While you might not like to hear it, conventional psychology says that any behavior you take is likely to be repeated and that any behavior observed is very close to identical as doing it yourself (You remember it differently of course but brain activity is very similar).
So basically this should have been assumed but of course it's always nice to have the research to back it up... especially in the case where in games the characters are clearly not real people, of course once again psychology says we think in symbols so...
Anyway, all this means is that the research supports what has been the basic assumption and while the small change might not seem like a big difference when you think of it in a feeling, if you think of it as a group of action then it can be. If there's roughly a 2% increase in aggression, that might seem like the person is just "slightly more aggressive"... or probably should be right that that's an extra moment out of every 50 where the person becomes aggressive. Instead of the person laughing off that joke, they might get pissed off at you.
Just food for thought. Personally I don't think it needs the kind of stigma associated with such a warning. The government has no right to tell people who they may react to a given stimulus. Warning somebody that something might kill them is a whole lot different than warning people that they may kill someone.
Everybody would love to curb greenhouse gas emissions and save the planet except they don't want to foot the bill for it... and some can't. Hybrid cars have only been popular because the price of gas went up. Electric and Hybrids have been around for a while and haven't caught on. Few people are willing or able to make the investment.
For the record, I do my tea in a microwave and I ride the bus (except for grocery shopping). I also turn off the lights when I'm the only one home (unless I'm reading). However, this won't keep me from using my computer. And if you're saying "well yeah, I wouldn't expect that"... that's what your whole post says. Everybody is going to try not to be wasteful. I'm sure if people knew that microwaving their tea was better for the environment and probably for their wallet, they'd do it... but not even you have cut your tea out completely.
Trust me, you aren't the only one who cares, it just makes you feel better to think you do.
Yeah, makes perfect sense. When people like me who have been around for that long die then nobody will remember the Beatles... Ohhh wait, I wasn't, nor were any of my friends, my siblings, their friends... wierd huh? The difference is that we're saying that the Beatles will be Timeless 30-40 years after the fact.
Get off your "I know classic" high horse. You find even college students (non-musical) who can differentiate which compositions belonged to which composer and I'll find you 5 that could SING half a dozen beatles songs... let alone capable of differentiating them from ANY other band.
So basically what they are saying is that the incumbent is evil. You realize that even 3rd world countries, tribes in Africa, hell even just monkeys are trying to "improve their lot" and trying to find new ideas. I'm sorry but I'm not impressed in anyway. I feel like this book is an appeal to everything American (We're ingenious! Incumbency sucks!)
When you find evidence that we're moving towards being a culture based PURELY on ideas and learning, I'll be impressed but saying that we innovate is like saying that people learn... wow, really?
Windows 7 = Vista? haha now that piece of crap makes a little more sense! I always thought it seemed a little... unfinished.
That aside, people always bust window's for issues and I can't imagine that a pre-pre-release of their operating system can be in too good of shape. Really a good idea to put it out there?
hey, I wouldn't mind getting paid for my ideas. If you put a significant amount of work into something that's going to get somebody else paid, I don't think it's that wrong to expect some compensation. On the flip side, if you know you aren't going to be paid then you know that your compensation is strictly just getting props. If that bothers you, it's not their fault. If this ideabox doesn't work out then they may start paying people for their ideas.
Supply and Demand - The Supply is huge, the demand nearly non-existent... so you don't get paid.
beta doesn't carry the stigma it used to. People are DRAWN to beta because it says "I'm a trend setter" or "I helped make this what it is." It comes from all the Open Beta testing people have gotten into, particularly with MMO's. Beta isn't a bad thing anymore. It's certainly better than a broken finished product and it's a lot easier to explain away problems
actually it is part about Privacy. Two of the cases are truly idiots for posting on MySpace. I was never a MySpace person but Lipton, who has an account on facebook, probably didn't even post the pcitures. ANYONE can post a picture that has you in it and then link it to your account by "Tagging" you. Now granted, he was in a semi-public place so it is technically his fault but he's not as much of an idiot as you'd so readily believe.
On MySpace, I don't think you can do this, but again I don't know first hand. I think they maybe have really been that stupid to post it themselves.
