This times a thousand. Using Tunnel Bear to stream from the CBC website from Florida. I love being able to see the whole event. Not just what NBC has decided I would like. It sucks that NBC will never learn and they have exclusive broadcast rights till at least 2020.
They count public posts. Now that G+ has communities and they are all by default public postings, I can see G+ jumping up the rankings. All the previous studies that talked about how G+ was struggling also looked at public postings only. I've been using G+ since it was still invite only. I and the hundreds of folks in my circles were not posting publicly so as far as anyone could tell my account was unused. Now I have a lot of public posts as I'm very active in my communities.
Twitter and Facebook are public postings by default so it has been easier for these third parties to try to determine how active the user base is at those sites.
Both of which were exposed as false by other scientists who could not verify the results. Science is self correcting. Too many folks think that once something is published that it becomes some sort of scientific law that is never challenged or repeated. When other scientist are unable to repeat the results, and/or when new evidence comes to light that contradicts the original research then a debate starts. If the original research was falsified (i.e. a hoax) then it gets found out, retractions are made, and science continues on.
In the case of Piltdown man there were not many human fossils found the time, but even at it's announcement some were skeptical as it didn't have the expected features. As more human and pre-human fossils were found it was easy to see that Piltdown man did not fit with all the other evidence. Confronted with this the original researcher finally admitted that he faked his research.
For the autism/vaccine link, no one else could repeat his findings that vaccines that contained mercury caused an increase rate of autism. You can read here (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5258.full) about how he was going to use his "research" as a scare tactic to convince parents that they needed to use his companies diagnostic services to make sure that vaccines didn't hurt their child.
Tl;DR Science is self-correcting. When was the last time you saw a politician change his stance based on new evidence.
What was that old quote? "I'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard."
That quote is from William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008)
According to Wikipedia he was a conservative American author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement.
He didn't say that because scientist are objectively bad at governance. It was because academia is full of "liberals" and he didn't like liberals. I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would give a similar response if asked. Just like Al Franken or Rachael Maddow wouldn't want the government run by the faculty of Bob Jones University.
What email? I didn't know I had an option to vote till reading this today. Did I need to "Friend" Zuckerburg to get these notices? Maybe no one voted cause no one knew it was an option.
“But the plans were on display ”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The business split was due to the licensing agreements. I forget which studio was mentioned in the article I read at the time of the split but the scenario went like this.
Studio license costs $500,000/yr if you have less than say 100,000 subscribers. If you go over that subscriber limit the Studio ups the fee to $5million/yr. With Netflix as one company the studios were lumping DVD only customers with the Streaming customers to inflate the subscriber limit. If the streaming side became its own business then the license fee is based only on streaming customers. At the time the DVD only customers were something like 2/3+ of the customers. If the split had been successful it would have severely reduced the license fees that Netflix was paying.
If Reed had come out and explained this to the customers the split might have worked. But he didn't. So Netflix came out looking like they were simply trying to double your monthly bill.
Same here. I like Anime and the B-Movies.
And an A -List movie just means the actors are overpaid. It says nothing about the quality of the story or how much I will enjoy watching it.
actually you can hide your networks / circles. Go under your profile, click edit, click on your circles (left side bar)
You will see the options to show or not show your circles. You can show all circles or specific ones. You can limit circle viewing to public or only those already in your circles.
You can even stop people from seeing who has placed you in a circle.
The only mandatory public information is your Name, Gender, and a profile pic.
I have a 3DS. I get headaches if the depth slider is at full power. 1/4 to 1/2 works best for me. I've seen alot of folks that complain forget that there is a slider switch for the 3d effect. But then again, every time a 3d movie comes out I see the statistic that 20% of people are physically incapable of seeing the 3d effect so you may just be one of those unlucky folks.
Out of the launch titles the only one that really used the 3d for more than a gimmick (for at least part of the game) is Steel Divers. Periscope Strike mode is fun.
I'm betting the sales will climb when the Zelda, Mario, Kid Icarus games come out. I can't believe Nintendo would launch without at least one of them available.
I've been on Ubuntu for about a year. I've only had 2 issues.
1. I had never had to worry about file permissions before. Not a flaw of the OS, in fact that's part of what makes it safer than windows, but it was frustrating for a whole 10 minutes while I googled instructions.
2. Loading Skype on 64 bit Ubuntu when skype only made a 32 bit version. Gave me a wrong architecture error. But A few more minutes of googling, and one command line input later and I had skype.
