At risk of getting modded down for saying something unpopular:
ALL data on climate change is anecdotal. There is only one earth! There is no sample set to compare to. The causal inseparability of the weather across the earth prevents you from testing lots of cases except over very long periods of time, which hasn't happened since forming the latest consensus model.
Yes, that sucks. No, please don't mod me down for pointing this out.
anecdotal (nk-dtl) adj. 1. also anecdotic (-dtk) or anecdotical (--kl) Of, characterized by, or full of anecdotes. 2. Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis: "There are anecdotal reports of children poisoned by hot dogs roasted over a fire of the [oleander] stems" C. Claiborne Ray.
anecdotal
adj 1: having the character of an anecdote; "anecdotal evidence"
2: characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal
conversation"; "an anectodal history of jazz"; "he was at
his anecdotic best" [syn: anecdotic, anecdotical]
anecdote (n'k-dt') pronunciation n.
1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
2. pl. -dotes or -dota (-d't). Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biograph
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I overheard an older businessman talking at lunch with a friend of his about the absurdity of these practices. The goal really is just to suppress wages, and it is undertaken in a series of discrete steps:
* 1. Downsize US workers.
* 2. Hire foreigners.
* 2 1/2. Get paid millions for "cutting costs".
* 3. Discover foreigners can't do the job.
* 4. Hire back US workers for less money/benefits
Slight revision
* 1. Downsize US workers.
* 2. Hire foreigners.
* 2 1/2. Get paid millions for "cutting costs".
* 3. Discover foreigners can't do the job.
* 4. Hire back US workers for triple their old salary as contractors
* 5. Diminish the economic power of the US
* 6. Witness a greatly diminished US dollar and waning international influence
* 7. become the new jersey of northern hemi-sphere
Mario is for all gamers. Halo is for male gamer kids.
Target audience is teens and tweens. It does not target "Adults". IT's target demo is squarly in the frat boy/teen boys markets for "mature" games. Bungie games have always been aimed at this market. Mario games have abroader audience.
FPS aren't complicated game mechanic wise, they are often complicated graphics wise.gameplay wise there has been little significant innovation on that front in ages. not since the true 3d and multiplayer in quake. MArio games have branched out significantly. For instance Mario tennis.
Alternative controllers often end up having only a few games for them, as game companies know they'll be addressing a fraction of the customer base if they do games for that controller.
I feel sorry for what the Sony and PS2 did to the Dreamcast, ultimately shafting the superior platform with hype and lies, but Sega had fucked up too many times already for people to take them seriously by that stage.
Note: Sega fucked themselves. Sony just picked up their fanbase. Sony's stories weren't the thing that killed them and you agree. Their "lies" were actually all mostly true it just took 6 years to actually squeeze that performance out. They used a lot of hyperbole but the actual power was there. Just friggin hard ot access. The a top notch last gen PS2 game (Gods of war 2/ FFXII) would out perform a DC game.
Oblivion is indeed very pretty - shame they forgot about the gameplay.
Gameplay is king. Graphics are fantastic, and can aid gameplay, but come second in importance.
See also : Angband/Nethack.
While I agree a good game last forever even with old grpahics ala Starcrft/Warcraft 3/nethack etc.. The wii is chalk full of shallow minigame collection that grow tiresome quickly. I can't wait for them to start churning out gems like Gods of war 2 or Okami or puzzle quest but right now I'm less then impressed with the Wii's library.
My fear is the Wii isnt' aimed at me or you but at Joe hardly plays who gets the system to kill time with the family so the minigame collections is what he enjoys. My fear is the Wii isnt' for gamer but for casual player thus all the games will mostly be shallow ones. For instance the Ds has a diverse library but you notice there is a distinct increase in the number of shallow mini-game collections liek cooking mama or Nintendogs. So my hope is that the Ps3 still lives so my gamer games have something to be played on while the my Ds and Wii can distract my Gf from noticing my absence.
