Who cares what effects violent games have on children? If you don't want your kid playing such a game, then don't buy it for them! It's that easy. Plus it's not like they can do it in secret.
Back in the 1800s, scientists discovered the three macronutrients: carbs, protein, and fat. They said to themselves "We now understand food. If people get enough of all these three, they will be healthy."
Of course, that didn't work. People still got things like scurvy.
Then scientists discovered Vitamins. And they said "We now understand food. If people get enough of all of these, they'll be healthy."
Of course, that doesn't seem to be really working either. Even processed and refined food is often loaded with vitamins (100% Vitamin C!) because it's marketable.
Now recently scientists started to pay attention to these things called Polyphenols. There's thousands of different ones, found in food (well, natural foods); they're what "antioxidants" can be classified as. Not all that much is known about them so far (It doesn't pay much to do research in non-patentable stuff, like natural food). But I suspect they will eventually they'll become as common in dietery speak as the macro and micro nutrients are.
In short, food, and foods effects on the body are a very complex thing, and only fools believe we know all there is to be know about it.
It's not the coffee. It's the antioxidants in the coffee. For a lot of Americans, coffee is probably the only steady source of antioxidants in their diets.
It's the same thing as with wine. Drinking some wine everyday isn't good for your heart because the wine is good for you. It's because of the antioxidants that were in the grapes.
I can't seem to recall any *new* MS product in recent memory that was actually "successful" at launch. MS doesn't really care enough about that; they don't care if their new product loses millions and millions of dollars, for years even. Their strategy is to just endure it, because they have massive amounts of cash and can afford to lose it. Eventually their presence in a market will turn into some kind of growth, and even success. Kind of how it was with the Xbox. It's what they've been trying with Bing too, and then Windows Phone, and now Surface.
Part of me thinks this stratagy's effectiveness is starting to diminish though. The reason MS was able to afford throwing so much money at new products/services because their core businesses (Office and Windows) gave them effectively unlimited money to lose. But what happens when it's those core businesses that are under threat?
Here's an interesting thought. Should dead bodies have some kind of long-lasting metal tag to indicate that they were not native of the planet? Perhaps a simple diagram that indicates that this fossilized skeleton found is from the third planet from the sun, not the fourth?
Thousands, maybe millions of years from now the skeletons of these people may be found by non-human creatures (be it from Earth or from another planet). I'm sure they would have an appreciation of truly knowing the origin of these skeletons.
...As an individual, is to reduce/eliminate the consumption of farm animals. We breed billions of cows and pigs, and feed them unnaturual diets--which greatly increases their flatulence. So we're pumping massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere that wouldn't be there otherwise (Cows in particular are methane machines, and there would be nowhere near as many as there are now if not for humans). Methane is 20x better at trapping heat than CO2, and recycles out of the atmosphere in 7 years instead of 100. We could see immediate effects on global warming.
But in addition to that, most deforestation is being done so that cattle has grazing land. That's where most of the Amazon is going now--not to make wood or paper, or even just room for people, but so that cattle have grazing land, and cheap beef can be exported to fast food chains. Fast food chains are shrinking the lungs of the world.
I work at a company that translates major websites, via proxy server (in goes the original site, out comes the translated site). Everything goes through our servers, and I'm often digging through images. GIFs are still very commonly used for graphics, page elements or simple animations (like a spinning progress bar on a mobile site, for example).
A much simpler and far more effective punishment would be if they were forced to run ads (on TV, magazines, online) to let the public know they were overcharging their customers.
Fines don't mean crap to billion dollar companies. They need punishments that actually punish them.
Someone less intelligent won't do that as much, or as well. Thus, they need all the loose ends in whatever the lie is neatly tied up for them. When there's a lot of them, they realize that something is fishy. Whereas the smarter person just kind of automatically fills in those cracks.
I remember once seeing Activision's CEO praising OnLive and its concept.
