That's the worst invention ever. You can see only the screen, and only you can see the screen. This means you can't see me coming up to club you and steal your laptop. Idiot.
Could it be that the branding and the visual experience, the reference to tradition, memory, and social status are a part of the product?
Well, we have this thing we call a "Scam" where we label something as "better" when it's not. Municipal tap water bottled up and given a label is bought because it's "Better than tap water" by people who don't want to drink the toxic chemicals in tap water. China has a $70/bottle beer that's just Pabst Blue Ribbon with a fancy label slapped on it. Some small farmers raise cows on grass field grazing with no rBGH and no unnecessary antibiotics; they slap "organic" on a subset of their milk bottles and charge extra, but both the "organic" and "regular" milks are filled from the same batch, right out of the same vat.
I try to use Pepsi as an example because more people prefer Pepsi, overwhelmingly. More to the point, Pepsi is simply a better product.
Back in the 70s (and again in the 90s), Pepsi had this great idea: They were going to do the "Pepsi Challenge." In a double blind study, people would get samples of Pepsi and Coke. The subject would pick a favorite, then have the labels revealed. Overwhelmingly, people selected Pepsi; and then the Coca-Cola company crashed and burned in a flaming hell of rubble and brimstone, never to be heard of again.
Not really.
What actually happened was people preferred Pepsi, just about every time... unless we did the test against completely random subjects with the labels revealed. People love the bright red Coke logo, with the "dynamic ribbon" and the shiny things and everything. It's much prettier than Pepsi's. Your brain releases dopamine when you see it, or when you associate with it. So of course, anyone who sees the Coke label much prefers Coke over Pepsi, and so Coke will continue to laugh at Pepsi, and continue to make an inferior product for all time.
This is why they could sell New Coke (HORRIBLE garbage) and then switch to Coca-Cola Classic (with HFCS instead of Cane sugar) and not lose a ton of business in the deal: everyone hated New Coke, but they loved the Coke brand. They have the ability to abuse consumers in somewhat limited ways because of that.
Of course, some people do choose Coke, because it's more sugary. Pepsi has a deeper, fuller flavor; in fact, I've been considering marketing sodas based on beer, where the cola flavor is stronger and the amount of sugar is very low. Currently sodas are like horribly bad beers: too much malt and too little hops will make you cringe at the sickening sweetness. So I'm thinking on bringing the cola level up and the sugar level down, balancing out the taste with a very small amount of cane sugar. This would work exceedingly well for a Dr. Pepper style drink, btw, since the distinctive flavor is somewhat integrally cane molasses. Less sweet, cola + cane + a little black strap (too much cane sugar needed otherwise) + other spices (the flavor of Dr. Pepper is some 19 different components). You would have to raise the amount of flavoring slightly, though, and add maltodextrin for mouth feel.
I've used it vs Gnome-Shell, which was removed in 11.04 and slated for 11.10. I'm HEAVILY anticipating 11.10 because DAMN, Gnome3 is awesome in comparison. It's like Unity is an impressive knock-off of Gnome-Shell, like Saccharine diet pepsi is an impressive knock-off of regular cane sugar pepsi.
people strategize and they go in with teams in WoW. You can't just abandon your team, they need you. They have a healer and a warrior and whatever else, same as any other RPG. Take one away and the game suddenly becomes unwinnable.
What I heard about FF11 was it's far more consistent and sensible, the simplest example being that monsters drop things like skin and tails and feathers rather than finished potions and completely constructed pieces of armor or boots or whatnot--why does a bird have boots? Players who move from one to the other tend to comment that WoW seems to be a hackery of rewards systems and diversions (i.e. side quests), while FF11 tends to be the exact same thing, but made with the forethought of "okay does this make sense?"
But as I've said, I play neither. I can only go by what I've heard.
I don't have to do an 8 hour campaign in all one shot because my "friends" are on. I can get up and do other stuff. I can do my laundry and cook while I play. I can play for 2 hours to get past a certain part and then save and come back later. I can play on weekends or burn out the last 2 hours after work on some nights when I have no other obligations.
At this point that's like trying to become a better WoW than WoW,
I hate MMORPGs but I hear FF11 is far better designed than WoW. I'll stick to things I can buy, own, and casual play when I'm alone, rather than soul-sucking life sinks that purport to "let you socialize instead of isolate yourself" while you talk to people you never meet over a computer for 8 hours a day.
