Then the school should provide one for them. Middle schools provide the textbooks, gym outfits, school uniforms (if applicable), and these are all things the students can take home and are expected to maintain themselves.
BUT - that doesn't mean you should go along with it. The thing that gets me is that they're requesting the Students to purchase their own heart rate monitor straps. Why? Explain to me how one could afford heart rate monitors but not the straps that go with them?
Either way - there are cheaper alternatives to monitor heart rate. What happened to the old count the pulses for 30 seconds? Are they concerned with kids lying about it? Well then, make them actually exercise until you can see the physical signs, like sweat, heavier breathing, etc etc.
While I think the whole "Oh no medical records" is paranoia at its finest, it doesn't mean she should have to deal with the ACTUAL baggage thats coming with a heart monitoring program.
Their data is of their creation - yes. They are testing the infant's reaction to those creations. How is the data corruptable? The scientists can think and have as many preconceptions they want about their data, and how they percieve the children might react. Either way - it doesn't stop the children from reacting to the data in any way. And if the recording of the reaction is accurate, ie, larger sample sizes, then you've got yourself an answer to a question.
How would you propose they experiment with human psychology?
In the interest of artifact preservation and the likes, a private collector has been shown to take better care of their items than a museum. You can
A) Have an item put on a mantle piece and only ever touched by the cleaning ladies duster every week or B) Have it in front of the public, where its exposed to any number of incidents, and coincidentally gets moved around alot with shifting displays and such at the museum.
In the sense that a private collector with either Donate it to the museum later in their life or their great grandchildren will or his family line will die off and it'll be collected by the state anyways, I'd rather it be kept in its pristine condition.
No one wants to be ripped off, but its bound to happen if thats what EA is trying to do. If EA makes a completely terrible game - wouldn't that alone taint your view of EA? Does it matter what someone else says to you?
I'll sound like a crazy conspiracy theorists but the term Sheeple comes to mind when people will buy a game because it got a positive review by someone they don't even know. You look at gameplay footage, demos, screenshots, anything like THAT to determine whether you want to try the game or not.
If you feel ripped off at the end - then you've learned your lesson, (maybe the lesson is to not buy from EA anymore), or maybe you didn't look into it enough before hand. The only Reviews you can trust are the ones that don't overly glorify the game or defame the game, but rather just TELL you about it, and let you make up your own mind.
Defamation, no. Its just an expression of opinion, which everyone should have the right to. If people are foolish enough to believe Defamation without proof, then its those people you should be worried about, not the defamer.
If someone writes something libelous about you and it causes you to lose your wife, that is entirely your wifes fault. If you lose your job, it is your employers.
I don't "Under-estimate" - I know how the world works, but you who blame is the wrong person. Someone wrote something nasty about you, thats completely false. Blame the people who believe it.
Yes and they wouldn't be in Congress if they didn't go to school and they wouldn't go to school if it weren't for their parents and you can Run this "This leads to that" chain as far back as you want - but in the end, what happens is because of SOMEONES direct action. You can make hate crimes, murder, rape, you can make all that legal, but in the end it has nothing to do with Congress, its the person who is committing these acts.
Am I condoning this kind of behavior? Not at all. I believe the laws are in place for good reason, but that doesn't mean that I think whoever passed the bill is a self righteous person who is solely responsible for the attrocities it stops. Those Police Officers, Men and Women in uniform, be it Peace keeping or soldiers who stop violence is physically are the ones who deserve credit.
I can write you a letter asking you to give me a thousand dollars. Perfectly legal, no strings attached, just you giving me some money. Are you going to do it?
Why would you be influenced by someone writing a positive review? At what point did we stop making decisions for ourselves and started relying on second opinions to guide us?
It's the biggest load of FUD
So to top that rant off - if EA wants to spend their hard earned cash paying writers to say whatever EA wants to say - all the power to them. In the end, any harm it "Causes" is not at all their fault.
They staged something at E3? It's cute and a good technique. Considering you get the odd Cosplay at E3, why the hell not...
They paid writers to write about it? Isn't that like... their job? If someone pays you money to write something, you write something! I only consider Bribery truly immoral if its to commit an immoral act. To write? Writing isn't immoral under any circumstances, you can write as much as you bloody want and it won't hurt anyone physically, and if its hurts them in any other regard its their own fault.
Seriously, I'm not a fan of EA or anything, but people are making it to be a contraversy because they WANT it to be a contraversy. I mean, God forbid SOME marketing executive realized that when something goes Viral its free advertising...
Paypal sets up deals for companies who like doing 1 penny transactions with customers. They do like a "Bulk" sort of thing, so you get 1000 for a flate rate and they take half a penny for every transaction over your limit.
