Let's not pretend AMD didn't release their own gaming benchmark numbers for Ryzen (1st gen), where they ran games in a GPU bottlenecked scenario at 2160p resolutions. These things are apparently done for marketing reasons?
Of course this doesn't make what Intel did here any better. The way I see it, they showed either some pretty bad incompetence by claiming the numbers of such a questionable testing method or knew that they were mostly worthless and didn't care.
In any case we should wait for benchmarks from multiple independent sources to get a clearer picture.
Things can certainly go wrong if you do a bad job. From a story telling perspective Mass Effect 3 made a faux pas by basically disconnecting the ending from all the plot that was going on before. I mean even if you want a twist ending, that surprises everyone, you have to craft it in a way that makes it arise logically from everything that happened before that, even though they may not have paid attention to all the little breadcrumbs that you left for them while you were going. If your ending doesn't follow logically you risk alienating consumers by making them feel cheated, insulting their intelligence and so forth. Reasons why it is usually also a bad idea to have dramatic things happen in dreams or simulations (unless you find some kind of plot device to make them matter in your fictional 'real world').
The developers of Mass Effect 3 also took a lot of flak for what they did with the ending, if I remember correctly.
I can understand that they had a very difficult job to do here, given that there were 3 games in their series that allowed a huge number of choices. Ideally they had to work out endings that would satisfy every single choice that had been made by the player before. And apparently they didn't want to do it in a fashion that was used in some of their previous games like Baldur's Gate or other RPG series like Fallout, where you get a mostly text based wrap up based on your choices. But no such a cheap text based ending apparently wasn't going to fly for Electronic Arts. They wanted to make something that also appealed to the visual and auditory senses. Unfortunately for them, Bioware apparently put so little effort into the attempt that having no ending at all for their game would probably have been better.
After all the principle of letting people choose from limited options isn't inherently tied to politics and can be found in many technical fields as well.
I immediately thought of video games as a practical application of these principles. A form of media which is based upon the premise that players have a set of pre-defined choices. Some games give more choices and others. Some games feature simulations that allow players to do a lot of things, that can also have game breaking outcomes.
But judging from the most financially successful games, something that may interest a profit oriented organizations like Netflix, there seems to be little correlation between the number of choices and or possible outcomes of those choices and the success of the product. Story based games that play like interactive movies seem to be where a lot of money is buried in these times. And those games have rather limited choices that a player can make.
I could also think of automatons that perform a range of functions, depending on pre-defined instructions. Think of a human interface that allows an operator to choose some of the functions. If you were to design such an automaton, you have to think about these issues beforehand. You don't always give the users free reign. Of course unless perhaps they do it on their own, for themselves, and without you having any liability over the damages they can cause with it.
The essential problem with Boaty-McBoatface wasn't that they put it up for a vote on the internet, it was that they allowed user entries.
Give people a pre defined list of options and let them choose from. Have contingency plans for every option they can choose.
This principle has been working for Choose Your Own Adventure books and video games since the 80's.
Kickstarter itself does not check the feasibility of a project and of course opens the doors for scammers among everyone else.
From my own experiences with the platform I've only backed a couple of video games. Given the samples that I chose to back, every single one of them turned out fine so far. And it got me the product, that I would have bought anyway at a relatively low price. That's the way I see it, from the point of view of a consumer. It's an expense, not an investment.
Of course I know that this isn't the case for many other projects that launched on kickstarter. There, my common sense told me that their claims were too big for their evidence. Or sometimes it's a bit more than common sense. I remember some kind of hover board technology (Back to the Future 2) which relied on some obscurity of electromagnetic interactions between electrons. If I remember correctly it was supposed to use charged plates that were also spinning, which should produce some thrusting forces that seemingly defied Newtonian physics.
Wading through the scientific basis of their work and the empirical evidence they've collected, I concluded that it is too risky to make that expense and or investment just yet.
Alright. I don't want to equivocate here.
However I'd like to clarify something. Would you disagree that those criteria are pretty common for "disorders"? Or just pointing out that mistake I made?
I'd agree, these are symptoms of psychological dependence.
But no, addiction does not necessarily require physical withdrawal symptoms according to the most current definitions that are used in psychology.
