A fairly large swath of China is overcrowded and lacking in economic fairness and social mobility.
So of course escapism is going to be a substantial problem.
And this escapism takes form via addiction. Not so different as the problems in Norway or Russia have historically had in the winters with alcoholism.
Which actually is declining because escapism in 2014 can be internet addiction, which is probably far better than alcoholism.
But I would not criticize these individuals in China very hard, in China there is no freedom to move without permission from the government. And I wouldn't fault the government too hard either, they are trying very hard to adapt but they are not magical and cannot wave a magic wand and fix things overnight.
Who modded ^^^^ that up and why? The quick decline of Nintendo isn't related to price, the business model has been made obsolete.
Cutting price won't save Nintendo any more than Blackberry or Windows Phone cutting price would help in those markets.
A console requires a child to plug it into a television, but if a kid has a tablet he/she can play it in his room and it can travel in the car and the child will have complete freedom, which both the child and the parents like.
It isn't a pricing issue or an issue with developer accessibility even if those are flawed.
And schools are feeding this full-force, many schools are moving away from computers to iPads in the USA (Lucky Apple and schools, because it isn't moving to tablets but specifically iPads).
Nintendo always had games very well targeted to children.
The current crop of kiddies see tablets as part of their identity and there isn't any reversing this for Nintendo. It is over for Nintendo.
The XBox is a different story because it is a "serious" casual gaming machine and not being devoured by such a market change. [But will probably succumb to a future market change, in 3 years or less smartphones will happen to have full-fledged game console capabilities, many efforts underway even 2-3 years back heading that direction particular with Android.]
In the end, only one device can win and it was always destined to be the smart phone due to portability --- laptop/desktop sales are falling very quickly which is a bit disturbing (Tablets +69%, computers 14% drop in units sold).
You seem to agree with everything I said but want the hassle of the warrant in situations that you agree are nearly 100% likely to get one.
So why not skip all the bullcrud and use common sense and let cops do their job.
Sure traffic cops and beat cops catch a lot of flak, but no cop is looking to search your cellphone for speeding or littering. So I have to be a little curious to know what oddball corner case that you have in mind that would involve an arrest, but wouldn't be a serious crime and wouldn't be a situation where the police were likely to get a warrant --- and whatever creative corner-case you have in mind can't be more than a few percent of those types of arrests.
An arrest means enough evidence to be strongly considered to being charged with a crime, not just casually annoying some guy who a cop wrote a parking ticket.
Most people that get injured or die outside the home under 50 involves an automobile.
And automobile accidents only take a little bit of inattentiveness.
Funny enough, I used to be against states continually lowering the BAC numbers but seeing the death/injury stats a few years ago made me realize automobile realities should yield to the statistics of how and who are causing these accidents and when.
Hint: Friday and Saturday nights after 10 PM, unsurprisingly, are very dangerous. So are summer afternoons on Friday.
That is a lot of bold print. But in 2013, a suspect is going to be carrying a note saying "Drop off the drugs to Tim at 555 N. Street" it is going to be a text message on a cell phone.
The cell phone is the new notepad or scrap of paper that the criminal is carrying.
If there is enough evidence for arrest, there is enough evidence to see what recent contact information, phone calls and text messages are on a cell phone.
This is how crime is done these days.
Probably an unpopular opinion to some, but this is how drug deals, flash mobs, knockout games and preplanned crimes are done.
No judge cares about your grocery list or calls to grandma.
They do care if your phone has a map to victim's house in the recent history.
Most driver's that want "rights" have very dirty laundry.
1. Repeat drunk driver who tends to blow stop signs doesn't like having to have special license plates.
2. Drug runner guy doesn't cameras or cops following them around.
3. Old coot who can't see doesn't like to take driving test every 5 years.
4. Pot smoker dude wants an app to show police checkpoints
But cars are dangerous 2-ton equipment.
"More than 2.3 million adult drivers and passengers were treated in emergency departments as the result of being injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2009." --- Motor vehicle stats
You can't drive drunk, high, stupid, menacing, without a seat belt, over the speed limit or run over pedestrians. And you must have insurance.
If someone wants driving privacy, go to a private track.
There are places to worried about government intrusion, but this isn't one of them. About 80% of my driving is either to work or to a store for groceries or what not. I just want it to be safe and efficient.
"Is trucking something to somewhere meant to be a pejorative because trucking useful goods is an vital part of our economy. This shouldn't be made fun of or disparaged just because it's what many people consider 'manual labor'... Who decided that on that language? It's very troublesome."
I agree, the idea of the summary titling is offensive. And not just to trucking! Notice the use of the "dumps"?