Figures that HE would love the notion of games being completely out of control of the player. That's the first step in turning games into a pay-per-view service where you play the first hour for 10 dollars--I mean 9.99--and then 4.99 for each additional hour.
Unless you want the bonus content. Then it goes up by 1 dollar per hour. Oh, and if you want to play with double the health, that's just an extra 50 cents per hour! Ammo clips are 25 cents each, too.
MS (and others) always mimic the wrong parts of Apple. Apple products are successful for two reasons (in this order): (1) They provide social status and (2) they provide a good user experience.
People buy Apple products, initially, because of the marketing and the fact that owning such a device elevates their social status. When they're waiting in line at a grocery store, they like the feeling of holding that lovely, shiny device in their hands, knowing others are looking at it, evnious. You absolutely don't get that feeling with a dumbphone, or even most other smartphones. Pretty much the only the phone that will trigger that feeling is a probably Galaxy S3.
The user experience only comes after that fact. It's what keeps customers; that's its only real purpose, business wise. Without both the ability to attract customers, and keep them, Apple products (or any products) won't be very successful.
That's all that there really is to it to Apple's success. They make people want a product, and then they make them want to keep it. Things like "Apple makes their own hardware, so we will too!" or "Apple is a walled garden, so we will be one too!" never work if you don't concentrate on those two things. Everything else is, at most, just a means to an end.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't give a shit that a small child can interact with a device and get stuff to happen. My needs are a lot different than a child's.
Who cares what effects violent games have on children? If you don't want your kid playing such a game, then don't buy it for them! It's that easy. Plus it's not like they can do it in secret.
Back in the 1800s, scientists discovered the three macronutrients: carbs, protein, and fat. They said to themselves "We now understand food. If people get enough of all these three, they will be healthy."
Of course, that didn't work. People still got things like scurvy.
Then scientists discovered Vitamins. And they said "We now understand food. If people get enough of all of these, they'll be healthy."
Of course, that doesn't seem to be really working either. Even processed and refined food is often loaded with vitamins (100% Vitamin C!) because it's marketable.
Now recently scientists started to pay attention to these things called Polyphenols. There's thousands of different ones, found in food (well, natural foods); they're what "antioxidants" can be classified as. Not all that much is known about them so far (It doesn't pay much to do research in non-patentable stuff, like natural food). But I suspect they will eventually they'll become as common in dietery speak as the macro and micro nutrients are.
In short, food, and foods effects on the body are a very complex thing, and only fools believe we know all there is to be know about it.
It's not the coffee. It's the antioxidants in the coffee. For a lot of Americans, coffee is probably the only steady source of antioxidants in their diets.
It's the same thing as with wine. Drinking some wine everyday isn't good for your heart because the wine is good for you. It's because of the antioxidants that were in the grapes.
Unfortunately, this means that all map applications would be yanked from use. None of them are 100% correct.
I worded this wrong. I should clarify, when I said "new product" I was referring to a new market they try to get penetrate, specifically.
I can't seem to recall any *new* MS product in recent memory that was actually "successful" at launch. MS doesn't really care enough about that; they don't care if their new product loses millions and millions of dollars, for years even. Their strategy is to just endure it, because they have massive amounts of cash and can afford to lose it. Eventually their presence in a market will turn into some kind of growth, and even success. Kind of how it was with the Xbox. It's what they've been trying with Bing too, and then Windows Phone, and now Surface.
Part of me thinks this stratagy's effectiveness is starting to diminish though. The reason MS was able to afford throwing so much money at new products/services because their core businesses (Office and Windows) gave them effectively unlimited money to lose. But what happens when it's those core businesses that are under threat?
Here's an interesting thought. Should dead bodies have some kind of long-lasting metal tag to indicate that they were not native of the planet? Perhaps a simple diagram that indicates that this fossilized skeleton found is from the third planet from the sun, not the fourth?
