The problem I have with all this 'Wikipedia is not a primary source' is that people have always used poor 'primary sources' in school. Heck, there are many cases where there are no primary sources. It is just one big circular reference. Just look at the encyclopedias that we all used in school. They were not any better than Wikipedia, but were were referenced to them on a regular basis.
Every time I hear how 'Wikipedia is not a primary source' it conjures up an analogy of someone walking into an orgy, pointing at one woman over on the side of the room and complaining about how SHE is a slut.
No they don't. Your confused partially due to our societies current desire to continuously retard development to extend childhood to older and older ages which leads to 'official' sources fudging numbers. Things like the CDC calling 19 year olds 'Teen Pregnancies'. Sure they are technically a 'Teen', but 'Teen Pregnancies' has always been accepted as being pregnancies of women under the age of majority. Adding 18 and 19 year old women to that list is simply lying to claim that women are having children younger.
If you Google around, you will also find that they have changed the definition of puberty in girls. 100 years ago, a girl was in puberty when they started to bleed. Today doctors do bone density tests and claim puberty has started early.
Then you have the media problem. If 100 years ago, a girl in Malaysia had her period at 4, you would never hear about it. Today it would be plastered across international news stations as evidence that girls are hitting puberty earlier. Of course, that 19 year old that still has not hit puberty doesn't make nearly as good of a new show, so that doesn't get reported.
There have always been outliers, but puberty is still happening around the age of 13, just like it always has.
Complaining that Gentoo channels are going to tell you to RTFM is a little like complaining to your guide that there is no room service during your ascent of Mt. Everest. You don't run Gentoo because it gets your computer working. You run Gentoo for the same reason that you climb Mt. Everest. Because it's there and you want to conquer some aspect the world.
So, I will concede that there are some people in the world that will tell you to go RTFM, but you pretty much have to be looking for it and take the effort to go get it.
I have to say, that you are one scary dude. Because you just reconfirmed that you don't really know how to separate pretend from real. This is not a normal condition, and it is what causes people to go on killing rampages. Not video games.
The last time I took a driving test to renew my license, it had a bunch of non-factual political questions on it. If they can't keep the driving test from being a propaganda sheet, I have very little hope that they would keep the voting test propaganda free.
Maybe the problem is that you are asking the "developer" community instead of the "user" community. I would hazard to guess that if you somehow get the email address to the developers of most commercial (non-custom) software, you are even less likely to get helpful responses from them. There are times that one should ask a developer what is happening, and there are times when one should go to those that are there to help users. Joining a developers mailing list of a major project and asking end user questions is a little like stopping the CEO of Citibank on the way into his office building and asking him, when he is done talking to the CFO, to explain to you the various rewards cards that Citibank offers.
The days of "RTFM" are pretty much as dead as the days of needing to know the HSync and VSync of your monitor to install Linux. Sure you will still find a primadonna in projects that are too small to support a user community, but I see those in closed source projects as well.
First, if sending bad data back to your server can bork your web server, then either you are ok with that, or your web app is broken. Your scenario of sending bad data is already trivial to accomplish by malicious people, or those who think they know better than you. If the user can send data back to you server and bork it, you have NOT mad sure the data is clean on the server side so there is no chance of an exploit.
Second, my computer is MY computer. The web browser is NOT sandboxed to make a safe known environment on the client side for the web site developer. It in no way does that. It IS sandboxed to prevent clueless and malicious web developers from screwing up the rest of MY computer.
You are exactly why RMS is correct in his concerns.
No, no, no, You have it all wrong. The surprising part isn't that better health leads to longer life. The surprising part is that breathing things that are not air is bad for you. Up until this study, we all thought that the only non-air substance that was bad for you was those evil cigarettes. Now we know that there are two things that are bad for you to breath. Good thing sitting around that camp fire or walking through the perfume fog at Macy's are still safe...
Yes, you can not believe in something, but still say that it might exists. I honestly don't believe there is a 9 year old Irish boy living in India by the name of Hozwald Pottybottom, but even though I don't believe in Hoz, I certainly cannot say definitively that he does not exist.