What is wrong with dumps? I take dumps all the time! Probably about one per day, but sometimes a bit more than that!
This is destined to be an epic fail. It could certainly fulfill CURRENT expectations. But this is what is naive. What about expectations 3 years from now?
Google is a company with the desire and means to change the world.
And this idea is the 2013 idea of a database.
Google wants to do stuff involving speed limits and probably road signs (no turn on red in the USA as an example).
An obsolete by design and lack of planning 2013 idea of an open database is going to be thrashed hard, no matter the quality. But then there is the quality issue too!
Google has every financial motivation to invest many resources into a database and system to compete in the idea-space for the future. Meanwhile, Open Source has never been that good at databases. This database will be useful, but it will be obsolete and archaic and inadequate compared to what Google has even now.
"hopefully EA and other game companies will learn a lesson from this disaster"
Keep it in Pandora's box dude!
If EA was gonna learn, it would have happened a LONG time ago.
They are essentially a holding company of intellectual property, not an actual game maker, and their management will always be "holding company" type of executives that manage brands. Like a magazine holding company.
This article summary ends "And no doubt this discussion may raise other questions on extensibility and performance for Reactive Programming.' Do you agree?""
But a superior ending would be "Don't you agree?"
Because any response to "Don't you agree?" is better for marketing FUD because any potential answer ("Yes", "No") can be interpreted with being in agreement with the leading question?
(This comment is revelvant specifically because the term is "Reactive programming" is a worthless marketing buzzword and I am staying on-topic discussing how to improve superior ambiguity. And I can argue it is revelvant because "revelvant" is not a word and can have any retroactive intended meaning! So double the value of this post in the marketing department!)
"Obesity is inversely related to income because healthy foods cost more than unhealthy ones."
I hate this "myth". It is absolutely false and untrue that healthy foods cost more.
You can go to the store and get eggs, potatoes, chicken, carrots and any canned vegetable and milk very inexpensively.
What are the unhealthy foods that cost less than these items? Doritoes? No. Cookies? Not Oreos and such.
My observation is that lower income people generally view food as "an escape" and one of the few creature comforts they have access to.
Is isn't really the price.
Studies have shown that overweight people choose to buy foods of convenience (fast food, open and eat packaged food, microwave and eat food) and avoid difficult to prepare foods (ones that require 15-30 minutes of preparation).
Let's be honest, here is one major advantage of a Steam Machine.
Teenagers and pre-teens rock at getting viruses, malware and such on a Windows computer. This is why everyone buys them tablets.
Windows is starting to be its own worst enemy, Windows 8 is terrible (and I have it on 2 machines) and Windows 7 --- while almost perfect --- at the hands of an inexperienced user the default settings aren't the best.
Typical users ARE NOT looking to tweak, break-in a system, uninstall crapware.
This is where the Steam Machines can excel --- bringing PC quality gaming to the masses without Windows update installing countless GB of mostly unwanted stuff at 3 AM. And Mac computers, while great, are not mainstream economical (I have 2 Macs and I love them. But they are pricey).
Consoles are a trade-off --- they offer gaming with training wheels (no mouse, can't offer bleeding edge graphics, overly sandboxed and limited from a developer perspective at times I would guess) --- SteamOS can offer PC quality gaming without the drawbacks of Windows maintenance/OEM crapwares.
Assuming the observation gets studied and confirmed, this is probably far more common than one might initially expect.
The Milky Way has been on the move billions of years and occasionally meets up with star clusters or even dwarf galaxies.
Many of them probably settle in gravitationally, but some of them aren't going to and continue, largely, about their merry way if the relative speeds are right.
These stars could have been "acquired" 400 million years ago and it can take a long time to traverse a cross-segment of the Milky Way. And these stars would have to be smaller like our sun to have the right lifespan, and we wouldn't notice the really small ones (red dwarfs and such) because they would be hard to see so there is also a mix of observational factors in the equation.
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A fairly large swath of China is overcrowded and lacking in economic fairness and social mobility.
So of course escapism is going to be a substantial problem.
And this escapism takes form via addiction. Not so different as the problems in Norway or Russia have historically had in the winters with alcoholism.
Which actually is declining because escapism in 2014 can be internet addiction, which is probably far better than alcoholism.
But I would not criticize these individuals in China very hard, in China there is no freedom to move without permission from the government. And I wouldn't fault the government too hard either, they are trying very hard to adapt but they are not magical and cannot wave a magic wand and fix things overnight.
Who modded ^^^^ that up and why? The quick decline of Nintendo isn't related to price, the business model has been made obsolete.