For many reason I hoept he 360 dies. Can't be for OSS and for the 360.
Wow, You just dictated my exact experience coding a small and "simple" order system to keep track of stock request spiraled into a inventory system and they then wanted it to auto order stock. etc..
If a cheaper, more plentiful source of energy than OPEC oil is developed outside of OPEC nations, OPEC quickly loses its influence. Its actions to kill anything would be pretty irrelevant at that point.
I don't know if you remember but there was this one saudi family.. Bin something or other who was a personal friend of some politician guy they call dubya. The bins son got a lot of press a few years ago for co-ordinating some prank in NYC and some othe places. Well they are an influential member of OPEC and This Dubya guy seems to have a fair bit of pull in the US. If OPEC wanted ot make energy research difficult they can do so by pulling the strings.
I think they peaked with FF X, and it's been downhill ever since.
If that is your opinion then I find your judgement highly suspect. The story was interesting but the characters were mostly retarded, cloy, annoying, or all 3. VIII suffered the same "unlikable" characters. FFVI problably had the most complete story with fairly likable. It is easier with speechless sprites since we will embue them with our own idea of what they are like. We're more liekly to forgive "over emoting" when the sprite is significantly different from what we imagien a person is. Witness how we shrug off the over emoting in FFVII but the over emoting in FFVIII and FFX is grating because the characters more closley resemble people. So I'll admit the problem is harder but X was terrible for everything except graphics and perhaps the storyline itself. Gameplay was almost exactly the same as it's predecessors. Puzzles which were a excercise in frustration. A decent story but marred by terrible characters. FFXII has it's problems but it tried to innovate ina few ways. The story is meh. Not the best nor the worst and the characters are fairly stock characters but it oozes quality and doens't have the EMoness of X/VIII nor the dedication to frustration like X. I'd place it near VI or IV while X is above VIII but below IX or XII. Of course it's just a subjective opinion.
american energy would love it. OPEC would do their best to kill it. Remember OPEC can't migrate to selling fusion energy since all they got is oil and dirty money.
Yes, I agree with you that the grant system is broke, just like a myriad of thousands of other programs in government. But using that reason as an excuse for unethical behavior? Where does this put your integrity as a scientist/researcher any further ahead?
It's beyond broke. It actively punishes the honest by only granting to "keywords", "hot topics", and short term gain type of research. He's been cleared of any wrong doing already by his academic institution.
Science isn't about "getting something for you money." it's about learning about the universe. Congress is full of small short sighted carpet bagging rats. They all want to claim glory for "funding the cure" or "routing out dishonest scientists." but they aren't about "funding basic research." or "providing money for us to help understand our universe." The point of a congressional review of this isn't to justify money spent but to make a example of someone, aka a witch hunt.
From TFA, it would appear that it has to do with the administration of research grant money. If you make false/exaggerated claims, manipulate your results, omit your name from being party to research that substantiates your claims, all while having your research federally funded (at least partially), is why congressional oversight is getting involved.
Haven't looked at academia in the last 50 years have you? It seems exaggerations and linking your research to the flavor of the week is essentially necessary to get any funding. Why? because the ones funding your are idiots and no matter how subjectively valuable your research is the funding monkeys only throw much money to the flavor of the month. In physics, attach "string theory" to your proposal. In Earth and atmospheric sciences? Attach "global warming". Doing basic research about DNA, exaggerate it to imply your curing cancer. Doing basic research into particle physics, imply your are creating cold fusion. Don't blame the scientists who are forced to play the game. Blame the grant system that rewards these tactics.
Just wondering but if they are are massive and burn slowly wouldn't they tend to collapse into black holes?
Only if there is enough mass within a certain radius. Even if it does not burn with nuclear fusion it would need ot have enough mass to bring it's radius down to a predefined number.
