Well, maybe not, but Cornell researchers found that autism spiked when cable TV became more widespread. It may or may not be related...of course, there is the factor of affluence and whether autism would be more likely to be diagnosed and treated in households that could afford cable. Maybe there's a statistically significance between whether or not parents of autistic children drive luxury cars or own large houses, too, but who knows. However, there was a difference in autism rates when correlated to television watching.
Considering the greatest impact manned space travel has had on my life is probably freeze dried fruit in my morning cereal, that's a pretty lousy cost-to-benefit ratio. Until there's something better than a rocket for propulsion, I don't think manned space flight makes sense. However, the rovers and robots are definitely worth it. I think it makes a whole more sense than trying to shoot people into space.
Wait...computer science is the practical application of symbolic logic. Western science as we know it is rooted in Western philosophy to the point that science didn't become it's own little domain until that Renaissance thing. Philosophy has zero practical real world application except as philosophy (i.e. the study of knowledge). I say this as someone with a philosophy minor and my wife has a masters in philosophy...believe me, nobody has ever quizzed us on Kant's moral imperative in a job interview or expected anything on dualism.
All three of those companies are based in Texas and connected somehow to the culture of Apogee, shareware, Doom, and id...okay, so their company isn't Texas game developer culture...what is? I don't think that's a representative sample of developers for comparison. There's a definite "frat boy" geek attitude that permeated id from Doom to Quake II...more rock star than anything else. Romero and Carmack both redefined what it meant to be in games and game development.
The lenders writing these loans were creating mortgage pools with say 70% Class A loans, 20% Class B, and 10% Class C. Being in the lending business, they then made all these mortgages available to mortgage brokers, who sold them as retail products. Brokers don't get paid unless the loan closes and with the assumption of appreciation and the ability to do self-reported income, they misrepresented what kind of credit risk buyers were to sell loans. Suffice to say, the problem is there was a third party who carefully made it look that buyer really could afford payments over the life of the loan.
Collateral merely means the lien holder must be paid first in any sale after the origination of the loan. Lenders don't care about equity, that's not what they're generating income from. They're looking at the income stream from the loan and the collateral deal is secondary, it's to make sure if the loan goes bad, they get paid first. Lenders are not in the business of buying & selling real estate for profit, they in the business of selling money.
An adjustable rate mortgage, in and of out itself is not bad. In fact, before the reforms brought on by Great Depression centralized home lending into one system, the local bank would give you a ballon loan for 5 or 10 years, then refinance it or bounce it, and so on until the house was yours. 30 year mortgages were an effect of the federal banking system and didn't become common until post-WW II.
The high risk mortgage comes in where people were allowed to outright lie about their income and took on mortgage products traditionally used by people who had sterling credit. But the key is the outright lie there...if you're making 20K and then the broker has fluffed and self-reported your income to 50K or 60K, it doesn't matter what kind of loan you have, it's going bad.
On top of that, everybody went "Real Estate always goes UP!!!" which is flat out wrong and then used that to rate a loan that should have been a D into a B or C, thus putting a whole lot less risk on paper and making mortgage backed securities look like treasury bonds when they more like junk bonds.
Anyone have an over/under on how many Pentium FPU jokes there will be? Although I would think they would be smart enough to write the code around that particular bug causing a fatal error in the flight control computer.
More seriously, any large, complicated project is straddled with technology it's designed with to some extent, especially something that has lead times measured in years or decades, like warplanes. I would think that the B-2 is now not far from being equal to any other modern plane in avonics.
How is differentiating science and philosophy censorship? ID fails being testable and then proceeds to use the Watchmaker argument that has been around since the 18th century. I wouldn't go as far to say ID is blatantly Platonic but the idea that there is a master blueprint carries uncomfortable parallels to Platonic forms. ID sounds like a mish-mash of Western philosophy masquerading as "science", no doubt helped by the origins of Western science being found in Western philosophy.
Think about how much it would mess with the system if everyone in Ohio or Florida decided to swap their vote for the Republicrat or Demopublican candidates for the Libertatian or Green Party candidate...ooooh, it makes all fuzzy inside. But I really doubt there's enough people who are really willing to mess with the system and it make it worthwhile.
Did I miss something? Is medicine no longer science? And the Band Played On shows up as number 86 and deals primarily with the social and governmental response to the AIDS epidemic but also discusses the initial epidemic and the medical response. Not pure science but as close to science as one will find on a "popular" list of books.
Also, I found the the graphic novels interesting: Sandman, Maus, Watchmen all show up...not science but definitive evidence the geek culture has gone mainstream...
It is possible that the Democrats will sweep into Congress as well as the White House in Nov. and purge the influence of Bush and his legacy from the hallowed halls of Washington...although not particularly likely considering Obama is merely a tool of the Chicago political machine and the democratic leadership...
