It's not an unique interpretation of the term. Ideally the "shock jock" is an entertaining unethical sack of shit, though the "entertaining" part seems far more variable than the latter.
FYI, to all you budding humorists out there: Shock humor only works if you're actually enlightening people - opening up their minds to new ideas. (See sig.)
It looks like most of your objections are a result of being too stuck in the mouse mindset. Use a little imagination.
Precision: Each fingerprint has a dot in the center like an aiming reticle - that's your single-pixel reference. Seems like the ability to map some application-specific shortcut gesture to sensitivity changes, axis locks, or to any number of other tasks would be a given.
Keyboard/mouse switching has some of this issue right now and yet we deal with it. At about 8:10 in the video you see what this might look like in conjunction with a keyboard, but that seems a little clunky to me. I can imagine a split touch surface like having a mouse pad on either side of your keyboard that would alleviate some of this. Though you would lose some of the ease of two-hand interactions this way, i suspect you could train yourself past most of that.
I have no trouble at all imagining playing an fps or almost any other kind of game with this. See above - application-specific gesture mapping.
The speed with which this could be adopted has more to do with the rate of hardware and driver development imo. I don't see cheap mass-production happening soon.
Are you trying to argue that it's actually a common position and not the extreme minority that i believe it to be? I don't find internet trolls to be persuasive evidence of that.
I don't know what you experienced in your classes, and i haven't read Kendall, so i'm not going to argue about your interpretation of those, but speaking as somewhat of an insider in academic discussions on these topics, it is my experience that very few people share or promote the view that all whites are racist and no minorities can be. More commonly, i have seen that idea pop up when conservatives make straw man claims about liberals' beliefs. See my previous comment on institutionalized oppression vs. personal beliefs for a picture that's closer to reality.
I suspect that there's a very fundamental miscommunication going on here that is beyond the scope of this forum.
It's really not all that preposterous when you think about it from an evolutionary perspective. Humans are wired for symbolic thought. That is primarily useful to us as it applies to language, but the ability to give non-obvious meanings to other sound patterns, or visual cues is all a part of that.
Yes and no. What's actually being discussed there is institutionalized oppression - racism or heterosexism that is ingrained in the very fabric of our society.
To the extent that one accepts this institutional oppression uncritically and believes that the benefits a member of the non-oppressed group has are right and just, one is personally racist or heterosexist.
"They" are not shifting the meaning and "they" are not tossing out blanket accusations or immunities. Some extremists may be willing to go that far, but it's definitely the minority view.
Disagree with your idea about what Lit courses are about, but mostly agree that there should be a curriculum. Students need a foundation to build on (the classics) before they can fully appreciate the latest developments.
Lit courses are not about helping people develop a love of reading and an appreciation for literature. That's a natural byproduct of exposure to good stuff, but it can't really be the focus of a course above the middle school level.
Lit courses (like all classes really) are about teaching people to think in new ways (recognizing connections and patterns in words) and giving them a vocabulary to use to communicate these thoughts. As a matter of fact, getting someone to explicitly acknowledge the hidden meanings in a book they love for its story and characters is harder than doing so with a dry piece that they read purely analytically.
However, if you only expose kids to books they don't want to read then they learn that there are two different kinds of books - good ones and literature. So make sure you pick good classics and allow the students some (not total) freedom to shape the curriculum.
My personal suggestion for the course: Do a graphic novel too - V for Vendetta or The Watchmen would be good candidates.
Same here. My nutshell review after beta came down to this: Character Creation: Fun Travel Powers: Fun Combat: Boring Everything else: Not broken, not awesome. Meh.
That might be the root cause of it, but it really does feel like a more general UI lag. It's not just abilities - movement feels squishy too, and even opening and closing your inventory seems delayed. If it's doing server checks on that then they really need to re-think some things.
My wife and i have enjoyed 10 years in almost exactly the kind of marriage you are about to enter and it just keeps getting better. We have two rules.
1) You are a team now. Always back up your teammate. It's you and your partner vs. the rest of the world. Nothing should come between you. Not work, not money, not games, not extended family. It's ok for you to disagree, but when you're dealing with the rest of the world it's important to present a united front. You need to know that your partner is there for you and your partner needs to know the same about you. Of course, part of being a good teammate is not forcing your partner into Kobayashi Maru situations. Conversations, not ultimatums.
2) Life is a battlefield. Marriage is your foxhole. Stay in your foxhole. Another foxhole might look tempting, but there's a pretty good chance you're going to get hit if you leave yours.
Yet, are never able to actually articulate how other people having choices in life constitutes an attack on them and theirs.
