On the first point, the whole point of an encyclopedia is that it's not the author's own feelings on the subject, but a disinterested report of the general consensus on the material. On the second point, a regurgitation of the contents of Codex Chaos (or whatever) is not only of less scholarly value than the source (the most accurate and complete it can ever be is a copy-and-paste), it's the kind of thing Games Workshop has a long and storied history of suing people into the dirt over. So it has no business showing up in there.
Reference books are not a forum for hashing out a complete scale model of the universe.
While that's an actual scam that happens, it's hardly the only phone crime in Europe:
1) About half of SIMs in Europe are postpaid, ranging from a majority in some regions to a minority in others 2) People will happily steal and resell your phone, and there are plenty of dodgy unblocking companies willing to facilitate that 3) There's a longstanding way of making money of a stolen postpaid SIM, by using it to make a premium-rate call. This is why you're encouraged to use the SIM PIN 4) Phone companies don't care about where a postpaid SIM migrates to either; they'll happily sign you up for a contract with no phone, or a phone you never intend to use.
What we really want is for Wikipedia to enforce every one of its own rules with an iron fist, of course, whether the result makes any sense or has a positive effect upon the project at all. Right?
I'm picturing you just waving your arms at your keyboard and slurring "cyniiicisssssm" here. You did actually read the article, yes? Oh, I can answer that: no, you didn't.
If you're making high-five-digit numbers of these microscopes - and the test run itself is into that range - that only raises the cost from $0.50 to $1.50.
You're assuming that the end goal of theft is to be a jerk, and not sell the device for cash; if every phone is encrypted and can't be restored without a password, there's going to be a lot less incentive to steal them in the first place.
Water table depletion is directly analogous to exhausting an oil or coal resource; you'll get the atoms back in there, but not on the same timescale you took them out.
The issue with mammograms is inappropriate mass screening; they're still a useful diagnostic tool, and have a benefit in routine screening in high-risk populations. If this device has the same false positive/negative rate as mammograms but is less intrusive and doesn't involve X-ray, that'd improve the benefits for those groups even futher.
Now, there is a related issue that any more-convenient diagnostic tool runs an even higher risk of being overapplied.
I especially liked the bit where he described the following as "buzzworld-filled", then launched into the unsupported assertion that people doing this aren't doing science:
develop and investigate hypotheses, structure experiments, and build mathematical models
Well, you asked for a way to run XP apps under Windows 7 that was more compatible than XP Compatibility Mode, so I'm not sure why you're having a go at him except to play silly buggers on the internet. He can't read your mind and answer a question you didn't actually ask.
Where we differ seems to be that I don't think there's a lot of overlap there; that younger demographic playing free games is, to my eyes, a new gaming audience, not a conversion of the existing audience. I get your point though.
It seems you're unaware that the conversation you just jumped into is about how this guy's grandmother won't upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8 because of a lack of support for XP applications; although XP Mode might be a bit technically demanding for her, it would at least let her run those apps and a familiar environment.
I think you'll find that the people hoping for a future for mobile gaming and the people paying zero dollars for it are different groups entirely. A quick perusal of Touch Arcade suggests they favour those $5-10 console ports and things like Year Walk.
I don't think you get the joke, or rather you are the punchline. There's a video of someone going around asking "Is Obama a Keynesian?", Keynesian economics being the type of economics Obama favours. People assume the speaker means "Kenyan", per the Birther stupidity, and assert "No, he's an American from Hawaii". The fact is he is an American who is also a Keynesian.
It's simply not going to happen. In casual mobile gaming, yes, because the product is essentially interchangable and there's not a lot of specialist interest, but that's a much weaker phenomenon in console gaming and practically nonexistent in the sort of games Steam users tend to play.
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You only get confronted for breaking the policy if you break the policy. NPOV isn't a set of rules on who can edit what, it's a style guide.
On the first point, the whole point of an encyclopedia is that it's not the author's own feelings on the subject, but a disinterested report of the general consensus on the material. On the second point, a regurgitation of the contents of Codex Chaos (or whatever) is not only of less scholarly value than the source (the most accurate and complete it can ever be is a copy-and-paste), it's the kind of thing Games Workshop has a long and storied history of suing people into the dirt over. So it has no business showing up in there.
