I don't see any hard evidence or studies conducted on a majority of people to prove me otherwise (which doesn't make me correct). Especially for something like "do you believe that video games are reality?" I doubt there would be very many people who answer "yes," even children.
The study does not address if the kids think that the video game is real or not. The study tries to find if playing the video game (even if they know it is not real) has an effect on them.
My point is that marketing works mainly by "creating the need". Its objective is to say: "hey, if you buy this car/drink/whatever, you'll be cool/sexy/popular/safe"(*1). In doing this, they are manipulating adults that know the people in the ads are actors, that the things that appear are sometimes even impossible, and that the ad wants to manipulate them. And yet most ads succeed in having an effect in its audience.
So, if even conscious adults who know the nature of the trick can be influenced, I think that just saying:
I just don't see how someone, even a child, could believe that something so obviously fictional is reality
is just a little too risky. Mind you, the study does not say that the kids think the game is real, but that it has an effect on them.
*1: You may disagree, but then by logic most of the ads would be: "you need A, B and C and my product delivers A, B and C in a safe and efficient way. These are my charts so you can see it by yourself", and won't have smiling youngs living in a big, clean house using the product.
I am not suggesting that you are for anything. But if you tell that:
I've heard and read otherwise. That forced abortions and forced sterilization was commonly inflicted on people who violated the birth rules.
it somehow implies that it was the right(legal) thing to do. My point is that those rules(laws) were not impartial and just another tool for opression.
I've heard and read otherwise. That forced abortions and forced sterilization was commonly inflicted on people who violated the birth rules.
I have heard and read that forced abortions and sterilization (and birth rules and "unvoluntary medical experimentation") were commonly inflicted in people who happened to be in the wrong side of a social/racial/cultural divide.
Aborigins in Australia, Chinese in Japanese camps, black people in South USA, poors.... etc.
Yes, it is. But, I just don't see how someone, even a child, could believe that something so obviously fictional is reality. I doubt even more that something 'terrible' would happen even if they did (but that claim has more statistical evidence to back it up).
Advertising spots are obviously false (in the sense that the people in them are actors), are targetted (most) not at children but at adults that know that they are false. And yet, bussiness have found that they need to spend millions in them in order to get more sales. And do not say that it is because they want to inform people of new products because:
Very few ads give objetive info about the product. For a car advert, you'll get ideas of luxury, speed, "funny feeling", but almost no real dada.
Many ads are for products already know. Do you think I need to be reminded that Volkswagen sells cars or that I do not know what Coca-cola is=.
Maybe you are being a little too optimistic about the ability of people (not only children) to discriminate between reality and fiction?
In a video game, you blow someone's head and you just see some red stains before the body 'vanishes'. In a sport, you injury somebody and you see him in pain, people around him wondering about him, and that guy being forced to leave to game or having trouble with some movements. Most likely, if the injury is serious you'll see him again in the neighbourhood in the next days still with sequels. If you are injured, you even get to feel how that feels.
So, even accepting that sports are more violent that some videogames, in one hand you have "violent, but it is fun to be that way" or "more violent, but if you are not careful it won't be fun".
I guess it must be another tool for profiling money laundering against legal behaviour.
For example, you may really be doing bussiness in virtual currency (selling plugins or whatever you can sell there, playing 24x7 and converting your gold for $, etc.) and getting, let's say, 1000$ a month. Or maybe you just sell auction a rock and "someone" buys it for the equivalent of 1000$. The money transfer only shows the 1000$ that you get.
I think Stalin would consider you a bit too far left.
Yes, Stalin killed a lot of people that tried to stick to the ideals of the Russian Revolution and not to submit to him. Extra points if they had political influence (he killed most of the top members of the CP from the Lenin era.
<sarcasm> I had the same problem with a database, we had some weird bug. So, me and a couple of programmmers wrote from scratch an entire DBMS with all the features of Oracle and without that bug. It took us a couple of days, though. Management told us not to slack so much next time.</sarcasm>
Yes, there are tradeoffs for using somebody's else work for your frameworks/libs/OS. Even paying does not protect you. And a bad choice of tools can be fatal.
But I bet that if that guy had gone to management and asked x men-months to improve/develope the tool by themselves, management would have say that it was too expensive and that there was no need to "reinvent the wheel" and that he had to "concentrate in the core bussiness" and "get external expertise" and use a product finished.
Ah, and from my experience whatever management says were the reasons for firing that guy and the real reason may have no relation at all.... management won't care if the project is impossible with the given constraints of technology/resources/time, if you try to explain to them they will resort to "I do not care about the technical details". But if they see the project coming behind their proyected schedule, they may find it useful to fire someone in order to show everyone that they "take care of things".