I agree that advertising provides nothing to the consumer but cost and junk mail. However it does provide something to the supplier and has a whole bunch of side effects beyond just suckign up money.
dark matter is only special in that we can't "see" it. It not luminous or outputs so little energy that we don't have the equipment to detect it. It may not be anything more special then normal matter that doesn't glow. Perhaps it's just really low albedo matter like black dust.
There are theories about it being either this or special exotic particles or a mix of both. Your assuming it's all exotic particles.
On the internet perfect knowledge is (nearly) attainable - and that scares the advertisers silly.
"Reasonable" knowlege was previous obtainable by non-specialist hobbiest before but it's getting harder. Perfect knowledge is not "nearly" attainable. While I know to check tomshardware and arstechnica about info on video cards, Joe Clueless would just type in "video card" into google and get inundated with junk sales sites. If I wanted to buy a good phone I dont' know where to check. I'd have to survey my friends or type "cordless phone" and get slammed byt he number of junk sites about that topic. Advertising liek that doens't help me. But at leats I'd be aware of the brands with a search in google or in the paper. I can get brand names like uniden or panasonic or sanyo by looking inthe paper and then try to google specific model numbers and use my bullshit detector to divine true info from advertising "content". Having a model makes it a bit easier to do research so we can thank advertising for that.
If a retailer rips *anyone* off anyone can find out about it. Before it was limited to his immediate friends. If they rip a *lot* of people off then everyone knows this and the store finds its business collapsing - no need for 'watchdog' type TV programmes any more to do this (who could pick off a few of the major ones but never covered the majority of poor businesses).
Problem is you need to seperate "fanboi FUD" from true info. Just look at topics such as consoles.
The Ps3 is maligned for a lot of things but a lot of it is FUD. For instance the whole "can't convert 790p to 790i". since most sets support 790p at least it a moot point that effects half a dozen obscure models of HDTV, but Sony-antifanboys play it like it's a fatal flaw that effects every HDTV. Or how Sony fanboys will insist that the cell processor is some sort of voodoo that automagically makes all games better. How do you discernt he one vocal guy who had a bad experience from a true problem with the product? Every corp drops the ball. Some more often then not and sometimes they drop it on more vocal people. How do you check if one corp drops it more then another. Is best buy 50% more of a bastard then A-computers. Is the info your reading legit or astroturf or FUD?
Advertising does create value for someone. You need to know whats out there and no one has prefect knowledge. Advertising provides a base point to get more info. Suppliers too. Like it or not A great product with little advertising (Linux/stewarts soda) will always be beat by a okay product with good advertising (Windows/coke). With marketing being equal then other factors comes into play (VHS vs Beta). So while the consumer gets nothing out of it the retailer/manufacturer has to play the game.
This is my 128-bit key. There are many like it, but this one is MINE. My 128-bit key is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My 128-bit key without me is useless. Without my 128-bit key, I am useless. I must use my 128-bit key true. I must encrypt better than my enemy who is trying to pwn my network. I must root him before he roots me. I will... My 128-bit key and myself know that what counts in war is not the physical layer, the data link layer, nor the network layer. We know it is the crypt that count. We will crypt... My 128-bit key is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its source code, and its algorithm. I will ever guard it against the ravages of noobs and crackers. I will keep my 128-bit key clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will... Before God I swear this creed. My 128-bit key and myself are the defenders of my network. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but PEACE.
Come to edmonton, try any best buy or EBgames. phone one here and pay for shipping. Just because your havign ahard time does not mean they aren't available.
Over in Canada, Any given video game store, big box store, or store that sells games has at least 3 wii's for display. The best buy had a wall about 20 in a display case. I think your overstating the "shortage" or it's Dependant on area.
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At risk of getting modded down for saying something unpopular:
ALL data on climate change is anecdotal. There is only one earth! There is no sample set to compare to. The causal inseparability of the weather across the earth prevents you from testing lots of cases except over very long periods of time, which hasn't happened since forming the latest consensus model.
Yes, that sucks. No, please don't mod me down for pointing this out.
anecdotal (nk-dtl)
adj.