It would take a lot more than 2 paragraphs to list the problems I've had with windows from 3.1 through Vista.
Reuters and AP are the only news organizations. All the Print (Newspapers), TV, and Web "news" are just reposts of Reuters and AP stories.
If the "News" media companies want to survive they have to start doing their own reporting instead.
What I predict will happen eventually is Reuters and the AP will start charging the public directly instead of reselling the stories to FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc...
I'm from Baltimore. While I never had that problem as my mental direction is based of the position of the sun (in the daytime at least), I can see how some could get confused. Cause for the most part I-95 does go North/South so if your using that as a point of reference Baltimore would be "west" of I-95. Same with D.C.
I think it also has to do with the fact that most cities on the East coast were built before the grid system became popular (Where all the city blocks are Square shaped). So you tend to navigate by your position relative to some other landmark. And I-95 makes a great reference point.
If I can't see the Sun (too cloudy) or its just night time, this is how I navigate unfamiliar territory.
I think its an average calculation based on the beta testers.
Personally when playing a 40 hour RPG it usually becomes a 100+ game as I am one of those people that has to get 100% completion. But i know people who just rush through and beat the 40 hour game in 6-10.
But platformers, even if I'm going slow are usually no more than 6 hours. This game better be $20 or less with good replay value. I replayed Sonic 1,2,3 and S&K hundreds of times. But I know replay value is not big on programmers minds anymore.
"how WOULD society function if anyone could have every object they desire at the push of a button?"
Simple. Just watch Star Trek. (surprised all the nerds here didn't think of this yet) That fictional society is based on the premise that replicators allow the creation of anything with the press of a button. So society become a mass of explorers and scientists.
"To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before."
The day a universal assembler is made is the day Star Trek changes from fiction to reality.
If you are too big to fail then you are too big to exist. I don't care how many people would be out of work.
And for each of the businesses listed there are several other competitors that will gladly and quickly take up the reins from them. And with all those new contracts they'll have to hire more help. So they can hire the people who were recently laid off.
Look at the banking failure. Before the govt. meddled with bail out money the surviving banks were buying up the assests of the failed and hiring some of the laid off employees. The "Free Market" is self correcting. Or have I been Lied to.
Most scientists and problem solvers do their jobs because its what they love, not because they are dreaming of becomming millionares off of some patent they got. With or without patents humans will continue to research and continue to solve problems.
As a scientist I totally agree with this statement. We go into science because we are naturally curious. If I wanted to be a millionaire I would have gotten an MBA instead.
Will there be exceptions to this. Of course. But go to any university and ask the students in the science building why they are studying science, and I doubt "Because I'll make so much money" will be heard. Then do the same in the Business department.
I work in the pharmaceutical industry. The Majority of the new drugs nowadays come from two sources. 1: IN-house micro-improvement. This is where you take (for example) Prilosec Make the S-enantiomer of it. This is enough change for a new patent. Call new product Nexium.
2: From Small bio-tech start ups that are mostly funded by government grants. If your product gets through Phase II you start to get casual calls from large Drug Makers (like Roche). If You make it through Phase 3 large companies (like Roche) then offer to buy your product.
Its a perfect system for the large Drug makers. Micro-improvements are cheap to do in-house and you can let others do the hard work of researching a new drug while you simply scoop up the survivors.
So Yes it is possible for the Acedemic/ govt funded research to hold up the entire pharmaceutical industry because it is doing that right now.
I also pulled out Diablo 2:LOD in the past month to play with friends. We're having a blast. We also started playing BOARD GAMES!!! How old school, right. Not monopoly style games, but Arkham Horror. We got this for about $20 on sale. We get so into it we lose track of the time. I can't remember the last Video game that did that to me.
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This times a thousand. Using Tunnel Bear to stream from the CBC website from Florida. I love being able to see the whole event. Not just what NBC has decided I would like. It sucks that NBC will never learn and they have exclusive broadcast rights till at least 2020.
They count public posts. Now that G+ has communities and they are all by default public postings, I can see G+ jumping up the rankings. All the previous studies that talked about how G+ was struggling also looked at public postings only. I've been using G+ since it was still invite only. I and the hundreds of folks in my circles were not posting publicly so as far as anyone could tell my account was unused. Now I have a lot of public posts as I'm very active in my communities.
