You should read about game theory. You need to consider there are two answers to a competative situation. One in which the overall benefit is maximied and the one in which the individual benefit is maximized. We as a society aim for the individual. You are right though that if more people were not trying to maximize their personal benefit then everyone together would have a better situation.
Actually there are two nearly different crowds of slashdot readers. A lot of Slashdot readers only click on the articles and never read comments. They just kepe up on the news. Some people like me dont ever read the article and dont even keep their posts on topic, I mostly just argue and flame people on the meta-topics that come up. Then there are those rare few, and trust me they are very rare, that actually read the article then type up a thoughtful response using proper spelling. These users are the ones with ID#'s that are prime.
The BBC is a good source but there is better. Le Monde Diplomatique is a french paper that have an english version. Check it out at dota www.mondediplo.com
I know many people think that American Spirit is a safer smoke but it really is not. Ask any doctor and they will tell you that just becuase it does not have the same chemicals does nto make it safe. In fact American Spirit has much more "tar" in it that most other cigarettes.
The sad part about this whole thing is that the tobacco companies were working on a safer cigarette and many developed an honest to god safer smoke. The problem was that at this time the official company position was that cigarettes are not dangerous so making a "safer" smoke inferred that regular cigarettes caused some type of harm. They all scrapped the plans as the shit went down and now smokers are essentially robbed of a major risk reduction for smoking related illness.
If you blindly believe that corrolation does not mean causation then you need to stop considering nearly any study done. Obviously there is no smoking gun cause to autism but you can't throw out all evidence from studies just becuase we cant explain the results yet.
Your arguement is a fallacy of logic. Just becuase the end isn't here doesn't mean we will never see the end. I agree with you that we need to stop predicting the end around every corner (most people do this to benefit their own career or sell books) but we cant stick our heads in the sand and refuse to believe any evidence just becuase not all of it has come true.
Its not a "violation of human rights or some shit" its just a regular old "violation of human rights". How do you get modded to +4 by saying that we should make compulsory sterilization part of government aid? Your bigotry and ignorance is precisly why you will never become emperor of anything other than you and your white trash trailor.
The Original poster's home URL leads to a list of files which include an image of a dead student at Kent State and the text "pwn3d". How does this guy get modded +5?
The Right, unfortunately, knows that our military cannot support serious actions to halt the genocide that is happening. As typically strong supporters of our military, they don't want to see the military face losses on top of what they are incurring in Iraq. Such an act could quickly become a political lightening rod.
In order for the Left to support such an action, they would have to support invading a sovereign nation whose official ties to terrorism are only hints and whispers, and without official UN approval, which is exactly their protest against the Iraq Invasion. Even with knowledge that the Iraqi government was killing their own citizens, The Left opposed invasion. To suddenly support a Darfur excursion would end up making them look like extreme hypocrites.
You frame the arguement in a simplistic way. You say that the right is trying to do what is best but for political reasons they would be shot down. According to you the left on the other hand constantly lives in fear that they will be exposed for the hipocrits they are. I think its obvious that this is an unrealistic scenario but it seems like you took your best chance to call leftists hipocrits without them actually doing anything to back up your arguement.
Also, the lesson we learned from Vietnam is that in order to win the war, we would have to wage war on the "tail" side of the agressors, drawing their front-line troops away to defend their home turf. That turns in a CQB (Close-Quarter Battle), which inflicts heavy losses on an invading force. Or we carpet bomb the mostly muslim north, allowing for the (pardon me for saying this) anti-US Muslim propaganda machine to run at full tilt again.
What are you smoking? We did not learn how to win in vietnam. We fought an unwinnable fight and its not like we now know how to win. Apparently by our actions in Iraq we learned nothing and want to make the same mistakes over again.
You go on to propose using ultra-expensive and ineffective bombs in "wide deployment" to kill people is going to win a vietnam like situation. You also say that Students who are peacifully protesting should be shot? I'm just baffled at how ignorant and bullheaded you are.
