Except that Submarine One got to be the most popular submarine by giving people what they wanted, namely a convertable submarine that allows all the sunshine in and saves all that hatch opening/closing time. If Submarine Two wants to be the most popular submarine, they're going to have to offer the same "feature".
There is some evidence of "maxing out" exercise with children. There was a study (which I was involved in) that found that participating in after-school sports was associated with lower rates of walking home from school. If you've just spent an hour running around a field, I guess walking home is less of an option both in terms of time before dinner and energy.
I think that the answer to this depends on your views on truth and potential. Or, to put this another way, would you take the blue pill or the red pill?
I strongly suspect that smokers who exercise are (by some measures) healthier than non-smokers who don't exercise. Strangely enough no one seems to be claiming that smoking is not a health problem based on this. I wish people wouldn't try to "rank" the factors that lead to health problems as it seems to lead people to justify their lifestyle based on their performance for the "most important factor". Weight and exercise are both important, as are nutrition, minimising stress, and seeing your doctor on a regular basis. You can't justify not seeing your doctor because you avoid stress, and you can't justify being overweight because you exercise.
I think their point was that by arranging extra exercise for children, the children were doing less at other times, leaving their total exercise relatively constant. This would be analogous to the person who goes to the gym after work, drives home, and collapses in front of the TV (having done their "quota") compared to the person who walks to and from work and maybe does some work outside when they get home.
And I've worked with people who assume that because they work with scientists, they are also scientists. If I was a Software Engineer with a law firm, would that make me a lawyer? No. I'd expect them to respect me and treat me as an equal and not as a technician, but that wouldn't make me a lawyer. If you're doing actual science, you're not doing Software Engineering; and if you're doing actual Software Engineering, you're not doing science. Maybe you do both, but that doesn't mean that they are the same thing.
Anyone who submits a post of which 90% or more consists of quotes from a web site that is not the topic of the thread has proven they lack a decent education:-).
The parent had said "It is not like the email disappeared." Email is both plural and singular. Got it? Given the details in the parent post, I think it's safe to say that they had read the article. Now, go back and read the friendly parent post, okay.
If all universities decided that they would teach ID in their biology classes, giving it equal time with the theory known as evolution, would that be acceptable to you? After all, the students could still read more about evolution at home if they were so inclined, right?
Does this mean you're willing to add your name to the list of volunteers to save the planet? Or if not yourself, perhaps some of your family or friends?
Alternatively, perhaps we could all give up some of the excessive waste caused by packaging; disposable everything; everything electrical needing to be bigger, louder, and on standby; multiple appliances/vehicles per household; and so forth. Hell, if we did that we might actually improve our physical health through better eating and more exercise and improve our social/emotional health through interacting with one another once in a while.
Technology and economics will indeed exert a great influence over the prices for the things you mentioned. However, popular music products are not (generally speaking) technology driven--they are products of marketing, and especially of "brand" development. Given the marketing campaigns and lifestyles of "successful" musicians, I suspect that the costs of making music have greatly increased over the past decade.
Note to Nintendo: if you sell a game, make sure that there is some sort of code to use to unlock all the game has to offer, or a reduced difficulty level, I paid for the whole game and to be locked out of 1/5th of the tracks (likely among the best ones) and 4/5ths of the story mode does not feel right.
I know exactly how you feel. I brought this movie once and it got really hard to understand about 80% of the way through. In the end, the symbolism and the recurring motifs were just too much and I couldn't work out what was supposed to be happening. I'm a busy man and I don't have time to sit through repeated viewings just to work out what it all means. Now, I paid for the whole movie, so I reckon they should have included a simplified version on the DVD. Maybe they could tone down the symbolism a little and provide some commentary so I can understand the damn thing!
Perhaps rather than cheat codes per se, what you want is an "Explore" mode a la Nethack? If you use cheat codes, there is no reason for your score/rank/achievements to count as valid, and if all you want to do is play around with the game, why would the score/rank/achievements matter?
"Is this bad? Not unless you value the ability to remember phone numbers.
I completely agree with you except that I think the ability to remember phone numbers might actually have some other uses (like recalling the combination to a safe, the numerical part of a LC classification number, or an identification number you're looking for in a printed list). Not a lot of use for most people, but potentially useful to some.
