They didn't claim FSF is a terrorist organization (yet.) "Dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs" and having an "open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies." sounds like a compliment to me. I'd wear it as a badge of honor, as I'm sure FSF will do.
The RIAA didn't attack the FSF, they were praising the FSF for standing up to an evil organization: the RIAA.
Why is this such a difficult thing for people to understand?
Were it so simple, then yeah, it would already be the case, but there are numerous factors you've either ignored or not thought about.
For one thing, although you could argue that online courses and brick and mortar courses are the same, people, notably employers and parents who fund the students, don't always see it that way, so even though there might not be a difference in content, there's a difference in the value of the certification that this student can think. That's why a diploma from Harvard is more sought after than one from Generic State University. The difference not in quality of instruction. Or if there is one, it's that the better teachers are working at GSU with small classes, wheras it's the good researchers who can't teach their way out of a paper bag (if such a thing is possible) who hand out grades to auditoriums of students.
Obviously there are plenty of exceptions, and many fields do indeed value the online diploma just as much, much as there are many fields that aren't impressed just with a harvard degree. The point I'm making though is that the system is already irrational. If everyone were just trying to get a certificate and all certificates were equal, then yes, we'd already be at online courses and Ivy league schools would have disintegrated long ago. But not all diplomas are equal obivously, and online schools will be stigmatized by some people (especially academics) for long after 2020.
I don't think all courses are eventually going to evolve into online courses either. Teachers who use online tools as crutches don't seem to be any more effective than if they just blabbered in front of students anyway, and effective teachers often seem to use all tools available to them, most prominently lectures.
The paperless society thing is pretty apt actually. It makes sense on a lot of levels, but people irrationally prefer printouts they can hold and mark on. On paper it makes sense (sorry for the pun), but it's not going to happen for a while if it ever does.
Another one: it screws over the assholes at gamestop. There was some speculation that gamestop was trying to punish stardock for digital distribution. There's as of yet no evidence that I know of to suggest it. I wouldn't be surprised though, gamestop is fond of trying to annoy people into giving them money.
The game companies no doubt hate seeing used game transactions taking place without them getting a cut.
A bit of a tangent, but I just have to point out that many other goods are sold second hand, they only rarely result in direct profit for the original manufacturer, and that hasn't hurt those other industries. I think game manufacturers are being absolutely ridiculous, if car manufacturers suggested the same thing, they'd be burned at the stake.
You're right, it's an awesome band. They probably forgot the distinction between band and country in the heat of the moment. Er... heat of the sun rather.
Wow, that's one of my worst jokes ever. I'm in physical pain.
I do, but only when we're talking about people wiretapping ME!
Seriousness: I don't think wiretapping is always morally wrong, which is why I never said anything resembling "wiretapping is always morally wrong."...except for the above sentance, which was a joke.
I'm going to guess just from reading the title that they couldn't find the switch. Maybe they were too busy doing the thing that took them three years to look for it. It's great that they have an e-merlin though, now they just need an e-arthur.
In an ideal world, one that we don't live in, she would be thrown in jail. I'll be pleasantly surprised if voters even throw her out of office because of this.
All that said, a title like Resident Evil 4 or the new Metroid Prime in my opinion show the Wii to be an EXCELLENT platform for FPS and hard core games.
Technically resident evil 4 wasn't an FPS, it was an over the shoulder, but you're right basically.
FPS is a hard core genre. That's not the Wii's core demographic.
That's just a bunch of marketing buzzwords. A game can ONLY target a "core demographic?" I don't think so. Reguardless of the average wii owner, there's still a huge number of wii owners who play games besides wii fit. I've never been exactly clear as to what "hard core" mean when referring to gamer types, it seems to just be people who play a lot of games. I don't see why you have to play a lot of games to enjoy FPS, especially not if the controls are right.
I personally was looking forward to (and was dissapointed by a lack of) first person shooting control schemes.
With the swordfighting, one major problem is that if your on screen sword hits another sword, there's no force feedback to stop your wiimote. You'd swing through, your sword on screen would stop.
I suppose they could make it realistic and have both swords break, but people want movie sword-fighting, not real sword fighting. There are workarounds you can think of, but until nindendo comes out with a wii-motion-stops-your-hand-in-midair attachment, it's never going to feel quite right.
The FPS control scheme I don't know why it's not being used much. Lack of imagination? they don't think there's much of a market for FPS on the wii?
The grammar/spelling nazis, racist trolls, and the suprisingly angry partisans from both sides of nuclear power are going to have a field day with this. Also there's also a good chance that global warming will come up here, and I'm pretty sure the chinese are running vista on the control system.
The cells, at least acording to what I've heard/read (again, prove me wrong if you know any better, I'm not a professional) are taken from embryos that were fertilized for the purposes of fertility treatment/artificial impregantion.