For example we have phenomenons like 'problem gambling'/'gambling disorder'/'gambling addiction' where there are no physical withdrawal symptoms whatsoever to my knowledge. According to the DSM V:
Addictive Disorders
The chapter also includes gambling disorder as the sole condition in a new category on behavioural
addictions. DSM-IV listed pathological gambling but in a different chapter. This new term and its location in the new manual reect research findings that gambling disorder is similar to substance-related
disorders in clinical expression, brain origin, comorbidity, physiology, and treatment.
Recognition of these commonalties will help people with gambling disorder get the treatment and
services they need, and others may better understand the challenges that individuals face in overcoming this disorder.
While gambling disorder is the only addictive disorder included in DSM-5 as a diagnosable condition,
Internet gaming disorder will be included in Section III of the manual. Disorders listed there require
further research before their consideration as formal disorders. This condition is included to reect the
scientific literature on persistent and recurrent use of Internet games, and a preoccupation with them,
can result in clinically significant impairment or distress. Much of this literature comes from studies in
Asian countries. The condition criteria do not include general use of the Internet, gambling, or social
media at this time.
Source: https://www.psychiatry.org/Fil... (used autocorrect because copy&paste messed up the spelling, there still might be some deviation in the spelling)
As far as my limited *knowledge about psychology goes, those people who classify this as gaming addiction would be wrong. They don't get to bend the rules to their whims. Also such a diagnosis must be made by someone who is qualified to make it.
Although I certainly have to agree that armchair psychology is widespread, especially on the internet. I see it regularly happen here in the slashdot comment section where some very smart people diagnose people with some random disorders or effects to use it as an ad hominem circumstantial. But what are you going to do other than to point it out?
And of course this doesn't really have that much effect on whether their SO is angry with them or not. People can and are angry for whatever arbitrary and irrational reasons they can find. But that is a different, interpersonal issue.
*I know just enough to understand that I'm not qualified to diagnose anyone with anything. Especially not based on a conversation through the internet.
Personally I think that RNG works great for roguelikes. But an important part of a roguelike, at least in my opinion, is that those games have a well defined start and ending. You play them in sessions. And those sessions last until you experience virtual death or beat the challenges the game threw at you this time. Modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac for example take you between half an hour and an hour to finish them successfully.
Then you can decide whether to take a break or not, because the game gives you a very clear opportunity to do so. It's part of the game design.
I'm sure there are such groups of people out there. After all you can find a group for pretty much anything in our current information age.
However, I've also seen a lot of outrage about that gaming disorder definition and had to ask myself if these people even tried to read and understand what the definition of gaming disorder is about instead of just reading the headlines and chose to get deeply offended or 'triggered'? Let me quote the criteria:
For gaming disorder to be diagnosed, the behaviour pattern must be of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning and would normally have been evident for at least 12 months.
And then of course there's also this last paragraph:
Should all people who engage in gaming be concerned about developing gaming disorder?
Studies suggest that gaming disorder affects only a small proportion of people who engage in digital- or video-gaming activities. However, people who partake in gaming should be alert to the amount of time they spend on gaming activities, particularly when it is to the exclusion of other daily activities, as well as to any changes in their physical or psychological health and social functioning that could be attributed to their pattern of gaming behaviour.
Source: http://www.who.int/features/qa...
This is quite important to understand because it also defines what is NOT gaming disorder.
If you choose it to be your hobby and spend a lot of your personal time on it, it wouldn't be gaming disorder.
If you're a professional gamer, it wouldn't be gaming disorder.
If you're an introvert and not very social to begin with, video games don't cause your behavioural pattern to change and it wouldn't be gaming disorder.
Even if you call in sick now and then because you must finish that game you got on Friday it wouldn't be gaming disorder. No, for this to be gaming disorder, behavioural patterns like these must persists for at least 12 months.
For fucks sake. These are pretty common criteria for any kind of addiction, be it substance abuse, gambling, extreme sports, and whatever. Why should activities like playing video games get a free pass? And while we're at it, the WHO should also take a very close look at social media addiction.
I'd say that stamina, physical strength, and coordination strongly depend on what kind bow you use. For example are you shooting compounds? Or maybe longbow or recurve? What is the draw weight of your bow?