Unfortunately, research shows that the development of expert memory skills (such as those developed by chess players) doesn't generalize to other domains. There is considerable research showing that while strong chess players are better at recalling actual chess positions, they are no better than amateurs at remembering random chess positions (the assumption being that they have better chunking mechanisms and so can store positions more efficiently, but random positions are not easily compressed in that manner). In other words, the drivers may be great at remembering locations and routes, but it seems unlikely that this will help them remember their grocery list. While I despair at the use of calculators in schools because they prevent the development of useful skills (like being able to work out if you can actually afford those extra groceries), the use of navigation systems doesn't seem likely to prevent the drivers from developing anything useful other than the ability to navigate the streets without such a system.
"I myself do not hunt, but I limit my animal products when I can to ones I believed were raised and slaughtered humanely".
This is one of those...oh don't tell me...I'll remember what the word is in a second...what are they called again...oh yes, this is one of those moron things isn't it. The sort that breath in oxygen.
Choosing Linux instead of Windows on the desktop is no different than choosing PS3 instead of XBox. 10 year olds are used to making those kinds of choices all the time, and it doesn't bother them.
I'm going to go out on a limb here...you're not a parent are you?
The parent really shouldn't be moded "funny". This is exactly the problem with forcing something that works for you on to other people who don't have your interests, background, or free time to play around with things. I can only assume that the submitter's family and friends have already quit smoking, switched to a vegan diet, stopped watching television, quit all gambling activities, only drink alcohol in moderation, and exercise regularly, so that using a commercial OS is their only remaining vice, thus greatly limiting present ideas this year.
Here's a hint: taking a choice you made and forcing it on someone isn't exactly what I'd call them making a good choice, no matter how good a choice it was for you...
Amusing, but unless the conversation included lines like: "And while I'm blinded to the groups in my half of the study, for some reason I know that the active treatment group in the other half of the study is labelled 'A' and the placebo group is labelled 'B'". "You're kidding, while I don't know the group assignments in my half of a study I'm working on, the other half of the study is labelled the other way around. In fact, I've just received some data from my half of the study with the groups labelled 'A' and 'B'. Hope that we're not talking about the same study, eh?" I suspect that the story is apocryphal.
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Except that Submarine One got to be the most popular submarine by giving people what they wanted, namely a convertable submarine that allows all the sunshine in and saves all that hatch opening/closing time. If Submarine Two wants to be the most popular submarine, they're going to have to offer the same "feature".
There is some evidence of "maxing out" exercise with children. There was a study (which I was involved in) that found that participating in after-school sports was associated with lower rates of walking home from school. If you've just spent an hour running around a field, I guess walking home is less of an option both in terms of time before dinner and energy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg is pretty good in terms of science, and also interesting from a social/evolutionary perspective.
I think that the answer to this depends on your views on truth and potential. Or, to put this another way, would you take the blue pill or the red pill?
I strongly suspect that smokers who exercise are (by some measures) healthier than non-smokers who don't exercise. Strangely enough no one seems to be claiming that smoking is not a health problem based on this. I wish people wouldn't try to "rank" the factors that lead to health problems as it seems to lead people to justify their lifestyle based on their performance for the "most important factor". Weight and exercise are both important, as are nutrition, minimising stress, and seeing your doctor on a regular basis. You can't justify not seeing your doctor because you avoid stress, and you can't justify being overweight because you exercise.
I think their point was that by arranging extra exercise for children, the children were doing less at other times, leaving their total exercise relatively constant. This would be analogous to the person who goes to the gym after work, drives home, and collapses in front of the TV (having done their "quota") compared to the person who walks to and from work and maybe does some work outside when they get home.
And I've worked with people who assume that because they work with scientists, they are also scientists. If I was a Software Engineer with a law firm, would that make me a lawyer? No. I'd expect them to respect me and treat me as an equal and not as a technician, but that wouldn't make me a lawyer. If you're doing actual science, you're not doing Software Engineering; and if you're doing actual Software Engineering, you're not doing science. Maybe you do both, but that doesn't mean that they are the same thing.
Anyone who submits a post of which 90% or more consists of quotes from a web site that is not the topic of the thread has proven they lack a decent education :-).
The parent had said "It is not like the email disappeared." Email is both plural and singular. Got it? Given the details in the parent post, I think it's safe to say that they had read the article. Now, go back and read the friendly parent post, okay.
Indeed. However, perhaps more relevant to the question at hand, 1.03**6=1.1941 (4dp), which is 19.41% inflation.
Link please!
If all universities decided that they would teach ID in their biology classes, giving it equal time with the theory known as evolution, would that be acceptable to you? After all, the students could still read more about evolution at home if they were so inclined, right?
