>No reasonable adult would deny the minigame is softcore porn.
Huh? The women are topless, they pose in not-very erotic fashion, and the 'groping' consists of hovering your hands around their waist (well, they are supposed to be touching their waist, but the graphics and collision detection are playing it safe most of the time). That is it. That is all.
I am a reasonable adult, and this is no where near softcore porn. There is no sex act, there is no fondling of the naughty bits, there isn't even any kissing!
My 10 year old daughter was not corrupted by softcore porn by the strip club in GTA V: she thought it was creepy...like I did. Like we both feel about REAL strip clubs. I fail to see what is unacceptable here; I did my job as a parent, monitored her playing of the game, and yes, she is a 10 year old child who can handle the portrayal of sex in GTA V. The portrayal of violence is of much more concern to me, but in both cases she can differentiate fantasy and fiction from real life.
I'm much more concerned about the portrayal of sex promoted by pop songs that she hears on the radio; there is no obvious satire in those portrayals of supposed everyday life, so she lacks the contextual clues to help her decide whether she should be 'believing the bullshit' or just laughing at it.
The part you seem to miss is that the bible does NOT have the same evidence as the Roman empire. Heck, take something obvious, like "did a guy named Jesus exist that was famous for doing miracles and having lots of followers"; while we have lots of records from famous Roman historians that go into great detail about everyday things like "how much wheat was grown this year", NONE of the historical records mention this Jesus fellow. All writings that mention Jesus come decades after he supposedly died.
Yeah, I own my phone outright and use Cyanogen Mod as my method of keeping the phone's OS updated. I don't regularly install nightly builds as I am not testing, just run whatever happens to be up when I feel like updating. It is a major improvement to what was originally on the phone, for sure!
But it is the cable that Apple is detecting and complaining about in that warning message, not the charger. The cable has the authentication chip, not the charger. You can't replace your cable with a third party one without getting this warning, but you can replace the charger and use an Apple cable and you won't get a warning.
Latest Android version works great on my 2011 Galaxy Note. It even greatly IMPROVED performance over the original OS it shipped with, and the version after that.
But it is a few months short of being 4 years old. Anyway, I think your point has been invalidated.
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You obviously are either in great shape already and play with people who can barely return the ball, or don't play table tennis. It's a pretty good workout, akin to tennis. You are moving a shorter distance (but quickly!) and swinging a lighter paddle, but the volleys are much faster, so you are constantly moving. I get as good a workout from table tennis as from tennis, just in a smaller space. Darts? You stand still and use a beer in the offhand for balance. No comparison. Unlike foosball/air hockey, installing a ping-pong table in the company rec room is a great way to ensure some of your employees will get some good physical exercise.
For what it's worth, I totally agree with the fellow hyping the game; it's an incredible work of art. Best GTA so far. It's very good value for the money, even as a 60$ full-price game. Like Monster Hunter games, I expect to get a few hundred hours enjoyment out of this...maybe over a thousand hours if the multiplayer is all that they are promising it to be, but we will have to wait on that.
Many modern video games do this by writing their own "reliability" layer into their game; the game uses UDP for the multiplayer connectivity, but emulates some of the reliability of TCP.
So kid comes homes, all depressed. Parents see depression and kid acting wierd, ask kid what is wrong, kid sez 'I am being bullied at school'.
Then what are the parents supposed to do? They can't do much more than call the school and complain. In the end, it's the school administration that has to ACT on this...but they don't. They call meetings with the kids and their parents, they ask them 'did you bully Johnny?', they all claim 'NOPE, NOT US'...school gives vague admonishments at best (or partially/entirely blames depressed, bullied kid at worst), and nothig changes except the bullies realize nothing will ever happen, so they can be even more brazen in their bullying. The parents can't do fuck all except grab a baseball bat and go visiting the bullies, which seems like a horrible idea.