Because I like to go (deer and boar) hunting with a bow now an then (not allowed in my own stupid country). Therefore I need an appropriately high draw weight - 60lbs. And since I also like the challenge, I'm not using a compound but a recurve. Drawing the bow and keeping it drawn already requires some considerable upper body strength, and stamina in your latissimus dorsi muscles. Otherwise your muscles tire quickly and you don't get a lot of time to aim before your arms become shaky.
Finding an anchor point (or whatever it is called) for a consistent draw requires some muscle memory that you have to acquire first. Then you also need a consistently clean release, which has to be coordinated with your aiming.
Also you don't need to understand a lot about physics and mathematics to be good at this. Everything can be learned by practising enough until your muscle memory does most of the work for you. And practice is also going to improve the strength and stamina of the required muscles if you do it regularly enough.
Of course if you understand a lot about physics and mathematics it doesn't hurt either. Maybe you're quicker to grasp why you're doing what you're doing and why your equipment behaves like it does.
And the latter probably applies to most sports or martial arts. After all we live in a universe that is governed by the laws of physics as far as we know. And apparently we have evolved under these circumstances in a way that does not require us to have a profound understanding of the universe we live in for most day to day tasks.
If you're a small fish and stupid enough to get caught but are an individual they may not bother with a lawsuit and just bar you from online services like software updates and other things. Probably the main reason why they introduced Office 365 as an online based service. I'm sure they'd love to have a Windows 365 (and only a Windows 365), but due to latency (laws of physics) and bandwidth issues of the internet infrastructure that's simply not feasible for many tasks that are usually done on Windows.
If you're a bigger fish and are stupid enough to get caught they may sue like in this case, where a software reseller sold product keys they didn't legally obtain. https://www.arnnet.com.au/arti...
All while reselling legally obtained product keys may not get you into trouble at all, depending on where you live (EU for example).
Do you really believe that there would be no copyright laws without EULAs?
If you try copying Microsoft Office and distributing it they'll get your ass sued because of copyright infringement and not because of breaching their EULA.
Like you implied, not everyone got the memo.
If you never learned and understood what value the scientific method can have, you probably won't consider it to be of much importance.
Although if you learn and understand "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" you may thing that discrediting the messenger is a very valid method.
Agreed, Putin is on his own side. I think it was his own statements that his ties to certain political parties are or a pragmatic nature.
If you look at the current situation in Germany though, Putin is successful with everyone that is 'far' on the spectrum. Don't forget that the article you linked also mentions the AfD. Their policies differ in many key aspects of economic and social issues, but what unites them is their disdain of the US, the EU, and Israel.
The Centrists (CDU and FDP leaning to the right) as well as the Green party (leaning to the left) aren't that fond of Putin right now. The SPD (centre left) seems to be fractured on the issue.
Surprised?
According to findings on platforms like Reddit a lot of internet users will not read the article before forming an opinion on the piece. It's likely that they read headlines and subhead. Maybe they will read a summary if they feel like it. But from personal experience of the comment sections on major German newspaper that rarely happens as far as online platforms go. Which leads me to believe that this is a fairly common phenomenon among various cultures.
Of course it's a nice thing to know for online media whose revenue relies on generating clicks for their article. If all they do is to pick a catchy headline and perhaps write summery in a similar fashion, it's already enough to draw a significant amount of attention from their audience. On top of that the same phenomenon as illustrated above probably also applies to a significant portion ofjournalists, leading them to mostly only read press releases instead of working through the full papers. I'm not sure in which direction the causality goes here as in whether those who publish papers have found out what gets you more likely published, journalists have found out what makes the most money, or both. In anyway the result stays the same.
If I remember correctly the definition of cyborg is so loose that technically something as simple as a tooth filling makes you a cyborg. This makes it pretty much useless as a descriptive expression.
I can't answer that question in good faith.
I can only tell you that swimming used to be a part of the mandatory sports curriculum in elementary, middle, and high school in Germany. Those children who couldn't already swim learned it in the 3rd grade at the age of 8 or 9. There might have been exceptions in areas where access to public or private pools was difficult. And then you had more stupid reasons like religion, where some parents denied their daughters the chance to learn swimming.