What this really means is we'll get touchy-feely torture and compassionate wiretapping by our new Democratic Overlords...oh joy!
I'm officially ashamed to be an American let alone admit I've voted...at least if I didn't vote, I wouldn't be part of the problem. Has anyone of these clowns ever read the Constitution? What is so challenging about English? No unreasonable search and seizure. Not a hard concept.
Didn't anybody else wonder how Ballard got funding for a picture taking expedition? Salvage in the ocean is basically anyone's ball game and is funded on premise of profit...who else other than the Navy would be funding essentially R&D for salvage without salvaging anything?
I see bars offering free WiFi to attract fantasy sports nuts, WiFi is becoming more and mainstream every day...soon everybody will be expected to offer it as service to their customers. That's the real news...WiFi has gone mainstream to the point that charging for it will cause people to choose one establishment over another...
Thumbs down on the blog link - the original CNet news story (link) is much more detailed and has this tidbit - Based on the number of "missing" iPhones, each of the 4,400 worldwide iPhone retailers "had more than 150 units of channel inventory at the beginning of this year" which sure sounds like they're counting them F.O.B. from Apple's warehouse door, not when it's actually sold to a consumer.
1) I can't remember the last time I saw a rating on a book...any book...the last I checked, if your 12 or 13 year old has a library card, they can go check out Stephen King, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, V.C. Andrews...all kinds of books depicting violence and sex without anybody saying much of anything.
2) Age is a number, it may provide a yardstick for maturity but it doesn't have a 1:1 correlation to it...just because someone made it to 20, doesn't necessarily mean that should any more or less freedom than a 14 year old.
3) As an individual, it's my responsibility to evaluate whether or not something is an acceptable risk. I know I evaluate all the games my children are allowed to play and determine yes or no based on their maturity and the content of the game. Ratings provide a false sense of security and don't usually tell me anything until I play the game. There are some pretty obvious ones but football is based on the principle of pummeling the other guy to stop the ball yet all of the games I've seen have been rated E...with no-one bothering to acknowledge the violence.
4) Thank you puritans for managing to mess with American society 300 years later! That's so swell!
This was mentioned above but to answer your question:
The FCC is in the process of selling off a huge chunk of spectrum currently occupied by analogue TV broadcasts...part of it goes to a nationwide, standard emergency radio frequencies, the rest goes towards that little Google Phone thing and its associated spectrum. Which is all great except the FCC is selling off spectrum already in use and nominally owned by the US public...hence the subsidy and the reshuffle to digital TV. The voucher is so they don't brick the TVs in the 20 million or so odd households that relay on OTA broadcasts. The vouchers are being funded by the spectrum sell off and are part of the whole deal.
AT&T's network is GSM, any unlocked GSM device can be used on it. But access to the network must still be purchased. Android is geared toward creating standard, open devices. That's two different things. AT&T is trying to cash in on buzz for "open" but as far as I can tell, there's not good reason Android and GSM are incompatible.
No, the really interesting thing (and your post made me notice this after reading all the replies here), is that as long as the gender mix in a MMOG resembles real life in an approximate 50:50 gender mix seen on the screen, enough people respond to an arbitrary gender choice that it affects the game play experience. It's not magical thinking that playing a female avatar incurs an advantage but it's because of the conditioning and stereotypes people use to navigate real life, not actual programming choices. Seeing a 50:50 gender mix on the screen seems to make the brain (subconsciously perhaps) revert into normal navigation mode for real life social topography, which puts all the stereotypes about men and women into play and affects actual game play decisions.
That's like saying New Yorkers get paid more than Clevelanders...which is only half true since it's cheaper to live in Cleveland than New York, so you can pay people less for the same work. $1,200 bucks a month gets a small apartment in New York as opposed to a large house in Cleveland. Cost of living is a good yardstick to determine whether or not that same position is actually a raise or just a cost of living adjustment.
1) who says that the Northwest Passage myth has anything to do with water? As traveling west and then north from Europe will lead to the land-bridge between Siberia and Alaska before written history but within oral history (one would think given ape capacity for language.)
2)What is to say we don't have a pre-history Death Valley? i.e. Death Valley was a passable route during the winter, when it was recorded in written records. However, the infamous deathly crossing took place in spring to summer...when there were indeed desert conditions in effect.
But I'm ruling out global warming here, as our current energy cycle is far from carbon neutral...(bio-diesel bias here)
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Well, maybe not, but Cornell researchers found that autism spiked when cable TV became more widespread. It may or may not be related...of course, there is the factor of affluence and whether autism would be more likely to be diagnosed and treated in households that could afford cable. Maybe there's a statistically significance between whether or not parents of autistic children drive luxury cars or own large houses, too, but who knows. However, there was a difference in autism rates when correlated to television watching.