Schools need to handle what happens at school; parents aren't even allowed to pop in and check on things at most schools.
Exactly. When my father got married he had an entry-level job as a bank teller, making a low wage for the time (think 'just over minimum wage' at that time). He bought a house; his mortgage payment was tiny compared to his wages, he could make his car payment and his mortgage payment each month on 1/4 of his monthly wage. Now, try to imagine someone working an entry-level 30K job and doing THAT now.
Um, regular dress pants and jeans, since you asked. My Note easily and comfortably fits in the front right pocket of every pair of pants I own, and I didn't buy the pants looking for extra-large pockets or anything. Men's pants pockets are normally sized to accommodate things like fat wallets or a collection of keys/change/pocket knife/whatever; women might find that their pockets are often too small to comfortably and safely accommodate a Note, but then they can use their purse I suppose. Try slipping a demo phone into your pocket next time you are at the phone store: you will be surprised at how easily a large phone fits.
Didn't want my kids growing up being addicted to watching mindless television shows, so we stopped buying satellite and cable about ten years ago. We did keep the rest of our technology, and the kids have never once bitched about the lack of TV. They play outdoors with friends, indoors with friends, read books (some ebooks, some paper), play video games...they are very well adjusted, polite children and none of us miss TV.
Well, I miss some sports, but not enough to put up with other people watching reality shows and commercials in my vicinity all the time. Fuck that.
Actually, it's the same in Windows. I dunno what k8to is doing, but for most people it's the compile that takes a lot longer; linking is relatively quick.
If you just stop and think about was work the compiler has to do, versus what work the linker has to do, it makes sense.
Been waiting for this for years. I want randomly generated levels for CoD-style FPS shooters. The levels might not akways be perfectly tuned for game flow etc., but that should be mitigated in large part because they would only be seen once i.e. people couldn't replay the maps endlessly and learn to exploit them.
Would really liven up those games, and would put the emphasis more on deep game-play skills like exploration rather than shallow skills like map knowledge.
Saving you all a trip to Wikipedia: "Management by perkele is originally a Swedish expression for a Finnish leadership approach that, according to its proponents, takes required actions in a quick and swift way, instead of a prolonged pondering of all possible alternative approaches and points of view before actually getting anything done. This is specifically contrasted to the Swedish consensus decision-making, where the manager makes sure that everyone involved has been heard before decisions are taken.
The name is derived from the well-known Finnish swear word perkele, and it is a reference to the repeated times this word is yelled by the top managers."
Replying to myself, as I just finally realized what you where getting at...oopsy on me! Yes, it's the lack of an event. There, our OCD has been satisfied:)
...just like a deadman's switch turns off a device based on the "lack of" the user's hand holding the switch. So, the article was correct in describing Doctrow's suggestion as a deadman's switch.
If you read TFA, the method suggested by Corey is actually a dead man's switch: when the user fails to respond with a signed version of a random number generated by a website on time, the website notifies all subscribers of the event.
So maybe that is what we need to change. Finland also has a fantastic public school system. My point is that public schools are not "a model that does not work", just the way some places implement them is not working.
From following the top line (Wikipedia) and then clicking on the reference it offers (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind02/c7/c7s5.htm): "Belief in Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is another concern. As used here, alternative medicine refers to all treatments that have not been proven effective using scientific methods. A scientist's view of the situation appeared in a recent book (Park 2000b):
Between homeopathy and herbal therapy lies a bewildering array of untested and unregulated treatments, all labeled alternative by their proponents. Alternative seems to define a culture rather than a field of medicine—a culture that is not scientifically demanding. It is a culture in which ancient traditions are given more weight than biological science, and anecdotes are preferred over clinical trials. Alternative therapies steadfastly resist change, often for centuries or even millennia, unaffected by scientific advances in the understanding of physiology or disease. Incredible explanations invoking modern physics are sometimes offered for how alternative therapies might work, but there seems to be little interest in testing these speculations scientifically.[59] In response to the 2001 NSF survey, an overwhelming majority (88 percent) agreed that "there are some good ways of treating sickness that medical science does not recognize." (See appendix table 7-58.) The American Medical Association defines alternative medicine as any diagnostic method, treatment, or therapy that is "neither taught widely in U.S. medical schools nor generally available in U.S. hospitals." However, at least 60 percent of U.S. medical schools devote classroom time to the teaching of alternative therapies, generating controversy within the scientific community. Critics have also been quick to note that one of these therapies, "therapeutic touch," was taught at more than 100 colleges and universities in 75 countries before the practice was debunked by a nine-year-old child for a school science project (Rosa 1998)."
