If you cheat you are violating the trust of others, which does cause psychological harm, although the harm only comes if they find out about the cheating.
Pharmaceuticals are approved on the same premise, it doesn't matter how effective it is, only that it is more effective than placebo. 20 is low but if they did the stats right your argument isn't with the study, it is with the mathematics behind statistics.
I don't know, I just went to a party with a lot of young adults and out of 20 people, me and my brother were the only ones who knew how to play the guitar, and I'm not talking expert level, I'm talking about just playing anything. Maybe those stats are normal, but they seem ridiculously low for an instrument that is so easy to pick up and learn. My evidence is anecdotal but with the continual closing of public music programs, it just seems to me that people just aren't as interested in playing instruments anymore. Or maybe this has always been said and now it is just a product of the times as instruments become virtualized.
One winery I visit has a unique wine dispensing system so you can sample 1,2,or 4oz of $200 bottles of wine for a fraction of the full price. I've found the $20-40 bottle price point to be the biggest gamble. I've tasted many wines in this price range that were worse than 2 buck chuck. $40-60 more often has a noticeable quality improvement. Sometimes I find bottles above that price range that are higher quality, but more often than not I find myself paying more for a wine that isn't any better than a lot of the $40 bottles I've tried. Most bottles I purchase however are ~$15, because the quality may not be tier 1, but is still excellent. I've never tried Opus One; I'll be sure to take your advice.
Great link, but I rather came to another conclusion than the presenter. I got the feeling I was watching the most realistic dystopia I've ever seen. The day my soda can starts playing video ads I'm pulling a Battlestar Galactica and just move to the hills.
Yes but these "social" games don't really have any social aspect apart from spamming your friends for new items. My mom convinced me to try a popular facebook game, and the only social aspect was me having to spam everyone else that I either have extra crap or I want their extra crap. In general there is no interaction apart from "give me", and even that is based on preset buttons rather than conversation. I probably have more social interaction with a 1 minute conversation with the clerk at the convenience store than I would in hours of playing these shitty social media games. In your case it is different, as you were on an MMO, but these social casual games are much more limited in interaction.
Impossible as in "no one will ever put the time and money into this so it might as well not even exist". Not technically impossible but feasibly impossible.
I can definitely see this point of view, especially with the recent cash for clunkers program taking even more drivable vehicles off the road for cars with maybe 1 or 2 mpg better mileage. Excellent program for the middle class, horrible for the poor.
Student copies went for $30, Family packs of 3 for ~$150. The best media jukebox app I use runs $50 (J River Media Center), so to me $100 for an OS seems reasonable. I guess they could add a "poor as shit" option, but I'm not sure how they could actually enforce it. You might argue they should charge nothing or $20 for everyone, but you would be run out of the stockholder meeting to the sounds of maniacal laughter.
I was in school to become a psychiatrist when I noticed the same thing and dodged a bullet. And it wasn't even the fact that everything was stats, it was also that all the stats were terrible. There is also a huge discrepancy between statistical significance and effectiveness, which the entire industry seems to not understand.
In my life I've had 3 cases of obvious fraud where physical evidence was left behind but each time the police basically laughed it off. A fingerprint duster even said "yah, it isn't like television, we actually rarely ever catch anything." Another one was "Yes, there was video of the perpetrator but your bank will just write it off so we're not going to investigate." So this has led me to believe that unless you are actively engaged in a crime at the time the police catch you, or commit rape or murder, the chances the police will care enough to investigate anything are slim. Maybe it works differently for the rich since they have more influence than an angry letter.
You can get a used working car on craigslist for ~$800, probably even less if you know someone that can fix it up. So if these "worst of the deadbeats" can't save up even $800, then the likelihood they can even afford to drive a car much less pay you back makes loaning them money incredibly risky. Whether it is better for these high interest loans to not even exist for these people I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of them defaulted.
Wait, I haven't read much on Dragon Age because I'm still running through it, but you mean if I buy Warden's Keep, not only do I eventually not get to keep it as a castle, but I don't even get to keep access to the chest?
The reason some of us feel so "entitled" is because we used to get this stuff for free. Baldur's Gate II had what, 4 strongholds and universal storage? Also IIRC a huge 200pg book and cloth map, in the regular version of the game. Hell, at least Dragon Age came with some type of a book rather than just a PDF. I found it especially insulting though that in the manual it states something to the effect of "yah this manual is brief because it has to be". No, it doesn't, some games used to come with textbooks. Also, Dragon Age Awakening, a $40 expansion released 4 months after the game came out, just seems insulting.