Isn't it obvious? You are infringing on their right to tell everyone else how to act and think. If you could just stop thinking about your freedom and your rights for one second you could see how oppressed they are, you insensitive clod!
If people can't see the potential value for legitimate use of such a network after witnessing the abuses of power that have been happening recently in Iran and chronically in China, then they really are hopeless.
Cancel the code reviews and you'll end up with more errors even though the code reviews themselves don't find that many errors. The very act of having code reviews prevents a lot of the problems that would be found in a code review because people are more careful when they know someone else is going to dig deeply into their work.
If your problem is with the numbers then you should ask for statistics (with sources), not examples. Asking for an example implies that you either do not think the claim happens at all or you don't understand what's going on and want a concrete situation to clarify it.
Of course a single anecdote does not support a claim of millions, but it's what you asked for and what you got.
You seem to think more people will torrent than buy after being exposed to music via youtube. I doubt that claim. Got any statistics (with sources please) to back it up?
1) I think you're an absolute pedantic twit for demanding examles of obvious statements. Do you realize that "screenshots or it didn't happen" isn't actually a sound rhetorical argument?
2) Here's your example. I had a tune running through my head that i couldn't place. I had tried googling for it but i wasn't rmembering the words correctly and was coming up with the wrong songs. I went to youtube and not only did i find it, i found 3 live performance videos of it, and a bunch of other songs by the same artist that i liked and either hadn't heard or had forgotten about. I then went to iTunes and bought the album.
So there you go...lost music, artist gained a new fan and some money from that fan.
You actually CAN moderate the stories themselves now, so just do that and leave the discussion to people that actually have something to contribute to the discussion.
Is any given 24 hours of WoW (randomly pick 24 hours from any number of days) as entertaining as any given 2-hour movie (randomly chose one from all the movies i've seen)? Probably not. Are the best 24 hours i've ever spent in WoW as good as the best 2 hour movie i've ever seen? Maybe.
The movie was just me and the screen. There was certainly a sense of awe and it made me think and produced some real emotional responses.
The good times in WoW were me and my friends talking and laughing, beating tough challenges and having a riot.
The more i think about it, the more i think it's apples and oranges. Given that, i think value per hour is a better metric than enjoyment per doller. Is any given hour in WoW worth $0.34 to me? Yes, easily.
The mobility argument might be true for single 20-30-somethings living on the coasts or in big cities, but take it from a married man who lives in a semi-rural area of the Midwest, that's not always the case.
If outsourcing continues and IT jobs move overseas, my situation could become more the norm. I'm not sure unionizing is the answer to that problem, but the knee-jerk unions are nothing but bureaucracy and old boys' networks isn't really an enlightening avenue of discussion either.
Sure, there's plenty of stories about union electricians who get paid $50 to plug in a piece of equipment, but that's only half the story. The electrician is supposed to be there to make sure you're not trying to run too much on that circuit and to upgrade it if need be. He's there to prevent power strips plugged into power strips plugged into splitters, plugged into low voltage extension cords.
Without the union backing him, he could walk into that situation and either be told to leave the fire hazard or to fix it without overtime pay.
Last but not least, i think everyone should step back and look at their place in the big picture.
That electrician has a pretty good job. When it comes to the possibility of unionizing your job, are you more like the union electrician or more like the people that have to work with the union electrician?
D&D Insider: Oh god, just watch this one yourself. It's happening in real-time. If they couldn't handle the rigors of setting up a simple social networking site, then their attempt to provide software worth $15/mo (plus microtransactions for silly gribbly bits) is doomed to death at the turning of the fiscal year. For something advertised as nigh-integral to the 4E experience, they've apparently got a handful of interns slaving away between bringing their bosses coffee.
I can't QFT this one enough. When they started talking about 4th Ed. Everyone said it's too soon, but this online stuff could make it worthwhile. Now the online stuff is the biggest software clusterfuck of all the software clusterfucks D&D has ever been involved in, and that's not a small list.
$15 per month plus microtransactions (only $10 per month if you pay for a YEAR in advance) for $5 worth of service. They seem to think that because a few fanboys on their forums are drooling all over themselves and claiming they'd be willing to pay twice the price that they can turn it into a profitable service. At any rate, it's still vaporware, so whatever people would or would not be willing to pay is irrelevant.
Same here. I literally had to stop and rewind to be sure that i really did just see a "journalist" ooh and aah over a computer simulation of a plane taking off.
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It's not an unique interpretation of the term. Ideally the "shock jock" is an entertaining unethical sack of shit, though the "entertaining" part seems far more variable than the latter.
