I thought it was up to the writer to substantiate facts with proof and have his peers review the book. It seemed the publisher's job was to keep themselves from being sued for libel and that's it. It it so shocking that a book can actually be incorrect?
There's plenty of books contradicting eachother's "facts" and books later proven to be incorrect, so what exactly has changed since A Million Little Pieces? There's a lot more dangerous books than some junkie's fantasy adventure.
however, the very concept of the 100% accurate lie detector is scary. It would have a huge impact on politics, crime, and even personal issues. "Did you cheat on me? Do you look at porn a lot? Do you think I'm fat?"
Although I'm a fan of privacy rights, I'm also very conflicted about what would happen if we really did have no privacy.
With no privacy, all the skeletons would come out, and maybe we'd be able to see that our skeletons really aren't that bad. For those who do have really bad secrets, i.e. serial rapists, that'll pretty much expose most brutal crimes and help us enforce it or correct it.
I especially think that things such as porn, weird fetishes, funny habits, etc. shouldn't really be secret in the first place. We feel the need to hide these things or end up being seen as abnormal. If it's not hurting anyone else, then what's so abnormal (anti-social would be more accurate word)?
There are cases where hiding information could be crucial, such as political elections. Most Americans feel pretty safe about saying who they voted for, because they know they're mostly protected. If politicians are exposed, it could improve our leadership (finally, honest and trustworthy leaders?).
To a certain extent we're all living partial lies. What happens if we become fully confidential/anonymous or fully exposed? There are good things and bad things for both opposites, and I can't really say for certain if any of those options are bad or good.
One thing is for sure: once the right to privacy is gone, other rights become even more important.
Somehow people who would never think of stealing a candy bar from a convenience store become completely immoral when they are part of a corporation.
I have a part time job at a popular minimart (well known in the US). I've seen one incident involving an actual shoplifter: it was done by a middle aged white male in a full business suit.
I've had an older working class guy come back hours later with 5 bucks that I accidently gave him in his change. How'd i know he was working class? He told me he understood what it was like, since his previous job was at a store.
Here's a good article on white-collar crime. The same bagel dude was in the book Freaknomics.
Those servers weren't always there. I've met normal Chinese players on my server way before it was introduced in China. There's also the issue of recent immigrants to America. And some just want to play with family and friends overseas.
Even if all the Chinese on the servers were farmers, it still doesn't excuse the rampant racism that goes against all Chinese (making fun of their languages, etc).
Some gamers might applaud PC Gamers efforts, but those gamers are mostly hypocrites who use thottbot.com (still owned by IGE).
The whole issue of chinese gold farmers is full of speculation and made up "facts".
Hmm, I would think that an employer competent enough to be able to sort through and understand a large open-sourced project would be competent enough to program (or at least switch around) their own code. It would also mean that either the programmer is making the design, or that the open source project has a very similar design to his/her own project. It becomes increasingly harder to prove code was stolen for smaller pieces of projects.
On top of that, assuming these projects aren't open-source themselves -- how are OSS groups able to know that companies are stealing their code if OSS groups can't review the code itself?
You also gotta ask the question, "Why just open-source?" There's plenty of proprietary code to be stolen too.
Is the GPL (or other open source licenses) that complicated that you just can't hire (or task) someone to review your development practices to be in accordance?
Well, it's Lloyd's of London subdivision offering this (the same people who insure body parts), so it's probably more publicity than anything.
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The east Asian themes run throughout. Many of the NPCs have asian names (Takata Steelblade, Marukai/Mitsuwa [names of markets], Ping, and other more subtle ones), as real-life races are considered neutral in Warcraft races.
Here's some (just off the head) comparisons:
Night Elf architecture is a combination of ancient greek/roman plus japanese/chinese design. The culture is similar to Navajo Indians.
Trolls do have Jamaican accents, but their culture follows closer to the South American and East African civilizations.
Human culture is anglo, and don't really have much twists or turns. However, since humans can also be black in color, and many human NPC names vary, they really don't have a set inner "race".
Dwarves do follow classic tolkien dwarf culture (Scottish, and some hints of Irish), but are also race neutral like humans.
Gnomes are more of an independent European invention, but classically follow more Northern European culture.
Taurens do have strong Native American influences, but also adopt cowboy culture.