Build your own "meter"... Setup a cheap little spare box with 2 nic cards in bridged mode.They will not require a Real IP address so anyone can set this up!! Then just install bandwidthd and Apache2. It may not be perfect but, at least YOU will know about what your usage is and have something to show to back you up.
I've had this setup for years now and Thankfully I've never needed it...sure nice to know what my systems are doing bandwidth wise though!!
Doubt anyone here would need it it but, if someone does need some help with this setup feel free to email me.
And it still won't mean a thing:
"My router says I did not consume 2TB of data last month" -"I do not care what your router says because the only 'valid' meter is ours, and nobody will take your claim as proof of anything".
even if they accept your claims, most people won't be able to configure such setup for home.
Yes, learning Basic at home helped me a lot with Java.
I had a little trouble at the beginning compiling with the line numbers, but I solved it quickly. Now my code is as efficient and good looking as everyone's else.
/* 10 */ public static in main(String args[]) {// This line does nothing. Brackets are empty and they did not even 'DIM' args /* 20 */ System.out.println("Hello world!");// semi-colon because the guys at Sun / Oracle didn't figure out that the line ends at CRLF /* 30 */ }// Maybe this has something to do with the opening symbol at 10
Neh that isn't the issue. The issue is that for one reason or another English doesn't have a word for thinking sports, where practically all other languages do. It's a shortcoming of English and specifically a shortcoming of the English 'sport'. Although it isn't really English, but Americanish.
The reason may be that it is no sport? In Spanish there is no word for "thinking sports", neither.
Why not? Yet, it probably won't direct you to www.disney.com but to a simple page stating that Disney owns the trademark and won't condone its use for porn. Or at least, Disney will buy the domain to avoid somebody else using it.
A better way to look at that theory is to say that all possible time-lines exist "Timelessly", and that the time travel trick is simply a means for these causally linked outcome states to share information; However, due to the divergent nature of the beast in question, the information sent might not be terribly useful.
Example in danger of causing Godwin:
Say, We send a message back to the 20s about the dangers of Hitler's rise to power and the assassination of the Arch Duke, in order to prevent the second world war and the atrocities it spawned... Only to have the message arrive in a time interval where shortly thereafter, Hitler dies after the paper mill he works at catches fire, and the assassin of the arch duke dies fatefully in a vehicular accident before he can kill the duke. The message then looks like nothing other than the rantings of a crackpot.
Considering the archduke Ferdinand was killed in 1914 (triggering WW I), probably sending a warning about his dead in the 1920s would be somewhat less than impressive. Anyway, killed or not, Europe was already on the brink of war and they would have found another triggering event to start fighting...
what disability groups target is the end result of the system. To them, if ADA requirements are not met it does not matter if the trouble is due to Google Apps or how IT is managed. They ask for ADA requirements to be met, chosing the right way to do it is the duty IT (and management) of the institution. So, they are not suing/complaining to Google but to the university.
as an example of the previous, I did put a possible scenario in which the application is accessible but an IT policy (v.g., forbidding headhphones to avoid noise complaints/people misusing shared computers/RIIA demands/whatever) that does not take into acount disabilities causes the system to not being accessible. If you want another example, some posts have pointed that you can access Google Mail through SMTP and POP3 so people with disabiliies can use a suitable client; but if IT policies block these ports or forbid installing these clients then you have a system that is not accessible and not because of any fault from Google.
but when you're measuring a 2x4, it's far easier to divide 4' 3 3/8" by 2 than it is to divide 1.267 meters by 2.
I understand that everybody usually likes more the systems they are more used to, but:
Anybody can divide 1268 (m, km, cm, $, whatever) by 2. How do you divide 4' 3 3/8"?
If instead by 2, you divide by 1268 m by 8000, you have 0,1585 m that are easily converted into 15,85 cms (because you won't find rulers marked with meters). With Imperial (*1), you'll probably have to translate the distance into a common unit (inches?), then divide and then translate back into a unit that makes sense in the scale of the result (and AFAIK none of the conversions is easy).
Of course, I am not saying that US is doing it bad by staying with Imperial (historical reasons are very real, and such a change affects a lot of things). But that does not mean length units are easier to manage with Imperial.
IMHO, the other units might have been changed because most of goods purchased (and imported/exported) are defined by volume or weight rather than by length.
*1: Not familiar with Imperial myself, but AFAIK I am pretty sure that there is no "golden rule" to simplify the operation.
Meanwhile, the early mammals saw this coming and hid in their burrows until it was all over.
A time-honored, deeply cherished survival technique still used by the most intelligent descendants of those same mammals, in spite of vicious and unprovoked mockery.
Yes, that's right. Living in Mom's basement is a mark of extremely advanced evolution.
Only if you get to reproduce and pass your genes... and, with the current science, it still means sexually
Probably the have a warning in the EULA that if you sign in, you agree to the sharing of data.