Correct, and fears that we'll start encouraging abortions to get stem cells are also absurd: by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, "embryonic stem cells" as in completely undifferentiated cells good for replacing any organ, are not found in the fetus. ESC useful for that are only found within a window of 3-5 days after fertilization, before the embryo has implanted into the uterine wall and before a blood test would even indicate a woman is pregnant.
and some people in the world die because they don't have food to eat. What are you doing using a computer and the internet?
Not taking money away from efforts to solve world problems for one thing. The RFID tags on the other hand, not so much. I haven't gotten myself elected to govern any country that has those problems either.
Who gives a crap about HIV? HIV infection can be prevented.
The country, which is losing a significant portion of it's population directly and having to spend lots of money dealing with the death and orphans really should give a crap. That it's so easily preventable is part of what makes the situation ridiculous and is complicating efforts to deal with unemployment and lack of education: 18% of the adult population getting sick and dying isn't very good for the economy, and all the orphans aren't going to get a very good education.
Or they could spend the money on RFID and do nothing about ANY problem they're actually facing.
There's always a large supply of young and mature (I mean the kind who's too mature to think blood explosions are funny) people who could become gamers with the right game. In fact Nintendo is now winning precisely by expanding their appeal to these people with more game variety. The people who actually grew up with games and now demand M ratings are a minority, some grew up with them but lapsed, others outgrew the age where violence seems like a good part of a game and many didn't have games in their own childhood and still need to be introduced to gaming for the first time.
Wanting mature content doesn't exactly boil down to mindless violence in games, much as wanting to watch mature movies doesn't boil down to pointless violence. I don't need gratuitous violence, I just don't want to be limited in what games I play.
It would be one thing if nintendo were just shying away from blood and sex, but the games that dominate the wii and DS are more than that, they're focused at children, they're very simple. Animal crossing, wii fit, mario kart. Super mario galaxy was much easier than super mario sunshine. About the only noteworthy nintendo title that couldn't accurately be called a kids game was metroid. It didn't have blood, it did have shooting and killing aliens, not kids themes.
I'm fine with games without blood explosions or nudity, but I don't want to feel like I'm playing a child's game because that gets old eventually, plus it feels a bit silly, like I'm using safety scissors. And the non kids-game releases have been lacking.
By now it's sort of entrenched, with parents groups getting bent out of shape at manhunt 2, because the wii is supposed to be for children in their mind. That might be why american 3rd party developers are avoiding the wii.
And more jeers to worrying about passports when they have an obscene HIV rate and I'm guessing not that much of a threat from terrorism. Not to say you can't do both, but until they get their HIV epidemic under control I don't know what they're doing spending money to update passports.
What on Earth would make you think that a legal case in Sweden would have that effect? What do you imagine Google would pay for? To whom? Why Google, and not the downloader?
These are all reasonable, rational questions, which is why they have no place in discussions of legal battles.
Why sue google? Because google has a lot more money and plenty of people who can hire lawyers don't care about what makes sense.
But that was not implanted. And things like that are more common than one would think. One way of studying sperm-egg interactions is to cause sperm to fuse to hamster eggs. If I recall correctly, once you remove the outer layer (zona, I think) of the hamster egg, it's quite promiscuous and will initiate fusion with human sperm.
Let's avoid speculation on how that was discovered.
Anyway, human eggs are expensive as it requires surgery to get them. Human sperm is pretty easy to obtain (just ask your mom... sorry, couldn't pass that one up.) Hamster eggs are easier to obtain, since you don't need informed consent etc.
So if you're interested in studying how sperm fuses with the egg, a cheap way to get somewhat relevant results is to incubate human sperm with hamster eggs with the zona removed. I've heard the lab terminology for that is a "humster." The paper I've read dealing in this used function blocking antibodies to identify one of the proteins required on the sperm for fusion with the egg, since they were using human sperm it was a convincing result. While not quite as solid as it would have been to test human sperm fertilizing a human egg, it's probably several thousand dollars cheaper and not MUCH less convincing.
I don't know that anyone has ever let humsters incubate very long, but I'm assuming there's no way they get very far. They might divide, I don't know, I'd guess they would die well before they started developing a neural tube, let alone a brain. And of course no one is going to implant one into a hamster or human.
Anyway, these experiments do happen and there are good reasons for them.
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They didn't claim FSF is a terrorist organization (yet.) "Dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying, redistribution, and modifying computer programs" and having an "open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias' against the record companies." sounds like a compliment to me. I'd wear it as a badge of honor, as I'm sure FSF will do.
The RIAA didn't attack the FSF, they were praising the FSF for standing up to an evil organization: the RIAA.
They'd better be careful
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Why is this such a difficult thing for people to understand?
Were it so simple, then yeah, it would already be the case, but there are numerous factors you've either ignored or not thought about.
