But the article states that (at least someone thinks) games do. What made them different in this respect?
Nothing, really. Games aren't academic works (unless all you play is NIM and Prisoner's Dilemma, anyway) and shouldn't be held to academic standards of attribution.
"The results surprised us. Even though the incandescent bulb measured slightly brighter than the equivalent CFLs, our subjects didn't see any dramatic difference in brightness.
That shouldn't be surprising. First of all, it's hard for people to judge small differences in brightness; your eyes and brain automatically adjust for light levels to a large degree. Second, apparent brightness is also related to color temperature; a colder (higher temperature, oddly) light tends to look brighter.
And here was the real shocker: When it came to the overall quality of the light, all the CFLs scored higher than our incandescent control bulb. In other words, the new fluorescent bulbs aren't just better for both your wallet and the environment, they produce better light."
I'm calling bullshit. There are objective ways to test quality of light, and on those, CFLs never make it above 90 (Color Rendering Index), and are usually much lower. Incandescents score 100, and HIRs score in the high 90s.
Otherwise, any moderately complex novel would have more footnotes per page than a featured article on Wikipedia.
Novels don't need any footnotes at all. They can borrow ideas and themes from other works both recent and ancient totally without acknowledgment and it's perfectly acceptable. Plagiarism just doesn't apply.
In the early 1980s, there weren't other scrolling platform games. As far as I can tell, SMB1 was the first game to use scrolling instead of a Donkey Kong-style single screen or Pitfall!-style page flipping.
There were plenty of scrolling non-platform games, e.g. Zaxxon and Defender. I'm pretty sure there were vertically scrolling Donkey Kong clones as well.
Yes, and Warhammer was a rip off of Tolkien who was a rip off of god knows how many people.
When you copy from a small group of well-known identifiable individuals who are still living (or in existence, for corporations), that's "rip off". When you copy from a large group of relatively obscure individuals who are not only dead, but may be unknown and whose descendants don't even know who they are, that's "research".
Rather than looking at documents, I'd personally be much more interested in where exactly all of the cables lead that come out of Google's datacenters.
The biggest one goes to the local power company. The one after that probably goes to Linithicum, MD. A few go underwater where they're used as recharging points for sharks with frikkin' lasers on their head, and one each goes to the agents for Natalie Portman and Summer Glau to provide the current batch of creepy adulation about each.
People without skeletons in their closet are extremely rare. Nearly everybody has something to hide, if not from criminal matters, from embarrassing personal matters.
Not that I agree with Google's position, but if you've got skeletons in your closet, keep them there. Don't research them from your home computer on Google or any other search service.
(searches for "skeleton closet disposal thereof" probably aren't advisable either)
Everyone knows that if you're going to try to enforce your ridiculous patent, you don't file suit in your own jurisdiction or the defendants jurisdication. Real patent trolls file in the Eastern District of Texas. Had they done that, they would have gotten their settlement.
And even if the CIA said all that, and actually meant it... Iran's government wouldn't believe it, or they'd believe the journalists were spies for someone else (e.g. Israel), or they wouldn't care whether it was true or not because it was just an excuse to kill annoying journalists anyway.
Of course, going along the debt theory, our own Government must be made up of some of the most brilliant minds in the world...
Fallacy of the excluded middle; even taking for granted that extraordinarily intelligent people can't manage money, it doesn't imply that all those who can't manage money are extraordinarily intelligent. It could be that idiots can't manage money either.
a) It's not about pushing girls in engineering, it's about recruiting more into the field so there's more than one girl in the class, 'cause that's hard to deal with at 18 (or younger.) I've been there, and have a friend there now, and she's totally intimidated and currently convinced that most of the guys who try to help her out are hitting on her. (Doesn't help that she's cute.) It's also 'cause other countries (like India, Russia, or China) don't have the disparities the US does, indicating that it's a social, not biological, issue. (Hence part of the annoyance at Summer's remark)
You can recruit and recruit and recruit at the college level and there still won't be many girls in engineering. It's been (and is being) tried. Either the issue really isn't just social or it's happening much earlier on.
As for the guys trying to help your friend out... in general, if they're geeks, she'd know if trying to hit on her, because they'd be doing a terrible and awkward job of it. And it's not like guys in college in general (or hell, guys in general) are typically all that subtle when they're hitting on women...
