It indicates either an incorrectly formed hypothesis or errors in experimental methods.
Or limitations of methodology. I think a lot of cutting-edge science tends wander along the edge of this problem - there may be an effect, but the available data is only barely sufficient to see it, and obtaining a statistically sound sample size would be uneconomical. Lots of good research ends up exploiting clever tricks to get around this kind of limitation - and sometimes falls prey to unforseen effects and influences (which I suppose more or less falls under your "errors" column, but I think it's important to mention this slightly aberrant case and put an asterisk beside it).
I take issue with that - you're clearly ignoring Shinji's whiny alienation and Hamlet-like inability to do anything useful.:)
The psychology of that is going to resonate pretty strongly with a big subset of adolescents.
Throw in some partial nudity and some faux-religous significance and you've got the formula for a cult hit.
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Broadcast TV is completely unwatchable these days. You're wasting a third of your time having your intelligence insulted by all the ads. It's not just the sheer amount of ads drowning out the real show you're trying to watch. My impression -- from the snippets I catch here and there -- is that they're utterly brainless, and are aimed at the lowest common denominator.
I really have to agree. I used to have no patience with people who sniffed about how they "never watched TV at all". Now I'm one of them in spades.
I don't think I've seen a thing on TV that I actually care about for over five years now (with the possible exception of the Daily Show once in a while). Usually it's worse than wasted time, it's actually a directly negative experience. Trying to sit through an ordinary TV show has become and excrutiatingly unpleasant ordeal. I've got better things to do with my time.
Personally I don't think it matters one damn bit whether they go all computer-animated or not.
With an engaging story, well-told, and cleverly animated, you could put a movie together out of ripped-up pieces of construction paper and have it sell (witness Southpark, which is ony about a step higher up on the animation ladder).
Instead of filling a need, these bozos have created a business where there was specifically no need at all, and are now trying to get government to legislate their market niche into existence.
Hmmm... I was born in the mid-60's and so my reference point is about 10 years earlier than the film itself.
All the same I swear to God I knew everyone in that movie - only the very specifics were peculiar to the mid-80's I think. Apart from that it could have been set in Geek/Dork/Outsider cicles in the mid-to-late 1970's in the Pacific Northwest just as easily.
Actually I kind of agree with you - the first two books were great (I read them when they first came out). The third book was, if anything, a better singular novel than either of the other two.
The fourth book was okay at best, and really the less said about the fifth book the better.
Adams gets a free pass for his extreme cleverness in the first three books, but apart from that he was never a great writer.
I would guess that the $4 million figure covers salaries for several PI's plus postdocs, office space, etc.
I'm not familiar with the details, but "cancelling" the program would probably mean finding all these people something else to do.
The actual heliopause data could probably be collected for a few tens of thousands of dollars or perhaps a bit more, just for DSN time. I'd bet there are a lot of academics who'd jump at the chance to get that same data. Killing the science is just silly.
Computers do one thing very well that most human beings can't -
Or at least human beings who aren't ADD-afflicted 12-year olds who are apparently working off a thermos full of coffee. I couldn't agree more completely - this is one factor than make RTS games less fun for me - I feel like I'm competing with the computer on fundamentally unequal grounds.
Good on you if twice is enough. I spent quite a bit of time on each lesson, going through them three or more times each just to force my subpar neurons to regurgitate the right patterns on command. I'm sure your mileage will vary considerably.
I don't begrudge the time, though - it's not as if there's anything better to do whilst commuting.
Dead easy - buy a Hauppauge Winpvr card. The 250 is pretty cheap. Buy a big-ass hard drive (also cheap) and a DVD burner.
Run it in Windows with something like SageTV, or whatever your favourite Linux app of the same type is. I've had Sage running for a while now on my Windows box and it does just about everything a dedicated PVR would do, and if I really want to see something on the big TV I can burn it off onto a DVD easily.
Works fine, and the whole setup cost a couple of hundred dollars.
I've wanted a media PC for the living room for a long time - this looks like the right form factor for me, and it has the inherent OS flexibility of a PC platform.
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I'll be taking it back to the shop as soon as possible and demanding they exchange it with a copy that is suitable for a child of his age.
Good idea. GTA is, with or without sexual content, utterly inapproriate for a 12 year old.
It indicates either an incorrectly formed hypothesis or errors in experimental methods.
Or limitations of methodology. I think a lot of cutting-edge science tends wander along the edge of this problem - there may be an effect, but the available data is only barely sufficient to see it, and obtaining a statistically sound sample size would be uneconomical. Lots of good research ends up exploiting clever tricks to get around this kind of limitation - and sometimes falls prey to unforseen effects and influences (which I suppose more or less falls under your "errors" column, but I think it's important to mention this slightly aberrant case and put an asterisk beside it).
I take issue with that - you're clearly ignoring Shinji's whiny alienation and Hamlet-like inability to do anything useful. :)
The psychology of that is going to resonate pretty strongly with a big subset of adolescents.
