Would it account for GOOD MOVIES doing better as well? "HEY THIS movE ROX"
Oddly enough, Freaky Friday appears to have benefited from this effect. I read this/. post to my wife. She mentioned an article she read describing how FF boxoffice built dramatically each day of it's opening weekend. (Not enough to beat SWAT but...)
Yeah, in retrospect it does have a bit of "eau du flamebait" in it. I went to highschool with so *dang* many boneheads it's hard not to take potshots...:)
Example: - Players pay, say, $8 per month. - The monthly fee gives players the right to "control" items in the game. - Players have the right to use and transfer items they control, including selling control of the item to other players for real-world cash. - Right of Ownership of all game items is retained by the game provider. - Since players never actually "own" things the provider is not liable to replace them. - Any time a transfer of control is made, the receiving player is reminded that he only has control of the item, not ownership.
I was invited, by the CS department at my alma mater, to come back and speak a year after my graduation. They wanted me to give a talk about the 'real world' to those getting ready to graduate and enter the market. I remember covering many of the topics outlined in the chapter titles of this book. I was really honest.
When I got done the students where kind of "ashen faced". Oddly, I never got invited back to speak again...
"If you aren't smart enough to protect your stuff you deserve to have me steal it..."
Sorry, it's freaking *wrong* to steal, whether an item is carelessly placed or not. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the parent post was moderated "insightful" by the/. gamer crowd. Go ahead, mod me to hell, doesn't make it right...
While I agree that this research will never be able to predict individual behavior - I disagree that we cannot derive laws of (group) behavior.
We cannot determine when a particular radioactive atom will decay, but we can statistically predict how many will in a given population in a set time. I think this research might lead to a similar set of statistical rules for predicting the behaviors of human populations.
(btw, I completely agree with you on the failure of modern Psychology to deliver what it promises)
Since we're already offtopic... Hmmm, a press release by the Oregon Food Bank? Talk about a organization with a vested interest in people being hungry. The source of their "hunger study" is Brandeis U. a small Jewish (read liberal) University. Is this the *best* the OFB can do, or is it the only research they can find that justifies their existance and continued funding?
How do they define "hunger"? 21% of households with children had to cut or skip meals 39% of those said it happened every month so 8.2% cut or skip one or more meals per month. Once? Twice? Everyday? Without better numbers this is just a huge pile of FUD. The OFB and those like them are delighted that Oregonians keep swallowing it (with a big swig of guilt, no doubt)
If China (re?)annexes Taiwan will the Taiwanese have more or less control over their destiny? Would China "pull out" after a few years leaving Taiwan freer than before?
You can attribute the Iraq war to all kinds of reasons (oil,terrorism, WMD, lousy women's fashions,etc) but only the most historically ignorant would believe "annexation" is the reason.
The record is plain: the US has (multiple times over the last 50 years) not only withdrawn after victory but spent billions of dollars rebuilding the "conquered". If America is an oppressive, heinous bitch, why are there millions standing in line to get in? I don't believe you will find a waiting line for China, North Korea and their ilk. To give China/Iran/Syria/etc moral equvalency with the US in light of America's past actions is, at best, intellectually dishonest.
Thank you for making my point: "They are the best interpretations of the known evidence". i.e. "I/We don't have all the facts yet but I'm going to believe this way anyway". If that isn't a statement of faith I don't know is.
Your civil war example is a non sequitur. There were humans there, they observed it, they recorded it in a multitude of ways. There was no one around to see/record the untold ages of evolutionary time - there is only data. That data is used to support various theories of origins but underlying every interpretation of that data are assumptions that can never be proven. And that's where faith comes in - you decide to believe without complete proof.
The only complaints I have seen is when science drifts from the realm of what can be observed and tested (cars,lamps, smallpox) into the black box of "origins". The story of the blind men and the elephant can apply as easily to modern science groping in the unprovable realm of origins as it does to religion. Until someone comes up with a time machine that allows us to go back and see (and return to tell the tale) any theory of origins will require a measure of faith from its adherents.
I was a devoted Farscape watcher in seasons one and two but then the plot made a serious turn into la-la land. I'm usually the one who explains what's going on to everyone else watching but this last season I was going "HUH?" for the first few episodes. If *I* was having a hard time following, a new watcher would have had no clue. No new watchers = no growth = soon canceled.
