This theory doesn't match the evidence in this case, though. Piracy has skyrocketed over the years, but the gaming industry has shown no signs of approaching anything near a situation where it's "no longer tenable to make games and no one has a game to play." On the contrary, it's gotten bigger and bigger as well. Even in this age where thousands and thousands of both legally and illegally free games exist for all sorts of different platforms, big titles like CoD Black Ops are seeing record sales. There's very clearly something about the economics of this situation that the old theories and models are missing.
It's because both articles are actually about the Wojtczuk report, and they both mis-quote Joanna Rutkowska as stating the bug is related to Spengler's X-Server flaw. She clarifies in an update to H-Online's version of the article that she was misunderstood and that they are actually unrelated.
Not that I back Hasbro, but purchasing the alleged "illegal copy" of their game would have sent the message "Copy our game and do a better job than us, and we will pay you for it rather than prosecuting you"
...hopefully you will be strong enough to accept the realities that most people face, get a boring job, be useful, and earn a decent living.
Come on, seriously? Is that really your response to a young college student who's mulling over career choices and happens to think one may be less fulfilling than others? "Well, life sucks, so quit whining and pick up a shovel?"
Man, if this is the attitude students are running into when they talk to people in IT, it's no wonder they're wanting to avoid the field like the plague. Way to inspire passion in the youth, folks. Bravo.
Oh, blah blah blah - why is it, whenever someone wants to leave any job that doesn't involve wading through crap, someone has to trot out the tired old lots-of-people-would-kill-for-what-you-have-so-how-dare-you-dream-about-something-better argument? Puh-lease...
Go try some things out, find what you love. Changing careers != unemployment; your kids aren't going to starve to death, and (so long as you keep spending the time with them that they need) a pay cut is not going to make their developmental environment any less healthy.
Talk to your wife and kids about it, sure. But don't let people over-exaggerate the risks involved, or tell you that "being responsible" = forsaking your own needs. If anything, you have a responsibility to your kids to provide them with a happier, more emotionally-fulfilled parent as a role model. That's far more important to their needs than a slightly higher level of financial security could ever be.
Are you claiming that NASA management is screwing up the calculations?...Btw, in case you are not aware, the NEO office is at JPL--not JSC. And JPL is run by Caltech for NASA--not directly by NASA. Um, there's certainly precedent for suspecting NASA management of screwing up calculations provided by other companies...
The team of nine students instructed volunteers to take a bite of a wheat cracker and dip the cracker for three seconds into about a tablespoon of a test dip.
Come on, 3 seconds? Who sticks a chip into some dip and holds it there for that long before taking it back out? I'm willing to bet a lot fewer bacteria transfer over in the quick in-and-out dip most people would do.
I didn't like the way YouTube structured their voting for these awards. I went on solely to vote for Ask A Ninja, and found that you were pretty much required to submit an entire 'top 10' for the category. What's worse, the 'ballot' was filled w/ the current top 10 vote-getters (in their current order) by default, so I'm guessing a lot of lazy vote-casters (like myself) ended up giving videos they'd never seen undue credit.
As for the results of this study, lab mice are not humans, and correlation does not imply cause... both mice and humans must have evolved to have their normal body temperature for a reason, so lowering it will undoubtedly have some negative effect on the chances of survival.
I don't think you can say outright that making changes to the way we've evolved will lower our chances of survival.
The modern world is different than the one we evolved in, and what was once advantageous may not be anymore. Take our taste for fatty foods, for example - obviously, in an environment where food was scarce and the possibility of building up excess body fat was very low, this was an advantage in the quest for survival. But now that things have changed, the taste for fat probably ends up killing a lot more people than it saves.
This may not apply to our bodies' temperature regulation, of course - one would think that our optimal temperature is was it is, regardless of outside conditions - but I still don't think we can rule out the possibility of room for improvement. Who's to say that evolution has gotten everything perfect? Maybe 98.6 wasn't the 'optimal' temperature, but was still 'good enough' for us to survive long enough to breed and pass on our genes.
My point is, there could be something to this. Correlation may not *prove* cause, but it can certainly imply the *possibility* of it.
Xander: "Mom, Dad... the previews for my game 'Xander III' in the game magazines are just marketing!"
Dad: "Well, son, I think I speak for both your mother and I when I say..."