The distintion is that, AFAIK, they do not even have to warn you before sharing the data.
Also, they probably will have to secure that data, know to which they sell it and what they want to do with it, and also ask the third party to equally ensure the data (maybe even forbidding the third party to reselling the data to another party).
Not "the solution of all troubles", but probably an improvement.
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I don't see any hard evidence or studies conducted on a majority of people to prove me otherwise (which doesn't make me correct). Especially for something like "do you believe that video games are reality?" I doubt there would be very many people who answer "yes," even children.
The study does not address if the kids think that the video game is real or not. The study tries to find if playing the video game (even if they know it is not real) has an effect on them.
My point is that marketing works mainly by "creating the need". Its objective is to say: "hey, if you buy this car/drink/whatever, you'll be cool/sexy/popular/safe"(*1). In doing this, they are manipulating adults that know the people in the ads are actors, that the things that appear are sometimes even impossible, and that the ad wants to manipulate them. And yet most ads succeed in having an effect in its audience.
So, if even conscious adults who know the nature of the trick can be influenced, I think that just saying:
I just don't see how someone, even a child, could believe that something so obviously fictional is reality
is just a little too risky. Mind you, the study does not say that the kids think the game is real, but that it has an effect on them.
*1: You may disagree, but then by logic most of the ads would be: "you need A, B and C and my product delivers A, B and C in a safe and efficient way. These are my charts so you can see it by yourself", and won't have smiling youngs living in a big, clean house using the product.
I am not suggesting that you are for anything. But if you tell that:
I've heard and read otherwise. That forced abortions and forced sterilization was commonly inflicted on people who violated the birth rules.
it somehow implies that it was the right(legal) thing to do. My point is that those rules(laws) were not impartial and just another tool for opression.
I've heard and read otherwise. That forced abortions and forced sterilization was commonly inflicted on people who violated the birth rules.
I have heard and read that forced abortions and sterilization (and birth rules and "unvoluntary medical experimentation") were commonly inflicted in people who happened to be in the wrong side of a social/racial/cultural divide.
Aborigins in Australia, Chinese in Japanese camps, black people in South USA, poors.... etc.
Ads are fictional and designed (most of them) to influence adults who know they are fictional. And many of them do work.
And that right there is why its worthy of study.
Yes, it is. But, I just don't see how someone, even a child, could believe that something so obviously fictional is reality. I doubt even more that something 'terrible' would happen even if they did (but that claim has more statistical evidence to back it up).
Advertising spots are obviously false (in the sense that the people in them are actors), are targetted (most) not at children but at adults that know that they are false. And yet, bussiness have found that they need to spend millions in them in order to get more sales. And do not say that it is because they want to inform people of new products because:
Maybe you are being a little too optimistic about the ability of people (not only children) to discriminate between reality and fiction?
I think the difference here is consequences
In a video game, you blow someone's head and you just see some red stains before the body 'vanishes'. In a sport, you injury somebody and you see him in pain, people around him wondering about him, and that guy being forced to leave to game or having trouble with some movements. Most likely, if the injury is serious you'll see him again in the neighbourhood in the next days still with sequels. If you are injured, you even get to feel how that feels.
So, even accepting that sports are more violent that some videogames, in one hand you have "violent, but it is fun to be that way" or "more violent, but if you are not careful it won't be fun".
Associating with both sides is a trouble only if you still have at least a trace of ethics....
The last news I heard there has been a stop in approving new nuclear installations there, too. As a direct result from Fukushima.
I am no completely opposed to nuclear power, yet I find some statements defending it a little odd.
Many people die from complications of coal mining, etc.
I mean... do you think Uranium or Thorium grow in trees?
If a wind farm gets hit by a tsunami in Massachusetts, you won't die of cancer in 20 years in Iowa.
I like the idea of not dying of cancer in 20 years in Iowa, but I still do not know how to create a tsunami in Massachusetts.... :-(
I guess it must be another tool for profiling money laundering against legal behaviour.
For example, you may really be doing bussiness in virtual currency (selling plugins or whatever you can sell there, playing 24x7 and converting your gold for $, etc.) and getting, let's say, 1000$ a month. Or maybe you just sell auction a rock and "someone" buys it for the equivalent of 1000$. The money transfer only shows the 1000$ that you get.
What is this "database" thing I keep hearing about? :-p
I do not know if you need to start learning geography or to stop trolling... probably both.
I think Stalin would consider you a bit too far left.
Yes, Stalin killed a lot of people that tried to stick to the ideals of the Russian Revolution and not to submit to him. Extra points if they had political influence (he killed most of the top members of the CP from the Lenin era.
So, what was your point?
