Ironically, this technique of Name & Shame works for other drugs too... but everyone seems to ignore its effectiveness!/sarcasm Why use something that costs almost nothing when police officers could be spending their budgets buying over priced weapons, tanks, etc.
How America Lost the War on Drugs 7. The Harvard Man
For the cops on the front lines of the War on Drugs, the federal government's fixation with marijuana was deeply perplexing. As they saw it, the problem wasn't pot but the drug-related violence that accompanied cocaine and other hard drugs. After the crack epidemic in the late 1980s, police commissioners around the country, like Lee Brown in Houston, began adding more officers and developing computer mapping to target neighborhoods where crime was on the rise. The crime rate dropped. But by the mid-1990s, police in some cities were beginning to realize there was a certain level that they couldn't get crime below. Mass jailings weren't doing the trick: Only fifteen percent of those convicted of federal drug crimes were actual traffickers; the rest were nothing but street-level dealers and mules, who could always be replaced.
Police in Boston, concerned about violence between youth drug gangs, turned for assistance to a group of academics. Among them was a Harvard criminologist named David Kennedy. Working together, the academics and members of the department's anti-gang unit came up with what Kennedy calls a "quirky" strategy and convinced senior police commanders to give it a try. The result, which began in 1995, was the Boston Gun Project, a collaborative effort among ministers and community leaders and the police to try to break the link between the drug trade and violent crime. First, the project tracked a particular drug-dealing gang, mapping out its membership and operations in detail. Then, in an effort called Operation Ceasefire, the dealers were called into a meeting with preachers and parents and social-service providers, and offered a deal: Stop the violence, or the police will crack down with a vengeance. "We know the seventeen guys you run with," the gangbangers were told. "If anyone in your group shoots somebody, we'll arrest every last one of you." The project also extended drug treatment and other assistance to anyone who wanted it.
The effort worked: The rates of homiÂcide and violence among young men in Boston dropped by two-thirds. Drug dealing didn't stop â" "people continued what they were doing," Kennedy concedes, "but they put their guns down." As Kennedy reflected on the success of the Boston project, which ran for five years, he wondered if he had discovered a deeper truth about drug-related violence. If the murders weren't a necessary component of the drug trade â" if it was possible to separate the two â" perhaps cities could find a way to reduce the violence, even if they could do nothing about the drugs.
In 2001, Kennedy got a call from the mayor of San Francisco that gave him a chance to examine his theories in a new setting. The city had experienced a recent spike in its murder rate, much of it caused by an ongoing feud between two drug-dealing gangs â" Big Block and West Mob â" that had resulted in dozens of murders over the years. Could Kennedy, the mayor asked, help police figure out how to stop the killings?
Kennedy flew out to San Francisco and met with police. But as he researched the history of the violence, it seemed to confirm his findings in Boston. Though both Big Block and West Mob were involved in dealing drugs, the shootings were not really drug-related â" the two groups occupied different territories and were not battling over turf. "The feud had started over who would perform next at a neighborhood rap event," says Kennedy, now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "They
/sarcasm Quick! Some one tell the wife that we can no longer play co-op The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing -- apparently I'm not "edumacated" even though this degree says otherwise in spite of her coming to me with new games for us to play together!:-)
> Every second you spend enjoying a selfish pleasure could be used learn a programming language and contribute to open sources.
Who says I'm _not_ already doing those things?
I contribute to a small open source emulator, work on my open source game, AND play games with my online buddies when I want a break. Thoough these days my gaming is usually limited to a few hours researching Minecraft & Terraria to see what they _didn't_ do.:-)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
There are still a few of us left...... although with that the shitty UI Beta I wonder how long before it drives the rest of us away for good.
Reddit? Please. While it has some fantastic sub-reddits, Reddit is the Dig of Slashdot. The majority is full of whiny emo teens who down vote anything "Just Because". It's moderation system sucks -- it provides no context for why something was up/down voted.
As an OpenGL and UI/UX expert "Preaching to the choir!" Fads go in ~20 year cycles. Hopefully the latest UI fad to flatten everything will start to change./Oblg. Windows 1 vs Windows 8. http://charlie.amigaspirit.hu/...
Chess is "easy" compared to Go. While Chess requires more bits to store the board the search space for Go is **exponentially* larger. i.e. A a single state of the go board is 2^(19*19) = 2^361 positions = 46 bytes.