Parents: "a-DDUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The job market is another good example of this; employers look for people w/ x number of years experience, not x amount of skill. Of course, maybe that's because in the real world, years - not quality - of experience is one of the only measurable, reliable indicators of skill that's available. Education is another one, but to get recognizable, certified education on your resume also requires time (sometimes more than some people require for 'on their own' learning that gets them the same amount of real knowledge). Although I do agree that games like WoW tend to put *too* much emphasis on time spent over actual skill development, I can't agree with the article's statement that the lesson this teaches isn't applicable to the "real world".
Well, it's live, and it turns out to be nothing but a very simple, very silly, overhyped contest. I'll spare everyone the wasted time with a summary:
1) Watch two rabbits exchange some trite, self-promoting dialogue about what a magical and wonderful thing this 'Origen' is. 2) Watch one of the rabbits eat some glowing fruit and trip out (not nearly as interesting as it sounds). 3) Answer 3 true/false questions about the xbox360. 4) Enter your info so they can send you lots of xbox spam. 5) Find out this is being run by Microsoft UK and that you have to live in Europe to enter the contest anyway (sucks for us non-Europeans).
Hardly the intriguing puzzle that people were hoping for - sorry to disappoint.
Boy, why'd they have to go and ruin all the fun of a group of nerds in business suits by bringing in all those boring scantily-clad females? Boy, do I hate it when that happens...
On a serious note, I understand the author's point that it's changed from a proper "trade show" to a media circus, but that's the nature of things in the entertainment industry; To say it serves no purpose is rather self-centered, and doesn't give the event enough credit for what it does for the gaming public; it's still a place where big announcements are made regarding the future of the gaming industry, and for that I say it serves plenty of purpose (in any event, he's free to mail me his passes for next year at any time...)
What proof do we have that this *was* a hoax? Seems just as likely to me that someone craving attention could claim to have pulled of some great hoax (especially right after April Fool's Day?) as the actual occurrence of 'toothing' does. I dunno, maybe it just goes to show that you really can't believe anything you read, much less anything you read *about* what you read.
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This theory doesn't match the evidence in this case, though. Piracy has skyrocketed over the years, but the gaming industry has shown no signs of approaching anything near a situation where it's "no longer tenable to make games and no one has a game to play." On the contrary, it's gotten bigger and bigger as well. Even in this age where thousands and thousands of both legally and illegally free games exist for all sorts of different platforms, big titles like CoD Black Ops are seeing record sales. There's very clearly something about the economics of this situation that the old theories and models are missing.
It's because both articles are actually about the Wojtczuk report, and they both mis-quote Joanna Rutkowska as stating the bug is related to Spengler's X-Server flaw. She clarifies in an update to H-Online's version of the article that she was misunderstood and that they are actually unrelated.
Not that I back Hasbro, but purchasing the alleged "illegal copy" of their game would have sent the message "Copy our game and do a better job than us, and we will pay you for it rather than prosecuting you"
And what's wrong with that, exactly?
...hopefully you will be strong enough to accept the realities that most people face, get a boring job, be useful, and earn a decent living.
Come on, seriously? Is that really your response to a young college student who's mulling over career choices and happens to think one may be less fulfilling than others? "Well, life sucks, so quit whining and pick up a shovel?"
Man, if this is the attitude students are running into when they talk to people in IT, it's no wonder they're wanting to avoid the field like the plague. Way to inspire passion in the youth, folks. Bravo.
Oh, blah blah blah - why is it, whenever someone wants to leave any job that doesn't involve wading through crap, someone has to trot out the tired old lots-of-people-would-kill-for-what-you-have-so-how-dare-you-dream-about-something-better argument? Puh-lease...
Go try some things out, find what you love. Changing careers != unemployment; your kids aren't going to starve to death, and (so long as you keep spending the time with them that they need) a pay cut is not going to make their developmental environment any less healthy.
Talk to your wife and kids about it, sure. But don't let people over-exaggerate the risks involved, or tell you that "being responsible" = forsaking your own needs. If anything, you have a responsibility to your kids to provide them with a happier, more emotionally-fulfilled parent as a role model. That's far more important to their needs than a slightly higher level of financial security could ever be.
Come on, 3 seconds? Who sticks a chip into some dip and holds it there for that long before taking it back out? I'm willing to bet a lot fewer bacteria transfer over in the quick in-and-out dip most people would do.
Bit-Tube-ent?
I didn't like the way YouTube structured their voting for these awards. I went on solely to vote for Ask A Ninja, and found that you were pretty much required to submit an entire 'top 10' for the category. What's worse, the 'ballot' was filled w/ the current top 10 vote-getters (in their current order) by default, so I'm guessing a lot of lazy vote-casters (like myself) ended up giving videos they'd never seen undue credit.
