While I hardly use it outside of my employment, those of us in the construction industry use it all the time. If you've ever seen a Architectural, Structural, Civil, etc. drawing, it would be hard for you to find lowercase letters.
What will we have to do if caps lock goes away, press shift 5 times?
I believe Shaper is saying that the studies' results are not effects of the variables tested, but are rather correllations.
I.e., that the violence exhibited is not the direct result of watching violence on TV, but is instead the result of the other external factors (difference between sets of parents) present when one family lets children watch TV, and another does not.
Thus, the watching of violence is independent of the real causality.
As a young adult working in America (without kids), I can explain why we might have doubts about being able to afford a PS3.
Six hundred dollars is a lot of money. It's anywhere from 1/2 to a whole month's rent/mortgage, depending on where you live (which obviously can be proportional to how much a population makes as well). It's my monthly car payment (on a mid-size used car) and a month's worth of food combined. Six months of car insurance if you're a good driver. I bought a decent computer for less than that recently. A family of four can easily spend less than that on the whole family for Christmas. If you buy four games for it (and a memory card or controller or whatever extra accessory you want), you've spent easily more than 900 bucks (with tax), for ENTERTAINMENT.
I could spend a little over half that for the same amount of entertainment if I buy a Wii. Plus, my wife might actually want to play a game released for it. Effectively quadruples my satisfaction-per-cost feeling.
So the Wii doesn't have blu-ray or hd-dvd. I didn't think it was worth it to get a DVD player until they were around $150 years ago, and I don't think MOST people are going to be willing to pay so much for a system that does, for the most part, the same thing their current 10-year-old hardware can do.
Sony may be targeting young adults in Japan and America, but they're limiting the general demographic to those young people that buy anything, or more affluent people in their 30s buying it for their kids. Nintendo is targeting it for the same group, plus an even older and more gender-diverse demographic buying their system for themselves.
For the record, in the States, most new games cost $39.99-$49.99, and the greatest hits category usually ends up at $19.99 after a while.
I'm not sure about the costs of handheld console titles, but I'm pretty sure they run around $40 for the GBA and drop to $30 semi-frequently.
Still, I'm agreed about the comparative cost of the Revolution. The Gamecube has consistenly been the lowest-cost main console out there, usually by $50 or more.
Or, you could alternatively read it as the comparable performance chip from AMD is being released, without Intel's usual similar offerings being widely available (or at all) at around the same time.
I think the GGP poster was giving the slashdot audience the benefit of the doubt with regards to their ability to disseminate an idea/opinion/fact from a statement.
Think. And while you're at it, assume others do too.
No, you have your own point of view, and that does not nescessarily coincide with those of the United States government representing the point of views of its citizens acting as proxy. You can choose not to associate or mingle with same sex married couples. Your freedom is not being taken away.
On the other hand, same sex couples will, have the same freedoms as everyone else.
Ideally, isn't it a good thing for everyone to be free to do what they want in so far that it does not prevent other people's freedom?
why not give a different name to gay marriage, but still the exact same benefits and characteristics, including divorce laws?
Different-but-equal has been tried in the past. It doesn't work. It results in some people being more equal than others. If the new term affords the same rights, benefits, and characteristics as the old term, why should it be different at all?
Sometimes, words evolve and come to mean various things. Society is just going to have to deal with the fact that many people want "marriage" to apply in more situations than it used to.
Personally, I don't understand what people have against the allowance of the word "marriage" to apply to homosexual relationships as well as hetero-. If someone is heterosexual, how is it actually going to affect them?
Generally speaking, it's been my experience that FF fans have always been divided into two groups:
Those that like the old school FF's (FF1, 4, 5, 6, and to some extent 9), and those that like the newer ones (FF7, 8, 10). There's some overlap, but the general feeling exists for me. Staff listings have some interesting trends in the series too.
Myself, I'm more old schoolish. I liked 7, but never saw it as the "Oh my $DIETY!" opinion that everyone else in the world seems to have about it. 8 was an interesting story but boring game. I'm still undecided about 10. I've never been able to decide which of FF4,5,6 is my favorite among the whole series.
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You forgot that you're supposed to spell your name differently every time you write it.
-SFBwain
While I hardly use it outside of my employment, those of us in the construction industry use it all the time. If you've ever seen a Architectural, Structural, Civil, etc. drawing, it would be hard for you to find lowercase letters.
