me but the other 2 were both about talking on a cell phone *not* dictating a text which is the scenario I responded to.
When chatting on the phone the other person keeps talking when something unexpected happens.
when dictating that isn't an issue.
better citations please.
Only in the context that the world is full of absolute and total nutjobs (or people who become total nutjobs when behind a wheel) who freak out and take utterly stupid risks when they get stuck behind someone going 5 mph slower than they want to go, whatever the speed limit is it doesn't really matter.
They then blame their stupid actions on the person who was driving normally "Look what he made me do!!!"