At least this was the case in the 90's. I can also give you some anecdotal evidence here. Being somewhat of an immigrant myself I was one among two others of 30 students who couldn't already swim in 3rd grade. This should already tell you that only around 10% of the children didn't learn it from their parents and or other professionals before the age of 9. The other two happened to the children of Turkish immigrants. At the end of the lessons all three of us obtained the "Seahorse", which is the lowest degree of qualification for a swimmer, meaning that you've managed to swim at least a distance of 25m on your own. The next mandatory swimming lessons were in the 5th grade where all of us obtained the "Freischwimmer", which means swimming at least 15 minutes in a deep pool (at least 1.35m deep).
I've got no clue how the situation actually is, but the news make it sound grim.
Of course it matters if you want to use it as the basis of your argument. Of course it does not mean that your conclusion can't possibly be correct, but it means that you can't infer that conclusion on the basis that you've presented. You're free to find something different.
If we had long term data with high temporal resolution like we do have for Earth then you could correlate both and look how both correspond to sun spot activity in a similar way. That would be some backup for a hypothesis that external factors play a much bigger role than anything we humans can affect here on Earth. But with only two data points in 22 years, a presentation of such a complex function over time is practically useless. It's less useful than approximating the values of a sine wave between 0 and 2pi by a line through two distinct points. Sure, it can be fairly accurate around values for 0, and 2pi or pi alone, or maybe pi/2, and 3pi/2. But it will be mostly useless for anything else as an approximation.
I think the 2nd link got lost during copy and paste, because both links lead to the same picture. If I put 'sun spot activity climate' into duckduckgo.com the 4th hit is from scepticalscience.com and leads to this site here: https://skepticalscience.com/s...
Of course it's not just smartphones. But mentioning smartphones, something that almost every single person uses in these times, in the headline makes a way better clickbait than "Budget cuts have led to swimming pools shortening their opening times". Read the entire article to get an idea what it is about.
Our mainstream media also tells me that budget cuts had negative effects on swimming classes in schools. There's a lack of teachers and parents who are interested in their children learning to swim. Public and private pools have been closed down.
For example here's a non-paywalled google-translated article from one of Germany's mainstream news papers.
But let's just assume it's true for the moment. I'm sure we have Mars climate records dating back centuries that can be cross correlated with temperatures on Earth. No? Too bad, because we have those for Earth in at least some countries that valued record keeping.
Mars temperatures sounds just like the next straw deniers cling to in order to debunk climate change. Scepticism is fine. I's a good place to start. But you know, at some point people stop being sceptics if they just keep shifting the goal posts and ignore all the other evidence climate science has come up with. Then they're deniers.
Depending on the schools, they do get those fields in their course load. At least here in Germany, where I got my degree in *electrical/electronic engineering in the late 2000's, I had to work through one semester of industrial sociology, law, business administration, and economics. Four different courses with their own finals, worth 3 (ECTS) credits each. The courses were not extensive, but covered enough basics to give people at least a starting point they could build upon, combined with the learning skills they ought to have acquired through the scientific and engineering fields before that.
Because I'm such an nerd I visited classes from other departments in my free time and also watched lectures online. I happen to know that those from the humanities learn about the scientific method. How to collect data and how important it is to disprove the null hypothesis if you process your statistical data. They learn to be aware of biases that THEY as the observer and processor of the data can bring into it and so forth.
The problem is not that people are trained to be specialized monkeys and therefore are inept when it comes to everything else. The problem is that not everyone takes those lessons to heart and therefore becomes a specialized monkey.
*We shared most of the courses including the four social sciences mentioned above with computer engineers, who were very heavy into CS.
There's already enough toxicity around here and everywhere on the internet.
Ever since overclocking through multipliers was introduced changing the BCLK only made sense in case where multipliers were locked. Now that Intel apparently has taken every measure to prevent end users from doing this, I do hope even more that AMDs will catch up.
As far as leaks/rumours go, I've also seen a lot of leaks in the past. I remember the first presentation slides for Ryzen showing their performance in GPU bottlenecked scenarios. I mean those numbers are certainly valid, but also only under those circumstances as there's still a lot of players out there that use (low) resolutions like 1920x1080 and want to utilize their 144Hz displays or stay >=60 FPS in those intensive (and poorly optimized) games. I've also seen Intel's i9-9900k performance leaks. The possibility of 8 cores at a stable 5GHz with high end air or mid range AIO water cooling does look appealing, but that price tag of ~$450 does not. Zen2 with a 15% IPC increase would get them very close to Intel performance assuming that the 3000 series (?) is going to be able to clock to 4.3GHz (or maybe more). A hypothetical R7 3700X priced at ~$350 would be very attractive. And if they add a hypothetical R9 (?) with 12 cores it should be even more interesting. They should be able to cherrypick the best CCX and put them together to allow for similarily high clocks. As far as latencies go, we'll have to see what improvements the can make.