Does this mean you're willing to add your name to the list of volunteers to save the planet? Or if not yourself, perhaps some of your family or friends?
Alternatively, perhaps we could all give up some of the excessive waste caused by packaging; disposable everything; everything electrical needing to be bigger, louder, and on standby; multiple appliances/vehicles per household; and so forth. Hell, if we did that we might actually improve our physical health through better eating and more exercise and improve our social/emotional health through interacting with one another once in a while.
Technology and economics will indeed exert a great influence over the prices for the things you mentioned. However, popular music products are not (generally speaking) technology driven--they are products of marketing, and especially of "brand" development. Given the marketing campaigns and lifestyles of "successful" musicians, I suspect that the costs of making music have greatly increased over the past decade.
Note to Nintendo: if you sell a game, make sure that there is some sort of code to use to unlock all the game has to offer, or a reduced difficulty level, I paid for the whole game and to be locked out of 1/5th of the tracks (likely among the best ones) and 4/5ths of the story mode does not feel right.
I know exactly how you feel. I brought this movie once and it got really hard to understand about 80% of the way through. In the end, the symbolism and the recurring motifs were just too much and I couldn't work out what was supposed to be happening. I'm a busy man and I don't have time to sit through repeated viewings just to work out what it all means. Now, I paid for the whole movie, so I reckon they should have included a simplified version on the DVD. Maybe they could tone down the symbolism a little and provide some commentary so I can understand the damn thing!
Perhaps rather than cheat codes per se, what you want is an "Explore" mode a la Nethack? If you use cheat codes, there is no reason for your score/rank/achievements to count as valid, and if all you want to do is play around with the game, why would the score/rank/achievements matter?
"Is this bad? Not unless you value the ability to remember phone numbers.
I completely agree with you except that I think the ability to remember phone numbers might actually have some other uses (like recalling the combination to a safe, the numerical part of a LC classification number, or an identification number you're looking for in a printed list). Not a lot of use for most people, but potentially useful to some.
Unfortunately, research shows that the development of expert memory skills (such as those developed by chess players) doesn't generalize to other domains. There is considerable research showing that while strong chess players are better at recalling actual chess positions, they are no better than amateurs at remembering random chess positions (the assumption being that they have better chunking mechanisms and so can store positions more efficiently, but random positions are not easily compressed in that manner). In other words, the drivers may be great at remembering locations and routes, but it seems unlikely that this will help them remember their grocery list. While I despair at the use of calculators in schools because they prevent the development of useful skills (like being able to work out if you can actually afford those extra groceries), the use of navigation systems doesn't seem likely to prevent the drivers from developing anything useful other than the ability to navigate the streets without such a system.
That was before Peter Jackson ate the hobbits.
"I myself do not hunt, but I limit my animal products when I can to ones I believed were raised and slaughtered humanely".
This is one of those...oh don't tell me...I'll remember what the word is in a second...what are they called again...oh yes, this is one of those moron things isn't it. The sort that breath in oxygen.
.And for those who don't even get the "NGE" reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangeli on_glossary#Second_Impact.
(And yes, I had to look it up myself.)
Choosing Linux instead of Windows on the desktop is no different than choosing PS3 instead of XBox. 10 year olds are used to making those kinds of choices all the time, and it doesn't bother them.
I'm going to go out on a limb here...you're not a parent are you?
The parent really shouldn't be moded "funny". This is exactly the problem with forcing something that works for you on to other people who don't have your interests, background, or free time to play around with things. I can only assume that the submitter's family and friends have already quit smoking, switched to a vegan diet, stopped watching television, quit all gambling activities, only drink alcohol in moderation, and exercise regularly, so that using a commercial OS is their only remaining vice, thus greatly limiting present ideas this year.
Here's a hint: taking a choice you made and forcing it on someone isn't exactly what I'd call them making a good choice, no matter how good a choice it was for you...
Only because the Linux and OS X scores are still undefined. One Linux virus in the wild and it's Linux by 862 points!
Amusing, but unless the conversation included lines like: "And while I'm blinded to the groups in my half of the study, for some reason I know that the active treatment group in the other half of the study is labelled 'A' and the placebo group is labelled 'B'". "You're kidding, while I don't know the group assignments in my half of a study I'm working on, the other half of the study is labelled the other way around. In fact, I've just received some data from my half of the study with the groups labelled 'A' and 'B'. Hope that we're not talking about the same study, eh?" I suspect that the story is apocryphal.