The trouble with 'digital signatures' is there are multiple valid signers, and you can't enumerate a priori which ones are valid.
I think he meant just the Microsoft files. And it's totally possible to enumerate all other signatures, because the certificate is digitally signed by Microsoft, and readily available from a CA...
Wii seems to let you buy points with a credit card, but it doesn't store that data at all. I need to re-enter everything, every time. I guess Nintendo just doesn't care who gets on, as long as it's with a Wii. And thus they have sidestepped being the target of millions of hackers looking to get huge databases of name/address/credit card/birth date/etc etc etc... unfortunately, the market for Wii Friend Codes is much larger.
In Go, you learn a lot of things. It is a simple game, but you learn that you have to sacrifice things, take things, etc. The opening is vast and endless; but in general we find corners are the best start, as they are mathematically easier to enclose (2 fewer sides, half the stones to enclose the same area). Of course, you alternate turns, so by taking one corner you give up the others...or well, ONE other. Later in the game, you examine the board and see strategic things worth various estimates of points, various potential strategies, varying degrees of aji, possibilities for ko or for eliminating or creating ko threats... you have to make a decision. You may find two things equally good, and then you become as Buridan's Ass: positioned between two decisions, one you must give up to have the other, and if you do not sacrifice one of them then you will waste away until you die.
In life, as in Go, there is balance and exchange. The legislature wants to strengthen the police; the constituents think this is good because they want the police to protect them. Unfortunately, when you try to take too much, you lose everything. Eventually the police become too strong, and they become the threat. If you do not strengthen them, they will be unable to protect you. The balance is struck where you strengthen the police enough to protect as many citizens from as much wrongdoing as possible, but accept a little loss and a few wrongdoings (on the part of both the police AND criminals) to minimize the amount of harmful criminal activity carried out (by both police and criminals combined).
Note that not all criminal activity is harmful, and some activity is not as generally harmful as other (for example, minor shoplifting versus rape; the cumulative effect of shoplifting is quite large as shoplifting becomes common, but the cumulative effect as rape becomes common is MUCH more important). This means that decisions on where the proper balance lies are quite complex, and require deep assessment and a willingness to make adjustments from time to time to keep the balance.
Clearly, there are situations where going in hot is warranted. However the idea someone apparently dumb enough to download CP from his own living room will be some sort of uber-trigger-happy criminal is just stupid. Someone doing that, thinks they aren't going to be detected and won't be ready for them in which case a polite knock, followed by arrest and seizure of the computer equipment will work just fine.
The police should be doing an investigation first before an arrest, i.e. find out who lives there, get a criminal profile together. Is this some idiot beating off under his desk for 18 hours a day, or an armed crime lord with a meth lab and booby traps? I mean if he's a child pornographer engaged in human trafficking, it would make sense if he was engaged in drug trafficking too; it's not a necessary or common link, but it's sensible. We know meth labs produce lots of explosives, and meth makers like to set up trigger traps for police raids--the police are actually afraid to raid them.
So why don't you make sure you know what you're getting into first? See if the guy is a cunning, paranoid maniac that likely has an impenetrable fortress of death to protect himself; or an idiot that has no clue what he's doing. Act accordingly.
No, Columbine was something different. Those kids were insane. Casey Haynes is a freaking hero; he won't take shit ever again and he won't crack ever again. Next kid gets hit because he needs it; he won't be coming to school with machine guns and mowing the whole class down.
Yes but as a verb, "effect" and "affect" mean different things. My affects are my own, but to effect change I must do something intangible. The effect of an action is sometimes readily visible... affect seems to deal with the visible emotion or mood of something though.
Until you encode classical information into the affect of quantum information. [Bonus points for advanced use of 'affect', unless I got that one wrong...]
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That's the worst invention ever. You can see only the screen, and only you can see the screen. This means you can't see me coming up to club you and steal your laptop. Idiot.
He's trying to invent an acronym i.e. be a memefounder.
The solution was to create a nose extension 'finger' that would allow for navigation while holding the phone firmly in his one not-masturbating hand.
Could it be that the branding and the visual experience, the reference to tradition, memory, and social status are a part of the product?