1. also anecdotic (-dtk) or anecdotical (--kl) Of, characterized by, or full of anecdotes.
2. Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis: "There are anecdotal reports of children poisoned by hot dogs roasted over a fire of the [oleander] stems" C. Claiborne Ray.
anecdotal
adj 1: having the character of an anecdote; "anecdotal evidence"
2: characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal
conversation"; "an anectodal history of jazz"; "he was at
his anecdotic best" [syn: anecdotic, anecdotical]
anecdote (n'k-dt') pronunciation
n.
1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
2. pl. -dotes or -dota (-d't). Secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biograph
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I overheard an older businessman talking at lunch with a friend of his about the absurdity of these practices. The goal really is just to suppress wages, and it is undertaken in a series of discrete steps:
* 1. Downsize US workers.
* 2. Hire foreigners.
* 2 1/2. Get paid millions for "cutting costs".
* 3. Discover foreigners can't do the job.
* 4. Hire back US workers for less money/benefits
Slight revision
* 1. Downsize US workers.
* 2. Hire foreigners.
* 2 1/2. Get paid millions for "cutting costs".
* 3. Discover foreigners can't do the job.
* 4. Hire back US workers for triple their old salary as contractors
* 5. Diminish the economic power of the US
* 6. Witness a greatly diminished US dollar and waning international influence
* 7. become the new jersey of northern hemi-sphere
Mario is for all gamers.
Halo is for male gamer kids.
Target audience is teens and tweens. It does not target "Adults". IT's target demo is squarly in the frat boy/teen boys markets for "mature" games. Bungie games have always been aimed at this market. Mario games have abroader audience.
FPS aren't complicated game mechanic wise, they are often complicated graphics wise.gameplay wise there has been little significant innovation on that front in ages. not since the true 3d and multiplayer in quake. MArio games have branched out significantly. For instance Mario tennis.
The wii's motion sensing capability is so novel, it really makes the graphics not matter.
Graphics are not the only thing that makes a game console new and improved, there are many more factors.
Remember the power glove? Yeah not so novel. But cool in the integration.
Alternative controllers often end up having only a few games for them, as game companies know they'll be addressing a fraction of the customer base if they do games for that controller.
Yeah we all know how guitar hero failed.
I feel sorry for what the Sony and PS2 did to the Dreamcast, ultimately shafting the superior platform with hype and lies, but Sega had fucked up too many times already for people to take them seriously by that stage.
Note: Sega fucked themselves. Sony just picked up their fanbase. Sony's stories weren't the thing that killed them and you agree. Their "lies" were actually all mostly true it just took 6 years to actually squeeze that performance out. They used a lot of hyperbole but the actual power was there. Just friggin hard ot access. The a top notch last gen PS2 game (Gods of war 2/ FFXII) would out perform a DC game.
Oblivion is indeed very pretty - shame they forgot about the gameplay.
Gameplay is king. Graphics are fantastic, and can aid gameplay, but come second in importance.
See also : Angband/Nethack.
While I agree a good game last forever even with old grpahics ala Starcrft/Warcraft 3/nethack etc.. The wii is chalk full of shallow minigame collection that grow tiresome quickly. I can't wait for them to start churning out gems like Gods of war 2 or Okami or puzzle quest but right now I'm less then impressed with the Wii's library.
My fear is the Wii isnt' aimed at me or you but at Joe hardly plays who gets the system to kill time with the family so the minigame collections is what he enjoys. My fear is the Wii isnt' for gamer but for casual player thus all the games will mostly be shallow ones. For instance the Ds has a diverse library but you notice there is a distinct increase in the number of shallow mini-game collections liek cooking mama or Nintendogs. So my hope is that the Ps3 still lives so my gamer games have something to be played on while the my Ds and Wii can distract my Gf from noticing my absence.
For many reason I hoept he 360 dies. Can't be for OSS and for the 360.