In the end I have reason to take all those leaks with a grain of salt and will have to wait for benchmarks from actual use cases and various sources to get a better picture.
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Let's not pretend AMD didn't release their own gaming benchmark numbers for Ryzen (1st gen), where they ran games in a GPU bottlenecked scenario at 2160p resolutions. These things are apparently done for marketing reasons?
Of course this doesn't make what Intel did here any better. The way I see it, they showed either some pretty bad incompetence by claiming the numbers of such a questionable testing method or knew that they were mostly worthless and didn't care.
In any case we should wait for benchmarks from multiple independent sources to get a clearer picture.
Things can certainly go wrong if you do a bad job.
From a story telling perspective Mass Effect 3 made a faux pas by basically disconnecting the ending from all the plot that was going on before. I mean even if you want a twist ending, that surprises everyone, you have to craft it in a way that makes it arise logically from everything that happened before that, even though they may not have paid attention to all the little breadcrumbs that you left for them while you were going. If your ending doesn't follow logically you risk alienating consumers by making them feel cheated, insulting their intelligence and so forth. Reasons why it is usually also a bad idea to have dramatic things happen in dreams or simulations (unless you find some kind of plot device to make them matter in your fictional 'real world').
The developers of Mass Effect 3 also took a lot of flak for what they did with the ending, if I remember correctly.
I can understand that they had a very difficult job to do here, given that there were 3 games in their series that allowed a huge number of choices. Ideally they had to work out endings that would satisfy every single choice that had been made by the player before. And apparently they didn't want to do it in a fashion that was used in some of their previous games like Baldur's Gate or other RPG series like Fallout, where you get a mostly text based wrap up based on your choices. But no such a cheap text based ending apparently wasn't going to fly for Electronic Arts. They wanted to make something that also appealed to the visual and auditory senses. Unfortunately for them, Bioware apparently put so little effort into the attempt that having no ending at all for their game would probably have been better.
Ask the people who turn it into politics.
After all the principle of letting people choose from limited options isn't inherently tied to politics and can be found in many technical fields as well.
I immediately thought of video games as a practical application of these principles. A form of media which is based upon the premise that players have a set of pre-defined choices. Some games give more choices and others. Some games feature simulations that allow players to do a lot of things, that can also have game breaking outcomes.
But judging from the most financially successful games, something that may interest a profit oriented organizations like Netflix, there seems to be little correlation between the number of choices and or possible outcomes of those choices and the success of the product. Story based games that play like interactive movies seem to be where a lot of money is buried in these times. And those games have rather limited choices that a player can make.
I could also think of automatons that perform a range of functions, depending on pre-defined instructions. Think of a human interface that allows an operator to choose some of the functions. If you were to design such an automaton, you have to think about these issues beforehand. You don't always give the users free reign. Of course unless perhaps they do it on their own, for themselves, and without you having any liability over the damages they can cause with it.
The essential problem with Boaty-McBoatface wasn't that they put it up for a vote on the internet, it was that they allowed user entries.
Give people a pre defined list of options and let them choose from. Have contingency plans for every option they can choose.
This principle has been working for Choose Your Own Adventure books and video games since the 80's.
Kickstarter itself does not check the feasibility of a project and of course opens the doors for scammers among everyone else.
From my own experiences with the platform I've only backed a couple of video games. Given the samples that I chose to back, every single one of them turned out fine so far. And it got me the product, that I would have bought anyway at a relatively low price. That's the way I see it, from the point of view of a consumer. It's an expense, not an investment.
Of course I know that this isn't the case for many other projects that launched on kickstarter. There, my common sense told me that their claims were too big for their evidence.