Well, we have this thing we call a "Scam" where we label something as "better" when it's not. Municipal tap water bottled up and given a label is bought because it's "Better than tap water" by people who don't want to drink the toxic chemicals in tap water. China has a $70/bottle beer that's just Pabst Blue Ribbon with a fancy label slapped on it. Some small farmers raise cows on grass field grazing with no rBGH and no unnecessary antibiotics; they slap "organic" on a subset of their milk bottles and charge extra, but both the "organic" and "regular" milks are filled from the same batch, right out of the same vat.
The nature of this "scam" is to convince you that something is better. http://www.xkcd.com/641/
Aww man, now they'll find ANOTHER way to exploit the courts.
I try to use Pepsi as an example because more people prefer Pepsi, overwhelmingly. More to the point, Pepsi is simply a better product.
Back in the 70s (and again in the 90s), Pepsi had this great idea: They were going to do the "Pepsi Challenge." In a double blind study, people would get samples of Pepsi and Coke. The subject would pick a favorite, then have the labels revealed. Overwhelmingly, people selected Pepsi; and then the Coca-Cola company crashed and burned in a flaming hell of rubble and brimstone, never to be heard of again.
Not really.
What actually happened was people preferred Pepsi, just about every time... unless we did the test against completely random subjects with the labels revealed. People love the bright red Coke logo, with the "dynamic ribbon" and the shiny things and everything. It's much prettier than Pepsi's. Your brain releases dopamine when you see it, or when you associate with it. So of course, anyone who sees the Coke label much prefers Coke over Pepsi, and so Coke will continue to laugh at Pepsi, and continue to make an inferior product for all time.
This is why they could sell New Coke (HORRIBLE garbage) and then switch to Coca-Cola Classic (with HFCS instead of Cane sugar) and not lose a ton of business in the deal: everyone hated New Coke, but they loved the Coke brand. They have the ability to abuse consumers in somewhat limited ways because of that.
Of course, some people do choose Coke, because it's more sugary. Pepsi has a deeper, fuller flavor; in fact, I've been considering marketing sodas based on beer, where the cola flavor is stronger and the amount of sugar is very low. Currently sodas are like horribly bad beers: too much malt and too little hops will make you cringe at the sickening sweetness. So I'm thinking on bringing the cola level up and the sugar level down, balancing out the taste with a very small amount of cane sugar. This would work exceedingly well for a Dr. Pepper style drink, btw, since the distinctive flavor is somewhat integrally cane molasses. Less sweet, cola + cane + a little black strap (too much cane sugar needed otherwise) + other spices (the flavor of Dr. Pepper is some 19 different components). You would have to raise the amount of flavoring slightly, though, and add maltodextrin for mouth feel.
I've used it vs Gnome-Shell, which was removed in 11.04 and slated for 11.10. I'm HEAVILY anticipating 11.10 because DAMN, Gnome3 is awesome in comparison. It's like Unity is an impressive knock-off of Gnome-Shell, like Saccharine diet pepsi is an impressive knock-off of regular cane sugar pepsi.
people strategize and they go in with teams in WoW. You can't just abandon your team, they need you. They have a healer and a warrior and whatever else, same as any other RPG. Take one away and the game suddenly becomes unwinnable.
What I heard about FF11 was it's far more consistent and sensible, the simplest example being that monsters drop things like skin and tails and feathers rather than finished potions and completely constructed pieces of armor or boots or whatnot--why does a bird have boots? Players who move from one to the other tend to comment that WoW seems to be a hackery of rewards systems and diversions (i.e. side quests), while FF11 tends to be the exact same thing, but made with the forethought of "okay does this make sense?"
But as I've said, I play neither. I can only go by what I've heard.
I don't have to do an 8 hour campaign in all one shot because my "friends" are on. I can get up and do other stuff. I can do my laundry and cook while I play. I can play for 2 hours to get past a certain part and then save and come back later. I can play on weekends or burn out the last 2 hours after work on some nights when I have no other obligations.
At this point that's like trying to become a better WoW than WoW,
I hate MMORPGs but I hear FF11 is far better designed than WoW. I'll stick to things I can buy, own, and casual play when I'm alone, rather than soul-sucking life sinks that purport to "let you socialize instead of isolate yourself" while you talk to people you never meet over a computer for 8 hours a day.