/sarcasm But, but, but, then I can't brag to my online gamer friends about how I'm stupid enough to spent $60 for the ePenis bragging rights of owning the latest Ubisuck's game.
A sudden outbreak of common sense? Color me shocked !:-)
As an ex hard core gamer, I now wait a ~year for when the game is discounted for < $10. That way I get all the patches and know I'm buying a game that doesn't suck.
i.e. After pre-ordering Tomb Raider for full price in Feb last year, only to have it be available for $5 on Steam's sales in December, I swore I'll never pay full price again.
Oh noes! B(.)(.)Bies and _natural_ instinct of a mother feeding their child./sarcasm Quick! Get out the pitchforks and pull the racism card out of your ass!
If people are so damn uptight how about a big dish of:
> Whether or not you agree with their choices, they're the cutting edge of mobile UX design.
As an UX expert, this "flat design" is NOT cutting edge. It is retro gaudy. i.e. Windows 1.0 vs Windows 8
It is like these idiot UI/UX designers tossed _everything_ we have learnt about WIMP for the past 20 years right out the window.
There is _nothing_ wrong with skeuomorphism when it is used in balance.
This flat design so that users no longer have visual clues as what is a (dynamic) button and (static) text is idiotic and retarded. The primary job of a UI is NOT to help, not hinder.
The gaudy colors are just the icing on the rotten cake.
The problem is MS doesn't have a fucking clue what the customer wants.
They are so out of touch with reality that they are sad but funny.
i.e. * Xbox One < -- yeah, let's copy Apple' iPad marketing department. Let's fuck over every one talking about the Xbox by creating confusion. "I have an Xbox one." "The new one or the old?" *facepalm*
* Microsoft's "Fuck You to multiple IE versions." It is completely idiotic that normally you are only allowed to install one version of iE. Gee, I need to test my browser code against _multiple_ browser versions. Why am I forced to use SandBoxie ??
* Let's shove the new metrosexual UI down people's throat never mind that company's IT dept. will have to suck up the wasted man hours of teaching people a new UI.
* Let's ignore power users. We _finally_ have virtual desktops in Windows. We've had this for ~20 years in Linux, and 7 years in OSX.
* Let's shove the new ribbon UI down people's throat instead of presenting BOTH the menu bar AND the ribbon, like on OSX.
* Apple is now giving their OS away for FREE! Yet MS continues to charge $100 / OEM copy. If MS would just sell Windows XP and Windows 7 digital.ISOs + Serial Key for $20 people then might wouldn't mind the stupid "Microsoft Tax."
* MS has a long history of forced artificial obsolescence by requiring the latest Windows to run the latest DirectX. Want to run Direct 9, fuck you Windows 2000. Want to run Direct X 10, fuck you Windows XP. Want to run DirectX 12, fuck you Windows 7.
* PowerShell is a classic NIH. Can you run programs that start with a number yet?! LOL.
How is that WebGL support working out for you IE ? Gee, _now_ you are starting to support _open_ standard ?! Who knew!
How many Billions did you dump into Bing?
How is that ROI working out for you on Skype (8.5 Billion), and Mojang (for Minecraft) (2.5 Billion) ?
If MS actually _respected_ its customers, and didn't do dumb shitmaybe we wouldn't hate them so much.
Yeah I never copy code. In my mind there is no point. I want to _understand_ how it works -- not just be a code monkey.
I think I can count on one hand all the times I've looked at other people's code to see how some of the finer details of the algorithm work but I'll just write the code from scratch. That, and along with debugging it, helps me to understand its edge cases, the domain it is strong at, and the areas where it is weak.
Your point about library code is conflating the issue.
There is a huge difference between calling someone else's code, and passing their work off as your own.
The blame game has always been popular. It is always some made up bullshit excuse instead of finding & treating the root problem. One small set (or sect/group/cult) of society tries to blame an inanimate object for all of society's woes and spreads their propaganda to anyone who will listen.
Every "next technology" is always scapegoated.
1900 Film 1920 Prohibition (Alcohol), Phonographs 1930 Jazz, Movies 1940 Radio 1950 Dancing 1960 Psychedelic Drugs, Sex 1970 Rock n Roll, Movies (again) 1980 MTV, DnD, Heavy Metal 1990 Computer Games 2000 Internet and "strangers online" 2010 Guns
Then you have idiot psychiatrists like this who say 20+ year olds playing computer games is not "normal." http://www.destructoid.com/pla...
