I love watching those ghost shows. It's hysterical to see how they overreact to every sound and then interpret random static into "Get out". You know if they didn't actually put the words on the screen they wanted you to hear in the noise that nobody would ever guess it.
There is a big difference between speculative science that is based on the information at the time and pseudo-science that goes against the information of its time.
Did you watch Planet Earth or Life on Discovery? A lot of the stuff on Nat Geo and the Science Channel is interesting, too. If you are looking more for debunking you can watch Bullshit by Penn & Teller. I guess it depends on what you are looking for. Sometimes you just have to flip around.
I think the fact that the placebo effect can completely override the real effect is pretty surprising. I can understand them netting out perhaps but that they actually were MORE tense than the placebo group is pretty amazing.
He says beliefs can override the effects in some cases but he never said that the effects aren't real in the first place. I assure you that there are many drugs that do exactly what they say they do without any psychosomatic influence.
History is full of these predictions of demise. in the 50's they thought TV would kill movies. Then they thought that VHS tapes would kill movies AND TV. Now Netflix will kill everything. Funny how people still go to the movies and watch linear TV, though.
Some people actually like linear, story-based questing. It's probably a big reason why console gaming is as big as it is. If you wanted sandbox, open ended gaming why would you ever have played WoW?
I would think there is a compromise between the $5000 and the awful earbuds that ships with iPods. I've always wondered why they don't ship with something better quality.
I get that with some other groups. For some reason I never replaced my Floyd records with CDs so I don't have them on mp3. They faded a bit from my interest after college much like Zeppelin. Funny how that happens.
That doesn't make it unethical, though. It makes it difficult to enforce but it doesn't change the legitimacy of it. You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Do you really want all artist, musicians, authors, etc. to be tied to corporate sponsorship in order to live?
I don't know of any MP3 player that lets you string them together without making one big mp3. Same goes for some of the Beatle's later stuff (back side of Abbey Road comes to mind).
Copyrights are unethical? They may have too long a life and be enforced in unethical ways but I am not sure how allowing somebody exclusive rights to their work for a limited period of time is unethical. Typically people who think that way have never created anything worth worrying about.
Most music nowadays is bite size but most of Floyd's stuff you really had to listen to the entire Album to appreciate it. But it's a new world, I suppose, and if people want to listen to just one song from the Wall randomly mixed in with Britney Spears and Lady Gaga then power to the people.
Not to nitpick but 95% of a market that is pretty much made up of them plus a few johnny-come-lately newcomers isn't that impressive. And 7 million is a small number in relation to pretty much any comparable statistic.
People are too busy playing Angry Birds (or some other equivalent for iPad) to bother reading a magazine. Seriously, though. I've never seen anybody using an iPad on my train for anything other than a game.
Humans are pretty weak-willed in general. Smokers, people who are obese, people with more than 2-3 kids, people who watch television more or play computer games more than a few hours a week, etc. Of course, if we weren't weak-willed our economy would totally collapse.
Isn't that the point? Both are just anecdotes and opinions and have no real value in the discussion. I mean I can say that I heard a train conductor (50+ years old) saying how much he loves his droid and doesn't even use his iPod touch anymore.
Me too. Actually most iPhone users I speak to say something along the lines that "I would dump my iPhone if not for iTunes". Of course, then I tell them about DoubleTwist and then they are off to the Verizon store.
As an end user I don't think most people can even see the difference between iPhone and Droid OS. The advantage droid has besides not being tied to AT&T is the variety of devices. I personally like a slide out keyboard and being global ready.
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"Enter the 5th word from page 35 of the instruction manual." Or maybe like SimCity which had the list of codes that couldn't be photocopied.
I love watching those ghost shows. It's hysterical to see how they overreact to every sound and then interpret random static into "Get out". You know if they didn't actually put the words on the screen they wanted you to hear in the noise that nobody would ever guess it.
And Star Wars is arguably more Fantasy than Science Fiction. The force is just another way of saying magic.
There is a big difference between speculative science that is based on the information at the time and pseudo-science that goes against the information of its time.
You can still watch it on US televisions which was the point.
Did you watch Planet Earth or Life on Discovery? A lot of the stuff on Nat Geo and the Science Channel is interesting, too. If you are looking more for debunking you can watch Bullshit by Penn & Teller. I guess it depends on what you are looking for. Sometimes you just have to flip around.
I think the fact that the placebo effect can completely override the real effect is pretty surprising. I can understand them netting out perhaps but that they actually were MORE tense than the placebo group is pretty amazing.
Perhaps you are watching the wrong channels? There is intelligent TV out there. You just have to know where to look.
He says beliefs can override the effects in some cases but he never said that the effects aren't real in the first place. I assure you that there are many drugs that do exactly what they say they do without any psychosomatic influence.
History is full of these predictions of demise. in the 50's they thought TV would kill movies. Then they thought that VHS tapes would kill movies AND TV. Now Netflix will kill everything. Funny how people still go to the movies and watch linear TV, though.
Some people actually like linear, story-based questing. It's probably a big reason why console gaming is as big as it is. If you wanted sandbox, open ended gaming why would you ever have played WoW?
There is no such thing as absolute freedom of speech anyway.
I would think there is a compromise between the $5000 and the awful earbuds that ships with iPods. I've always wondered why they don't ship with something better quality.
I get that with some other groups. For some reason I never replaced my Floyd records with CDs so I don't have them on mp3. They faded a bit from my interest after college much like Zeppelin. Funny how that happens.
That doesn't make it unethical, though. It makes it difficult to enforce but it doesn't change the legitimacy of it. You can't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Do you really want all artist, musicians, authors, etc. to be tied to corporate sponsorship in order to live?
I don't know of any MP3 player that lets you string them together without making one big mp3. Same goes for some of the Beatle's later stuff (back side of Abbey Road comes to mind).
Copyrights are unethical? They may have too long a life and be enforced in unethical ways but I am not sure how allowing somebody exclusive rights to their work for a limited period of time is unethical. Typically people who think that way have never created anything worth worrying about.
Most music nowadays is bite size but most of Floyd's stuff you really had to listen to the entire Album to appreciate it. But it's a new world, I suppose, and if people want to listen to just one song from the Wall randomly mixed in with Britney Spears and Lady Gaga then power to the people.
Not to nitpick but 95% of a market that is pretty much made up of them plus a few johnny-come-lately newcomers isn't that impressive. And 7 million is a small number in relation to pretty much any comparable statistic.
I don't "like" anything. I am talking about unhealthy behavior. I don't care if you smoke and eat yourself to death.
People are too busy playing Angry Birds (or some other equivalent for iPad) to bother reading a magazine. Seriously, though. I've never seen anybody using an iPad on my train for anything other than a game.
Humans are pretty weak-willed in general. Smokers, people who are obese, people with more than 2-3 kids, people who watch television more or play computer games more than a few hours a week, etc. Of course, if we weren't weak-willed our economy would totally collapse.
Well considering how much has been paid back and how successful it has been either they've been very lucky or they knew what they were doing.
Isn't that the point? Both are just anecdotes and opinions and have no real value in the discussion. I mean I can say that I heard a train conductor (50+ years old) saying how much he loves his droid and doesn't even use his iPod touch anymore.
Me too. Actually most iPhone users I speak to say something along the lines that "I would dump my iPhone if not for iTunes". Of course, then I tell them about DoubleTwist and then they are off to the Verizon store.
As an end user I don't think most people can even see the difference between iPhone and Droid OS. The advantage droid has besides not being tied to AT&T is the variety of devices. I personally like a slide out keyboard and being global ready.