Orcs follow no set culture, but are more likely modelled after Muslim or Mongolian warriors. If you look at art design for orcs, you'll see many cultural influences (including Asian).
I'm actually quite pleased with how Blizzard has handled race in WoW. Though there are lots of "black is bad" cliches in WoW (dark iron, black dragons, grim totems, *cult orcs), night-elves vs. blood elves are an outstanding exclusion.
The race you're talking about in the last statement are known as the dranei, or "lost ones". I hope the pandaren don't go to alliance, because it wouldn't make much sense.
Depends on what kind of science. Physical Anthropology/Biology is definitely being limited in the United States.
I can't really speak with much authority (I have none), but I teach young kids science afterschool. Whenever I ask how something is created (extinct, living, inanimate), there's usually always a kid who will give God as the answer to all these questions.
On one hand it's none of my business to talk about religion with kids and on the other it's a disservice to let adults plant such an easy solution into their the minds. Instead of thinking, wondering and questioning, kids can always just blame or thank a god for it all. It's just magic.
As for other sciences, I think America is doing fine. We may not be leading edge in many fields where we used to be on top, but that's not so much of a problem rather than a realization that there's a lot of smart people in the world and many of them don't live in the US. It's not that simple, but it's also not something I'd panic over.
We can count on Americans to lead in high-tech weaponry, at least.
Sim Copter and Streets of Sim City weren't great games, but they were still good (entertaining). Both were open ended, and you could either ride around in your city, or actually do missions.
Eitherway, those 3d sim games came out ~6 years before GTA3, and a year before GTA1.
The 15,000 probably wasn't calculated by multiplying GHz -- it's probably done with processing time. RAM would play a huge role in video rendering operations.
Can their 1.6k server machines really equal the computational time of 15k average PCs? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't doubt it.
Napster was fully shutdown years ago, regardless of whether the songs on the network were legal. MP3.com had a vast free music network, but someone decided to upload music that wasn't theirs; mp3.com got sued and had to sell their domain (and no longer do we have access to those files). Limewire will now require licensing in its files, hardly something you'd do for your own personal files.
Even if you are sharing legal items, RIAA is making it harder to do so on p2p networks.
There may be some compounds that we haven't seen, though.
The chart is partially arbitrary and will never be "complete" (in the future there will be new lab created elements, though short-lived). Your sibling post was more accurate in saying that we're not likely (near impossible) to discover any "natural" elements beyond the ones on the periodic table.
There may be some compounds that we haven't seen, though.
"Some" compounds is an understatement. We pretty much will never run out of new compounds to discover.
We have many good theories for origins and formations of galaxies, but nothing more than guesses at the specifics of how the brain functions and develops at a neural level.
The most stated comparison is that we know more about space than the deep sea, though it is questionable.
When you say we have "no clue" that's a given considering the ~infinite complexity of science and information in any field; but compared to many other fields, space knowledge is well devloped and well off.
Communism must be run by a proletariat dictatorship. Although not the same as authoritarian (restrictions over personal life), authoritarian states and dictatorships are very close.
You might be confusing socialism (economics) with communism (economics+politics). Socialism can be run by any type of politcal system (democracy, republic, parliamentary, monarchy, etc.). Once a socialist state is combined with a dictatorship, it becomes a communist state.
That's an oversimplification of what entails communism, but good enough to let people know the difference between communist and socialist control. China is hardly a communist state anymore (most red states were never true communist states), but that's an argument for a different time.
WoW appeals more to the noncompetitive gamer as time goes on. I had two level 60s before I quit, and it just wasn't as fun as it was frustrating.
More hardcore gamers crave PVP -- WoW PvP just doesn't cut it (balance issues, group issues, etc). It's obvious that individual skill isn't as important as time sinking, and WoW will never become a competitive game.
The game really does get boring. The game world becomes dull, and more of a drag to cross, rather than an adventure. Spending hours just to do high level instances just isn't fun. I'm just gonna use that gear to beat down other players, but even that part isn't fun.
I'm banned from donating by the FDA (USA) because I was in West Germany when I was 2 years old.
I actually donated several times without realizing the dates metioned on the saftey survey. Just last year, I realized I didn't qualify and was denied the ability to donate. Felt pretty embarrassing walking out of a donation bus without donating.
Yep... It's definitely a tojan. Spyware is usually a program you install and use regularly with (usually stated in the EULA) privacy invasions for marketing purposes.