Just replying to myself that the tepid bath advice is wrong, I couldn't find any research to back it up as a useful fever reducer. It just makes more sense to use medication.
Well, in your example a tepid bath could reduce the fever, so there aren't zero options, but you are correct it is far better to also prescribe real fever reducers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen, they are cheap, relatively low side effects, and they work. Sometimes you can convince the crazy people to take willow bark, which is the basis for aspirin; especially the religious because there are bible quotes that back this. However, willow bark takes much longer to take effect so it just makes more sense to use OTC fever reducers. Note none of this is medical advice, I'm just arguing about your example.
Windows mobile has improved. I have an aging AT&T Tilt (the only reason I don't have a newer smartphone is because now they require dataplans; fuck that) and while the UI is definitely shit the device itself doesn't seem to be buggier or slower than any other phone I have used, other than iphones or the most recent flock of snapdragon phones. I do have to reset it about once a month, but I doubt that is any worse than other manufacturers.
"If you ban all drug ads, then how do you educate the public that a particular syndrome is treatable"
Shouldn't the patient be discussing their symptoms to the doctor? I do a review of systems with all of my patients. Unless there is something new, anything that is bothering a patient I should already know about.
I've spent $600 over the past 4 years and my computer can play anything I throw at it that I am interested in. The only game that caps my CPU is Empire total war and even then I'm getting 30fps with high detail. Core2duo, 4gb ram, radeon 4770, all dirt cheap now and able to handle 98% of games out there.
Since we're already on such a weird request for slashdot, does anyone have any recommendations for a silent but effective CPU cooler, preferably under $70? I have a stock core 2 duo which is really loud, and I've tried checking newegg but the noise information they give is vague and the type varies between manufacturers.
It's actually kind of genius for them if they do. A central app repository like linux but monetized and polished for OSX. And like Steam they get a cut of every OSX app sale.
How is BMW not #1? The gas and brake peddle are so close together on my 5 series they are practically the same pedal. Everyone in my family has had at least one accidental acceleration (but never an accident). I don't know why they have to put the pedals so close to each other.
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If you cheat you are violating the trust of others, which does cause psychological harm, although the harm only comes if they find out about the cheating.
Pharmaceuticals are approved on the same premise, it doesn't matter how effective it is, only that it is more effective than placebo. 20 is low but if they did the stats right your argument isn't with the study, it is with the mathematics behind statistics.
Oh I definitely agree with that premise, to me it just seems like there was a lot of interest in the 50s-70s and it has been slowly tapering off.
I don't know, I just went to a party with a lot of young adults and out of 20 people, me and my brother were the only ones who knew how to play the guitar, and I'm not talking expert level, I'm talking about just playing anything. Maybe those stats are normal, but they seem ridiculously low for an instrument that is so easy to pick up and learn. My evidence is anecdotal but with the continual closing of public music programs, it just seems to me that people just aren't as interested in playing instruments anymore. Or maybe this has always been said and now it is just a product of the times as instruments become virtualized.
One winery I visit has a unique wine dispensing system so you can sample 1,2,or 4oz of $200 bottles of wine for a fraction of the full price. I've found the $20-40 bottle price point to be the biggest gamble. I've tasted many wines in this price range that were worse than 2 buck chuck. $40-60 more often has a noticeable quality improvement. Sometimes I find bottles above that price range that are higher quality, but more often than not I find myself paying more for a wine that isn't any better than a lot of the $40 bottles I've tried. Most bottles I purchase however are ~$15, because the quality may not be tier 1, but is still excellent. I've never tried Opus One; I'll be sure to take your advice.
Huh? Are you aware that security essentials has rated high in virus tests? The last comparison I saw it rated the highest of the free antiviruses.
Great link, but I rather came to another conclusion than the presenter. I got the feeling I was watching the most realistic dystopia I've ever seen. The day my soda can starts playing video ads I'm pulling a Battlestar Galactica and just move to the hills.
I also suggest Puzzle Quest; it can be played in tablet mode. I do wish there was a good tower defense game that worked well with tablets.
Yes but these "social" games don't really have any social aspect apart from spamming your friends for new items. My mom convinced me to try a popular facebook game, and the only social aspect was me having to spam everyone else that I either have extra crap or I want their extra crap. In general there is no interaction apart from "give me", and even that is based on preset buttons rather than conversation. I probably have more social interaction with a 1 minute conversation with the clerk at the convenience store than I would in hours of playing these shitty social media games. In your case it is different, as you were on an MMO, but these social casual games are much more limited in interaction.