Cutting price won't save Nintendo any more than Blackberry or Windows Phone cutting price would help in those markets.
A console requires a child to plug it into a television, but if a kid has a tablet he/she can play it in his room and it can travel in the car and the child will have complete freedom, which both the child and the parents like.
It isn't a pricing issue or an issue with developer accessibility even if those are flawed.
And schools are feeding this full-force, many schools are moving away from computers to iPads in the USA (Lucky Apple and schools, because it isn't moving to tablets but specifically iPads).
Nintendo always had games very well targeted to children.
The current crop of kiddies see tablets as part of their identity and there isn't any reversing this for Nintendo. It is over for Nintendo.
The XBox is a different story because it is a "serious" casual gaming machine and not being devoured by such a market change. [But will probably succumb to a future market change, in 3 years or less smartphones will happen to have full-fledged game console capabilities, many efforts underway even 2-3 years back heading that direction particular with Android.]
In the end, only one device can win and it was always destined to be the smart phone due to portability --- laptop/desktop sales are falling very quickly which is a bit disturbing (Tablets +69%, computers 14% drop in units sold).
"If he's a real billionaire..."
He's a real billionaire in the same way the Monopoly Guy is wealthy with a phat stack of Monopoly Money.
"And do you have any weaknesses?
-I'm a liar."
Tips hat! Well played sir!
You seem to agree with everything I said but want the hassle of the warrant in situations that you agree are nearly 100% likely to get one.
So why not skip all the bullcrud and use common sense and let cops do their job.
Sure traffic cops and beat cops catch a lot of flak, but no cop is looking to search your cellphone for speeding or littering. So I have to be a little curious to know what oddball corner case that you have in mind that would involve an arrest, but wouldn't be a serious crime and wouldn't be a situation where the police were likely to get a warrant --- and whatever creative corner-case you have in mind can't be more than a few percent of those types of arrests.
An arrest means enough evidence to be strongly considered to being charged with a crime, not just casually annoying some guy who a cop wrote a parking ticket.
Most people that get injured or die outside the home under 50 involves an automobile.
And automobile accidents only take a little bit of inattentiveness.
Funny enough, I used to be against states continually lowering the BAC numbers but seeing the death/injury stats a few years ago made me realize automobile realities should yield to the statistics of how and who are causing these accidents and when.
Hint: Friday and Saturday nights after 10 PM, unsurprisingly, are very dangerous. So are summer afternoons on Friday.
That is a lot of bold print. But in 2013, a suspect is going to be carrying a note saying "Drop off the drugs to Tim at 555 N. Street" it is going to be a text message on a cell phone.
The cell phone is the new notepad or scrap of paper that the criminal is carrying.
If there is enough evidence for arrest, there is enough evidence to see what recent contact information, phone calls and text messages are on a cell phone.
This is how crime is done these days.
Probably an unpopular opinion to some, but this is how drug deals, flash mobs, knockout games and preplanned crimes are done.
No judge cares about your grocery list or calls to grandma.
They do care if your phone has a map to victim's house in the recent history.
Most driver's that want "rights" have very dirty laundry.
1. Repeat drunk driver who tends to blow stop signs doesn't like having to have special license plates.
2. Drug runner guy doesn't cameras or cops following them around.
3. Old coot who can't see doesn't like to take driving test every 5 years.
4. Pot smoker dude wants an app to show police checkpoints
But cars are dangerous 2-ton equipment.
"More than 2.3 million adult drivers and passengers were treated in emergency departments as the result of being injured in motor vehicle crashes in 2009." --- Motor vehicle stats
Driving is a priviledge, not a right.
You can't drive drunk, high, stupid, menacing, without a seat belt, over the speed limit or run over pedestrians. And you must have insurance.
If someone wants driving privacy, go to a private track.
There are places to worried about government intrusion, but this isn't one of them. About 80% of my driving is either to work or to a store for groceries or what not. I just want it to be safe and efficient.
If I am understanding this correctly, the rock is very small --- the size of a jelly donut --- what is the fuss about?
This isn't like they discovered a Martian Mt. Rushmore. It is a little handsized rock. Ugh.
"Is trucking something to somewhere meant to be a pejorative because trucking useful goods is an vital part of our economy. This shouldn't be made fun of or disparaged just because it's what many people consider 'manual labor'... Who decided that on that language? It's very troublesome."
I agree, the idea of the summary titling is offensive. And not just to trucking! Notice the use of the "dumps"?
What is wrong with dumps? I take dumps all the time! Probably about one per day, but sometimes a bit more than that!
I find the summary offensie in a great many ways.