FYI, to all you budding humorists out there: Shock humor only works if you're actually enlightening people - opening up their minds to new ideas. (See sig.)
That works fine if you and everyone in your family are average healthy people and you can guarantee you'll all stay that way.
Which brings us back to:
1: Don't get sick.
2: If you do get sick, die quickly.
Anything else and your family will go bankrupt.
Sometimes it seems as though common sense is incompatible with capitalism.
Time for Apple to abandon to sinking ship that is AT&T if they want to retain their leadership position in the field.
Maybe they needed the $ from the exclusive contract at first, but now that the brand is established, it's just dragging them down.
It looks like most of your objections are a result of being too stuck in the mouse mindset. Use a little imagination.
Precision: Each fingerprint has a dot in the center like an aiming reticle - that's your single-pixel reference. Seems like the ability to map some application-specific shortcut gesture to sensitivity changes, axis locks, or to any number of other tasks would be a given.
Keyboard/mouse switching has some of this issue right now and yet we deal with it. At about 8:10 in the video you see what this might look like in conjunction with a keyboard, but that seems a little clunky to me. I can imagine a split touch surface like having a mouse pad on either side of your keyboard that would alleviate some of this. Though you would lose some of the ease of two-hand interactions this way, i suspect you could train yourself past most of that.
I have no trouble at all imagining playing an fps or almost any other kind of game with this. See above - application-specific gesture mapping.
The speed with which this could be adopted has more to do with the rate of hardware and driver development imo. I don't see cheap mass-production happening soon.
Are you trying to argue that it's actually a common position and not the extreme minority that i believe it to be? I don't find internet trolls to be persuasive evidence of that.
I don't know what you experienced in your classes, and i haven't read Kendall, so i'm not going to argue about your interpretation of those, but speaking as somewhat of an insider in academic discussions on these topics, it is my experience that very few people share or promote the view that all whites are racist and no minorities can be. More commonly, i have seen that idea pop up when conservatives make straw man claims about liberals' beliefs. See my previous comment on institutionalized oppression vs. personal beliefs for a picture that's closer to reality.
I suspect that there's a very fundamental miscommunication going on here that is beyond the scope of this forum.
It's really not all that preposterous when you think about it from an evolutionary perspective. Humans are wired for symbolic thought. That is primarily useful to us as it applies to language, but the ability to give non-obvious meanings to other sound patterns, or visual cues is all a part of that.
Yes and no. What's actually being discussed there is institutionalized oppression - racism or heterosexism that is ingrained in the very fabric of our society.
To the extent that one accepts this institutional oppression uncritically and believes that the benefits a member of the non-oppressed group has are right and just, one is personally racist or heterosexist.
"They" are not shifting the meaning and "they" are not tossing out blanket accusations or immunities. Some extremists may be willing to go that far, but it's definitely the minority view.
Disagree with your idea about what Lit courses are about, but mostly agree that there should be a curriculum. Students need a foundation to build on (the classics) before they can fully appreciate the latest developments.
Lit courses are not about helping people develop a love of reading and an appreciation for literature. That's a natural byproduct of exposure to good stuff, but it can't really be the focus of a course above the middle school level.
Lit courses (like all classes really) are about teaching people to think in new ways (recognizing connections and patterns in words) and giving them a vocabulary to use to communicate these thoughts. As a matter of fact, getting someone to explicitly acknowledge the hidden meanings in a book they love for its story and characters is harder than doing so with a dry piece that they read purely analytically.
However, if you only expose kids to books they don't want to read then they learn that there are two different kinds of books - good ones and literature. So make sure you pick good classics and allow the students some (not total) freedom to shape the curriculum.
My personal suggestion for the course: Do a graphic novel too - V for Vendetta or The Watchmen would be good candidates.
Same here. My nutshell review after beta came down to this:
Character Creation: Fun
Travel Powers: Fun
Combat: Boring
Everything else: Not broken, not awesome. Meh.
That might be the root cause of it, but it really does feel like a more general UI lag. It's not just abilities - movement feels squishy too, and even opening and closing your inventory seems delayed. If it's doing server checks on that then they really need to re-think some things.
My wife and i have enjoyed 10 years in almost exactly the kind of marriage you are about to enter and it just keeps getting better. We have two rules.
1) You are a team now. Always back up your teammate. It's you and your partner vs. the rest of the world. Nothing should come between you. Not work, not money, not games, not extended family. It's ok for you to disagree, but when you're dealing with the rest of the world it's important to present a united front. You need to know that your partner is there for you and your partner needs to know the same about you. Of course, part of being a good teammate is not forcing your partner into Kobayashi Maru situations. Conversations, not ultimatums.