:)
(Still glad the Ninja won, though.)
The vulnerabilities in 2.0.0.1 were also in 1.5.0.9 - you should probably get the 1.5.0.10 patch.
As for the results of this study, lab mice are not humans, and correlation does not imply cause... both mice and humans must have evolved to have their normal body temperature for a reason, so lowering it will undoubtedly have some negative effect on the chances of survival.
I don't think you can say outright that making changes to the way we've evolved will lower our chances of survival.
The modern world is different than the one we evolved in, and what was once advantageous may not be anymore. Take our taste for fatty foods, for example - obviously, in an environment where food was scarce and the possibility of building up excess body fat was very low, this was an advantage in the quest for survival. But now that things have changed, the taste for fat probably ends up killing a lot more people than it saves.
This may not apply to our bodies' temperature regulation, of course - one would think that our optimal temperature is was it is, regardless of outside conditions - but I still don't think we can rule out the possibility of room for improvement. Who's to say that evolution has gotten everything perfect? Maybe 98.6 wasn't the 'optimal' temperature, but was still 'good enough' for us to survive long enough to breed and pass on our genes.
My point is, there could be something to this. Correlation may not *prove* cause, but it can certainly imply the *possibility* of it.
Eether wae, the consept has yet to capcher th publix imajinaeshun.
Absolewtlee - "th publix" never duz fonetic speleeng - I meen, luuk at all thuh guud speleeng in blog coments and tekst mesuhjez...
"Holy sh%&, that thing's real??"
RTFA - he submitted his 'super-secret process' to the site owners for review.
Xander: "Mom, Dad... the previews for my game 'Xander III' in the game magazines are just marketing!" Dad: "Well, son, I think I speak for both your mother and I when I say..." Parents: "a-DDUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The job market is another good example of this; employers look for people w/ x number of years experience, not x amount of skill. Of course, maybe that's because in the real world, years - not quality - of experience is one of the only measurable, reliable indicators of skill that's available. Education is another one, but to get recognizable, certified education on your resume also requires time (sometimes more than some people require for 'on their own' learning that gets them the same amount of real knowledge). Although I do agree that games like WoW tend to put *too* much emphasis on time spent over actual skill development, I can't agree with the article's statement that the lesson this teaches isn't applicable to the "real world".
I figured maybe this would be an interesting discussion of the relative merits of torroidal versus laminated iron cores...
Wow, you just really can't stop making yourself look like a nerd among nerds, can you?
I have Slashdot and The Onion right next to each other on my RSS feeds... I clicked this article thinking it was from The Onion...
Somehow, I don't think the bull ends up minding too much. ;)
Redundant, redundant. Sure would be if dupe-checking was a requirement of being a comment modder around here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164285&cid=137 17572
Well, it's live, and it turns out to be nothing but a very simple, very silly, overhyped contest. I'll spare everyone the wasted time with a summary:
1) Watch two rabbits exchange some trite, self-promoting dialogue about what a magical and wonderful thing this 'Origen' is.
2) Watch one of the rabbits eat some glowing fruit and trip out (not nearly as interesting as it sounds).
3) Answer 3 true/false questions about the xbox360.
4) Enter your info so they can send you lots of xbox spam.
5) Find out this is being run by Microsoft UK and that you have to live in Europe to enter the contest anyway (sucks for us non-Europeans).
Hardly the intriguing puzzle that people were hoping for - sorry to disappoint.
Boy, why'd they have to go and ruin all the fun of a group of nerds in business suits by bringing in all those boring scantily-clad females? Boy, do I hate it when that happens... On a serious note, I understand the author's point that it's changed from a proper "trade show" to a media circus, but that's the nature of things in the entertainment industry; To say it serves no purpose is rather self-centered, and doesn't give the event enough credit for what it does for the gaming public; it's still a place where big announcements are made regarding the future of the gaming industry, and for that I say it serves plenty of purpose (in any event, he's free to mail me his passes for next year at any time...)
my list of the top 100 worst top 100 lists ever.
'Apocalypse Now' doesn't make the list, but the 1986 version of 'The Fly' does? Give me a break...
You guys... seriously... it's Google... they released a product... that's non-beta... seriously, you guys, come quick!!!
What proof do we have that this *was* a hoax? Seems just as likely to me that someone craving attention could claim to have pulled of some great hoax (especially right after April Fool's Day?) as the actual occurrence of 'toothing' does. I dunno, maybe it just goes to show that you really can't believe anything you read, much less anything you read *about* what you read.