Impossible as in "no one will ever put the time and money into this so it might as well not even exist". Not technically impossible but feasibly impossible.
I can definitely see this point of view, especially with the recent cash for clunkers program taking even more drivable vehicles off the road for cars with maybe 1 or 2 mpg better mileage. Excellent program for the middle class, horrible for the poor.
Student copies went for $30, Family packs of 3 for ~$150. The best media jukebox app I use runs $50 (J River Media Center), so to me $100 for an OS seems reasonable. I guess they could add a "poor as shit" option, but I'm not sure how they could actually enforce it. You might argue they should charge nothing or $20 for everyone, but you would be run out of the stockholder meeting to the sounds of maniacal laughter.
I was in school to become a psychiatrist when I noticed the same thing and dodged a bullet. And it wasn't even the fact that everything was stats, it was also that all the stats were terrible. There is also a huge discrepancy between statistical significance and effectiveness, which the entire industry seems to not understand.
In my life I've had 3 cases of obvious fraud where physical evidence was left behind but each time the police basically laughed it off. A fingerprint duster even said "yah, it isn't like television, we actually rarely ever catch anything." Another one was "Yes, there was video of the perpetrator but your bank will just write it off so we're not going to investigate." So this has led me to believe that unless you are actively engaged in a crime at the time the police catch you, or commit rape or murder, the chances the police will care enough to investigate anything are slim. Maybe it works differently for the rich since they have more influence than an angry letter.
You can get a used working car on craigslist for ~$800, probably even less if you know someone that can fix it up. So if these "worst of the deadbeats" can't save up even $800, then the likelihood they can even afford to drive a car much less pay you back makes loaning them money incredibly risky. Whether it is better for these high interest loans to not even exist for these people I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if a significant portion of them defaulted.
Wait, I haven't read much on Dragon Age because I'm still running through it, but you mean if I buy Warden's Keep, not only do I eventually not get to keep it as a castle, but I don't even get to keep access to the chest?
The reason some of us feel so "entitled" is because we used to get this stuff for free. Baldur's Gate II had what, 4 strongholds and universal storage? Also IIRC a huge 200pg book and cloth map, in the regular version of the game. Hell, at least Dragon Age came with some type of a book rather than just a PDF. I found it especially insulting though that in the manual it states something to the effect of "yah this manual is brief because it has to be". No, it doesn't, some games used to come with textbooks. Also, Dragon Age Awakening, a $40 expansion released 4 months after the game came out, just seems insulting.
Just replying to myself that the tepid bath advice is wrong, I couldn't find any research to back it up as a useful fever reducer. It just makes more sense to use medication.
Well, in your example a tepid bath could reduce the fever, so there aren't zero options, but you are correct it is far better to also prescribe real fever reducers such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen, they are cheap, relatively low side effects, and they work. Sometimes you can convince the crazy people to take willow bark, which is the basis for aspirin; especially the religious because there are bible quotes that back this. However, willow bark takes much longer to take effect so it just makes more sense to use OTC fever reducers. Note none of this is medical advice, I'm just arguing about your example.
Windows mobile has improved. I have an aging AT&T Tilt (the only reason I don't have a newer smartphone is because now they require dataplans; fuck that) and while the UI is definitely shit the device itself doesn't seem to be buggier or slower than any other phone I have used, other than iphones or the most recent flock of snapdragon phones. I do have to reset it about once a month, but I doubt that is any worse than other manufacturers.
"If you ban all drug ads, then how do you educate the public that a particular syndrome is treatable"
Shouldn't the patient be discussing their symptoms to the doctor? I do a review of systems with all of my patients. Unless there is something new, anything that is bothering a patient I should already know about.
I've spent $600 over the past 4 years and my computer can play anything I throw at it that I am interested in. The only game that caps my CPU is Empire total war and even then I'm getting 30fps with high detail. Core2duo, 4gb ram, radeon 4770, all dirt cheap now and able to handle 98% of games out there.
Thanks!
Since we're already on such a weird request for slashdot, does anyone have any recommendations for a silent but effective CPU cooler, preferably under $70? I have a stock core 2 duo which is really loud, and I've tried checking newegg but the noise information they give is vague and the type varies between manufacturers.
It's actually kind of genius for them if they do. A central app repository like linux but monetized and polished for OSX. And like Steam they get a cut of every OSX app sale.
How is BMW not #1? The gas and brake peddle are so close together on my 5 series they are practically the same pedal. Everyone in my family has had at least one accidental acceleration (but never an accident). I don't know why they have to put the pedals so close to each other.