A hot astrophysicist I know... describes her degree as a "science degree" to avoid scaring men away. She has a degree from one of the top colleges in the world.
That's because she's looking for tall muscular dumb guys, not slashdot geeks. Gotta tailor the presentation to the audience.
Other than the invading-countries thing, I think this kind of bull is why the world dislikes Americans.
Manipulating people into sleeping with you is a nasty, horrible thing to do and leaves you unable to form a genuine, trusting relationship.
ROTFL. You think that behavior is in in any way unique to or more common in Americans? Sorry, that's been going on at least since language was invented, and probably before, and is endemic pretty much everywhere.
ISPs disconnecting "bandwidth hogs" is about as proper as The Phone Company disconnecting customers with teenaged daughters (for those of you who remember the days before ubiquitous cell phones, anyway)
Expected, maybe not, but certainly advised. Faced with a potentially violent kidnapper, who in most cases will have the upper hand (if the kidnapping is even slightly well planned), the fight option is likely to get you needlessly injured or killed. Any sane country advises it's citizens to do exactly that -- lie down and surrender. It simply offers the best chance of survival
Really? I don't live in a sane country and I don't think my country gives any advice either way, but more often I hear the opposite from the self-proclaimed "experts" (including police departments) -- co-operate with a mugging, but if a criminal tries to take you with them, fight. Maybe if my country has more kidnappings for ransom that would be different, but they're pretty rare here.
They might me in range, but it's pretty hard to hit anything smaller than a barn from a 20-ft boat bobbing on open ocean -- but it is a lot easier from a 1000ft boat...
Unfortunately, said 1000-foot boat is LARGER than a barn.
I'll throw a hypothetical scenario out there - say you enabled a service at the supermarket that automatically emails you a copy of your receipt whenever you make a purchase. If your identity thief makes a purchase at one of these supermarkets, you have an incriminating email containing unrecognizable foodstuffs and a credit account you never opened, which can be used to spearhead an investigation pulling CCTV footage from that supermarket to compare to a facial recognition database, resulting in the identification and arrest of the identity thief.
But the thief gets the benefits immediately, while the victim has to invoke the ponderous mechanisms of the state to benefit... which can be like being victimized again.
Is that really the reason you don't have one? Or do you secretly want one and are just making excuses?
If I wanted one, I'd have one. The delay in page turning is annoying; I DO read fast. But it's the flashing which makes it unacceptable, IMO.
There is a reason LCD ebook readers never really took off, even though they are much less expensive than e-Ink readers. If you haven't figured it out, maybe you should try actually reading on one for once.
Because Amazon and Sony weren't flogging them big time? As I noted in my original post, I already have an LCD ebook reader, the REB-1100 (which was $300 new). It's a lot heavier and bulkier than the current crop, and only has a B&W display (no grayscale), but I do a lot of reading on it
Kind of missing the point of the article. The population is a function of the energy consumption which directly correlates to the economy. Ergo; reducing the population will lead to decreased energy consumption, and a collapse in the economy. This is the fundemental problem here, economic growth is directly tied to energy usage. The only way out is a radical reform of the fundemental way our economy is _defined_.
All of which is completely obvious and has been pointed out before (I know, because I'm one of those who has pointed it out). Usual response is some blather about alternative energy (easily shown to be inadequate, especially given other environmental constraints), conservation (law of diminishing returns), or lifestyle changes (kills economy, and besides, won't happen without major force). Usually, at some point the environmentalist will give up and claim the realist is just being too much of a pessimist.
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Nothing, really. Games aren't academic works (unless all you play is NIM and Prisoner's Dilemma, anyway) and shouldn't be held to academic standards of attribution.
Just DENY you had sex with Tiger. Then it'll just be you and his wife.
That shouldn't be surprising. First of all, it's hard for people to judge small differences in brightness; your eyes and brain automatically adjust for light levels to a large degree. Second, apparent brightness is also related to color temperature; a colder (higher temperature, oddly) light tends to look brighter.
I'm calling bullshit. There are objective ways to test quality of light, and on those, CFLs never make it above 90 (Color Rendering Index), and are usually much lower. Incandescents score 100, and HIRs score in the high 90s.