This is destined to be an epic fail. It could certainly fulfill CURRENT expectations. But this is what is naive. What about expectations 3 years from now?
Google is a company with the desire and means to change the world.
And this idea is the 2013 idea of a database.
Google wants to do stuff involving speed limits and probably road signs (no turn on red in the USA as an example).
An obsolete by design and lack of planning 2013 idea of an open database is going to be thrashed hard, no matter the quality. But then there is the quality issue too!
Google has every financial motivation to invest many resources into a database and system to compete in the idea-space for the future. Meanwhile, Open Source has never been that good at databases. This database will be useful, but it will be obsolete and archaic and inadequate compared to what Google has even now.
Portsmouth Ohio is nowhere near Dayton.
"hopefully EA and other game companies will learn a lesson from this disaster"
Keep it in Pandora's box dude!
If EA was gonna learn, it would have happened a LONG time ago.
They are essentially a holding company of intellectual property, not an actual game maker, and their management will always be "holding company" type of executives that manage brands. Like a magazine holding company.
This article summary ends "And no doubt this discussion may raise other questions on extensibility and performance for Reactive Programming.' Do you agree?""
But a superior ending would be "Don't you agree?"
Because any response to "Don't you agree?" is better for marketing FUD because any potential answer ("Yes", "No") can be interpreted with being in agreement with the leading question?
(This comment is revelvant specifically because the term is "Reactive programming" is a worthless marketing buzzword and I am staying on-topic discussing how to improve superior ambiguity. And I can argue it is revelvant because "revelvant" is not a word and can have any retroactive intended meaning! So double the value of this post in the marketing department!)
So is this why James Bond is never speeding in the movies?
"Obesity is inversely related to income because healthy foods cost more than unhealthy ones."
I hate this "myth". It is absolutely false and untrue that healthy foods cost more.
You can go to the store and get eggs, potatoes, chicken, carrots and any canned vegetable and milk very inexpensively.
What are the unhealthy foods that cost less than these items? Doritoes? No. Cookies? Not Oreos and such.
My observation is that lower income people generally view food as "an escape" and one of the few creature comforts they have access to.
Is isn't really the price.
Studies have shown that overweight people choose to buy foods of convenience (fast food, open and eat packaged food, microwave and eat food) and avoid difficult to prepare foods (ones that require 15-30 minutes of preparation).
The most insidious thing is the unknown.
Because the unknown can be:
1. The worst thing ever.
2. Whatever you imagine.
3. Anything you imagine.
4. Anything you want it to be.
Because it is undefined.
After reading the report, I think it met expectations.
Let's be honest, here is one major advantage of a Steam Machine.
Teenagers and pre-teens rock at getting viruses, malware and such on a Windows computer. This is why everyone buys them tablets.
Windows is starting to be its own worst enemy, Windows 8 is terrible (and I have it on 2 machines) and Windows 7 --- while almost perfect --- at the hands of an inexperienced user the default settings aren't the best.
Typical users ARE NOT looking to tweak, break-in a system, uninstall crapware.
This is where the Steam Machines can excel --- bringing PC quality gaming to the masses without Windows update installing countless GB of mostly unwanted stuff at 3 AM. And Mac computers, while great, are not mainstream economical (I have 2 Macs and I love them. But they are pricey).
Consoles are a trade-off --- they offer gaming with training wheels (no mouse, can't offer bleeding edge graphics, overly sandboxed and limited from a developer perspective at times I would guess) --- SteamOS can offer PC quality gaming without the drawbacks of Windows maintenance/OEM crapwares.
Brown Dwarfs have lightning? That is quite interesting, really.
They haven't even ever quantum entangled something as large as a neutron.
...
They have quantum entangled photons. The amount of energy in a neutron compared to the run of the mill photon is off the scale.
I'm drawing a blank as to what the hell any of this article is supposed to mean, quite frankly
Target declined me for a credit card in August and wouldn't tell me why either and I still don't know, so I guess that was a "Good Thing".
[True story!]
Assuming the observation gets studied and confirmed, this is probably far more common than one might initially expect.
The Milky Way has been on the move billions of years and occasionally meets up with star clusters or even dwarf galaxies.
Many of them probably settle in gravitationally, but some of them aren't going to and continue, largely, about their merry way if the relative speeds are right.
These stars could have been "acquired" 400 million years ago and it can take a long time to traverse a cross-segment of the Milky Way. And these stars would have to be smaller like our sun to have the right lifespan, and we wouldn't notice the really small ones (red dwarfs and such) because they would be hard to see so there is also a mix of observational factors in the equation.