Considering the greatest impact manned space travel has had on my life is probably freeze dried fruit in my morning cereal, that's a pretty lousy cost-to-benefit ratio. Until there's something better than a rocket for propulsion, I don't think manned space flight makes sense. However, the rovers and robots are definitely worth it. I think it makes a whole more sense than trying to shoot people into space.
The FCC took in 19.6 billion for the 700 mhz spectrum auction selling an asset of the US government...which last I checked is every US citizens.
Wait...computer science is the practical application of symbolic logic. Western science as we know it is rooted in Western philosophy to the point that science didn't become it's own little domain until that Renaissance thing. Philosophy has zero practical real world application except as philosophy (i.e. the study of knowledge). I say this as someone with a philosophy minor and my wife has a masters in philosophy...believe me, nobody has ever quizzed us on Kant's moral imperative in a job interview or expected anything on dualism.
All three of those companies are based in Texas and connected somehow to the culture of Apogee, shareware, Doom, and id...okay, so their company isn't Texas game developer culture...what is? I don't think that's a representative sample of developers for comparison. There's a definite "frat boy" geek attitude that permeated id from Doom to Quake II...more rock star than anything else. Romero and Carmack both redefined what it meant to be in games and game development.
The lenders writing these loans were creating mortgage pools with say 70% Class A loans, 20% Class B, and 10% Class C. Being in the lending business, they then made all these mortgages available to mortgage brokers, who sold them as retail products. Brokers don't get paid unless the loan closes and with the assumption of appreciation and the ability to do self-reported income, they misrepresented what kind of credit risk buyers were to sell loans. Suffice to say, the problem is there was a third party who carefully made it look that buyer really could afford payments over the life of the loan.
Collateral merely means the lien holder must be paid first in any sale after the origination of the loan. Lenders don't care about equity, that's not what they're generating income from. They're looking at the income stream from the loan and the collateral deal is secondary, it's to make sure if the loan goes bad, they get paid first. Lenders are not in the business of buying & selling real estate for profit, they in the business of selling money.
An adjustable rate mortgage, in and of out itself is not bad. In fact, before the reforms brought on by Great Depression centralized home lending into one system, the local bank would give you a ballon loan for 5 or 10 years, then refinance it or bounce it, and so on until the house was yours. 30 year mortgages were an effect of the federal banking system and didn't become common until post-WW II.
The high risk mortgage comes in where people were allowed to outright lie about their income and took on mortgage products traditionally used by people who had sterling credit. But the key is the outright lie there...if you're making 20K and then the broker has fluffed and self-reported your income to 50K or 60K, it doesn't matter what kind of loan you have, it's going bad.
On top of that, everybody went "Real Estate always goes UP!!!" which is flat out wrong and then used that to rate a loan that should have been a D into a B or C, thus putting a whole lot less risk on paper and making mortgage backed securities look like treasury bonds when they more like junk bonds.
Anyone have an over/under on how many Pentium FPU jokes there will be? Although I would think they would be smart enough to write the code around that particular bug causing a fatal error in the flight control computer.
More seriously, any large, complicated project is straddled with technology it's designed with to some extent, especially something that has lead times measured in years or decades, like warplanes. I would think that the B-2 is now not far from being equal to any other modern plane in avonics.
How is differentiating science and philosophy censorship? ID fails being testable and then proceeds to use the Watchmaker argument that has been around since the 18th century. I wouldn't go as far to say ID is blatantly Platonic but the idea that there is a master blueprint carries uncomfortable parallels to Platonic forms. ID sounds like a mish-mash of Western philosophy masquerading as "science", no doubt helped by the origins of Western science being found in Western philosophy.
Think about how much it would mess with the system if everyone in Ohio or Florida decided to swap their vote for the Republicrat or Demopublican candidates for the Libertatian or Green Party candidate...ooooh, it makes all fuzzy inside. But I really doubt there's enough people who are really willing to mess with the system and it make it worthwhile.
Did I miss something? Is medicine no longer science? And the Band Played On shows up as number 86 and deals primarily with the social and governmental response to the AIDS epidemic but also discusses the initial epidemic and the medical response. Not pure science but as close to science as one will find on a "popular" list of books. Also, I found the the graphic novels interesting: Sandman, Maus, Watchmen all show up...not science but definitive evidence the geek culture has gone mainstream...
It is possible that the Democrats will sweep into Congress as well as the White House in Nov. and purge the influence of Bush and his legacy from the hallowed halls of Washington...although not particularly likely considering Obama is merely a tool of the Chicago political machine and the democratic leadership... What this really means is we'll get touchy-feely torture and compassionate wiretapping by our new Democratic Overlords...oh joy! I'm officially ashamed to be an American let alone admit I've voted...at least if I didn't vote, I wouldn't be part of the problem. Has anyone of these clowns ever read the Constitution? What is so challenging about English? No unreasonable search and seizure. Not a hard concept.
