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...but usually twin studies take this into account, including identical twins who were for one reason or another raised in different families (often as a result of adoption). Researchers are not all stupid; they tend to take these things into account when designing the study.
I mean, part of the idea of a "film" is controlling the perspectives and what you present to your viewer. Somehow I have a hard time imagining this going past the art-house type movie, because the amount of work that the director has to do increases dramatically. Since you can't be sure what direction your audience is looking it, it would make it difficult to have a feature film in the sense that we're used to it...for example:
Jim: Wow, that guy just robbed a bank! Sue: What guy? I was looking at those flowers over there. [Camera whirls around, both get dizzy and throw up since they can't tell where to focus]
I'm being silly, but it just seems pretty difficult. That said, it's a cool technology, and if someone could tell me how they plan to deal with that whole focus issue in the context of a feature film, I'd be interested to hear it.
Seriously, are they just wiping all non-DRM'd content from your system if it matches some sort of checksum or keywords? I'm not sure how they can tell what movies and music files are "illegal," from TFA.
But I presume that the gas is injected into the side of the chamber at an angle, so that it rotates around due to collision with the rounded walls. Not too mysterious. I'm just wondering about that high rate of rotation.
The issue is that above a certain level (I believe $19,000 annual total family income when I was a kid), you no longer qualify for food stamps/welfare.
In my parents' case, my sister died of meningitis, and my second sister had massive problems with pneumonia; like many people in the US, they had no health insurance, which left them with massive medical bills. Paying off the medical bills and rent and utilities most months left precious little for anything else, including fuel for the car, basic food supplies, etc.
So I don't think calling this a "myth" is accurate.
Agreed, but per my childhood experience, actual hunger is not completely gone. I daresay my family wasn't the only one. There is a point at which you make just enough money to be out of the poverty line, so can't qualify for foodstamps - but it's not enough to properly feed/clothe/etc your family. I forget what this point is called, but it's fairly common. You're damned if you work, damned if you don't.
And malnutrition is a pretty huge problem. It's a self-reinforcing cycle to an extent; you eat crappy food because it's all you can afford, so you get overweight and people say it's because you eat crappy food. I had to deal with that too.
Burger = one of those high calorie/not-so-high nutrition foods, unless it's homemade, imo.
Check this link for statistics (with sources) - some 30 million people in the US itself experience some level of hunger.
I've been there; when I was a kid, there was a period of time when my parents had no food in the house, and my mother baked corn meal and water because we had absolutely nothing left. We were the recipients of the local church "feed a needy family" that year, and that wasn't really fun.
Even I fell for this, to an extent, but not with video games.
I'm 24, with no kids, but I'd always considered "comic books" to be kids' stuff. This year I finally opened my mind and checked out some of the classic graphic novels like V for Vendetta. No way is that stuff at a kid's level; I think most kids would completely miss at least 50% of what Moore was saying there, and the violence level was disturbingly high in that, as well as, say, something like The Watchmen or Hellblazer. Again, not something I'd imagine most parents would want their kids to be steeped in. GTA sounds like it's at about that level.
With that said, I also think most parents are complete morons when it comes to deciding what their kids should/shouldn't be allowed to do, and also morons for blaming anyone but themselves if they aren't keeping track of their kids and have no idea what they're up to.
Well, registration is all great, but honestly, I have edited a couple of articles without vandalizing them, and contributed to at least one as well. If I had to register, I wouldn't have bothered.
I honestly think Wikipedia works great. People need to stop thinking in terms of traditional static enyclopedias, and realize that if something breaks on Wikipedia, they just check back in a few minutes/hours. Most things are fixed pretty damn quickly; I have yet to see a page defaced for any length of time. If you need static information or you can't wait, get Britannica.
but if more science was glamorized like this, I think you'd see more interest in it. I'm sure you could do a version with some appeal to the ladies as well.
Let's never leave our little shielded planet because we might get cancer!
Seriously, I'm sure that there are thousands of people who would line up, despite that 10% chance of a disease that some of them will get anyway. I would.
Go to Mars, keep working on cancer cure. Everybody wins.:-)
...when my cable ISP capped NNTP at 32kB/s because of the binary groups. That's all fine, because I usually use bittorrent or eDonkey for downloading files, but it has the side effect of making headers require several minutes to download in some of the larger groups. I'm sure this wouldn't help small groups, but it would surely take some of the load off of the NNTP server if a torrent-like system could be used to distribute the pages.
I've posted this before, but supposedly this company has technology to stream HTTP torrent-style. No idea if that's vaporware or what.
I was involved with a group analyzing a major survey of internet usage, and they published analysis that concluded that most people communicate by email online. This, of course, is the way that the lead researcher communicates online; he (at the time, and perhaps still) couldn't use IM to save his life. He wouldn't know where to start.