Twitter and Facebook are public postings by default so it has been easier for these third parties to try to determine how active the user base is at those sites.
Both of which were exposed as false by other scientists who could not verify the results. Science is self correcting. Too many folks think that once something is published that it becomes some sort of scientific law that is never challenged or repeated. When other scientist are unable to repeat the results, and/or when new evidence comes to light that contradicts the original research then a debate starts. If the original research was falsified (i.e. a hoax) then it gets found out, retractions are made, and science continues on.
In the case of Piltdown man there were not many human fossils found the time, but even at it's announcement some were skeptical as it didn't have the expected features. As more human and pre-human fossils were found it was easy to see that Piltdown man did not fit with all the other evidence. Confronted with this the original researcher finally admitted that he faked his research.
For the autism/vaccine link, no one else could repeat his findings that vaccines that contained mercury caused an increase rate of autism. You can read here (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5258.full) about how he was going to use his "research" as a scare tactic to convince parents that they needed to use his companies diagnostic services to make sure that vaccines didn't hurt their child.
Tl;DR Science is self-correcting. When was the last time you saw a politician change his stance based on new evidence.
And if scientists ran government, we would be in China: http://singularityhub.com/2011/05/17/eight-out-of-chinas-top-nine-government-officials-are-scientists/
What was that old quote? "I'd rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than by the faculty of Harvard."
That quote is from William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008)
According to Wikipedia he was a conservative American author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, which had a major impact in stimulating the conservative movement.
He didn't say that because scientist are objectively bad at governance. It was because academia is full of "liberals" and he didn't like liberals. I'm sure Rush Limbaugh would give a similar response if asked. Just like Al Franken or Rachael Maddow wouldn't want the government run by the faculty of Bob Jones University.
What email? I didn't know I had an option to vote till reading this today. Did I need to "Friend" Zuckerburg to get these notices? Maybe no one voted cause no one knew it was an option. “But the plans were on display ” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
You can buy Torchlight 2 without Steam DRM. Go to the developers website. Click on google checkout. Done. http://www.torchlight2game.com/
They are not productive. Neither is going to the office apparently. http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen_at_work.html
The business split was due to the licensing agreements. I forget which studio was mentioned in the article I read at the time of the split but the scenario went like this. Studio license costs $500,000/yr if you have less than say 100,000 subscribers. If you go over that subscriber limit the Studio ups the fee to $5million/yr. With Netflix as one company the studios were lumping DVD only customers with the Streaming customers to inflate the subscriber limit. If the streaming side became its own business then the license fee is based only on streaming customers. At the time the DVD only customers were something like 2/3+ of the customers. If the split had been successful it would have severely reduced the license fees that Netflix was paying. If Reed had come out and explained this to the customers the split might have worked. But he didn't. So Netflix came out looking like they were simply trying to double your monthly bill.
Funny you should mention that. I wrote a story for the gaming website I work at about the new TOS and used the humancentipad picture in the post. I just changed all the Apple references to Sony. http://www.the-games-blog.com/sony-updates-tos-with-you-cant-sue-us-clause/
Same here. I like Anime and the B-Movies. And an A -List movie just means the actors are overpaid. It says nothing about the quality of the story or how much I will enjoy watching it.
actually you can hide your networks / circles. Go under your profile, click edit, click on your circles (left side bar) You will see the options to show or not show your circles. You can show all circles or specific ones. You can limit circle viewing to public or only those already in your circles. You can even stop people from seeing who has placed you in a circle. The only mandatory public information is your Name, Gender, and a profile pic.
I have a 3DS. I get headaches if the depth slider is at full power. 1/4 to 1/2 works best for me. I've seen alot of folks that complain forget that there is a slider switch for the 3d effect. But then again, every time a 3d movie comes out I see the statistic that 20% of people are physically incapable of seeing the 3d effect so you may just be one of those unlucky folks. Out of the launch titles the only one that really used the 3d for more than a gimmick (for at least part of the game) is Steel Divers. Periscope Strike mode is fun. I'm betting the sales will climb when the Zelda, Mario, Kid Icarus games come out. I can't believe Nintendo would launch without at least one of them available.
It is from a year ago. I wrote a story about it on my website. Even the .pdf of the decision says Jan 2010 on it. Fox has messed up.
http://www.the-games-blog.com/dd-banned-from-prisons-for-imitating-gang-behavior/Story from a year ago
I've been on Ubuntu for about a year. I've only had 2 issues.