What will we have to do if caps lock goes away, press shift 5 times?
I.e., that the violence exhibited is not the direct result of watching violence on TV, but is instead the result of the other external factors (difference between sets of parents) present when one family lets children watch TV, and another does not.
Thus, the watching of violence is independent of the real causality.
Certainly one of the funnier comments I've seen in a while. Suprised it's not modded up higher!
As a young adult working in America (without kids), I can explain why we might have doubts about being able to afford a PS3. Six hundred dollars is a lot of money. It's anywhere from 1/2 to a whole month's rent/mortgage, depending on where you live (which obviously can be proportional to how much a population makes as well). It's my monthly car payment (on a mid-size used car) and a month's worth of food combined. Six months of car insurance if you're a good driver. I bought a decent computer for less than that recently. A family of four can easily spend less than that on the whole family for Christmas. If you buy four games for it (and a memory card or controller or whatever extra accessory you want), you've spent easily more than 900 bucks (with tax), for ENTERTAINMENT. I could spend a little over half that for the same amount of entertainment if I buy a Wii. Plus, my wife might actually want to play a game released for it. Effectively quadruples my satisfaction-per-cost feeling. So the Wii doesn't have blu-ray or hd-dvd. I didn't think it was worth it to get a DVD player until they were around $150 years ago, and I don't think MOST people are going to be willing to pay so much for a system that does, for the most part, the same thing their current 10-year-old hardware can do. Sony may be targeting young adults in Japan and America, but they're limiting the general demographic to those young people that buy anything, or more affluent people in their 30s buying it for their kids. Nintendo is targeting it for the same group, plus an even older and more gender-diverse demographic buying their system for themselves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism
I'm not sure about the costs of handheld console titles, but I'm pretty sure they run around $40 for the GBA and drop to $30 semi-frequently.
Still, I'm agreed about the comparative cost of the Revolution. The Gamecube has consistenly been the lowest-cost main console out there, usually by $50 or more.
It seems to me that God needs to see a shrink.
Yes, but then Kim Peek would miss Jeopardy!
The fruit?
Oh PLEASE let this not become another recursive 'ironic' threads!
But... but... that would be flip-flopping!
I think the GGP poster was giving the slashdot audience the benefit of the doubt with regards to their ability to disseminate an idea/opinion/fact from a statement.
Think. And while you're at it, assume others do too.
No, therefore global warming is all the fault of one hot woman with her PMS all flared up.
How come I never have mod points when I can really use them? :)
You're asking for a Mercedes at Chrysler prices, or a Lexus at Toyota prices.
Well, what do you expect... it was a MERCEDES! Buy a Kia and find out how nice the factory stereo is.
Thank you for a great laugh. :)
I love tornadoes... but then I live on the east coa--Oh shit, we're back where we started.
On the other hand, same sex couples will, have the same freedoms as everyone else.
Ideally, isn't it a good thing for everyone to be free to do what they want in so far that it does not prevent other people's freedom?
Different-but-equal has been tried in the past. It doesn't work. It results in some people being more equal than others. If the new term affords the same rights, benefits, and characteristics as the old term, why should it be different at all?
Sometimes, words evolve and come to mean various things. Society is just going to have to deal with the fact that many people want "marriage" to apply in more situations than it used to.
Personally, I don't understand what people have against the allowance of the word "marriage" to apply to homosexual relationships as well as hetero-. If someone is heterosexual, how is it actually going to affect them?
ENHANCE!
ENHANCE!
ENHANCE!
Isn't technology wonderful? Hrm... what's this 'pi' symbol doing down there... Alright, it's time to hack the planet.
Those that like the old school FF's (FF1, 4, 5, 6, and to some extent 9), and those that like the newer ones (FF7, 8, 10). There's some overlap, but the general feeling exists for me. Staff listings have some interesting trends in the series too.
Myself, I'm more old schoolish. I liked 7, but never saw it as the "Oh my $DIETY!" opinion that everyone else in the world seems to have about it. 8 was an interesting story but boring game. I'm still undecided about 10. I've never been able to decide which of FF4,5,6 is my favorite among the whole series.
No, I think that proves that you're a total crack-pot, regardless of your ST watching habits.
I don't seem to have trouble finding it in Virginia at all. Supermarkets and Super Wal-Marts both.