Of course, there was no option on the survey to determine whether people preferred to use instant messaging - only an option for "chat rooms," which isn't the same thing at all. I pointed this out, but was pretty much ignored and the results were published saying that "everyone uses email and nobody chats online" and that hence "asynchronous" communication was preferred online. (Funny enough, this is accidentally mildly accurate as IM is actually somewhat asynchronous as well, but that is purely coincidental.)
That's what happens when you have old people writing surveys who have no clue about how younger people actually use the internet. This was obvious years ago.
...there is a large base of users who still use Windows 98 because it runs decently and reliably on older hardware, and as long as you aren't trying to use the latest games or whatnot, it works just fine.
Take me,for instance. I run Debian unstable on my primary laptop, with a WinXP partition just for the odd game. My girlfriend runs Windows 98 on her older laptop, along with OpenOffice.org and Firefox and a number of other programs that are more reliable, less flawed, etc, than the Microsoft options.
Obviously by failing to put out a version of IE that will run on her old machine, MS is losing any chance that it might otherwise have to win back one of these lost users who just switched to Firefox because IE6 was so badly broken, and who can't afford the time and/or money to bother switching to a newer system that can properly handle XP (not to mention the cost of an XP upgrade).
Ultimately it's not really important, but it will definitely cost MS when users like my girlfriend realize that they aren't bound to windows/IE, and that Microsoft will say "fuck you" if your equipment is too old or you don't want to shell out $$$ for an OS upgrade.
I can say that the coolest potential for this is as a training tool. It would be pretty neat to watch yourself real-time and possibly have a game designed around your art that required precision and skill to win.
I don't think there has ever existed a form of government where those in power would not use it for their own ends if not watched carefully. Nothing new here, really. Just probably easier after all the constitutional erosion for things like this to happen - but it's not like there haven't been chances all along to stop that erosion, if people had been watching and non-apathetic. I think the collective "we" have made our bed; even though I hate the fact that I'm included in that collective, I can't make the argument that nobody saw it coming.
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...but usually twin studies take this into account, including identical twins who were for one reason or another raised in different families (often as a result of adoption). Researchers are not all stupid; they tend to take these things into account when designing the study.
...as a director.
I mean, part of the idea of a "film" is controlling the perspectives and what you present to your viewer. Somehow I have a hard time imagining this going past the art-house type movie, because the amount of work that the director has to do increases dramatically. Since you can't be sure what direction your audience is looking it, it would make it difficult to have a feature film in the sense that we're used to it...for example:
Jim: Wow, that guy just robbed a bank!
Sue: What guy? I was looking at those flowers over there.
[Camera whirls around, both get dizzy and throw up since they can't tell where to focus]
I'm being silly, but it just seems pretty difficult. That said, it's a cool technology, and if someone could tell me how they plan to deal with that whole focus issue in the context of a feature film, I'd be interested to hear it.
Seriously, are they just wiping all non-DRM'd content from your system if it matches some sort of checksum or keywords? I'm not sure how they can tell what movies and music files are "illegal," from TFA.
It's really my poor physics terminology; those "tangential inlets" are what I was referring to with the idea of "angled inputs."
But I presume that the gas is injected into the side of the chamber at an angle, so that it rotates around due to collision with the rounded walls. Not too mysterious. I'm just wondering about that high rate of rotation.
to make that "high rate of rotation (over 1,000,000 rpm)." Better use the ice on your legs after.
That's not quite correct.
The issue is that above a certain level (I believe $19,000 annual total family income when I was a kid), you no longer qualify for food stamps/welfare.
In my parents' case, my sister died of meningitis, and my second sister had massive problems with pneumonia; like many people in the US, they had no health insurance, which left them with massive medical bills. Paying off the medical bills and rent and utilities most months left precious little for anything else, including fuel for the car, basic food supplies, etc.
So I don't think calling this a "myth" is accurate.
Agreed, but per my childhood experience, actual hunger is not completely gone. I daresay my family wasn't the only one. There is a point at which you make just enough money to be out of the poverty line, so can't qualify for foodstamps - but it's not enough to properly feed/clothe/etc your family. I forget what this point is called, but it's fairly common. You're damned if you work, damned if you don't.
And malnutrition is a pretty huge problem. It's a self-reinforcing cycle to an extent; you eat crappy food because it's all you can afford, so you get overweight and people say it's because you eat crappy food. I had to deal with that too.
Burger = one of those high calorie/not-so-high nutrition foods, unless it's homemade, imo.
Check this link for statistics (with sources) - some 30 million people in the US itself experience some level of hunger.
I've been there; when I was a kid, there was a period of time when my parents had no food in the house, and my mother baked corn meal and water because we had absolutely nothing left. We were the recipients of the local church "feed a needy family" that year, and that wasn't really fun.
Even I fell for this, to an extent, but not with video games.