For one thing, although you could argue that online courses and brick and mortar courses are the same, people, notably employers and parents who fund the students, don't always see it that way, so even though there might not be a difference in content, there's a difference in the value of the certification that this student can think. That's why a diploma from Harvard is more sought after than one from Generic State University. The difference not in quality of instruction. Or if there is one, it's that the better teachers are working at GSU with small classes, wheras it's the good researchers who can't teach their way out of a paper bag (if such a thing is possible) who hand out grades to auditoriums of students.
Obviously there are plenty of exceptions, and many fields do indeed value the online diploma just as much, much as there are many fields that aren't impressed just with a harvard degree. The point I'm making though is that the system is already irrational. If everyone were just trying to get a certificate and all certificates were equal, then yes, we'd already be at online courses and Ivy league schools would have disintegrated long ago. But not all diplomas are equal obivously, and online schools will be stigmatized by some people (especially academics) for long after 2020.
I don't think all courses are eventually going to evolve into online courses either. Teachers who use online tools as crutches don't seem to be any more effective than if they just blabbered in front of students anyway, and effective teachers often seem to use all tools available to them, most prominently lectures.
The paperless society thing is pretty apt actually. It makes sense on a lot of levels, but people irrationally prefer printouts they can hold and mark on. On paper it makes sense (sorry for the pun), but it's not going to happen for a while if it ever does.
Another one: it screws over the assholes at gamestop. There was some speculation that gamestop was trying to punish stardock for digital distribution. There's as of yet no evidence that I know of to suggest it. I wouldn't be surprised though, gamestop is fond of trying to annoy people into giving them money.
The game companies no doubt hate seeing used game transactions taking place without them getting a cut.
A bit of a tangent, but I just have to point out that many other goods are sold second hand, they only rarely result in direct profit for the original manufacturer, and that hasn't hurt those other industries. I think game manufacturers are being absolutely ridiculous, if car manufacturers suggested the same thing, they'd be burned at the stake.
It's only an awesome band if you're a 40 year old virgin...
I really don't see how that's relevant to discussions of the vatican's... wait... I see it now.
You're right, it's an awesome band. They probably forgot the distinction between band and country in the heat of the moment. Er... heat of the sun rather.
Wow, that's one of my worst jokes ever. I'm in physical pain.
I do, but only when we're talking about people wiretapping ME!
Seriousness: I don't think wiretapping is always morally wrong, which is why I never said anything resembling "wiretapping is always morally wrong." ...except for the above sentance, which was a joke.
I'm going to guess just from reading the title that they couldn't find the switch. Maybe they were too busy doing the thing that took them three years to look for it. It's great that they have an e-merlin though, now they just need an e-arthur.
There is nothing legally wrong with wiretapping so long as the wiretap is approved by the judicial branch of government.
Fixed that for you. A seal of approval by the government doesn't change whether something is morally wrong or right.
Rep. Harman should be investigated for treason.
In an ideal world, one that we don't live in, she would be thrown in jail. I'll be pleasantly surprised if voters even throw her out of office because of this.
Lets see, who would I rather listen to - a self-righteous imbecile who apparently feels the need to post anonymously
... is neokushan your actual name? Just find this a bit ironic. Anyway, don't feed trolls.
All that said, a title like Resident Evil 4 or the new Metroid Prime in my opinion show the Wii to be an EXCELLENT platform for FPS and hard core games.
Technically resident evil 4 wasn't an FPS, it was an over the shoulder, but you're right basically.
FPS is a hard core genre. That's not the Wii's core demographic.
That's just a bunch of marketing buzzwords. A game can ONLY target a "core demographic?" I don't think so. Reguardless of the average wii owner, there's still a huge number of wii owners who play games besides wii fit. I've never been exactly clear as to what "hard core" mean when referring to gamer types, it seems to just be people who play a lot of games. I don't see why you have to play a lot of games to enjoy FPS, especially not if the controls are right.
I personally was looking forward to (and was dissapointed by a lack of) first person shooting control schemes.
With the swordfighting, one major problem is that if your on screen sword hits another sword, there's no force feedback to stop your wiimote. You'd swing through, your sword on screen would stop.
I suppose they could make it realistic and have both swords break, but people want movie sword-fighting, not real sword fighting. There are workarounds you can think of, but until nindendo comes out with a wii-motion-stops-your-hand-in-midair attachment, it's never going to feel quite right.
The FPS control scheme I don't know why it's not being used much. Lack of imagination? they don't think there's much of a market for FPS on the wii?
The grammar/spelling nazis, racist trolls, and the suprisingly angry partisans from both sides of nuclear power are going to have a field day with this. Also there's also a good chance that global warming will come up here, and I'm pretty sure the chinese are running vista on the control system.