Thousands, maybe millions of years from now the skeletons of these people may be found by non-human creatures (be it from Earth or from another planet). I'm sure they would have an appreciation of truly knowing the origin of these skeletons.
...As an individual, is to reduce/eliminate the consumption of farm animals. We breed billions of cows and pigs, and feed them unnaturual diets--which greatly increases their flatulence. So we're pumping massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere that wouldn't be there otherwise (Cows in particular are methane machines, and there would be nowhere near as many as there are now if not for humans). Methane is 20x better at trapping heat than CO2, and recycles out of the atmosphere in 7 years instead of 100. We could see immediate effects on global warming.
But in addition to that, most deforestation is being done so that cattle has grazing land. That's where most of the Amazon is going now--not to make wood or paper, or even just room for people, but so that cattle have grazing land, and cheap beef can be exported to fast food chains. Fast food chains are shrinking the lungs of the world.
After all, why take time and energy creating better products when you can just set your lawyers on the competition.
These startups must me punished for their hubris.
I work at a company that translates major websites, via proxy server (in goes the original site, out comes the translated site). Everything goes through our servers, and I'm often digging through images. GIFs are still very commonly used for graphics, page elements or simple animations (like a spinning progress bar on a mobile site, for example).
Buy from a local, non-big-brand store. The pizza will almost certainly be better.
Obligatory "Crysis Max Settings" joke.
A much simpler and far more effective punishment would be if they were forced to run ads (on TV, magazines, online) to let the public know they were overcharging their customers.
Fines don't mean crap to billion dollar companies. They need punishments that actually punish them.
It's not every day something as innovative as an 8" tablet comes out.
"In a Race Between a Self-Driving Car and a Pro Race-Car Driver, Who Wins?"
No.
Someone less intelligent won't do that as much, or as well. Thus, they need all the loose ends in whatever the lie is neatly tied up for them. When there's a lot of them, they realize that something is fishy. Whereas the smarter person just kind of automatically fills in those cracks.
How come no one goes after Apple? They downright refuse anything that competes with their equivalent app. How is that not antitrust?
I'm not trying to troll or start a flame war. I really am just curious.
I remember once seeing Activision's CEO praising OnLive and its concept.
Figures that HE would love the notion of games being completely out of control of the player. That's the first step in turning games into a pay-per-view service where you play the first hour for 10 dollars--I mean 9.99--and then 4.99 for each additional hour.
Unless you want the bonus content. Then it goes up by 1 dollar per hour. Oh, and if you want to play with double the health, that's just an extra 50 cents per hour! Ammo clips are 25 cents each, too.
MS (and others) always mimic the wrong parts of Apple. Apple products are successful for two reasons (in this order): (1) They provide social status and (2) they provide a good user experience.
People buy Apple products, initially, because of the marketing and the fact that owning such a device elevates their social status. When they're waiting in line at a grocery store, they like the feeling of holding that lovely, shiny device in their hands, knowing others are looking at it, evnious. You absolutely don't get that feeling with a dumbphone, or even most other smartphones. Pretty much the only the phone that will trigger that feeling is a probably Galaxy S3.
The user experience only comes after that fact. It's what keeps customers; that's its only real purpose, business wise. Without both the ability to attract customers, and keep them, Apple products (or any products) won't be very successful.
That's all that there really is to it to Apple's success. They make people want a product, and then they make them want to keep it. Things like "Apple makes their own hardware, so we will too!" or "Apple is a walled garden, so we will be one too!" never work if you don't concentrate on those two things. Everything else is, at most, just a means to an end.
...of Warcraft.
"My CPU is a neuro net processor, a learning computer."
And I can't get excited about any of it making it to an Android smartphone.
:(
Why did you make a Microsoft seed your CEO?
1. Use Android
2. Enhance security; add exclusive BB apps.
3. Profit
No, no ??? needed. Just go straight to profit.
Any way I can get one for free without having to be social?