Why would that be a fair question when posed in such a leading way when previous locations for the game/movies included Midwest American town, Paris, Antarctica, Las Vegas, a private New England island, American Mountains, rural European village, Ocean Liner in the Atlantic Ocean, Russia and Japan?
It takes a while for these kinds of businesses to die. Circuit City held of for a over a decade treating their customers bad. People now talk about Best Buy the way the talked about Circuit City. Give them time to run their business into the ground.
They came to the conclusion because they were not dumb ass sexists. It is controversial because many people are ignorant sexists like you. Your conclusion is no better than saying women should be barefoot and pregnant cooking dinner because men are better at running society, and then asking why that is controversial.
It's sexist views like yours that tell men like your dad that their behavior is OK. For the same reason that you should no assume that women are biologically stupid just because you grew up in a trailer park where they were all raised to be welfare mommies, you should not assume that men are biologically incapable of raising children because your dad was raised to be a psychopathic dumbass.
With their current system, they still are paying rent, power, etc. AND they don't get the benefit of income from a subscription model. Going to a buffet style of rental would in no way increase their rent, power etc. At most it could increase their employees, but even that seems pretty unlikely.
The cost of postage is certainly not small. Consider that if you rent 10 movies from NetFlix a month, at $0.47 each way, you are looking at $9.40 a month for postage. That is almost half of their revenue. Certainly a cost that amounts to almost 50% of your companies revenue cannot be considered small.
I haven't figured out why brick an mortar stores haven't gone to the buffet model. Having an all you can rent system makes WAY more sense for a physical store than it does for mail order. After all, every time BB, Netflix, or GameFly send you a disk, it costs them money. Local physical stores don't have that cost. If I only have three disks out of the store at a time, it shouldn't matter if those three movies change 6 times in a day.
What kind of funding do you think we could get for this study? I'm feeling like my favorite color might change if I am on different continents, so we will need to repeat the tests in various cities around the world.
If they don't like the name American, then they can call us United States of American, or... American for short. Seriously, for the individuals that want to Nitpick about the name, there is no place called "America". There is "North America" and "South America". I'm pretty sure that "North American" is universal understood to be someone from any country in North America.
Please recognize that I do understand that we agree on the primary issue, so please take this as it is intended, which is debating the details combined with a digression to a whole other subject.
The obesity rate in America is a joke. In October I reached a weight that I considered to be obese. I defined it as a weight where I became winded doing a normal activity that should not have winded me. So, I decided to lose weight. To have a yardstick to measure my weight loss by, I looked up what is considered overweight, and what is considered obese. The numbers are absolutely ridiculous. Using a scale that uses electrical impulses to measure body fat, I show as having 160 pounds of lean body mass. I know that these scales can very based on hydration and some other factors, so, I am using the highest fat reading it ever shows. Now, the BMI charts like to show my ideal weight at 157 pounds. This would not only require me to lose 100% of my body fat which would kill me, but I would also have to start choosing body parts to amputate. This gets even worse we take into account that I build muscle extremely fast if I exercise. Right now, I'm actually making a point not to get much exercise, and I would have to amputate to reach my 'ideal' weight. With even a moderate amount of exercise, I would have to amputate to get out of the 'overweight' range dictated by the doctors and government.
Now, I have certainly heard the argument "Well, your no body builder". But, that is a ridiculous argument. If Schwarzenegger put on 20 pounds during that time, he wouldn't have been a body builder anymore either, but that certainly would not have meant that he was out of shape. Any scale that could call that man obese is simply not worth even considering.
As a good example of how absurd the obesity scales are, you can just look at Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 6 year winning streak of the Mr. Olypia competition. According to the CDC, he was obese the entire time.
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The problem I have with all this 'Wikipedia is not a primary source' is that people have always used poor 'primary sources' in school. Heck, there are many cases where there are no primary sources. It is just one big circular reference. Just look at the encyclopedias that we all used in school. They were not any better than Wikipedia, but were were referenced to them on a regular basis.