Throw in some partial nudity and some faux-religous significance and you've got the formula for a cult hit.
Broadcast TV is completely unwatchable these days. You're wasting a third of your time having your intelligence insulted by all the ads. It's not just the sheer amount of ads drowning out the real show you're trying to watch. My impression -- from the snippets I catch here and there -- is that they're utterly brainless, and are aimed at the lowest common denominator.
I really have to agree. I used to have no patience with people who sniffed about how they "never watched TV at all". Now I'm one of them in spades.
I don't think I've seen a thing on TV that I actually care about for over five years now (with the possible exception of the Daily Show once in a while). Usually it's worse than wasted time, it's actually a directly negative experience. Trying to sit through an ordinary TV show has become and excrutiatingly unpleasant ordeal. I've got better things to do with my time.
I take it you don't have kids? My reading rate dropped by an order of magnitude once that happened. Now I grab whatever time I can.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to put together a quick script to take the book list and put the same collection out of Gutenberg?
Now how was that "a public use" again?
The masters will do whatever they want. The serfs will do as they are told.
One of my favourites, at the end of much messing about with causality, is:
"Oh screw history, let's get the hell out of here!"
Personally I don't think it matters one damn bit whether they go all computer-animated or not.
With an engaging story, well-told, and cleverly animated, you could put a movie together out of ripped-up pieces of construction paper and have it sell (witness Southpark, which is ony about a step higher up on the animation ladder).
That's a really interesting question - all the same quite a few animals do essentially this for extended periods of some months.
Why don't their commensal bacteria infect and kill them? That's worth finding out.
It's an interesting approach to capitalism.
Instead of filling a need, these bozos have created a business where there was specifically no need at all, and are now trying to get government to legislate their market niche into existence.
Bizzare.
Hmmm... I was born in the mid-60's and so my reference point is about 10 years earlier than the film itself.
All the same I swear to God I knew everyone in that movie - only the very specifics were peculiar to the mid-80's I think. Apart from that it could have been set in Geek/Dork/Outsider cicles in the mid-to-late 1970's in the Pacific Northwest just as easily.
Actually I kind of agree with you - the first two books were great (I read them when they first came out). The third book was, if anything, a better singular novel than either of the other two.
The fourth book was okay at best, and really the less said about the fifth book the better.
Adams gets a free pass for his extreme cleverness in the first three books, but apart from that he was never a great writer.
It was mostly awful. All the same Arthur really was Arthur, and the actor playing Slartibartfast seriously nailed the part.
Apart from that, awful, no argument.
To be fair Milliway's and the prehistoric Earth are both from the *second* book, not the original H2G2.
Errr...only if you affect the germ cells (sperm&eggs). Otherwise no altered trait can be passed along.
I would guess that the $4 million figure covers salaries for several PI's plus postdocs, office space, etc.
I'm not familiar with the details, but "cancelling" the program would probably mean finding all these people something else to do.
The actual heliopause data could probably be collected for a few tens of thousands of dollars or perhaps a bit more, just for DSN time. I'd bet there are a lot of academics who'd jump at the chance to get that same data. Killing the science is just silly.
Computers do one thing very well that most human beings can't -
Or at least human beings who aren't ADD-afflicted 12-year olds who are apparently working off a thermos full of coffee. I couldn't agree more completely - this is one factor than make RTS games less fun for me - I feel like I'm competing with the computer on fundamentally unequal grounds.
Credit where it's due - this is the first news item in years to actually make my jaw drop.
Hope it's true.
Good on you if twice is enough. I spent quite a bit of time on each lesson, going through them three or more times each just to force my subpar neurons to regurgitate the right patterns on command. I'm sure your mileage will vary considerably.
I don't begrudge the time, though - it's not as if there's anything better to do whilst commuting.
Darn straight - I'm pretty much done with the first Japanese set now. I'm currently torn between Japanese II and Mandarin I for the next round.
My commute is about 35 minutes - perfect for that purpose.
Holy Farking Crap. That looked damn good, it really did. I guess all those pirate copies of 3DS and Maya are good for something after all.
Maybe the acting was a bit amateur in places, but all the same WOW. Best Fan Effort Ever.
I think they're gonna get sued into oblivion.
Dead easy - buy a Hauppauge Winpvr card. The 250 is pretty cheap. Buy a big-ass hard drive (also cheap) and a DVD burner.
Run it in Windows with something like SageTV, or whatever your favourite Linux app of the same type is. I've had Sage running for a while now on my Windows box and it does just about everything a dedicated PVR would do, and if I really want to see something on the big TV I can burn it off onto a DVD easily.
Works fine, and the whole setup cost a couple of hundred dollars.
Troll? Sheesh, don't knock the Macs I guess.
Anyway, I actually meant the ability to run Windows, with all the associated fun software, in addition to Linux et al.
I honestly could care less about Mac stuff.
I've wanted a media PC for the living room for a long time - this looks like the right form factor for me, and it has the inherent OS flexibility of a PC platform.