To which I'll counter:
1. Hey fucking retard -- the medium is irrelevant. Why is playing a card, board, or sports game like poker, go, chess, or baseball / hockey / basketball / etc. considered "normal", yet playing a digital game isn't normal??
2. Well guess what -- all these people were not normal as well:
Leonardo da Vinci was not normal Isaac Newton was not normal Charles Darwin was not normal Albert Einstein was not normal Stephen Hawking is not normal
Normal people don't do exceptional things.
The real issue is:
Are _you_ balanced in your daily activities, responsibilities, and hobbies?
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> unlike the PS2 wouldn't play video DVDs out of the box--you had to buy the special controller
FALSE. You _could_ use the gamepad to play videos. I know because I was doing this back in 2002.
From Gandhi
1. First they ignore you
2. Then they laugh / try to discredit you
3. Then they get a clue and join you
Although it is hard to justify where an use of JS _isn't_ abuse. ;-) /me ducks
Ironically, this technique of Name & Shame works for other drugs too ... but everyone seems to ignore its effectiveness! /sarcasm Why use something that costs almost nothing when police officers could be spending their budgets buying over priced weapons, tanks, etc.
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
Indeed.
> Every second you spend enjoying a selfish pleasure could be used learn a programming language and contribute to open sources.
Who says I'm _not_ already doing those things?
I contribute to a small open source emulator, work on my open source game, AND play games with my online buddies when I want a break. Thoough these days my gaming is usually limited to a few hours researching Minecraft & Terraria to see what they _didn't_ do. :-)
As opposed to say sports?
Why is it OK to watch men beat each other up, or tackle one another, yet a (video) game is not OK? Do board games have your blessing??
How about you Grow The Fuck Up.
The _medium_ of entertainment is NOT the issue.
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Yes I know it wasn't a good joke ...
/Oblg.George Shaw quote ...
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world:
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Each web tab runs in its own process; you can see the CPU, Memory, per tab. Use: More tools > Task Manager
Looks like Chrome removed the FPS column
There are still a few of us left ... ... although with that the shitty UI Beta I wonder how long before it drives the rest of us away for good.
Reddit? Please. While it has some fantastic sub-reddits, Reddit is the Dig of Slashdot. The majority is full of whiny emo teens who down vote anything "Just Because". It's moderation system sucks -- it provides no context for why something was up/down voted.
As an OpenGL and UI/UX expert "Preaching to the choir!" /Oblg. Windows 1 vs Windows 8.
Fads go in ~20 year cycles. Hopefully the latest UI fad to flatten everything will start to change.
http://charlie.amigaspirit.hu/...
Your fallacy is assuming consciousness is dependent on a physical body.
It is yet-another-tech Microsoft bailed on after it failed to get significant market from Flash and/or HTML5. It is on life support.
> Microsoft announced the end of life of Silverlight 5 in 2021
Reference:
* http://support2.microsoft.com/...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Chess is "easy" compared to Go. While Chess requires more bits to store the board the search space for Go is **exponentially* larger. i.e. A a single state of the go board is 2^(19*19) = 2^361 positions = 46 bytes.
Links of interest:
* http://codegolf.stackexchange....
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
... of the PC & PS4 frame rate drops.
AC: Unity's Frame Rate Issues Resolved By This Embarrassingly Simple Fix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Because you missed the point about _good_ UI.
*Good* UI doesn't conflate the issue between Signal and Noise.
if your brain wastes time trying to figure out WHAT you can and can't click on the UI designer has fucked up.
We use color, textures, drop-shadows, and skeuomorphism to all help provide _visual clues_ for the user.
/sarcasm But, but, but, then I can't brag to my online gamer friends about how I'm stupid enough to spent $60 for the ePenis bragging rights of owning the latest Ubisuck's game.
A sudden outbreak of common sense? Color me shocked ! :-)
As an ex hard core gamer, I now wait a ~year for when the game is discounted for < $10. That way I get all the patches and know I'm buying a game that doesn't suck.
i.e.
After pre-ordering Tomb Raider for full price in Feb last year, only to have it be available for $5 on Steam's sales in December, I swore I'll never pay full price again.
Oh noes! B(.)(.)Bies and _natural_ instinct of a mother feeding their child. /sarcasm Quick! Get out the pitchforks and pull the racism card out of your ass!
If people are so damn uptight how about a big dish of:
"Grow the fuck up and get over yourself."
This is a NON ISSUE.
> The primary job of a UI is NOT to help, not hinder.
Obviously, it should read:
> The primary job of a UI is NOT to hinder, but to help.