1. I had never had to worry about file permissions before. Not a flaw of the OS, in fact that's part of what makes it safer than windows, but it was frustrating for a whole 10 minutes while I googled instructions.
2. Loading Skype on 64 bit Ubuntu when skype only made a 32 bit version. Gave me a wrong architecture error. But A few more minutes of googling, and one command line input later and I had skype.
It would take a lot more than 2 paragraphs to list the problems I've had with windows from 3.1 through Vista.
Reuters and AP are the only news organizations. All the Print (Newspapers), TV, and Web "news" are just reposts of Reuters and AP stories.
If the "News" media companies want to survive they have to start doing their own reporting instead.
What I predict will happen eventually is Reuters and the AP will start charging the public directly instead of reselling the stories to FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc...
I'm from Baltimore. While I never had that problem as my mental direction is based of the position of the sun (in the daytime at least), I can see how some could get confused. Cause for the most part I-95 does go North/South so if your using that as a point of reference Baltimore would be "west" of I-95. Same with D.C.
I think it also has to do with the fact that most cities on the East coast were built before the grid system became popular (Where all the city blocks are Square shaped). So you tend to navigate by your position relative to some other landmark. And I-95 makes a great reference point.
If I can't see the Sun (too cloudy) or its just night time, this is how I navigate unfamiliar territory.
I think its an average calculation based on the beta testers.
Personally when playing a 40 hour RPG it usually becomes a 100+ game as I am one of those people that has to get 100% completion. But i know people who just rush through and beat the 40 hour game in 6-10.
But platformers, even if I'm going slow are usually no more than 6 hours. This game better be $20 or less with good replay value. I replayed Sonic 1,2,3 and S&K hundreds of times. But I know replay value is not big on programmers minds anymore.
A backup is no more "you" than your twin is. Does knowing your twin is alive make me feel any less dead?
"how WOULD society function if anyone could have every object they desire at the push of a button?"
Simple. Just watch Star Trek. (surprised all the nerds here didn't think of this yet) That fictional society is based on the premise that replicators allow the creation of anything with the press of a button. So society become a mass of explorers and scientists.
"To explore strange new worlds.
To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before."
The day a universal assembler is made is the day Star Trek changes from fiction to reality.
www.thecorporation.com
I think you are referring to this documentary that shows that corporations would be considered psychopaths if they were real people.
If you are too big to fail then you are too big to exist. I don't care how many people would be out of work.
And for each of the businesses listed there are several other competitors that will gladly and quickly take up the reins from them. And with all those new contracts they'll have to hire more help. So they can hire the people who were recently laid off.
Look at the banking failure. Before the govt. meddled with bail out money the surviving banks were buying up the assests of the failed and hiring some of the laid off employees. The "Free Market" is self correcting. Or have I been Lied to.
by that logic the inventors son/daughter/spouse has great motive to kill them to inherit the patent.
Most scientists and problem solvers do their jobs because its what they love, not because they are dreaming of becomming millionares off of some patent they got. With or without patents humans will continue to research and continue to solve problems.
As a scientist I totally agree with this statement. We go into science because we are naturally curious. If I wanted to be a millionaire I would have gotten an MBA instead. Will there be exceptions to this. Of course. But go to any university and ask the students in the science building why they are studying science, and I doubt "Because I'll make so much money" will be heard. Then do the same in the Business department.
I work in the pharmaceutical industry. The Majority of the new drugs nowadays come from two sources. 1: IN-house micro-improvement. This is where you take (for example) Prilosec Make the S-enantiomer of it. This is enough change for a new patent. Call new product Nexium. 2: From Small bio-tech start ups that are mostly funded by government grants. If your product gets through Phase II you start to get casual calls from large Drug Makers (like Roche). If You make it through Phase 3 large companies (like Roche) then offer to buy your product. Its a perfect system for the large Drug makers. Micro-improvements are cheap to do in-house and you can let others do the hard work of researching a new drug while you simply scoop up the survivors. So Yes it is possible for the Acedemic/ govt funded research to hold up the entire pharmaceutical industry because it is doing that right now.
I also pulled out Diablo 2:LOD in the past month to play with friends. We're having a blast. We also started playing BOARD GAMES!!! How old school, right. Not monopoly style games, but Arkham Horror. We got this for about $20 on sale. We get so into it we lose track of the time. I can't remember the last Video game that did that to me.