Reference books are not a forum for hashing out a complete scale model of the universe.
It refers to the latest version of Cryengine, the one which the summary points out was used in Ryse for the Xbox One.
I sincerely doubt that Greg Kohs is bearing any grudge whatsoever about being banned from Wikipedia for paid editing.
I genuinely want to know what you think you just read.
I said "less incentive", not "no incentive". You know how much a working iPhone 5 goes for versus a "for parts" model?
Yet he's using the same dubious arguments advanced by people who didn't like science treading on those.
While that's an actual scam that happens, it's hardly the only phone crime in Europe:
1) About half of SIMs in Europe are postpaid, ranging from a majority in some regions to a minority in others
2) People will happily steal and resell your phone, and there are plenty of dodgy unblocking companies willing to facilitate that
3) There's a longstanding way of making money of a stolen postpaid SIM, by using it to make a premium-rate call. This is why you're encouraged to use the SIM PIN
4) Phone companies don't care about where a postpaid SIM migrates to either; they'll happily sign you up for a contract with no phone, or a phone you never intend to use.
What we really want is for Wikipedia to enforce every one of its own rules with an iron fist, of course, whether the result makes any sense or has a positive effect upon the project at all. Right?
I'm picturing you just waving your arms at your keyboard and slurring "cyniiicisssssm" here. You did actually read the article, yes? Oh, I can answer that: no, you didn't.
If you're making high-five-digit numbers of these microscopes - and the test run itself is into that range - that only raises the cost from $0.50 to $1.50.
You're assuming that the end goal of theft is to be a jerk, and not sell the device for cash; if every phone is encrypted and can't be restored without a password, there's going to be a lot less incentive to steal them in the first place.
I misunderstood, my mistake.
Suffice to say, science begs to differ. As it did when people used the same arguments about heredity, the origin of life, the motion of the planets...
Water table depletion is directly analogous to exhausting an oil or coal resource; you'll get the atoms back in there, but not on the same timescale you took them out.
The issue with mammograms is inappropriate mass screening; they're still a useful diagnostic tool, and have a benefit in routine screening in high-risk populations. If this device has the same false positive/negative rate as mammograms but is less intrusive and doesn't involve X-ray, that'd improve the benefits for those groups even futher.
Now, there is a related issue that any more-convenient diagnostic tool runs an even higher risk of being overapplied.
I especially liked the bit where he described the following as "buzzworld-filled", then launched into the unsupported assertion that people doing this aren't doing science:
develop and investigate hypotheses, structure experiments, and build mathematical models
Well, you asked for a way to run XP apps under Windows 7 that was more compatible than XP Compatibility Mode, so I'm not sure why you're having a go at him except to play silly buggers on the internet. He can't read your mind and answer a question you didn't actually ask.
Where we differ seems to be that I don't think there's a lot of overlap there; that younger demographic playing free games is, to my eyes, a new gaming audience, not a conversion of the existing audience. I get your point though.
It seems you're unaware that the conversation you just jumped into is about how this guy's grandmother won't upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8 because of a lack of support for XP applications; although XP Mode might be a bit technically demanding for her, it would at least let her run those apps and a familiar environment.
I think you'll find that the people hoping for a future for mobile gaming and the people paying zero dollars for it are different groups entirely. A quick perusal of Touch Arcade suggests they favour those $5-10 console ports and things like Year Walk.
I don't think you get the joke, or rather you are the punchline. There's a video of someone going around asking "Is Obama a Keynesian?", Keynesian economics being the type of economics Obama favours. People assume the speaker means "Kenyan", per the Birther stupidity, and assert "No, he's an American from Hawaii". The fact is he is an American who is also a Keynesian.
I'm sure whoever accidentally requisitioned hundreds of bipedal forklifts instead of ordinary forklifts got the last laugh that day.
Have you been on Steam lately? Even when there's not a sale on, the prices are pretty impressive.
It's simply not going to happen. In casual mobile gaming, yes, because the product is essentially interchangable and there's not a lot of specialist interest, but that's a much weaker phenomenon in console gaming and practically nonexistent in the sort of games Steam users tend to play.