Are you really saying that we should get behind Myspace' fundraising becuase the UN wont provide aid to Sudan? Where is the closest place for me to puke. This is exactly what they are trying to convince you to feel and its silly to go along with it.
That would be fine as long as the hummer you made was only a display model. That is kind of what they are doing here. This is not for portable storage, this is for inside your computer storage.
Parents who try and win an arms race with kids WILL lose. Parents that are too scrict to realize this and turn to punishment will make their children hide things from them.
My reference was not perfect but i was ttying to show that racism and nationalism are big factors when peoplem decide who can and can't make good products. Im not really talking about the call center jobs that are being outsourced, i am msotly refering to the skilled positions such as programmers whos jobs are being outsourced with quite a bit of success. Once again India is not perfect yet and they dont have decades of experiance but their schools are almost as good as ours and they are improving all the time. In the near future it will be possible to find just as much technical skill in India as in the Unitied States.
The arguement that foreigners dont do as good of work only works for the begginging of any phase of outsourcing. Many americans believed that "jap cars" were inferior to American cars. We now know that they are engineered at least as good if not better than American cars. Some people still hold the xenophobic view that American cars are somehow impossibly better becuase Americans are infallable.
You might be right that you have only heard the horror stories or maybe you only remember the horror stories. Maybe outsourcing does lead to worse products all the time these days but as the education of India goes up they will be doing just as high quality of workmanship as we will.
I think the LOTR movie series was proof that it does not matter the age or height of your actors. Computers and makeup can pretty much do anything you want.
It's also; press A watch a combo, press B watch a combo. That is what leads me to say interactive movie. Many games rely on simple gimmicks that once you know they the game is over. Games like the original Super Mario Bros games (all of them) are hard to beat even after you have already beat them. This is just not the case with most games.
He kind of understands these problems but i think he takes a one sided view. First of all he flat out mis-interprets the study data he linked to. The study states that 45% of the "heavy gamer segment" and not even 33% of the "avid console gamer" are 6-17. The st udy gives weight to who is the "primary user" of a console as a deciding factor in how hardcore you are. It is no big surprise that children are the primary users of consoles in a household with children. The study was conducted as an online survey, which is unscientific at best and flat out wrong most likely.
Anecdotally i played World of Warcraft in a hardcore raiding guild. I am 20 years old and i am on the younger end of the spectrum. There were very few people younger than age 18 in any of the several raiding guilds i have been in. Basically the evidence that this whiney old man linked to doesn't work out and i find problems with his whoel arguement. He thinks he knows whats going on becuase he writes for Wired but hes just a washup with no connection to what gamers really want anymore. I may be the other extreme end of the spectrum but let me explain about myself a little more.
I used to work at Microsoft as a game test lead. I oversaw a group of game testers and myself was responsible to test video games. I played almost every game for the xbox 360 to ever exist including many that never were released. The current trend in video games is to make games easier and shorter. This is in part due to a misunderstanding of what gamers what but thats not even the main deciding factor. Games cost more to develop now that the visual and AI systems are more complicated. Many companies cut costs by making a game short and simple. Most games feel like interactive movies. The trend is disturbing and when game companies go do studies they run into old men like the author of TFA who say all they want is a nice quick game. The game companies mis-interpret this as he wants an EASY game. He has only brought this on himself.
Maybe you belong to different torrent communities but i dont see this is a problem. Honestly there are quite a few seeders that are based on university networks or even trojaned boxes. These provide quite a lot of uload speed to the community for all the leachers to download from. You are rightr that there are a few people who uploaded terabytes and never download in return. Thats not a bad thing for the average member, that means you can have leachers and the community wont fall apart.
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You should read about game theory. You need to consider there are two answers to a competative situation. One in which the overall benefit is maximied and the one in which the individual benefit is maximized. We as a society aim for the individual. You are right though that if more people were not trying to maximize their personal benefit then everyone together would have a better situation.