I actually read the article to see if it was as bad as it sounded... and yes it is.
First of all, he was drinking Red Bull, which is non-alcoholic, and while he was at a party I'd be thinking he'd be excited to be alive. Just me though.
The other cases in the article are just as bad. A lady at a party drinking wine after a car accident? Wine just screams alcoholic!
The prosecution is saying she should be in AA? They know that she's an Alcoholic and didn't just make a bad choice? She's no longer aloud to drink anymore because of a bad choice? AA doesn't teach you to act correctly when you drink, it tried to get you to stop drinking completely
And to say "she was doing nothing but having a good time" is insane. Obviously she's been going from party to party non-stop for the past X months. How do you know she WASN'T going to AA? Just because you have a picture of something less than appealing doesn't mean you have to whole story.
I have to imagine they'd have more than that for a Judge to up the sentence to two years. Not to say I don't think they deserved it but expecting people to become inhuman because of an accident is just plain stupid. A guy drinking red bull is a good example of just how RANDOM these pictures can be and yet they are grounds for upping a sentence? give me a break.
I find this to be horribly off base. Historically going cross platform has meant lesser quality because you have to devote part of your development team to translating everything for the other platform... which means that CREATION of other things goes down. Instead of having another new feature, you're product is cross-platform. That sounds like lesser quality to me. Maybe more quantity but less quality.
The difference between then and now is that the big name games are going cross-platform. Games like Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto which are known for their quality have gone cross-platform and have and will hopefully continue to maintain their high standards of quality even despite crossing over. And notice that you nodded your head to these games going cross platform... that means they didn't start out that way and yet they are big.
personally I get the feeling you're a blizzard fan boy more than a gamer. Not to say they don't have good games but I don't see where their cross platforming has ever happened. Their most known games are PC games. Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo... all computer games.
And as for Astral's comment on WoW... he's pretty much right on that. Very large number of things to collect and do... that are all slight variations of one another. If my little brother didn't play it, I would have left it in my discard pile. It runs like a dream, no bugs and it is quite charming. Once that gets boring, though, there isn't anything left to entertain you.
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While you might not like to hear it, conventional psychology says that any behavior you take is likely to be repeated and that any behavior observed is very close to identical as doing it yourself (You remember it differently of course but brain activity is very similar).
So basically this should have been assumed but of course it's always nice to have the research to back it up... especially in the case where in games the characters are clearly not real people, of course once again psychology says we think in symbols so...
Anyway, all this means is that the research supports what has been the basic assumption and while the small change might not seem like a big difference when you think of it in a feeling, if you think of it as a group of action then it can be. If there's roughly a 2% increase in aggression, that might seem like the person is just "slightly more aggressive"... or probably should be right that that's an extra moment out of every 50 where the person becomes aggressive. Instead of the person laughing off that joke, they might get pissed off at you.
Just food for thought. Personally I don't think it needs the kind of stigma associated with such a warning. The government has no right to tell people who they may react to a given stimulus. Warning somebody that something might kill them is a whole lot different than warning people that they may kill someone.
Everybody would love to curb greenhouse gas emissions and save the planet except they don't want to foot the bill for it... and some can't. Hybrid cars have only been popular because the price of gas went up. Electric and Hybrids have been around for a while and haven't caught on. Few people are willing or able to make the investment.
For the record, I do my tea in a microwave and I ride the bus (except for grocery shopping). I also turn off the lights when I'm the only one home (unless I'm reading). However, this won't keep me from using my computer. And if you're saying "well yeah, I wouldn't expect that"... that's what your whole post says. Everybody is going to try not to be wasteful. I'm sure if people knew that microwaving their tea was better for the environment and probably for their wallet, they'd do it... but not even you have cut your tea out completely.
Trust me, you aren't the only one who cares, it just makes you feel better to think you do.
Yeah, makes perfect sense. When people like me who have been around for that long die then nobody will remember the Beatles... Ohhh wait, I wasn't, nor were any of my friends, my siblings, their friends... wierd huh? The difference is that we're saying that the Beatles will be Timeless 30-40 years after the fact.
Get off your "I know classic" high horse. You find even college students (non-musical) who can differentiate which compositions belonged to which composer and I'll find you 5 that could SING half a dozen beatles songs... let alone capable of differentiating them from ANY other band.