2) Life is a battlefield. Marriage is your foxhole. Stay in your foxhole. Another foxhole might look tempting, but there's a pretty good chance you're going to get hit if you leave yours.
Yet, are never able to actually articulate how other people having choices in life constitutes an attack on them and theirs.
Isn't it obvious? You are infringing on their right to tell everyone else how to act and think. If you could just stop thinking about your freedom and your rights for one second you could see how oppressed they are, you insensitive clod!
If people can't see the potential value for legitimate use of such a network after witnessing the abuses of power that have been happening recently in Iran and chronically in China, then they really are hopeless.
Cancel the code reviews and you'll end up with more errors even though the code reviews themselves don't find that many errors. The very act of having code reviews prevents a lot of the problems that would be found in a code review because people are more careful when they know someone else is going to dig deeply into their work.
After the beta i said i wouldn't play that piece of crap if they paid me. This changes nothing.
If your problem is with the numbers then you should ask for statistics (with sources), not examples. Asking for an example implies that you either do not think the claim happens at all or you don't understand what's going on and want a concrete situation to clarify it.
Of course a single anecdote does not support a claim of millions, but it's what you asked for and what you got.
You seem to think more people will torrent than buy after being exposed to music via youtube. I doubt that claim. Got any statistics (with sources please) to back it up?
1) I think you're an absolute pedantic twit for demanding examles of obvious statements. Do you realize that "screenshots or it didn't happen" isn't actually a sound rhetorical argument?
2) Here's your example. I had a tune running through my head that i couldn't place. I had tried googling for it but i wasn't rmembering the words correctly and was coming up with the wrong songs. I went to youtube and not only did i find it, i found 3 live performance videos of it, and a bunch of other songs by the same artist that i liked and either hadn't heard or had forgotten about. I then went to iTunes and bought the album.
So there you go...lost music, artist gained a new fan and some money from that fan.
FFS get over it. Pedantry serves no purpose.
You actually CAN moderate the stories themselves now, so just do that and leave the discussion to people that actually have something to contribute to the discussion.
I'm still alive...and there was cake.
Article please?
Is any given 24 hours of WoW (randomly pick 24 hours from any number of days) as entertaining as any given 2-hour movie (randomly chose one from all the movies i've seen)? Probably not. Are the best 24 hours i've ever spent in WoW as good as the best 2 hour movie i've ever seen? Maybe.
The movie was just me and the screen. There was certainly a sense of awe and it made me think and produced some real emotional responses.
The good times in WoW were me and my friends talking and laughing, beating tough challenges and having a riot.
The more i think about it, the more i think it's apples and oranges. Given that, i think value per hour is a better metric than enjoyment per doller. Is any given hour in WoW worth $0.34 to me? Yes, easily.
The mobility argument might be true for single 20-30-somethings living on the coasts or in big cities, but take it from a married man who lives in a semi-rural area of the Midwest, that's not always the case.
If outsourcing continues and IT jobs move overseas, my situation could become more the norm. I'm not sure unionizing is the answer to that problem, but the knee-jerk unions are nothing but bureaucracy and old boys' networks isn't really an enlightening avenue of discussion either.
Sure, there's plenty of stories about union electricians who get paid $50 to plug in a piece of equipment, but that's only half the story. The electrician is supposed to be there to make sure you're not trying to run too much on that circuit and to upgrade it if need be. He's there to prevent power strips plugged into power strips plugged into splitters, plugged into low voltage extension cords.
Without the union backing him, he could walk into that situation and either be told to leave the fire hazard or to fix it without overtime pay.
Last but not least, i think everyone should step back and look at their place in the big picture.
That electrician has a pretty good job. When it comes to the possibility of unionizing your job, are you more like the union electrician or more like the people that have to work with the union electrician?
I can't QFT this one enough. When they started talking about 4th Ed. Everyone said it's too soon, but this online stuff could make it worthwhile. Now the online stuff is the biggest software clusterfuck of all the software clusterfucks D&D has ever been involved in, and that's not a small list.
$15 per month plus microtransactions (only $10 per month if you pay for a YEAR in advance) for $5 worth of service. They seem to think that because a few fanboys on their forums are drooling all over themselves and claiming they'd be willing to pay twice the price that they can turn it into a profitable service. At any rate, it's still vaporware, so whatever people would or would not be willing to pay is irrelevant.
Same here. I literally had to stop and rewind to be sure that i really did just see a "journalist" ooh and aah over a computer simulation of a plane taking off.