Believe me, CNN.com, And others, even sites like Yahoo or MSN that have news articles on their main page... they get multiple millions of hits a day. Even less than 1% of hits end up purchasing full articles for a penny at $0.009 will add up to over 2000 dollars -A DAY-
past studies have shown that rats did not suffer from adverse effects after 10 weeks of strong, non-levitating magnetic fields.
Right. Non-levitating has no negative effects in the short term. Actual Levitating has no immediate effects in the short term. The effects of levitating magnets in the long term could be catastrophic, and if thats the case I hope we observe it and know not to put ourselves through it.
However, we've seen first hand that astronaughts who don't get exercise in 0 gravity have had some side effects like Atrophy, so I hope they have zero gravity mouse wheels to keep these mice in shape while testing them for prolonged periods.
Yes. I do a bit of development at home, with my Beast Rig thats required to run VS2008 while debugging a game in run-time. I figure if I can get something running decently on top of the line stuff now, by the time its released it'll be in the right alignment for the teeming masses.
In the event I fall behind (I can't imagine them releasing ANOTHER direct X after 11 here anytime soon) I'll just have to make things flashier and more graphics intensive.
And see if I can get a copy here in Canada. Then, I'll have Cry Source, Unreal Source, Source Source engine code and I'll combine them to make... some kinda super engine...
Like you know, the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts.
If Cry engine is the one behind Aion, which is an MMO I believe, then implementing MMO kind of network architecture into a Physics Engine like the source will not only LAG my system to crap, but will totally make a cutting edge game that will be popular when we invent computers that can run it.
Nah I doubt it. Considering News sites generate ALOT of traffic (Heard a rumour its second only to pornography, but thats just a rumour) they could charge 1 penny a page and still make a killing.
Well the drivers are what "Drives" the impressive power it has, that it can set things up to display as 7680x3200 at 60hz - I have not seen any previous Nvidia, ATI, or otherwise cards that push out 24576000 pixels so fluidly.
You can call it my ass, I call it personal experience. I've worked in a tech call center, I've worked in sales, I've worked in customer service, and the amount of people who don't know this stuff is astounding.
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Then the school should provide one for them. Middle schools provide the textbooks, gym outfits, school uniforms (if applicable), and these are all things the students can take home and are expected to maintain themselves.
Why is the onus on the kid to get a strap?
BUT - that doesn't mean you should go along with it. The thing that gets me is that they're requesting the Students to purchase their own heart rate monitor straps. Why? Explain to me how one could afford heart rate monitors but not the straps that go with them?
Either way - there are cheaper alternatives to monitor heart rate. What happened to the old count the pulses for 30 seconds? Are they concerned with kids lying about it? Well then, make them actually exercise until you can see the physical signs, like sweat, heavier breathing, etc etc.
While I think the whole "Oh no medical records" is paranoia at its finest, it doesn't mean she should have to deal with the ACTUAL baggage thats coming with a heart monitoring program.
How does this hurt Apple?
This will only increase the amount of apps they'll have in their store - as just about anyone and their mother can learn C#, or knows it already.
I can claim that I have confirmed it if you like.
Thats not at all what the popular TV Show Xena led me to believe.
Their data is of their creation - yes. They are testing the infant's reaction to those creations. How is the data corruptable? The scientists can think and have as many preconceptions they want about their data, and how they percieve the children might react. Either way - it doesn't stop the children from reacting to the data in any way. And if the recording of the reaction is accurate, ie, larger sample sizes, then you've got yourself an answer to a question.
How would you propose they experiment with human psychology?
What if you had HUNDREDS of scientists objectively judging facial expressions of HUNDREDS of infants?
In the interest of artifact preservation and the likes, a private collector has been shown to take better care of their items than a museum. You can
A) Have an item put on a mantle piece and only ever touched by the cleaning ladies duster every week
or
B) Have it in front of the public, where its exposed to any number of incidents, and coincidentally gets moved around alot with shifting displays and such at the museum.
In the sense that a private collector with either Donate it to the museum later in their life or their great grandchildren will or his family line will die off and it'll be collected by the state anyways, I'd rather it be kept in its pristine condition.
No one wants to be ripped off, but its bound to happen if thats what EA is trying to do. If EA makes a completely terrible game - wouldn't that alone taint your view of EA? Does it matter what someone else says to you?
I'll sound like a crazy conspiracy theorists but the term Sheeple comes to mind when people will buy a game because it got a positive review by someone they don't even know. You look at gameplay footage, demos, screenshots, anything like THAT to determine whether you want to try the game or not.
If you feel ripped off at the end - then you've learned your lesson, (maybe the lesson is to not buy from EA anymore), or maybe you didn't look into it enough before hand. The only Reviews you can trust are the ones that don't overly glorify the game or defame the game, but rather just TELL you about it, and let you make up your own mind.