The cells, at least acording to what I've heard/read (again, prove me wrong if you know any better, I'm not a professional) are taken from embryos that were fertilized for the purposes of fertility treatment/artificial impregantion.
Correct, and fears that we'll start encouraging abortions to get stem cells are also absurd: by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, "embryonic stem cells" as in completely undifferentiated cells good for replacing any organ, are not found in the fetus. ESC useful for that are only found within a window of 3-5 days after fertilization, before the embryo has implanted into the uterine wall and before a blood test would even indicate a woman is pregnant.
and some people in the world die because they don't have food to eat. What are you doing using a computer and the internet?
Not taking money away from efforts to solve world problems for one thing. The RFID tags on the other hand, not so much. I haven't gotten myself elected to govern any country that has those problems either.
Unfortunately, countries don't have the luxury of being able to focus on one thing at a time.
Well then if you can't do both well (and you're not) then prevent HIV effectively and do the security thing poorly.
Who gives a crap about HIV? HIV infection can be prevented.
The country, which is losing a significant portion of it's population directly and having to spend lots of money dealing with the death and orphans really should give a crap. That it's so easily preventable is part of what makes the situation ridiculous and is complicating efforts to deal with unemployment and lack of education: 18% of the adult population getting sick and dying isn't very good for the economy, and all the orphans aren't going to get a very good education.
Or they could spend the money on RFID and do nothing about ANY problem they're actually facing.
There's always a large supply of young and mature (I mean the kind who's too mature to think blood explosions are funny) people who could become gamers with the right game. In fact Nintendo is now winning precisely by expanding their appeal to these people with more game variety. The people who actually grew up with games and now demand M ratings are a minority, some grew up with them but lapsed, others outgrew the age where violence seems like a good part of a game and many didn't have games in their own childhood and still need to be introduced to gaming for the first time.
Wanting mature content doesn't exactly boil down to mindless violence in games, much as wanting to watch mature movies doesn't boil down to pointless violence. I don't need gratuitous violence, I just don't want to be limited in what games I play.
It would be one thing if nintendo were just shying away from blood and sex, but the games that dominate the wii and DS are more than that, they're focused at children, they're very simple. Animal crossing, wii fit, mario kart. Super mario galaxy was much easier than super mario sunshine. About the only noteworthy nintendo title that couldn't accurately be called a kids game was metroid. It didn't have blood, it did have shooting and killing aliens, not kids themes.
I'm fine with games without blood explosions or nudity, but I don't want to feel like I'm playing a child's game because that gets old eventually, plus it feels a bit silly, like I'm using safety scissors. And the non kids-game releases have been lacking.
By now it's sort of entrenched, with parents groups getting bent out of shape at manhunt 2, because the wii is supposed to be for children in their mind. That might be why american 3rd party developers are avoiding the wii.
And more jeers to worrying about passports when they have an obscene HIV rate and I'm guessing not that much of a threat from terrorism. Not to say you can't do both, but until they get their HIV epidemic under control I don't know what they're doing spending money to update passports.
This is a reasonably accurate description of the stock market.
Even the penis enhancing part?
That strikes me as bizarre.
What on Earth would make you think that a legal case in Sweden would have that effect? What do you imagine Google would pay for? To whom? Why Google, and not the downloader?
These are all reasonable, rational questions, which is why they have no place in discussions of legal battles.
Why sue google? Because google has a lot more money and plenty of people who can hire lawyers don't care about what makes sense.
Gamestop: doing our best to stop the game industry.
But that was not implanted. And things like that are more common than one would think. One way of studying sperm-egg interactions is to cause sperm to fuse to hamster eggs. If I recall correctly, once you remove the outer layer (zona, I think) of the hamster egg, it's quite promiscuous and will initiate fusion with human sperm.
Let's avoid speculation on how that was discovered.
Anyway, human eggs are expensive as it requires surgery to get them. Human sperm is pretty easy to obtain (just ask your mom... sorry, couldn't pass that one up.) Hamster eggs are easier to obtain, since you don't need informed consent etc.
So if you're interested in studying how sperm fuses with the egg, a cheap way to get somewhat relevant results is to incubate human sperm with hamster eggs with the zona removed. I've heard the lab terminology for that is a "humster." The paper I've read dealing in this used function blocking antibodies to identify one of the proteins required on the sperm for fusion with the egg, since they were using human sperm it was a convincing result. While not quite as solid as it would have been to test human sperm fertilizing a human egg, it's probably several thousand dollars cheaper and not MUCH less convincing.
I don't know that anyone has ever let humsters incubate very long, but I'm assuming there's no way they get very far. They might divide, I don't know, I'd guess they would die well before they started developing a neural tube, let alone a brain. And of course no one is going to implant one into a hamster or human.
Anyway, these experiments do happen and there are good reasons for them.