So basically what they are saying is that the incumbent is evil. You realize that even 3rd world countries, tribes in Africa, hell even just monkeys are trying to "improve their lot" and trying to find new ideas. I'm sorry but I'm not impressed in anyway. I feel like this book is an appeal to everything American (We're ingenious! Incumbency sucks!)
When you find evidence that we're moving towards being a culture based PURELY on ideas and learning, I'll be impressed but saying that we innovate is like saying that people learn... wow, really?
Windows 7 = Vista? haha now that piece of crap makes a little more sense! I always thought it seemed a little... unfinished.
That aside, people always bust window's for issues and I can't imagine that a pre-pre-release of their operating system can be in too good of shape. Really a good idea to put it out there?
hey, I wouldn't mind getting paid for my ideas. If you put a significant amount of work into something that's going to get somebody else paid, I don't think it's that wrong to expect some compensation. On the flip side, if you know you aren't going to be paid then you know that your compensation is strictly just getting props. If that bothers you, it's not their fault. If this ideabox doesn't work out then they may start paying people for their ideas.
Supply and Demand - The Supply is huge, the demand nearly non-existent... so you don't get paid.
beta doesn't carry the stigma it used to. People are DRAWN to beta because it says "I'm a trend setter" or "I helped make this what it is." It comes from all the Open Beta testing people have gotten into, particularly with MMO's. Beta isn't a bad thing anymore. It's certainly better than a broken finished product and it's a lot easier to explain away problems
So anyone know where I can find the disk software since I have the crack now?
I kid =)
actually it is part about Privacy. Two of the cases are truly idiots for posting on MySpace. I was never a MySpace person but Lipton, who has an account on facebook, probably didn't even post the pcitures. ANYONE can post a picture that has you in it and then link it to your account by "Tagging" you. Now granted, he was in a semi-public place so it is technically his fault but he's not as much of an idiot as you'd so readily believe.
On MySpace, I don't think you can do this, but again I don't know first hand. I think they maybe have really been that stupid to post it themselves.
I actually read the article to see if it was as bad as it sounded... and yes it is.
First of all, he was drinking Red Bull, which is non-alcoholic, and while he was at a party I'd be thinking he'd be excited to be alive. Just me though.
The other cases in the article are just as bad. A lady at a party drinking wine after a car accident? Wine just screams alcoholic!
The prosecution is saying she should be in AA? They know that she's an Alcoholic and didn't just make a bad choice? She's no longer aloud to drink anymore because of a bad choice? AA doesn't teach you to act correctly when you drink, it tried to get you to stop drinking completely
And to say "she was doing nothing but having a good time" is insane. Obviously she's been going from party to party non-stop for the past X months. How do you know she WASN'T going to AA? Just because you have a picture of something less than appealing doesn't mean you have to whole story.
I have to imagine they'd have more than that for a Judge to up the sentence to two years. Not to say I don't think they deserved it but expecting people to become inhuman because of an accident is just plain stupid. A guy drinking red bull is a good example of just how RANDOM these pictures can be and yet they are grounds for upping a sentence? give me a break.
I find this to be horribly off base. Historically going cross platform has meant lesser quality because you have to devote part of your development team to translating everything for the other platform... which means that CREATION of other things goes down. Instead of having another new feature, you're product is cross-platform. That sounds like lesser quality to me. Maybe more quantity but less quality.
The difference between then and now is that the big name games are going cross-platform. Games like Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto which are known for their quality have gone cross-platform and have and will hopefully continue to maintain their high standards of quality even despite crossing over. And notice that you nodded your head to these games going cross platform... that means they didn't start out that way and yet they are big.
personally I get the feeling you're a blizzard fan boy more than a gamer. Not to say they don't have good games but I don't see where their cross platforming has ever happened. Their most known games are PC games. Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo... all computer games.
And as for Astral's comment on WoW... he's pretty much right on that. Very large number of things to collect and do... that are all slight variations of one another. If my little brother didn't play it, I would have left it in my discard pile. It runs like a dream, no bugs and it is quite charming. Once that gets boring, though, there isn't anything left to entertain you.