Now, as to your claim that acupuncture absolutely works: Acupuncture works...as a placebo. That's it.
The National Council Against Health Fraud in the US on acupuncture (http://www.ncahf.org/pp/acu.html):
"NCAHF believes:
Acupuncture is an unproven modality of treatment; Its theory and practice are based on primitive and fanciful concepts of health and disease that bear no relationship to present scientific knowledge; Research during the past twenty years has failed to demonstrate that acupuncture is effective against any disease; Perceived effects of acupuncture are probably due to a combination of expectation, suggestion, counter- irritation, operant conditioning, and other psychological mechanisms; The use of acupuncture should be restricted to appropriate research settings; Insurance companies should not be required by law to cover acupuncture treatment; and Licensure of lay acupuncturists should be phased out."
Mosquitos made drive-ins unpleasant the few times I went to them. You couldn't sit inside with the windows rolled up without turning on the air conditioning, or at least the blower to stop the windows from fogging up, and that means running the car, which is impractical for a few reasons. With the windows rolled down the mosquitos ate us alive.
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>No reasonable adult would deny the minigame is softcore porn.
Huh? The women are topless, they pose in not-very erotic fashion, and the 'groping' consists of hovering your hands around their waist (well, they are supposed to be touching their waist, but the graphics and collision detection are playing it safe most of the time). That is it. That is all.
I am a reasonable adult, and this is no where near softcore porn. There is no sex act, there is no fondling of the naughty bits, there isn't even any kissing!
My 10 year old daughter was not corrupted by softcore porn by the strip club in GTA V: she thought it was creepy...like I did. Like we both feel about REAL strip clubs. I fail to see what is unacceptable here; I did my job as a parent, monitored her playing of the game, and yes, she is a 10 year old child who can handle the portrayal of sex in GTA V. The portrayal of violence is of much more concern to me, but in both cases she can differentiate fantasy and fiction from real life.
I'm much more concerned about the portrayal of sex promoted by pop songs that she hears on the radio; there is no obvious satire in those portrayals of supposed everyday life, so she lacks the contextual clues to help her decide whether she should be 'believing the bullshit' or just laughing at it.
The part you seem to miss is that the bible does NOT have the same evidence as the Roman empire. Heck, take something obvious, like "did a guy named Jesus exist that was famous for doing miracles and having lots of followers"; while we have lots of records from famous Roman historians that go into great detail about everyday things like "how much wheat was grown this year", NONE of the historical records mention this Jesus fellow. All writings that mention Jesus come decades after he supposedly died.
So where is this Roman evidence you speak of?
I approve. Helmsman, make it so!
Yeah, I own my phone outright and use Cyanogen Mod as my method of keeping the phone's OS updated. I don't regularly install nightly builds as I am not testing, just run whatever happens to be up when I feel like updating. It is a major improvement to what was originally on the phone, for sure!
But it is the cable that Apple is detecting and complaining about in that warning message, not the charger. The cable has the authentication chip, not the charger. You can't replace your cable with a third party one without getting this warning, but you can replace the charger and use an Apple cable and you won't get a warning.
Latest Android version works great on my 2011 Galaxy Note. It even greatly IMPROVED performance over the original OS it shipped with, and the version after that.