Every time I hear how 'Wikipedia is not a primary source' it conjures up an analogy of someone walking into an orgy, pointing at one woman over on the side of the room and complaining about how SHE is a slut.
No they don't. Your confused partially due to our societies current desire to continuously retard development to extend childhood to older and older ages which leads to 'official' sources fudging numbers. Things like the CDC calling 19 year olds 'Teen Pregnancies'. Sure they are technically a 'Teen', but 'Teen Pregnancies' has always been accepted as being pregnancies of women under the age of majority. Adding 18 and 19 year old women to that list is simply lying to claim that women are having children younger.
If you Google around, you will also find that they have changed the definition of puberty in girls. 100 years ago, a girl was in puberty when they started to bleed. Today doctors do bone density tests and claim puberty has started early.
Then you have the media problem. If 100 years ago, a girl in Malaysia had her period at 4, you would never hear about it. Today it would be plastered across international news stations as evidence that girls are hitting puberty earlier. Of course, that 19 year old that still has not hit puberty doesn't make nearly as good of a new show, so that doesn't get reported.
There have always been outliers, but puberty is still happening around the age of 13, just like it always has.
Or in ten years when you want to play the game with your kid and the activation servers are have been down for the last 5.
Complaining that Gentoo channels are going to tell you to RTFM is a little like complaining to your guide that there is no room service during your ascent of Mt. Everest. You don't run Gentoo because it gets your computer working. You run Gentoo for the same reason that you climb Mt. Everest. Because it's there and you want to conquer some aspect the world.
So, I will concede that there are some people in the world that will tell you to go RTFM, but you pretty much have to be looking for it and take the effort to go get it.
I have to say, that you are one scary dude. Because you just reconfirmed that you don't really know how to separate pretend from real. This is not a normal condition, and it is what causes people to go on killing rampages. Not video games.
The last time I took a driving test to renew my license, it had a bunch of non-factual political questions on it. If they can't keep the driving test from being a propaganda sheet, I have very little hope that they would keep the voting test propaganda free.
You really don't understand the difference between pretend and real? Scary.
Maybe the problem is that you are asking the "developer" community instead of the "user" community. I would hazard to guess that if you somehow get the email address to the developers of most commercial (non-custom) software, you are even less likely to get helpful responses from them. There are times that one should ask a developer what is happening, and there are times when one should go to those that are there to help users. Joining a developers mailing list of a major project and asking end user questions is a little like stopping the CEO of Citibank on the way into his office building and asking him, when he is done talking to the CFO, to explain to you the various rewards cards that Citibank offers.
The days of "RTFM" are pretty much as dead as the days of needing to know the HSync and VSync of your monitor to install Linux. Sure you will still find a primadonna in projects that are too small to support a user community, but I see those in closed source projects as well.
Wow. Just wow.
First, if sending bad data back to your server can bork your web server, then either you are ok with that, or your web app is broken. Your scenario of sending bad data is already trivial to accomplish by malicious people, or those who think they know better than you. If the user can send data back to you server and bork it, you have NOT mad sure the data is clean on the server side so there is no chance of an exploit.
Second, my computer is MY computer. The web browser is NOT sandboxed to make a safe known environment on the client side for the web site developer. It in no way does that. It IS sandboxed to prevent clueless and malicious web developers from screwing up the rest of MY computer.
You are exactly why RMS is correct in his concerns.
No, no, no, You have it all wrong. The surprising part isn't that better health leads to longer life. The surprising part is that breathing things that are not air is bad for you. Up until this study, we all thought that the only non-air substance that was bad for you was those evil cigarettes. Now we know that there are two things that are bad for you to breath. Good thing sitting around that camp fire or walking through the perfume fog at Macy's are still safe...
Well, I want my camera to be a camcorder. Just increase the picture taking speed to 60 frames a second and we can call it a day.
Yes, you can not believe in something, but still say that it might exists. I honestly don't believe there is a 9 year old Irish boy living in India by the name of Hozwald Pottybottom, but even though I don't believe in Hoz, I certainly cannot say definitively that he does not exist.