Read about the Prisoner's dilemma.
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Actually there are two nearly different crowds of slashdot readers. A lot of Slashdot readers only click on the articles and never read comments. They just kepe up on the news. Some people like me dont ever read the article and dont even keep their posts on topic, I mostly just argue and flame people on the meta-topics that come up. Then there are those rare few, and trust me they are very rare, that actually read the article then type up a thoughtful response using proper spelling. These users are the ones with ID#'s that are prime.
The BBC is a good source but there is better. Le Monde Diplomatique is a french paper that have an english version. Check it out at dota www.mondediplo.com
I know many people think that American Spirit is a safer smoke but it really is not. Ask any doctor and they will tell you that just becuase it does not have the same chemicals does nto make it safe. In fact American Spirit has much more "tar" in it that most other cigarettes.
The sad part about this whole thing is that the tobacco companies were working on a safer cigarette and many developed an honest to god safer smoke. The problem was that at this time the official company position was that cigarettes are not dangerous so making a "safer" smoke inferred that regular cigarettes caused some type of harm. They all scrapped the plans as the shit went down and now smokers are essentially robbed of a major risk reduction for smoking related illness.
If you blindly believe that corrolation does not mean causation then you need to stop considering nearly any study done. Obviously there is no smoking gun cause to autism but you can't throw out all evidence from studies just becuase we cant explain the results yet.
That's easy to say but when sudden change may mean a collapse of our economy its something we should try and prevent.
Your arguement is a fallacy of logic. Just becuase the end isn't here doesn't mean we will never see the end. I agree with you that we need to stop predicting the end around every corner (most people do this to benefit their own career or sell books) but we cant stick our heads in the sand and refuse to believe any evidence just becuase not all of it has come true.
Its not a "violation of human rights or some shit" its just a regular old "violation of human rights". How do you get modded to +4 by saying that we should make compulsory sterilization part of government aid? Your bigotry and ignorance is precisly why you will never become emperor of anything other than you and your white trash trailor.
The Original poster's home URL leads to a list of files which include an image of a dead student at Kent State and the text "pwn3d". How does this guy get modded +5?
The Right, unfortunately, knows that our military cannot support serious actions to halt the genocide that is happening. As typically strong supporters of our military, they don't want to see the military face losses on top of what they are incurring in Iraq. Such an act could quickly become a political lightening rod.
In order for the Left to support such an action, they would have to support invading a sovereign nation whose official ties to terrorism are only hints and whispers, and without official UN approval, which is exactly their protest against the Iraq Invasion. Even with knowledge that the Iraqi government was killing their own citizens, The Left opposed invasion. To suddenly support a Darfur excursion would end up making them look like extreme hypocrites.
You frame the arguement in a simplistic way. You say that the right is trying to do what is best but for political reasons they would be shot down. According to you the left on the other hand constantly lives in fear that they will be exposed for the hipocrits they are. I think its obvious that this is an unrealistic scenario but it seems like you took your best chance to call leftists hipocrits without them actually doing anything to back up your arguement.
Also, the lesson we learned from Vietnam is that in order to win the war, we would have to wage war on the "tail" side of the agressors, drawing their front-line troops away to defend their home turf. That turns in a CQB (Close-Quarter Battle), which inflicts heavy losses on an invading force. Or we carpet bomb the mostly muslim north, allowing for the (pardon me for saying this) anti-US Muslim propaganda machine to run at full tilt again.
What are you smoking? We did not learn how to win in vietnam. We fought an unwinnable fight and its not like we now know how to win. Apparently by our actions in Iraq we learned nothing and want to make the same mistakes over again.
You go on to propose using ultra-expensive and ineffective bombs in "wide deployment" to kill people is going to win a vietnam like situation. You also say that Students who are peacifully protesting should be shot? I'm just baffled at how ignorant and bullheaded you are.