Defamation, no. Its just an expression of opinion, which everyone should have the right to. If people are foolish enough to believe Defamation without proof, then its those people you should be worried about, not the defamer.
If someone writes something libelous about you and it causes you to lose your wife, that is entirely your wifes fault. If you lose your job, it is your employers.
I don't "Under-estimate" - I know how the world works, but you who blame is the wrong person. Someone wrote something nasty about you, thats completely false. Blame the people who believe it.
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Yes and they wouldn't be in Congress if they didn't go to school and they wouldn't go to school if it weren't for their parents and you can Run this "This leads to that" chain as far back as you want - but in the end, what happens is because of SOMEONES direct action. You can make hate crimes, murder, rape, you can make all that legal, but in the end it has nothing to do with Congress, its the person who is committing these acts.
Am I condoning this kind of behavior? Not at all. I believe the laws are in place for good reason, but that doesn't mean that I think whoever passed the bill is a self righteous person who is solely responsible for the attrocities it stops. Those Police Officers, Men and Women in uniform, be it Peace keeping or soldiers who stop violence is physically are the ones who deserve credit.
I can write you a letter asking you to give me a thousand dollars. Perfectly legal, no strings attached, just you giving me some money. Are you going to do it?
Why would you be influenced by someone writing a positive review? At what point did we stop making decisions for ourselves and started relying on second opinions to guide us?
It's the biggest load of FUD
So to top that rant off - if EA wants to spend their hard earned cash paying writers to say whatever EA wants to say - all the power to them. In the end, any harm it "Causes" is not at all their fault.
What they didn't report is that each of those 200 dollar checks bounced.
They staged something at E3? It's cute and a good technique. Considering you get the odd Cosplay at E3, why the hell not...
They paid writers to write about it? Isn't that like... their job? If someone pays you money to write something, you write something! I only consider Bribery truly immoral if its to commit an immoral act. To write? Writing isn't immoral under any circumstances, you can write as much as you bloody want and it won't hurt anyone physically, and if its hurts them in any other regard its their own fault.
Seriously, I'm not a fan of EA or anything, but people are making it to be a contraversy because they WANT it to be a contraversy. I mean, God forbid SOME marketing executive realized that when something goes Viral its free advertising...
Paypal sets up deals for companies who like doing 1 penny transactions with customers. They do like a "Bulk" sort of thing, so you get 1000 for a flate rate and they take half a penny for every transaction over your limit.
Believe me, CNN.com, And others, even sites like Yahoo or MSN that have news articles on their main page... they get multiple millions of hits a day. Even less than 1% of hits end up purchasing full articles for a penny at $0.009 will add up to over 2000 dollars -A DAY-
past studies have shown that rats did not suffer from adverse effects after 10 weeks of strong, non-levitating magnetic fields.
Right. Non-levitating has no negative effects in the short term. Actual Levitating has no immediate effects in the short term. The effects of levitating magnets in the long term could be catastrophic, and if thats the case I hope we observe it and know not to put ourselves through it.
However, we've seen first hand that astronaughts who don't get exercise in 0 gravity have had some side effects like Atrophy, so I hope they have zero gravity mouse wheels to keep these mice in shape while testing them for prolonged periods.
Thats Gouda
but it'll be cheddar when they make it work on humans. Then it would be truly Marble-ous.
Yes. I do a bit of development at home, with my Beast Rig thats required to run VS2008 while debugging a game in run-time. I figure if I can get something running decently on top of the line stuff now, by the time its released it'll be in the right alignment for the teeming masses.
In the event I fall behind (I can't imagine them releasing ANOTHER direct X after 11 here anytime soon) I'll just have to make things flashier and more graphics intensive.
Honey mustard source. Delish.
And see if I can get a copy here in Canada. Then, I'll have Cry Source, Unreal Source, Source Source engine code and I'll combine them to make... some kinda super engine...
Like you know, the whole is worth more than the sum of its parts.
If Cry engine is the one behind Aion, which is an MMO I believe, then implementing MMO kind of network architecture into a Physics Engine like the source will not only LAG my system to crap, but will totally make a cutting edge game that will be popular when we invent computers that can run it.
Think Gary's Mod on a millions time scale...
Nah I doubt it. Considering News sites generate ALOT of traffic (Heard a rumour its second only to pornography, but thats just a rumour) they could charge 1 penny a page and still make a killing.
There are a few already designed like that (by LG I think?)
And the full article mentions that they might make deals with manufacturers who want to produce Bevel-less monitors.
Well the drivers are what "Drives" the impressive power it has, that it can set things up to display as 7680x3200 at 60hz - I have not seen any previous Nvidia, ATI, or otherwise cards that push out 24576000 pixels so fluidly.
You can call it my ass, I call it personal experience. I've worked in a tech call center, I've worked in sales, I've worked in customer service, and the amount of people who don't know this stuff is astounding.