Or sometimes it's a bit more than common sense. I remember some kind of hover board technology (Back to the Future 2) which relied on some obscurity of electromagnetic interactions between electrons. If I remember correctly it was supposed to use charged plates that were also spinning, which should produce some thrusting forces that seemingly defied Newtonian physics.
Wading through the scientific basis of their work and the empirical evidence they've collected, I concluded that it is too risky to make that expense and or investment just yet.
Alright. I don't want to equivocate here.
However I'd like to clarify something. Would you disagree that those criteria are pretty common for "disorders"? Or just pointing out that mistake I made?
But no, addiction does not necessarily require physical withdrawal symptoms according to the most current definitions that are used in psychology.
For example we have phenomenons like 'problem gambling'/'gambling disorder'/'gambling addiction' where there are no physical withdrawal symptoms whatsoever to my knowledge. According to the DSM V:
Source: https://www.psychiatry.org/Fil... (used autocorrect because copy&paste messed up the spelling, there still might be some deviation in the spelling)
As far as my limited *knowledge about psychology goes, those people who classify this as gaming addiction would be wrong. They don't get to bend the rules to their whims. Also such a diagnosis must be made by someone who is qualified to make it.
Although I certainly have to agree that armchair psychology is widespread, especially on the internet. I see it regularly happen here in the slashdot comment section where some very smart people diagnose people with some random disorders or effects to use it as an ad hominem circumstantial. But what are you going to do other than to point it out?
And of course this doesn't really have that much effect on whether their SO is angry with them or not. People can and are angry for whatever arbitrary and irrational reasons they can find. But that is a different, interpersonal issue.
*I know just enough to understand that I'm not qualified to diagnose anyone with anything. Especially not based on a conversation through the internet.
You mean the Skinner Box?
Here's an easy to understand youtube piece about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Personally I think that RNG works great for roguelikes. But an important part of a roguelike, at least in my opinion, is that those games have a well defined start and ending. You play them in sessions. And those sessions last until you experience virtual death or beat the challenges the game threw at you this time.
Modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac for example take you between half an hour and an hour to finish them successfully. Then you can decide whether to take a break or not, because the game gives you a very clear opportunity to do so. It's part of the game design.
However, I've also seen a lot of outrage about that gaming disorder definition and had to ask myself if these people even tried to read and understand what the definition of gaming disorder is about instead of just reading the headlines and chose to get deeply offended or 'triggered'?
Let me quote the criteria:
And then of course there's also this last paragraph:
Source: http://www.who.int/features/qa...
This is quite important to understand because it also defines what is NOT gaming disorder.
If you choose it to be your hobby and spend a lot of your personal time on it, it wouldn't be gaming disorder.
If you're a professional gamer, it wouldn't be gaming disorder.
If you're an introvert and not very social to begin with, video games don't cause your behavioural pattern to change and it wouldn't be gaming disorder.
Even if you call in sick now and then because you must finish that game you got on Friday it wouldn't be gaming disorder. No, for this to be gaming disorder, behavioural patterns like these must persists for at least 12 months.
For fucks sake. These are pretty common criteria for any kind of addiction, be it substance abuse, gambling, extreme sports, and whatever. Why should activities like playing video games get a free pass? And while we're at it, the WHO should also take a very close look at social media addiction.
I'd say that stamina, physical strength, and coordination strongly depend on what kind bow you use.
For example are you shooting compounds? Or maybe longbow or recurve? What is the draw weight of your bow?
Because I like to go (deer and boar) hunting with a bow now an then (not allowed in my own stupid country). Therefore I need an appropriately high draw weight - 60lbs. And since I also like the challenge, I'm not using a compound but a recurve. Drawing the bow and keeping it drawn already requires some considerable upper body strength, and stamina in your latissimus dorsi muscles. Otherwise your muscles tire quickly and you don't get a lot of time to aim before your arms become shaky.
Finding an anchor point (or whatever it is called) for a consistent draw requires some muscle memory that you have to acquire first. Then you also need a consistently clean release, which has to be coordinated with your aiming.
Also you don't need to understand a lot about physics and mathematics to be good at this. Everything can be learned by practising enough until your muscle memory does most of the work for you. And practice is also going to improve the strength and stamina of the required muscles if you do it regularly enough.
Of course if you understand a lot about physics and mathematics it doesn't hurt either. Maybe you're quicker to grasp why you're doing what you're doing and why your equipment behaves like it does.