Wow, You just dictated my exact experience coding a small and "simple" order system to keep track of stock request spiraled into a inventory system and they then wanted it to auto order stock. etc..
If a cheaper, more plentiful source of energy than OPEC oil is developed outside of OPEC nations, OPEC quickly loses its influence. Its actions to kill anything would be pretty irrelevant at that point.
I don't know if you remember but there was this one saudi family.. Bin something or other who was a personal friend of some politician guy they call dubya. The bins son got a lot of press a few years ago for co-ordinating some prank in NYC and some othe places. Well they are an influential member of OPEC and This Dubya guy seems to have a fair bit of pull in the US. If OPEC wanted ot make energy research difficult they can do so by pulling the strings.
I think they peaked with FF X, and it's been downhill ever since.
If that is your opinion then I find your judgement highly suspect. The story was interesting but the characters were mostly retarded, cloy, annoying, or all 3. VIII suffered the same "unlikable" characters. FFVI problably had the most complete story with fairly likable. It is easier with speechless sprites since we will embue them with our own idea of what they are like. We're more liekly to forgive "over emoting" when the sprite is significantly different from what we imagien a person is. Witness how we shrug off the over emoting in FFVII but the over emoting in FFVIII and FFX is grating because the characters more closley resemble people. So I'll admit the problem is harder but X was terrible for everything except graphics and perhaps the storyline itself. Gameplay was almost exactly the same as it's predecessors. Puzzles which were a excercise in frustration. A decent story but marred by terrible characters. FFXII has it's problems but it tried to innovate ina few ways. The story is meh. Not the best nor the worst and the characters are fairly stock characters but it oozes quality and doens't have the EMoness of X/VIII nor the dedication to frustration like X. I'd place it near VI or IV while X is above VIII but below IX or XII. Of course it's just a subjective opinion.
Anecdontal advice from a random internet person: Avoid offshore contractors. Our company got one to do ours and not so fun.
american energy would love it. OPEC would do their best to kill it. Remember OPEC can't migrate to selling fusion energy since all they got is oil and dirty money.
It's Aspertame for vampires.
Yes, I agree with you that the grant system is broke, just like a myriad of thousands of other programs in government. But using that reason as an excuse for unethical behavior? Where does this put your integrity as a scientist/researcher any further ahead?
It's beyond broke. It actively punishes the honest by only granting to "keywords", "hot topics", and short term gain type of research. He's been cleared of any wrong doing already by his academic institution.
Science isn't about "getting something for you money." it's about learning about the universe. Congress is full of small short sighted carpet bagging rats. They all want to claim glory for "funding the cure" or "routing out dishonest scientists." but they aren't about "funding basic research." or "providing money for us to help understand our universe." The point of a congressional review of this isn't to justify money spent but to make a example of someone, aka a witch hunt.
From TFA, it would appear that it has to do with the administration of research grant money. If you make false/exaggerated claims, manipulate your results, omit your name from being party to research that substantiates your claims, all while having your research federally funded (at least partially), is why congressional oversight is getting involved.
Haven't looked at academia in the last 50 years have you? It seems exaggerations and linking your research to the flavor of the week is essentially necessary to get any funding. Why? because the ones funding your are idiots and no matter how subjectively valuable your research is the funding monkeys only throw much money to the flavor of the month. In physics, attach "string theory" to your proposal. In Earth and atmospheric sciences? Attach "global warming". Doing basic research about DNA, exaggerate it to imply your curing cancer. Doing basic research into particle physics, imply your are creating cold fusion. Don't blame the scientists who are forced to play the game. Blame the grant system that rewards these tactics.
Just wondering but if they are are massive and burn slowly wouldn't they tend to collapse into black holes?
Only if there is enough mass within a certain radius. Even if it does not burn with nuclear fusion it would need ot have enough mass to bring it's radius down to a predefined number.