> Whether or not you agree with their choices, they're the cutting edge of mobile UX design.
As an UX expert, this "flat design" is NOT cutting edge. It is retro gaudy.
i.e.
Windows 1.0 vs Windows 8
It is like these idiot UI/UX designers tossed _everything_ we have learnt about WIMP for the past 20 years right out the window.
There is _nothing_ wrong with skeuomorphism when it is used in balance.
This flat design so that users no longer have visual clues as what is a (dynamic) button and (static) text is idiotic and retarded. The primary job of a UI is NOT to help, not hinder.
The gaudy colors are just the icing on the rotten cake.
I _never_ said they were _invented_ at those dates.
The point was all I did is summarize the decades and what was (roughly) scape goated at the time -- which you _completely_ missed.
The problem is MS doesn't have a fucking clue what the customer wants.
They are so out of touch with reality that they are sad but funny.
i.e.
* Xbox One < -- yeah, let's copy Apple' iPad marketing department. Let's fuck over every one talking about the Xbox by creating confusion. "I have an Xbox one." "The new one or the old?" *facepalm*
* Microsoft's "Fuck You to multiple IE versions." It is completely idiotic that normally you are only allowed to install one version of iE. Gee, I need to test my browser code against _multiple_ browser versions. Why am I forced to use SandBoxie ??
* Let's shove the new metrosexual UI down people's throat never mind that company's IT dept. will have to suck up the wasted man hours of teaching people a new UI.
* Let's ignore power users. We _finally_ have virtual desktops in Windows. We've had this for ~20 years in Linux, and 7 years in OSX.
* Let's shove the new ribbon UI down people's throat instead of presenting BOTH the menu bar AND the ribbon, like on OSX.
* Apple is now giving their OS away for FREE! Yet MS continues to charge $100 / OEM copy. If MS would just sell Windows XP and Windows 7 digital .ISOs + Serial Key for $20 people then might wouldn't mind the stupid "Microsoft Tax."
* MS has a long history of forced artificial obsolescence by requiring the latest Windows to run the latest DirectX.
Want to run Direct 9, fuck you Windows 2000. Want to run Direct X 10, fuck you Windows XP. Want to run DirectX 12, fuck you Windows 7.
* PowerShell is a classic NIH. Can you run programs that start with a number yet?! LOL.
How is that WebGL support working out for you IE ? Gee, _now_ you are starting to support _open_ standard ?! Who knew!
How many Billions did you dump into Bing?
How is that ROI working out for you on Skype (8.5 Billion), and Mojang (for Minecraft) (2.5 Billion) ?
If MS actually _respected_ its customers, and didn't do dumb shit maybe we wouldn't hate them so much.
Yeah I never copy code. In my mind there is no point. I want to _understand_ how it works -- not just be a code monkey.
I think I can count on one hand all the times I've looked at other people's code to see how some of the finer details of the algorithm work but I'll just write the code from scratch. That, and along with debugging it, helps me to understand its edge cases, the domain it is strong at, and the areas where it is weak.
Your point about library code is conflating the issue.
There is a huge difference between calling someone else's code, and passing their work off as your own .
The blame game has always been popular. It is always some made up bullshit excuse instead of finding & treating the root problem. One small set (or sect/group/cult) of society tries to blame an inanimate object for all of society's woes and spreads their propaganda to anyone who will listen.
Every "next technology" is always scapegoated.
1900 Film
1920 Prohibition (Alcohol), Phonographs
1930 Jazz, Movies
1940 Radio
1950 Dancing
1960 Psychedelic Drugs, Sex
1970 Rock n Roll, Movies (again)
1980 MTV, DnD, Heavy Metal
1990 Computer Games
2000 Internet and "strangers online"
2010 Guns
Then you have idiot psychiatrists like this who say 20+ year olds playing computer games is not "normal."
http://www.destructoid.com/pla...
To which I'll counter:
1. Hey fucking retard -- the medium is irrelevant.
Why is playing a card, board, or sports game like poker, go, chess, or baseball / hockey / basketball / etc. considered "normal", yet playing a digital game isn't normal??
2. Well guess what -- all these people were not normal as well:
Leonardo da Vinci was not normal
Isaac Newton was not normal
Charles Darwin was not normal
Albert Einstein was not normal
Stephen Hawking is not normal
Normal people don't do exceptional things.
The real issue is:
Are _you_ balanced in your daily activities, responsibilities, and hobbies?