I see this often in sci-fi series, a show begins with a solid premise and then gradually fades toward the mystical/spiritual and begins adding/promoting godlike characters (ST:TNG, ST:DSN, Earth2, Earth:FC, I could go on and on). Yes, I know alot of people *liked* Q, I thought he was just a childish "Deus Ex Machina" on a bad drug trip.
Sci-Fi television is a specialized genera, it has to walk a fine line in order to have the type of appeal needed to support a mass media. There aren't enough of us hard-cores to make it profitable to the suits.
I have great hopes for Firefly though. Hope I'm not disappointed again.
As the AC poster stated, the shim goes between a chip and the heat sink to maximize thermal transfer and protect surface components. There are copper versions for many CPUs. Alot of people use arctic silver or thermal grease for this purpose.
I could see it being used as a "shim" because the stuff is hellishly expensive. If the chip doesn't have much surface topography, this layer could be as thin as onion skin and still do the job. This would keep the price down. I doubt that it would be cost effective over the existing solutions, but it would be functionally superior for those that 'gotta have the best'.
Yes, making big heat exchangers would produce optimal results, but - repeat it with me: THE STUFF IS EXPENSIVE.
Guess misunderstandings are the price you have to pay for being an *applied* scientist and trying to take economics into account.
Copper is the best material commonly used for heat transfer. Aluminum is often substituted because it is lighter (and cheaper). They (not me) are comparing this new material to the best qualities of each material.
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Would it account for GOOD MOVIES doing better as well? "HEY THIS movE ROX"
/. post to my wife. She mentioned an article she read describing how FF boxoffice built dramatically each day of it's opening weekend. (Not enough to beat SWAT but...)
Oddly enough, Freaky Friday appears to have benefited from this effect. I read this
Yeah, in retrospect it does have a bit of "eau du flamebait" in it. I went to highschool with so *dang* many boneheads it's hard not to take potshots... :)
...Or perhaps the "walking encyclopedia" actually thinks such details are *interesting* and wants others to appreciate them too.
Shallow boneheads, who often strut and posture to get attention, interpret the brainiac by their own motivations and think it's "seeking attention".
Example:
- Players pay, say, $8 per month.
- The monthly fee gives players the right to "control" items in the game.
- Players have the right to use and transfer items they control, including selling control of the item to other players for real-world cash.
- Right of Ownership of all game items is retained by the game provider.
- Since players never actually "own" things the provider is not liable to replace them.
- Any time a transfer of control is made, the receiving player is reminded that he only has control of the item, not ownership.
I was invited, by the CS department at my alma mater, to come back and speak a year after my graduation. They wanted me to give a talk about the 'real world' to those getting ready to graduate and enter the market. I remember covering many of the topics outlined in the chapter titles of this book. I was really honest.
When I got done the students where kind of "ashen faced". Oddly, I never got invited back to speak again...
Ah, the mindset of the sociopath:
/. gamer crowd.
"If you aren't smart enough to protect your stuff you deserve to have me steal it..."
Sorry, it's freaking *wrong* to steal, whether an item is carelessly placed or not.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the parent post was moderated "insightful" by the
Go ahead, mod me to hell, doesn't make it right...
is probably a guy... :)
on an episode of "Max Headroom"!
Save the blanks! Outlaw body banks now!
You obviously have never spent much time on conference calls with "english as a second language" developers.
Fluently? Perhaps. Intelligibly? rarely.
While I agree that this research will never be able to predict individual behavior - I disagree that we cannot derive laws of (group) behavior.
We cannot determine when a particular radioactive atom will decay, but we can statistically predict how many will in a given population in a set time. I think this research might lead to a similar set of statistical rules for predicting the behaviors of human populations.
(btw, I completely agree with you on the failure of modern Psychology to deliver what it promises)
Since we're already offtopic...
Hmmm, a press release by the Oregon Food Bank? Talk about a organization with a vested interest in people being hungry.
The source of their "hunger study" is Brandeis U. a small Jewish (read liberal) University. Is this the *best* the OFB can do, or is it the only research they can find that justifies their existance and continued funding?
How do they define "hunger"?
21% of households with children had to cut or skip meals
39% of those said it happened every month
so 8.2% cut or skip one or more meals per month. Once? Twice? Everyday? Without better numbers this is just a huge pile of FUD.