<sarcasm> I had the same problem with a database, we had some weird bug. So, me and a couple of programmmers wrote from scratch an entire DBMS with all the features of Oracle and without that bug. It took us a couple of days, though. Management told us not to slack so much next time.</sarcasm>
Yes, there are tradeoffs for using somebody's else work for your frameworks/libs/OS. Even paying does not protect you. And a bad choice of tools can be fatal.
But I bet that if that guy had gone to management and asked x men-months to improve/develope the tool by themselves, management would have say that it was too expensive and that there was no need to "reinvent the wheel" and that he had to "concentrate in the core bussiness" and "get external expertise" and use a product finished.
Ah, and from my experience whatever management says were the reasons for firing that guy and the real reason may have no relation at all.... management won't care if the project is impossible with the given constraints of technology/resources/time, if you try to explain to them they will resort to "I do not care about the technical details". But if they see the project coming behind their proyected schedule, they may find it useful to fire someone in order to show everyone that they "take care of things".
Build your own "meter" ... Setup a cheap little spare box with 2 nic cards in bridged mode.They will not require a Real IP address so anyone can set this up!! Then just install bandwidthd and Apache2. It may not be perfect but, at least YOU will know about what your usage is and have something to show to back you up.
I've had this setup for years now and Thankfully I've never needed it...sure nice to know what my systems are doing bandwidth wise though!!
Doubt anyone here would need it it but, if someone does need some help with this setup feel free to email me.
And it still won't mean a thing:
Yes, learning Basic at home helped me a lot with Java.
I had a little trouble at the beginning compiling with the line numbers, but I solved it quickly. Now my code is as efficient and good looking as everyone's else.
/* 10 */ public static in main(String args[]) { // This line does nothing. Brackets are empty and they did not even 'DIM' args
/* 20 */ System.out.println("Hello world!"); // semi-colon because the guys at Sun / Oracle didn't figure out that the line ends at CRLF
/* 30 */ } // Maybe this has something to do with the opening symbol at 10
Still working it with GOTOs, yet.
Neh that isn't the issue. The issue is that for one reason or another English doesn't have a word for thinking sports, where practically all other languages do. It's a shortcoming of English and specifically a shortcoming of the English 'sport'. Although it isn't really English, but Americanish.
The reason may be that it is no sport? In Spanish there is no word for "thinking sports", neither.
Why not? Yet, it probably won't direct you to www.disney.com but to a simple page stating that Disney owns the trademark and won't condone its use for porn. Or at least, Disney will buy the domain to avoid somebody else using it.
A better way to look at that theory is to say that all possible time-lines exist "Timelessly", and that the time travel trick is simply a means for these causally linked outcome states to share information; However, due to the divergent nature of the beast in question, the information sent might not be terribly useful.
Example in danger of causing Godwin:
Say, We send a message back to the 20s about the dangers of Hitler's rise to power and the assassination of the Arch Duke, in order to prevent the second world war and the atrocities it spawned... Only to have the message arrive in a time interval where shortly thereafter, Hitler dies after the paper mill he works at catches fire, and the assassin of the arch duke dies fatefully in a vehicular accident before he can kill the duke. The message then looks like nothing other than the rantings of a crackpot.
Considering the archduke Ferdinand was killed in 1914 (triggering WW I), probably sending a warning about his dead in the 1920s would be somewhat less than impressive. Anyway, killed or not, Europe was already on the brink of war and they would have found another triggering event to start fighting...
No. What I was trying to say is that:
but when you're measuring a 2x4, it's far easier to divide 4' 3 3/8" by 2 than it is to divide 1.267 meters by 2.
I understand that everybody usually likes more the systems they are more used to, but:
Of course, I am not saying that US is doing it bad by staying with Imperial (historical reasons are very real, and such a change affects a lot of things). But that does not mean length units are easier to manage with Imperial.
IMHO, the other units might have been changed because most of goods purchased (and imported/exported) are defined by volume or weight rather than by length.
*1: Not familiar with Imperial myself, but AFAIK I am pretty sure that there is no "golden rule" to simplify the operation.
Meanwhile, the early mammals saw this coming and hid in their burrows until it was all over.
A time-honored, deeply cherished survival technique still used by the most intelligent descendants of those same mammals, in spite of vicious and unprovoked mockery.
Yes, that's right. Living in Mom's basement is a mark of extremely advanced evolution.
Only if you get to reproduce and pass your genes... and, with the current science, it still means sexually
Gotcha :-p.
Probably the have a warning in the EULA that if you sign in, you agree to the sharing of data.
The distintion is that, AFAIK, they do not even have to warn you before sharing the data.
Also, they probably will have to secure that data, know to which they sell it and what they want to do with it, and also ask the third party to equally ensure the data (maybe even forbidding the third party to reselling the data to another party).
Not "the solution of all troubles", but probably an improvement.