At least one NOAA scientist directly lied to the investigation, assuming they wouldn't check, then was caught out when the IG actually asked for evidence.
Journalism is not about collecting facts and putting them on paper. It is about collecting a very large range of facts and opinions, selecting between them and constructing those chosen into a narrative for a particular purpose. Because there is selection and construction involved, different individuals will necessarily disagree on the result. Soulskill doesn't understand this basic fact. Instead, he thinks that because Fox selected some quotes and disregarded others, selected some opinions and disregarded others, they are necessarily wrong. Or at least that's the way he paints it.
Anything he disagrees with is "sensationalist" or "disingenuous" or "frantic". Anyone he agrees with is "and all-round industry guru" (full marks for grammar there), "fantastic" or "informed". When you first read it, it all sounds clear-cut; poke around under the surface and it is a pretty straight-forward example of using pejorative language to remove someone's credibility without actually engaging with them in debate.
Violence in video games is a topic on which a lot of people hold strong, opposing views. Research carried out frequently comes to contradictory conclusions, based mostly on where the money came from. So I think that best answer we can honestly give at the moment is, "We don't know." So actually engaging in debate would be more useful than this sort of biased name-calling.
Something like: "Apple Computer sells for £133,250." Am I the only one who saw this and thought, "That can't be right! Their market capitalization is, like, £70bn or something. And why would shareholders be getting out now?"
Dear dear, you believed something you read in the Guardian. Shame on you.
Actually the law has not passed, it still has to go to the Lords tonight. Not saying it won't pass there - it almost certainly will - just that the story is hopelessly wrong.
No, London is a very backward place, on about the same level as rural Kenya, only colder. Internet access is essentially unheard of, and the power is only on for about three hours most days. It comes at some strange voltage, and switch-mode power supplies have been banned to try to discourage immigrants. You can get plug adaptors on the black market, try late at night in St James' Park, but it won't help with your voltage problem. About your only option is to sneak into a copper mine to steal some ore, refine it, beat it into wire using rocks and manufacture your own power supply. Hot top - the foil from cigarette packs is good for making your own capacitors! Once you've done that, getting internet access means laying your own cable from the good 'ol US of A - I'd suggest coming by ship, as the airlines are a bit touchy about running the cable out of the door at altitude, and at 450 miles per hour the quality of the bearings on the drum gets important. Don't even bother with wireless - that's been banned, too, as people might try to use it to find out information about immigration.
If you hang out in the wrong sorts of places, you might get to hear about a thing called the 'Tube'. It's a bit like a bunch of pipes, and is the nearest the locals get to the Internet. Interfacing your laptop to it can be a real problem, though. Locals suggest Ruby might be a good option to try, also something about seafood. YMMV.
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I am curious about the assumption here, that only repeatable things can be true. What if the universe is not repeatable all the time?
Neither an accurate summary from Soulskill or NOAA. See http://climateaudit.org/2011/02/24/noaa-misrepresents-inspector-general-report/
At least one NOAA scientist directly lied to the investigation, assuming they wouldn't check, then was caught out when the IG actually asked for evidence.
Journalism is not about collecting facts and putting them on paper. It is about collecting a very large range of facts and opinions, selecting between them and constructing those chosen into a narrative for a particular purpose. Because there is selection and construction involved, different individuals will necessarily disagree on the result. Soulskill doesn't understand this basic fact. Instead, he thinks that because Fox selected some quotes and disregarded others, selected some opinions and disregarded others, they are necessarily wrong. Or at least that's the way he paints it.
Anything he disagrees with is "sensationalist" or "disingenuous" or "frantic". Anyone he agrees with is "and all-round industry guru" (full marks for grammar there), "fantastic" or "informed". When you first read it, it all sounds clear-cut; poke around under the surface and it is a pretty straight-forward example of using pejorative language to remove someone's credibility without actually engaging with them in debate.
Violence in video games is a topic on which a lot of people hold strong, opposing views. Research carried out frequently comes to contradictory conclusions, based mostly on where the money came from. So I think that best answer we can honestly give at the moment is, "We don't know." So actually engaging in debate would be more useful than this sort of biased name-calling.
I did this yesterday! I came up with about $0.30, €4.15 and 75p. Oh, and 20 Taiwan New Dollars. Not sure how that converts to friends, though.
...and C++, Java and C# separate me from the middle managers who think the fact they wrote FORTRAN 30 years ago makes them a software engineer today.
"A real programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language!" Oh, the horrors.
New songs can be programmed in with C macros
I think this tells you everything you need to know about the people involved.
Fine, so they dropped the 'Computer' bit in 2007. Excuse me for not following every twist and turn of the Jobs corporate... hey! Donuts!
Something like: "Apple Computer sells for £133,250." Am I the only one who saw this and thought, "That can't be right! Their market capitalization is, like, £70bn or something. And why would shareholders be getting out now?"
Erm, well, according to the fount of all knowledge, Japan has a murder rate of 0.44 per 100,000, less than one tenth the rate in the US.
Still, never let facts get in the way of good old ideology, what?
Exactly - when I read the list I thought, "So, nothing that matters then..."
Someone mod this up, please?
The only thing you missed is the "metal that reacts strongly to acids." Really?? OMFG! Aliens!
Someone skipped first-year chemistry (and that's first-year high school, not undergrad).
Now he has a righteous slashdotting to add to his list of woes.
TFA doesn't mention a location. There is a roughly circular sort of feature in about the right place and about the right size centred here:
http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&ll=-28.614665,141.139984&spn=0.806518,1.234589&t=h&z=10
You can see it better if you zoom out a couple of steps. It's not very well defined, and may just be wishful thinking on my part!
The OpenGraphics project are building a graphics card with a big-ass FPGA on it. Seems like the right tool in the right place...
Toyota? Or Toshiba?
The word is 'feather', people. You feather the blades.
Yes, at about twice the cost per MB as Inmarsat.
Dear dear, you believed something you read in the Guardian. Shame on you.
Actually the law has not passed, it still has to go to the Lords tonight. Not saying it won't pass there - it almost certainly will - just that the story is hopelessly wrong.
It doesn't add information, it just fills in what you already expected to see.
Stupid American.
Sigh. Try going from London to Paris by air and by train, and see which one takes longer. Why was that? Oh, yeah...
So it's a pity thing is only available in the US...
[sad shake of the head] Americans...
No, London is a very backward place, on about the same level as rural Kenya, only colder. Internet access is essentially unheard of, and the power is only on for about three hours most days. It comes at some strange voltage, and switch-mode power supplies have been banned to try to discourage immigrants. You can get plug adaptors on the black market, try late at night in St James' Park, but it won't help with your voltage problem. About your only option is to sneak into a copper mine to steal some ore, refine it, beat it into wire using rocks and manufacture your own power supply. Hot top - the foil from cigarette packs is good for making your own capacitors! Once you've done that, getting internet access means laying your own cable from the good 'ol US of A - I'd suggest coming by ship, as the airlines are a bit touchy about running the cable out of the door at altitude, and at 450 miles per hour the quality of the bearings on the drum gets important. Don't even bother with wireless - that's been banned, too, as people might try to use it to find out information about immigration.
If you hang out in the wrong sorts of places, you might get to hear about a thing called the 'Tube'. It's a bit like a bunch of pipes, and is the nearest the locals get to the Internet. Interfacing your laptop to it can be a real problem, though. Locals suggest Ruby might be a good option to try, also something about seafood. YMMV.
Oh, the dedication; can you feel it?
Damn, where are my modpoints?