I'm 24, with no kids, but I'd always considered "comic books" to be kids' stuff. This year I finally opened my mind and checked out some of the classic graphic novels like V for Vendetta. No way is that stuff at a kid's level; I think most kids would completely miss at least 50% of what Moore was saying there, and the violence level was disturbingly high in that, as well as, say, something like The Watchmen or Hellblazer. Again, not something I'd imagine most parents would want their kids to be steeped in. GTA sounds like it's at about that level.
With that said, I also think most parents are complete morons when it comes to deciding what their kids should/shouldn't be allowed to do, and also morons for blaming anyone but themselves if they aren't keeping track of their kids and have no idea what they're up to.
...plastic imitation vaginas to work solve this problem?
Well, registration is all great, but honestly, I have edited a couple of articles without vandalizing them, and contributed to at least one as well. If I had to register, I wouldn't have bothered.
I honestly think Wikipedia works great. People need to stop thinking in terms of traditional static enyclopedias, and realize that if something breaks on Wikipedia, they just check back in a few minutes/hours. Most things are fixed pretty damn quickly; I have yet to see a page defaced for any length of time. If you need static information or you can't wait, get Britannica.
...it feels like if they do this, it won't be the Wikipedia we all know and love.
I wonder if this means that various Wikipedia forks will be gaining a lot of contributors?
but if more science was glamorized like this, I think you'd see more interest in it. I'm sure you could do a version with some appeal to the ladies as well.
Don't have mod points, but you have points here that are valid.:-)
...that only men will go? I'll get all the hot Martian babes while you stay in your boring cancer-free (you hope) basement.:-)
Let's never leave our little shielded planet because we might get cancer!
Seriously, I'm sure that there are thousands of people who would line up, despite that 10% chance of a disease that some of them will get anyway. I would.
Go to Mars, keep working on cancer cure. Everybody wins.:-)
...when my cable ISP capped NNTP at 32kB/s because of the binary groups. That's all fine, because I usually use bittorrent or eDonkey for downloading files, but it has the side effect of making headers require several minutes to download in some of the larger groups. I'm sure this wouldn't help small groups, but it would surely take some of the load off of the NNTP server if a torrent-like system could be used to distribute the pages.
I've posted this before, but supposedly this company has technology to stream HTTP torrent-style. No idea if that's vaporware or what.
I was involved with a group analyzing a major survey of internet usage, and they published analysis that concluded that most people communicate by email online. This, of course, is the way that the lead researcher communicates online; he (at the time, and perhaps still) couldn't use IM to save his life. He wouldn't know where to start.
Of course, there was no option on the survey to determine whether people preferred to use instant messaging - only an option for "chat rooms," which isn't the same thing at all. I pointed this out, but was pretty much ignored and the results were published saying that "everyone uses email and nobody chats online" and that hence "asynchronous" communication was preferred online. (Funny enough, this is accidentally mildly accurate as IM is actually somewhat asynchronous as well, but that is purely coincidental.)
That's what happens when you have old people writing surveys who have no clue about how younger people actually use the internet. This was obvious years ago.
That quote is the funniest geek shit I have heard in at least a decade!
I guess the latest ATI or Nvidia offering is better than no sex at all, though, which is what these guys are obviously getting.
...there is a large base of users who still use Windows 98 because it runs decently and reliably on older hardware, and as long as you aren't trying to use the latest games or whatnot, it works just fine.
Take me,for instance. I run Debian unstable on my primary laptop, with a WinXP partition just for the odd game. My girlfriend runs Windows 98 on her older laptop, along with OpenOffice.org and Firefox and a number of other programs that are more reliable, less flawed, etc, than the Microsoft options.
Obviously by failing to put out a version of IE that will run on her old machine, MS is losing any chance that it might otherwise have to win back one of these lost users who just switched to Firefox because IE6 was so badly broken, and who can't afford the time and/or money to bother switching to a newer system that can properly handle XP (not to mention the cost of an XP upgrade).
Ultimately it's not really important, but it will definitely cost MS when users like my girlfriend realize that they aren't bound to windows/IE, and that Microsoft will say "fuck you" if your equipment is too old or you don't want to shell out $$$ for an OS upgrade.
...if someone wrote that about my house I'd be worried that they WANTED someone to break in. It reads like tactical analysis.
...does that make this tripe?
I can say that the coolest potential for this is as a training tool. It would be pretty neat to watch yourself real-time and possibly have a game designed around your art that required precision and skill to win.
That is, if you had the $$$ for the equipment.
I don't think there has ever existed a form of government where those in power would not use it for their own ends if not watched carefully. Nothing new here, really. Just probably easier after all the constitutional erosion for things like this to happen - but it's not like there haven't been chances all along to stop that erosion, if people had been watching and non-apathetic. I think the collective "we" have made our bed; even though I hate the fact that I'm included in that collective, I can't make the argument that nobody saw it coming.