And the latter probably applies to most sports or martial arts. After all we live in a universe that is governed by the laws of physics as far as we know. And apparently we have evolved under these circumstances in a way that does not require us to have a profound understanding of the universe we live in for most day to day tasks.
If you're a small fish and stupid enough to get caught but are an individual they may not bother with a lawsuit and just bar you from online services like software updates and other things. Probably the main reason why they introduced Office 365 as an online based service. I'm sure they'd love to have a Windows 365 (and only a Windows 365), but due to latency (laws of physics) and bandwidth issues of the internet infrastructure that's simply not feasible for many tasks that are usually done on Windows.
If you're a bigger fish and are stupid enough to get caught they may sue like in this case, where a software reseller sold product keys they didn't legally obtain. https://www.arnnet.com.au/arti...
All while reselling legally obtained product keys may not get you into trouble at all, depending on where you live (EU for example).
Do you really believe that there would be no copyright laws without EULAs?
If you try copying Microsoft Office and distributing it they'll get your ass sued because of copyright infringement and not because of breaching their EULA.
Like you implied, not everyone got the memo.
If you never learned and understood what value the scientific method can have, you probably won't consider it to be of much importance.
Although if you learn and understand "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" you may thing that discrediting the messenger is a very valid method.
Agreed, Putin is on his own side. I think it was his own statements that his ties to certain political parties are or a pragmatic nature.
If you look at the current situation in Germany though, Putin is successful with everyone that is 'far' on the spectrum. Don't forget that the article you linked also mentions the AfD. Their policies differ in many key aspects of economic and social issues, but what unites them is their disdain of the US, the EU, and Israel.
The Centrists (CDU and FDP leaning to the right) as well as the Green party (leaning to the left) aren't that fond of Putin right now. The SPD (centre left) seems to be fractured on the issue.
Surprised?
According to findings on platforms like Reddit a lot of internet users will not read the article before forming an opinion on the piece. It's likely that they read headlines and subhead. Maybe they will read a summary if they feel like it. But from personal experience of the comment sections on major German newspaper that rarely happens as far as online platforms go. Which leads me to believe that this is a fairly common phenomenon among various cultures.
Of course it's a nice thing to know for online media whose revenue relies on generating clicks for their article. If all they do is to pick a catchy headline and perhaps write summery in a similar fashion, it's already enough to draw a significant amount of attention from their audience. On top of that the same phenomenon as illustrated above probably also applies to a significant portion ofjournalists, leading them to mostly only read press releases instead of working through the full papers.
I'm not sure in which direction the causality goes here as in whether those who publish papers have found out what gets you more likely published, journalists have found out what makes the most money, or both. In anyway the result stays the same.
If I remember correctly the definition of cyborg is so loose that technically something as simple as a tooth filling makes you a cyborg. This makes it pretty much useless as a descriptive expression.
Replace that 'actually' from the last sentence with 'currently'.
I can't answer that question in good faith.
I can only tell you that swimming used to be a part of the mandatory sports curriculum in elementary, middle, and high school in Germany. Those children who couldn't already swim learned it in the 3rd grade at the age of 8 or 9. There might have been exceptions in areas where access to public or private pools was difficult. And then you had more stupid reasons like religion, where some parents denied their daughters the chance to learn swimming.
At least this was the case in the 90's. I can also give you some anecdotal evidence here. Being somewhat of an immigrant myself I was one among two others of 30 students who couldn't already swim in 3rd grade. This should already tell you that only around 10% of the children didn't learn it from their parents and or other professionals before the age of 9. The other two happened to the children of Turkish immigrants. At the end of the lessons all three of us obtained the "Seahorse", which is the lowest degree of qualification for a swimmer, meaning that you've managed to swim at least a distance of 25m on your own. The next mandatory swimming lessons were in the 5th grade where all of us obtained the "Freischwimmer", which means swimming at least 15 minutes in a deep pool (at least 1.35m deep).
I've got no clue how the situation actually is, but the news make it sound grim.
Of course it matters if you want to use it as the basis of your argument. Of course it does not mean that your conclusion can't possibly be correct, but it means that you can't infer that conclusion on the basis that you've presented. You're free to find something different.