Canada IS North America. That's where Quebec is.
The trouble with 'digital signatures' is there are multiple valid signers, and you can't enumerate a priori which ones are valid.
I think he meant just the Microsoft files. And it's totally possible to enumerate all other signatures, because the certificate is digitally signed by Microsoft, and readily available from a CA...
Wii seems to let you buy points with a credit card, but it doesn't store that data at all. I need to re-enter everything, every time. I guess Nintendo just doesn't care who gets on, as long as it's with a Wii. And thus they have sidestepped being the target of millions of hackers looking to get huge databases of name/address/credit card/birth date/etc etc etc... unfortunately, the market for Wii Friend Codes is much larger.
Xenu is working for NASA now?
In Go, you learn a lot of things. It is a simple game, but you learn that you have to sacrifice things, take things, etc. The opening is vast and endless; but in general we find corners are the best start, as they are mathematically easier to enclose (2 fewer sides, half the stones to enclose the same area). Of course, you alternate turns, so by taking one corner you give up the others...or well, ONE other. Later in the game, you examine the board and see strategic things worth various estimates of points, various potential strategies, varying degrees of aji, possibilities for ko or for eliminating or creating ko threats... you have to make a decision. You may find two things equally good, and then you become as Buridan's Ass: positioned between two decisions, one you must give up to have the other, and if you do not sacrifice one of them then you will waste away until you die.
In life, as in Go, there is balance and exchange. The legislature wants to strengthen the police; the constituents think this is good because they want the police to protect them. Unfortunately, when you try to take too much, you lose everything. Eventually the police become too strong, and they become the threat. If you do not strengthen them, they will be unable to protect you. The balance is struck where you strengthen the police enough to protect as many citizens from as much wrongdoing as possible, but accept a little loss and a few wrongdoings (on the part of both the police AND criminals) to minimize the amount of harmful criminal activity carried out (by both police and criminals combined).
Note that not all criminal activity is harmful, and some activity is not as generally harmful as other (for example, minor shoplifting versus rape; the cumulative effect of shoplifting is quite large as shoplifting becomes common, but the cumulative effect as rape becomes common is MUCH more important). This means that decisions on where the proper balance lies are quite complex, and require deep assessment and a willingness to make adjustments from time to time to keep the balance.
And the REALLY naive ones will show up without guns.
Clearly, there are situations where going in hot is warranted. However the idea someone apparently dumb enough to download CP from his own living room will be some sort of uber-trigger-happy criminal is just stupid. Someone doing that, thinks they aren't going to be detected and won't be ready for them in which case a polite knock, followed by arrest and seizure of the computer equipment will work just fine.
The police should be doing an investigation first before an arrest, i.e. find out who lives there, get a criminal profile together. Is this some idiot beating off under his desk for 18 hours a day, or an armed crime lord with a meth lab and booby traps? I mean if he's a child pornographer engaged in human trafficking, it would make sense if he was engaged in drug trafficking too; it's not a necessary or common link, but it's sensible. We know meth labs produce lots of explosives, and meth makers like to set up trigger traps for police raids--the police are actually afraid to raid them.
So why don't you make sure you know what you're getting into first? See if the guy is a cunning, paranoid maniac that likely has an impenetrable fortress of death to protect himself; or an idiot that has no clue what he's doing. Act accordingly.
Only 48? Wow that's pathetically low.
No, Columbine was something different. Those kids were insane. Casey Haynes is a freaking hero; he won't take shit ever again and he won't crack ever again. Next kid gets hit because he needs it; he won't be coming to school with machine guns and mowing the whole class down.
I am 7.7 miles from work and I ride a bicycle.
In other words, you can sign your rights to your works away in the US, but not in Germany?
Yes but as a verb, "effect" and "affect" mean different things. My affects are my own, but to effect change I must do something intangible. The effect of an action is sometimes readily visible... affect seems to deal with the visible emotion or mood of something though.
Until you encode classical information into the affect of quantum information. [Bonus points for advanced use of 'affect', unless I got that one wrong...]
it starts out with a scientific consensus where researchers who dare to question that consensus are marginalized and shut out
This is where argumentum ad populum comes in.