But it is a few months short of being 4 years old. Anyway, I think your point has been invalidated.
You obviously are either in great shape already and play with people who can barely return the ball, or don't play table tennis. It's a pretty good workout, akin to tennis. You are moving a shorter distance (but quickly!) and swinging a lighter paddle, but the volleys are much faster, so you are constantly moving. I get as good a workout from table tennis as from tennis, just in a smaller space. Darts? You stand still and use a beer in the offhand for balance. No comparison.
Unlike foosball/air hockey, installing a ping-pong table in the company rec room is a great way to ensure some of your employees will get some good physical exercise.
...says the anonymous coward.
For what it's worth, I totally agree with the fellow hyping the game; it's an incredible work of art. Best GTA so far. It's very good value for the money, even as a 60$ full-price game. Like Monster Hunter games, I expect to get a few hundred hours enjoyment out of this...maybe over a thousand hours if the multiplayer is all that they are promising it to be, but we will have to wait on that.
Many modern video games do this by writing their own "reliability" layer into their game; the game uses UDP for the multiplayer connectivity, but emulates some of the reliability of TCP.
There is a good explanation of this at http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/udp-vs-tcp/
So kid comes homes, all depressed. Parents see depression and kid acting wierd, ask kid what is wrong, kid sez 'I am being bullied at school'.
Then what are the parents supposed to do? They can't do much more than call the school and complain. In the end, it's the school administration that has to ACT on this...but they don't. They call meetings with the kids and their parents, they ask them 'did you bully Johnny?', they all claim 'NOPE, NOT US'...school gives vague admonishments at best (or partially/entirely blames depressed, bullied kid at worst), and nothig changes except the bullies realize nothing will ever happen, so they can be even more brazen in their bullying. The parents can't do fuck all except grab a baseball bat and go visiting the bullies, which seems like a horrible idea.
Schools need to handle what happens at school; parents aren't even allowed to pop in and check on things at most schools.
Exactly. When my father got married he had an entry-level job as a bank teller, making a low wage for the time (think 'just over minimum wage' at that time). He bought a house; his mortgage payment was tiny compared to his wages, he could make his car payment and his mortgage payment each month on 1/4 of his monthly wage. Now, try to imagine someone working an entry-level 30K job and doing THAT now.
Um, regular dress pants and jeans, since you asked. My Note easily and comfortably fits in the front right pocket of every pair of pants I own, and I didn't buy the pants looking for extra-large pockets or anything. Men's pants pockets are normally sized to accommodate things like fat wallets or a collection of keys/change/pocket knife/whatever; women might find that their pockets are often too small to comfortably and safely accommodate a Note, but then they can use their purse I suppose.
Try slipping a demo phone into your pocket next time you are at the phone store: you will be surprised at how easily a large phone fits.
Didn't want my kids growing up being addicted to watching mindless television shows, so we stopped buying satellite and cable about ten years ago. We did keep the rest of our technology, and the kids have never once bitched about the lack of TV. They play outdoors with friends, indoors with friends, read books (some ebooks, some paper), play video games...they are very well adjusted, polite children and none of us miss TV.
Well, I miss some sports, but not enough to put up with other people watching reality shows and commercials in my vicinity all the time. Fuck that.
The NSA went rouge? As in red? Are they commies now? I'm confused.
Actually, it's the same in Windows. I dunno what k8to is doing, but for most people it's the compile that takes a lot longer; linking is relatively quick.
If you just stop and think about was work the compiler has to do, versus what work the linker has to do, it makes sense.
Been waiting for this for years. I want randomly generated levels for CoD-style FPS shooters. The levels might not akways be perfectly tuned for game flow etc., but that should be mitigated in large part because they would only be seen once i.e. people couldn't replay the maps endlessly and learn to exploit them.
Would really liven up those games, and would put the emphasis more on deep game-play skills like exploration rather than shallow skills like map knowledge.