Didn't anybody else wonder how Ballard got funding for a picture taking expedition? Salvage in the ocean is basically anyone's ball game and is funded on premise of profit...who else other than the Navy would be funding essentially R&D for salvage without salvaging anything?
I see bars offering free WiFi to attract fantasy sports nuts, WiFi is becoming more and mainstream every day...soon everybody will be expected to offer it as service to their customers. That's the real news...WiFi has gone mainstream to the point that charging for it will cause people to choose one establishment over another...
Thumbs down on the blog link - the original CNet news story (link) is much more detailed and has this tidbit - Based on the number of "missing" iPhones, each of the 4,400 worldwide iPhone retailers "had more than 150 units of channel inventory at the beginning of this year" which sure sounds like they're counting them F.O.B. from Apple's warehouse door, not when it's actually sold to a consumer.
1) I can't remember the last time I saw a rating on a book...any book...the last I checked, if your 12 or 13 year old has a library card, they can go check out Stephen King, Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, V.C. Andrews...all kinds of books depicting violence and sex without anybody saying much of anything.
2) Age is a number, it may provide a yardstick for maturity but it doesn't have a 1:1 correlation to it...just because someone made it to 20, doesn't necessarily mean that should any more or less freedom than a 14 year old.
3) As an individual, it's my responsibility to evaluate whether or not something is an acceptable risk. I know I evaluate all the games my children are allowed to play and determine yes or no based on their maturity and the content of the game. Ratings provide a false sense of security and don't usually tell me anything until I play the game. There are some pretty obvious ones but football is based on the principle of pummeling the other guy to stop the ball yet all of the games I've seen have been rated E...with no-one bothering to acknowledge the violence.
4) Thank you puritans for managing to mess with American society 300 years later! That's so swell!
This was mentioned above but to answer your question: The FCC is in the process of selling off a huge chunk of spectrum currently occupied by analogue TV broadcasts...part of it goes to a nationwide, standard emergency radio frequencies, the rest goes towards that little Google Phone thing and its associated spectrum. Which is all great except the FCC is selling off spectrum already in use and nominally owned by the US public...hence the subsidy and the reshuffle to digital TV. The voucher is so they don't brick the TVs in the 20 million or so odd households that relay on OTA broadcasts. The vouchers are being funded by the spectrum sell off and are part of the whole deal.
AT&T's network is GSM, any unlocked GSM device can be used on it. But access to the network must still be purchased. Android is geared toward creating standard, open devices. That's two different things. AT&T is trying to cash in on buzz for "open" but as far as I can tell, there's not good reason Android and GSM are incompatible.
I believe that people were clustering PS2 for research shortly after the release of the linux kit...cheap processing power is cheap processing power.
No, the really interesting thing (and your post made me notice this after reading all the replies here), is that as long as the gender mix in a MMOG resembles real life in an approximate 50:50 gender mix seen on the screen, enough people respond to an arbitrary gender choice that it affects the game play experience. It's not magical thinking that playing a female avatar incurs an advantage but it's because of the conditioning and stereotypes people use to navigate real life, not actual programming choices. Seeing a 50:50 gender mix on the screen seems to make the brain (subconsciously perhaps) revert into normal navigation mode for real life social topography, which puts all the stereotypes about men and women into play and affects actual game play decisions.
That's like saying New Yorkers get paid more than Clevelanders...which is only half true since it's cheaper to live in Cleveland than New York, so you can pay people less for the same work. $1,200 bucks a month gets a small apartment in New York as opposed to a large house in Cleveland. Cost of living is a good yardstick to determine whether or not that same position is actually a raise or just a cost of living adjustment.
It should read: "But I'm *NOT* ruling out global warming here, as our current energy cycle is far from carbon neutral...(bio-diesel bias here)
1) who says that the Northwest Passage myth has anything to do with water? As traveling west and then north from Europe will lead to the land-bridge between Siberia and Alaska before written history but within oral history (one would think given ape capacity for language.) 2)What is to say we don't have a pre-history Death Valley? i.e. Death Valley was a passable route during the winter, when it was recorded in written records. However, the infamous deathly crossing took place in spring to summer...when there were indeed desert conditions in effect. But I'm ruling out global warming here, as our current energy cycle is far from carbon neutral...(bio-diesel bias here)
Huh? Padron grows their tobacco in Nicaragua using Habano stock...
Yeah, big box retailers had them until very recently...last summer I briefly considered one before realizing I was better off buying a PS2...