Novels don't need any footnotes at all. They can borrow ideas and themes from other works both recent and ancient totally without acknowledgment and it's perfectly acceptable. Plagiarism just doesn't apply.
There were plenty of scrolling non-platform games, e.g. Zaxxon and Defender. I'm pretty sure there were vertically scrolling Donkey Kong clones as well.
When you copy from a small group of well-known identifiable individuals who are still living (or in existence, for corporations), that's "rip off". When you copy from a large group of relatively obscure individuals who are not only dead, but may be unknown and whose descendants don't even know who they are, that's "research".
That's like hearing that tobacco is bad for your health and switching to mainlining heroin instead.
The biggest one goes to the local power company. The one after that probably goes to Linithicum, MD. A few go underwater where they're used as recharging points for sharks with frikkin' lasers on their head, and one each goes to the agents for Natalie Portman and Summer Glau to provide the current batch of creepy adulation about each.
Not that I agree with Google's position, but if you've got skeletons in your closet, keep them there. Don't research them from your home computer on Google or any other search service.
(searches for "skeleton closet disposal thereof" probably aren't advisable either)
Everyone knows that if you're going to try to enforce your ridiculous patent, you don't file suit in your own jurisdiction or the defendants jurisdication. Real patent trolls file in the Eastern District of Texas. Had they done that, they would have gotten their settlement.
And even if the CIA said all that, and actually meant it... Iran's government wouldn't believe it, or they'd believe the journalists were spies for someone else (e.g. Israel), or they wouldn't care whether it was true or not because it was just an excuse to kill annoying journalists anyway.
Nonsense. The presence of a few cases which straddle the line doesn't mean the line doesn't exist.
Fallacy of the excluded middle; even taking for granted that extraordinarily intelligent people can't manage money, it doesn't imply that all those who can't manage money are extraordinarily intelligent. It could be that idiots can't manage money either.
You can recruit and recruit and recruit at the college level and there still won't be many girls in engineering. It's been (and is being) tried. Either the issue really isn't just social or it's happening much earlier on.
As for the guys trying to help your friend out... in general, if they're geeks, she'd know if trying to hit on her, because they'd be doing a terrible and awkward job of it. And it's not like guys in college in general (or hell, guys in general) are typically all that subtle when they're hitting on women...
That's because she's looking for tall muscular dumb guys, not slashdot geeks. Gotta tailor the presentation to the audience.
ROTFL. You think that behavior is in in any way unique to or more common in Americans? Sorry, that's been going on at least since language was invented, and probably before, and is endemic pretty much everywhere.
How would you know?
ISPs disconnecting "bandwidth hogs" is about as proper as The Phone Company disconnecting customers with teenaged daughters (for those of you who remember the days before ubiquitous cell phones, anyway)
We've already got those. Granted, the weapons are usually in the cargo hold, but...
Really? I don't live in a sane country and I don't think my country gives any advice either way, but more often I hear the opposite from the self-proclaimed "experts" (including police departments) -- co-operate with a mugging, but if a criminal tries to take you with them, fight. Maybe if my country has more kidnappings for ransom that would be different, but they're pretty rare here.
Unfortunately, said 1000-foot boat is LARGER than a barn.
That pshrinks are prejudiced against the justifiably concerned?
Certainly not. It's both unreasonable and impossible for them to do so.
But the thief gets the benefits immediately, while the victim has to invoke the ponderous mechanisms of the state to benefit... which can be like being victimized again.
If I wanted one, I'd have one. The delay in page turning is annoying; I DO read fast. But it's the flashing which makes it unacceptable, IMO.
Because Amazon and Sony weren't flogging them big time? As I noted in my original post, I already have an LCD ebook reader, the REB-1100 (which was $300 new). It's a lot heavier and bulkier than the current crop, and only has a B&W display (no grayscale), but I do a lot of reading on it
All of which is completely obvious and has been pointed out before (I know, because I'm one of those who has pointed it out). Usual response is some blather about alternative energy (easily shown to be inadequate, especially given other environmental constraints), conservation (law of diminishing returns), or lifestyle changes (kills economy, and besides, won't happen without major force). Usually, at some point the environmentalist will give up and claim the realist is just being too much of a pessimist.