This program hides itself as a greeting card program, that you only look at once, and then sets up a spy-app in the background, which is more akin to a trojan horse than normal spyware (such as gatorsoft crapware), especially since it has the ability to launch a webcam.
It's implicit for what this app is used for, and the creator deserves to get his ass handed to him for selling the product (89 bucks? christ!). Everyone who says he wasn't the one using the app should RTFA. The trojan was installed through a greeting card from email, in otherwords from the merchant himself. He also received the same information his clients got (therefore was using the applications also). Not only that, but he deserves to be charged with spam offenses.
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I thought it was up to the writer to substantiate facts with proof and have his peers review the book. It seemed the publisher's job was to keep themselves from being sued for libel and that's it. It it so shocking that a book can actually be incorrect?
There's plenty of books contradicting eachother's "facts" and books later proven to be incorrect, so what exactly has changed since A Million Little Pieces? There's a lot more dangerous books than some junkie's fantasy adventure.
With no privacy, all the skeletons would come out, and maybe we'd be able to see that our skeletons really aren't that bad. For those who do have really bad secrets, i.e. serial rapists, that'll pretty much expose most brutal crimes and help us enforce it or correct it.
I especially think that things such as porn, weird fetishes, funny habits, etc. shouldn't really be secret in the first place. We feel the need to hide these things or end up being seen as abnormal. If it's not hurting anyone else, then what's so abnormal (anti-social would be more accurate word)?
There are cases where hiding information could be crucial, such as political elections. Most Americans feel pretty safe about saying who they voted for, because they know they're mostly protected. If politicians are exposed, it could improve our leadership (finally, honest and trustworthy leaders?).
To a certain extent we're all living partial lies. What happens if we become fully confidential/anonymous or fully exposed? There are good things and bad things for both opposites, and I can't really say for certain if any of those options are bad or good.
One thing is for sure: once the right to privacy is gone, other rights become even more important.
I've had an older working class guy come back hours later with 5 bucks that I accidently gave him in his change. How'd i know he was working class? He told me he understood what it was like, since his previous job was at a store.
Here's a good article on white-collar crime. The same bagel dude was in the book Freaknomics.
Those servers weren't always there. I've met normal Chinese players on my server way before it was introduced in China. There's also the issue of recent immigrants to America. And some just want to play with family and friends overseas.
Even if all the Chinese on the servers were farmers, it still doesn't excuse the rampant racism that goes against all Chinese (making fun of their languages, etc).
Some gamers might applaud PC Gamers efforts, but those gamers are mostly hypocrites who use thottbot.com (still owned by IGE).
The whole issue of chinese gold farmers is full of speculation and made up "facts".
Why is he protecting his wallet over his children? He's found a solution that does both: garbage contact info. Problem solved.
Hmm, I would think that an employer competent enough to be able to sort through and understand a large open-sourced project would be competent enough to program (or at least switch around) their own code. It would also mean that either the programmer is making the design, or that the open source project has a very similar design to his/her own project. It becomes increasingly harder to prove code was stolen for smaller pieces of projects.
On top of that, assuming these projects aren't open-source themselves -- how are OSS groups able to know that companies are stealing their code if OSS groups can't review the code itself?
You also gotta ask the question, "Why just open-source?" There's plenty of proprietary code to be stolen too.
Is the GPL (or other open source licenses) that complicated that you just can't hire (or task) someone to review your development practices to be in accordance?
Well, it's Lloyd's of London subdivision offering this (the same people who insure body parts), so it's probably more publicity than anything.
Here's some (just off the head) comparisons:
I'm actually quite pleased with how Blizzard has handled race in WoW. Though there are lots of "black is bad" cliches in WoW (dark iron, black dragons, grim totems, *cult orcs), night-elves vs. blood elves are an outstanding exclusion.
The race you're talking about in the last statement are known as the dranei, or "lost ones". I hope the pandaren don't go to alliance, because it wouldn't make much sense.
Depends on what kind of science. Physical Anthropology/Biology is definitely being limited in the United States.
I can't really speak with much authority (I have none), but I teach young kids science afterschool. Whenever I ask how something is created (extinct, living, inanimate), there's usually always a kid who will give God as the answer to all these questions.
On one hand it's none of my business to talk about religion with kids and on the other it's a disservice to let adults plant such an easy solution into their the minds. Instead of thinking, wondering and questioning, kids can always just blame or thank a god for it all. It's just magic.