Saving you all a trip to Wikipedia:
"Management by perkele is originally a Swedish expression for a Finnish leadership approach that, according to its proponents, takes required actions in a quick and swift way, instead of a prolonged pondering of all possible alternative approaches and points of view before actually getting anything done. This is specifically contrasted to the Swedish consensus decision-making, where the manager makes sure that everyone involved has been heard before decisions are taken.
The name is derived from the well-known Finnish swear word perkele, and it is a reference to the repeated times this word is yelled by the top managers."
Replying to myself, as I just finally realized what you where getting at...oopsy on me! :)
Yes, it's the lack of an event. There, our OCD has been satisfied
...just like a deadman's switch turns off a device based on the "lack of" the user's hand holding the switch. So, the article was correct in describing Doctrow's suggestion as a deadman's switch.
If you read TFA, the method suggested by Corey is actually a dead man's switch: when the user fails to respond with a signed version of a random number generated by a website on time, the website notifies all subscribers of the event.
So maybe that is what we need to change. Finland also has a fantastic public school system. My point is that public schools are not "a model that does not work", just the way some places implement them is not working.
As a parent, I have no need of this.
As a teacher, this would be useful.
Hong Kong would beg to differ.
From following the top line (Wikipedia) and then clicking on the reference it offers (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind02/c7/c7s5.htm):
"Belief in Alternative Medicine
Alternative medicine is another concern. As used here, alternative medicine refers to all treatments that have not been proven effective using scientific methods. A scientist's view of the situation appeared in a recent book (Park 2000b):
Between homeopathy and herbal therapy lies a bewildering array of untested and unregulated treatments, all labeled alternative by their proponents. Alternative seems to define a culture rather than a field of medicine—a culture that is not scientifically demanding. It is a culture in which ancient traditions are given more weight than biological science, and anecdotes are preferred over clinical trials. Alternative therapies steadfastly resist change, often for centuries or even millennia, unaffected by scientific advances in the understanding of physiology or disease. Incredible explanations invoking modern physics are sometimes offered for how alternative therapies might work, but there seems to be little interest in testing these speculations scientifically.[59]
In response to the 2001 NSF survey, an overwhelming majority (88 percent) agreed that "there are some good ways of treating sickness that medical science does not recognize." (See appendix table 7-58.) The American Medical Association defines alternative medicine as any diagnostic method, treatment, or therapy that is "neither taught widely in U.S. medical schools nor generally available in U.S. hospitals." However, at least 60 percent of U.S. medical schools devote classroom time to the teaching of alternative therapies, generating controversy within the scientific community. Critics have also been quick to note that one of these therapies, "therapeutic touch," was taught at more than 100 colleges and universities in 75 countries before the practice was debunked by a nine-year-old child for a school science project (Rosa 1998)."
Now, as to your claim that acupuncture absolutely works:
Acupuncture works...as a placebo. That's it.
The National Council Against Health Fraud in the US on acupuncture (http://www.ncahf.org/pp/acu.html):
"NCAHF believes:
Acupuncture is an unproven modality of treatment;
Its theory and practice are based on primitive and fanciful concepts of health and disease that bear no relationship to present scientific knowledge;
Research during the past twenty years has failed to demonstrate that acupuncture is effective against any disease;
Perceived effects of acupuncture are probably due to a combination of expectation, suggestion, counter- irritation, operant conditioning, and other psychological mechanisms;
The use of acupuncture should be restricted to appropriate research settings;
Insurance companies should not be required by law to cover acupuncture treatment; and
Licensure of lay acupuncturists should be phased out."
Mosquitos made drive-ins unpleasant the few times I went to them. You couldn't sit inside with the windows rolled up without turning on the air conditioning, or at least the blower to stop the windows from fogging up, and that means running the car, which is impractical for a few reasons. With the windows rolled down the mosquitos ate us alive.