I agree that advertising provides nothing to the consumer but cost and junk mail. However it does provide something to the supplier and has a whole bunch of side effects beyond just suckign up money.
dark matter is only special in that we can't "see" it. It not luminous or outputs so little energy that we don't have the equipment to detect it. It may not be anything more special then normal matter that doesn't glow. Perhaps it's just really low albedo matter like black dust.
There are theories about it being either this or special exotic particles or a mix of both. Your assuming it's all exotic particles.
The last 2 elections were the beta.
On the internet perfect knowledge is (nearly) attainable - and that scares the advertisers silly.
"Reasonable" knowlege was previous obtainable by non-specialist hobbiest before but it's getting harder. Perfect knowledge is not "nearly" attainable. While I know to check tomshardware and arstechnica about info on video cards, Joe Clueless would just type in "video card" into google and get inundated with junk sales sites. If I wanted to buy a good phone I dont' know where to check. I'd have to survey my friends or type "cordless phone" and get slammed byt he number of junk sites about that topic. Advertising liek that doens't help me. But at leats I'd be aware of the brands with a search in google or in the paper. I can get brand names like uniden or panasonic or sanyo by looking inthe paper and then try to google specific model numbers and use my bullshit detector to divine true info from advertising "content". Having a model makes it a bit easier to do research so we can thank advertising for that.
If a retailer rips *anyone* off anyone can find out about it. Before it was limited to his immediate friends. If they rip a *lot* of people off then everyone knows this and the store finds its business collapsing - no need for 'watchdog' type TV programmes any more to do this (who could pick off a few of the major ones but never covered the majority of poor businesses).
Problem is you need to seperate "fanboi FUD" from true info. Just look at topics such as consoles.
The Ps3 is maligned for a lot of things but a lot of it is FUD. For instance the whole "can't convert 790p to 790i". since most sets support 790p at least it a moot point that effects half a dozen obscure models of HDTV, but Sony-antifanboys play it like it's a fatal flaw that effects every HDTV. Or how Sony fanboys will insist that the cell processor is some sort of voodoo that automagically makes all games better. How do you discernt he one vocal guy who had a bad experience from a true problem with the product? Every corp drops the ball. Some more often then not and sometimes they drop it on more vocal people. How do you check if one corp drops it more then another. Is best buy 50% more of a bastard then A-computers. Is the info your reading legit or astroturf or FUD?
Advertising does create value for someone. You need to know whats out there and no one has prefect knowledge. Advertising provides a base point to get more info. Suppliers too. Like it or not A great product with little advertising (Linux/stewarts soda) will always be beat by a okay product with good advertising (Windows/coke). With marketing being equal then other factors comes into play (VHS vs Beta). So while the consumer gets nothing out of it the retailer/manufacturer has to play the game.
no. I asked because I thought wii's were scarce. They are only scarce in some places.
This is my 128-bit key.
There are many like it, but this one is MINE.
My 128-bit key is my best friend. It is my life.
I must master it as I must master my life.
My 128-bit key without me is useless. Without my 128-bit key, I am useless.
I must use my 128-bit key true.
I must encrypt better than my enemy who is trying to pwn my network.
I must root him before he roots me. I will...
My 128-bit key and myself know that what counts in war is not the physical layer,
the data link layer, nor the network layer.
We know it is the crypt that count. We will crypt...
My 128-bit key is human, even as I, because it is my life.
Thus, I will learn it as a brother.
I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories,
its source code, and its algorithm.
I will ever guard it against the ravages of noobs and crackers.
I will keep my 128-bit key clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.
We will become part of each other. We will...
Before God I swear this creed.
My 128-bit key and myself are the defenders of my network.
We are the masters of our enemy.
We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until there is no enemy, but PEACE.
Come to edmonton, try any best buy or EBgames. phone one here and pay for shipping. Just because your havign ahard time does not mean they aren't available.
Over in Canada, Any given video game store, big box store, or store that sells games has at least 3 wii's for display. The best buy had a wall about 20 in a display case. I think your overstating the "shortage" or it's Dependant on area.