"The market offers no way to subvert that process."
Other than the janitor placing the bet, then loosening a key bolt the night before he takes a vacation over seas.
Why would that be a fair question when posed in such a leading way when previous locations for the game/movies included Midwest American town, Paris, Antarctica, Las Vegas, a private New England island, American Mountains, rural European village, Ocean Liner in the Atlantic Ocean, Russia and Japan?
Are we going to be able to tell it apart from the other channels anyways?
It takes a while for these kinds of businesses to die. Circuit City held of for a over a decade treating their customers bad. People now talk about Best Buy the way the talked about Circuit City. Give them time to run their business into the ground.
Also known as "The channel with nothing really worth watching."
Obviously, flying sharks is the current bottleneck that they are working on to complete this system.
They came to the conclusion because they were not dumb ass sexists. It is controversial because many people are ignorant sexists like you. Your conclusion is no better than saying women should be barefoot and pregnant cooking dinner because men are better at running society, and then asking why that is controversial.
It's sexist views like yours that tell men like your dad that their behavior is OK. For the same reason that you should no assume that women are biologically stupid just because you grew up in a trailer park where they were all raised to be welfare mommies, you should not assume that men are biologically incapable of raising children because your dad was raised to be a psychopathic dumbass.
With their current system, they still are paying rent, power, etc. AND they don't get the benefit of income from a subscription model. Going to a buffet style of rental would in no way increase their rent, power etc. At most it could increase their employees, but even that seems pretty unlikely.
The cost of postage is certainly not small. Consider that if you rent 10 movies from NetFlix a month, at $0.47 each way, you are looking at $9.40 a month for postage. That is almost half of their revenue. Certainly a cost that amounts to almost 50% of your companies revenue cannot be considered small.
I haven't figured out why brick an mortar stores haven't gone to the buffet model. Having an all you can rent system makes WAY more sense for a physical store than it does for mail order. After all, every time BB, Netflix, or GameFly send you a disk, it costs them money. Local physical stores don't have that cost. If I only have three disks out of the store at a time, it shouldn't matter if those three movies change 6 times in a day.
What kind of funding do you think we could get for this study? I'm feeling like my favorite color might change if I am on different continents, so we will need to repeat the tests in various cities around the world.
If they don't like the name American, then they can call us United States of American, or... American for short. Seriously, for the individuals that want to Nitpick about the name, there is no place called "America". There is "North America" and "South America". I'm pretty sure that "North American" is universal understood to be someone from any country in North America.
Please recognize that I do understand that we agree on the primary issue, so please take this as it is intended, which is debating the details combined with a digression to a whole other subject.
The obesity rate in America is a joke. In October I reached a weight that I considered to be obese. I defined it as a weight where I became winded doing a normal activity that should not have winded me. So, I decided to lose weight. To have a yardstick to measure my weight loss by, I looked up what is considered overweight, and what is considered obese. The numbers are absolutely ridiculous. Using a scale that uses electrical impulses to measure body fat, I show as having 160 pounds of lean body mass. I know that these scales can very based on hydration and some other factors, so, I am using the highest fat reading it ever shows. Now, the BMI charts like to show my ideal weight at 157 pounds. This would not only require me to lose 100% of my body fat which would kill me, but I would also have to start choosing body parts to amputate. This gets even worse we take into account that I build muscle extremely fast if I exercise. Right now, I'm actually making a point not to get much exercise, and I would have to amputate to reach my 'ideal' weight. With even a moderate amount of exercise, I would have to amputate to get out of the 'overweight' range dictated by the doctors and government.
Now, I have certainly heard the argument "Well, your no body builder". But, that is a ridiculous argument. If Schwarzenegger put on 20 pounds during that time, he wouldn't have been a body builder anymore either, but that certainly would not have meant that he was out of shape. Any scale that could call that man obese is simply not worth even considering. As a good example of how absurd the obesity scales are, you can just look at Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 6 year winning streak of the Mr. Olypia competition. According to the CDC, he was obese the entire time.