If we had long term data with high temporal resolution like we do have for Earth then you could correlate both and look how both correspond to sun spot activity in a similar way. That would be some backup for a hypothesis that external factors play a much bigger role than anything we humans can affect here on Earth.
But with only two data points in 22 years, a presentation of such a complex function over time is practically useless. It's less useful than approximating the values of a sine wave between 0 and 2pi by a line through two distinct points. Sure, it can be fairly accurate around values for 0, and 2pi or pi alone, or maybe pi/2, and 3pi/2. But it will be mostly useless for anything else as an approximation.
I think the 2nd link got lost during copy and paste, because both links lead to the same picture. If I put 'sun spot activity climate' into duckduckgo.com the 4th hit is from scepticalscience.com and leads to this site here: https://skepticalscience.com/s...
Of course it's not just smartphones. But mentioning smartphones, something that almost every single person uses in these times, in the headline makes a way better clickbait than "Budget cuts have led to swimming pools shortening their opening times".
Read the entire article to get an idea what it is about.
Our mainstream media also tells me that budget cuts had negative effects on swimming classes in schools. There's a lack of teachers and parents who are interested in their children learning to swim. Public and private pools have been closed down.
For example here's a non-paywalled google-translated article from one of Germany's mainstream news papers.
Mars temperature? May I see that data?
But let's just assume it's true for the moment. I'm sure we have Mars climate records dating back centuries that can be cross correlated with temperatures on Earth. No? Too bad, because we have those for Earth in at least some countries that valued record keeping.
Mars temperatures sounds just like the next straw deniers cling to in order to debunk climate change.
Scepticism is fine. I's a good place to start. But you know, at some point people stop being sceptics if they just keep shifting the goal posts and ignore all the other evidence climate science has come up with. Then they're deniers.
I think it was less a comment about physics but more of a political potshot at Europe's current immigrant and refugee politics/crysis.
Depending on the schools, they do get those fields in their course load. At least here in Germany, where I got my degree in *electrical/electronic engineering in the late 2000's, I had to work through one semester of industrial sociology, law, business administration, and economics. Four different courses with their own finals, worth 3 (ECTS) credits each. The courses were not extensive, but covered enough basics to give people at least a starting point they could build upon, combined with the learning skills they ought to have acquired through the scientific and engineering fields before that.
Because I'm such an nerd I visited classes from other departments in my free time and also watched lectures online. I happen to know that those from the humanities learn about the scientific method. How to collect data and how important it is to disprove the null hypothesis if you process your statistical data. They learn to be aware of biases that THEY as the observer and processor of the data can bring into it and so forth.
The problem is not that people are trained to be specialized monkeys and therefore are inept when it comes to everything else. The problem is that not everyone takes those lessons to heart and therefore becomes a specialized monkey.
*We shared most of the courses including the four social sciences mentioned above with computer engineers, who were very heavy into CS.
There's already enough toxicity around here and everywhere on the internet.
Ever since overclocking through multipliers was introduced changing the BCLK only made sense in case where multipliers were locked. Now that Intel apparently has taken every measure to prevent end users from doing this, I do hope even more that AMDs will catch up.
As far as leaks/rumours go, I've also seen a lot of leaks in the past. I remember the first presentation slides for Ryzen showing their performance in GPU bottlenecked scenarios. I mean those numbers are certainly valid, but also only under those circumstances as there's still a lot of players out there that use (low) resolutions like 1920x1080 and want to utilize their 144Hz displays or stay >=60 FPS in those intensive (and poorly optimized) games. I've also seen Intel's i9-9900k performance leaks. The possibility of 8 cores at a stable 5GHz with high end air or mid range AIO water cooling does look appealing, but that price tag of ~$450 does not. Zen2 with a 15% IPC increase would get them very close to Intel performance assuming that the 3000 series (?) is going to be able to clock to 4.3GHz (or maybe more). A hypothetical R7 3700X priced at ~$350 would be very attractive. And if they add a hypothetical R9 (?) with 12 cores it should be even more interesting. They should be able to cherrypick the best CCX and put them together to allow for similarily high clocks. As far as latencies go, we'll have to see what improvements the can make.
In the end I have reason to take all those leaks with a grain of salt and will have to wait for benchmarks from actual use cases and various sources to get a better picture.