The OFB and those like them are delighted that Oregonians keep swallowing it (with a big swig of guilt, no doubt)
... a weapon of mass destruction.
"apples to oranges" comparison here.
If China (re?)annexes Taiwan will the Taiwanese have more or less control over their destiny? Would China "pull out" after a few years leaving Taiwan freer than before?
You can attribute the Iraq war to all kinds of reasons (oil,terrorism, WMD, lousy women's fashions,etc) but only the most historically ignorant would believe "annexation" is the reason.
The record is plain: the US has (multiple times over the last 50 years) not only withdrawn after victory but spent billions of dollars rebuilding the "conquered". If America is an oppressive, heinous bitch, why are there millions standing in line to get in? I don't believe you will find a waiting line for China, North Korea and their ilk. To give China/Iran/Syria/etc moral equvalency with the US in light of America's past actions is, at best, intellectually dishonest.
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The problem was that the hydrogen was enclosed in cloth impregnated with (essentially) .
rocket fuel.
Thank you for making my point: "They are the best interpretations of the known evidence".
i.e. "I/We don't have all the facts yet but I'm going to believe this way anyway". If that isn't a statement of faith I don't know is.
Your civil war example is a non sequitur. There were humans there, they observed it, they recorded it in a multitude of ways. There was no one around to see/record the untold ages of evolutionary time - there is only data. That data is used to support various theories of origins but underlying every interpretation of that data are assumptions that can never be proven.
And that's where faith comes in - you decide to believe without complete proof.
The only complaints I have seen is when science drifts from the realm of what can be observed and tested (cars,lamps, smallpox) into the black box of "origins".
The story of the blind men and the elephant can apply as easily to modern science groping in the unprovable realm of origins as it does to religion.
Until someone comes up with a time machine that allows us to go back and see (and return to tell the tale) any theory of origins will require a measure of faith from its adherents.
Looks like you missed out reading "The Teenagers Guide to the Real World"
:)
Based on your comment here it sounds like it still might help you make sense of the world.
these?
I was in Colfax Washington just last Wednesday and there are TWO (count 'em) stoplights.
Where is NYT's journalistic integrity?
Is there no honesty in todays journalists??
Slashdotters should BOYCOTT the NY...
oh...nevermind...
I was a devoted Farscape watcher in seasons one and two but then the plot made a serious turn into la-la land. I'm usually the one who explains what's going on to everyone else watching but this last season I was going "HUH?" for the first few episodes. If *I* was having a hard time following, a new watcher would have had no clue. No new watchers = no growth = soon canceled.
I see this often in sci-fi series, a show begins with a solid premise and then gradually fades toward the mystical/spiritual and begins adding/promoting godlike characters (ST:TNG, ST:DSN, Earth2, Earth:FC, I could go on and on). Yes, I know alot of people *liked* Q, I thought he was just a childish "Deus Ex Machina" on a bad drug trip.
Sci-Fi television is a specialized genera, it has to walk a fine line in order to have the type of appeal needed to support a mass media. There aren't enough of us hard-cores to make it profitable to the suits.
I have great hopes for Firefly though. Hope I'm not disappointed again.
As the AC poster stated, the shim goes between a chip and the heat sink to maximize thermal transfer and protect surface components. There are copper versions for many CPUs. Alot of people use arctic silver or thermal grease for this purpose.
I could see it being used as a "shim" because the stuff is hellishly expensive. If the chip doesn't have much surface topography, this layer could be as thin as onion skin and still do the job. This would keep the price down. I doubt that it would be cost effective over the existing solutions, but it would be functionally superior for those that 'gotta have the best'.
Yes, making big heat exchangers would produce optimal results, but - repeat it with me: THE STUFF IS EXPENSIVE.
Guess misunderstandings are the price you have to pay for being an *applied* scientist and trying to take economics into account.
Sheesh, talk about everyone missing the point.
Copper is the best material commonly used for heat transfer. Aluminum is often substituted because it is lighter (and cheaper). They (not me) are comparing this new material to the best qualities of each material.
Come on, pay attention here.
They seem to ignore the existence of the Piri Reis map that (stories suggest) was based in part on a map that Columbus' navigator used.
Check it out here
Don't simply dismiss it just because there are 'x-files' type sites that talk about it. It's quite fascinating.