As for other sciences, I think America is doing fine. We may not be leading edge in many fields where we used to be on top, but that's not so much of a problem rather than a realization that there's a lot of smart people in the world and many of them don't live in the US. It's not that simple, but it's also not something I'd panic over.
We can count on Americans to lead in high-tech weaponry, at least.
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Both Sim Copter and Streets of Sim City were 3d games in the perspective of one character.
Sim Copter and Streets of Sim City weren't great games, but they were still good (entertaining). Both were open ended, and you could either ride around in your city, or actually do missions.
Eitherway, those 3d sim games came out ~6 years before GTA3, and a year before GTA1.
Wrong... Check out Streets of Sim City and Sim Copter. Both were 3d worlds and played from the perspective of one character.
Check out some sim copter screens... Remind you of something else?
The 15,000 probably wasn't calculated by multiplying GHz -- it's probably done with processing time. RAM would play a huge role in video rendering operations.
Can their 1.6k server machines really equal the computational time of 15k average PCs? I'm not sure, but I wouldn't doubt it.
My text messages get rejected when I send too many from my phone (I pay 10 bucks a month for unlimited IM adn text).
Napster was fully shutdown years ago, regardless of whether the songs on the network were legal. MP3.com had a vast free music network, but someone decided to upload music that wasn't theirs; mp3.com got sued and had to sell their domain (and no longer do we have access to those files). Limewire will now require licensing in its files, hardly something you'd do for your own personal files.
Even if you are sharing legal items, RIAA is making it harder to do so on p2p networks.
Hyperbole. Learn what it is. Do lady killers kill ladies?
A good person can be called a saint, although they don't qualify under church doctrine. I can only imagine the fits you have when that happens.
In that case, I rescind what I said.
We have many good theories for origins and formations of galaxies, but nothing more than guesses at the specifics of how the brain functions and develops at a neural level.
The most stated comparison is that we know more about space than the deep sea, though it is questionable.
When you say we have "no clue" that's a given considering the ~infinite complexity of science and information in any field; but compared to many other fields, space knowledge is well devloped and well off.
Communism must be run by a proletariat dictatorship. Although not the same as authoritarian (restrictions over personal life), authoritarian states and dictatorships are very close.
You might be confusing socialism (economics) with communism (economics+politics). Socialism can be run by any type of politcal system (democracy, republic, parliamentary, monarchy, etc.). Once a socialist state is combined with a dictatorship, it becomes a communist state.
That's an oversimplification of what entails communism, but good enough to let people know the difference between communist and socialist control. China is hardly a communist state anymore (most red states were never true communist states), but that's an argument for a different time.
WoW appeals more to the noncompetitive gamer as time goes on. I had two level 60s before I quit, and it just wasn't as fun as it was frustrating.
More hardcore gamers crave PVP -- WoW PvP just doesn't cut it (balance issues, group issues, etc). It's obvious that individual skill isn't as important as time sinking, and WoW will never become a competitive game.
The game really does get boring. The game world becomes dull, and more of a drag to cross, rather than an adventure. Spending hours just to do high level instances just isn't fun. I'm just gonna use that gear to beat down other players, but even that part isn't fun.
Software copyright and mechanical patents are not the same thing. Software can't have patent unless integrated with a hardware patent.
I'm banned from donating by the FDA (USA) because I was in West Germany when I was 2 years old.
I actually donated several times without realizing the dates metioned on the saftey survey. Just last year, I realized I didn't qualify and was denied the ability to donate. Felt pretty embarrassing walking out of a donation bus without donating.
Yep... It's definitely a tojan. Spyware is usually a program you install and use regularly with (usually stated in the EULA) privacy invasions for marketing purposes.
This program hides itself as a greeting card program, that you only look at once, and then sets up a spy-app in the background, which is more akin to a trojan horse than normal spyware (such as gatorsoft crapware), especially since it has the ability to launch a webcam.
It's implicit for what this app is used for, and the creator deserves to get his ass handed to him for selling the product (89 bucks? christ!). Everyone who says he wasn't the one using the app should RTFA. The trojan was installed through a greeting card from email, in otherwords from the merchant himself. He also received the same information his clients got (therefore was using the applications also). Not only that, but he deserves to be charged with spam offenses.