Are you really saying that we should get behind Myspace' fundraising becuase the UN wont provide aid to Sudan? Where is the closest place for me to puke. This is exactly what they are trying to convince you to feel and its silly to go along with it.
That would be fine as long as the hummer you made was only a display model. That is kind of what they are doing here. This is not for portable storage, this is for inside your computer storage.
Parents who try and win an arms race with kids WILL lose. Parents that are too scrict to realize this and turn to punishment will make their children hide things from them.
It still uses 100%. The the more GPU you have the more FPS you get.
My reference was not perfect but i was ttying to show that racism and nationalism are big factors when peoplem decide who can and can't make good products. Im not really talking about the call center jobs that are being outsourced, i am msotly refering to the skilled positions such as programmers whos jobs are being outsourced with quite a bit of success. Once again India is not perfect yet and they dont have decades of experiance but their schools are almost as good as ours and they are improving all the time. In the near future it will be possible to find just as much technical skill in India as in the Unitied States.
The arguement that foreigners dont do as good of work only works for the begginging of any phase of outsourcing. Many americans believed that "jap cars" were inferior to American cars. We now know that they are engineered at least as good if not better than American cars. Some people still hold the xenophobic view that American cars are somehow impossibly better becuase Americans are infallable.
You might be right that you have only heard the horror stories or maybe you only remember the horror stories. Maybe outsourcing does lead to worse products all the time these days but as the education of India goes up they will be doing just as high quality of workmanship as we will.
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Becuase they created the filed they own the copyright. You dont need to apply for a copyright for one to have an effect.
I think the LOTR movie series was proof that it does not matter the age or height of your actors. Computers and makeup can pretty much do anything you want.
It's also; press A watch a combo, press B watch a combo. That is what leads me to say interactive movie. Many games rely on simple gimmicks that once you know they the game is over. Games like the original Super Mario Bros games (all of them) are hard to beat even after you have already beat them. This is just not the case with most games.
He kind of understands these problems but i think he takes a one sided view. First of all he flat out mis-interprets the study data he linked to. The study states that 45% of the "heavy gamer segment" and not even 33% of the "avid console gamer" are 6-17. The st udy gives weight to who is the "primary user" of a console as a deciding factor in how hardcore you are. It is no big surprise that children are the primary users of consoles in a household with children. The study was conducted as an online survey, which is unscientific at best and flat out wrong most likely.
Anecdotally i played World of Warcraft in a hardcore raiding guild. I am 20 years old and i am on the younger end of the spectrum. There were very few people younger than age 18 in any of the several raiding guilds i have been in. Basically the evidence that this whiney old man linked to doesn't work out and i find problems with his whoel arguement. He thinks he knows whats going on becuase he writes for Wired but hes just a washup with no connection to what gamers really want anymore. I may be the other extreme end of the spectrum but let me explain about myself a little more.
I used to work at Microsoft as a game test lead. I oversaw a group of game testers and myself was responsible to test video games. I played almost every game for the xbox 360 to ever exist including many that never were released. The current trend in video games is to make games easier and shorter. This is in part due to a misunderstanding of what gamers what but thats not even the main deciding factor. Games cost more to develop now that the visual and AI systems are more complicated. Many companies cut costs by making a game short and simple. Most games feel like interactive movies. The trend is disturbing and when game companies go do studies they run into old men like the author of TFA who say all they want is a nice quick game. The game companies mis-interpret this as he wants an EASY game. He has only brought this on himself.
Maybe you belong to different torrent communities but i dont see this is a problem. Honestly there are quite a few seeders that are based on university networks or even trojaned boxes. These provide quite a lot of uload speed to the community for all the leachers to download from. You are rightr that there are a few people who uploaded terabytes and never download in return. Thats not a bad thing for the average member, that means you can have leachers and the community wont fall apart.
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