I think you've forgotten the point of this whole discussion.
Somebody's already getting paid to make this NBC site. Somebody's already deemed it "cool" enough for them to be involved in on the technical side. The question is whether this will translate into being cool enough for the young masses to migrate from (or at least share time with) youtube. Maybe exclusive NBC content will win? Maybe youtube's entrenchment will win? Maybe NBC has something special up their sleeves that kids will drool over - or ignore entirely? The geeks at the top don't get to make those calls, nor do they hold much sway over the people who do - the users themselves.
I saw this show too, about a year ago - it was the first thing that came to mind when I saw this article.
Some of these women nearly lost their kids because they couldn't prove via DNA tests that the kids were theirs - child services thought they'd switched them at the hospital or something, even though the father was the father.
While all of that is true, these are not the populations who dictate what is cool to 17-year-olds, except for the 5% of 17-year-olds who are also geeks. That's what this is about, what is cool to teenagers, not what is technologically cutting-edge. Or even what's cool to 40-year-old engineers.
I sincerely hope that the people you are referring to, the people in the top eschelons of engineering and technology, are not deluded enough to think that they dictate coolness to the teenagers of the world. I would hope that they have higher opinions of themselves than to equate themselves to pop stars and television producers.
Not really. In the onion version of Ask An X, X never gives a reply that has anything at all to do with the question. If the Onion had Ask a Pirate, for instance, someone would ask the pirate for advice on making someone notice them, and the pirate would reply with some random speech to his shipmates or something. On the youtube ones, the X seems to actually give a reply that has something to do with the question, but in the style of X.
Actually, it *is* pretty ironic, given that it doesn't really appear to have any features that would upstage the iPhone at all. Maybe size, but that cuts into the video playback size pretty severely.
Nintendo makes... games. The Wii is a console on which you play... games. Therefore, they are a part of "the gaming market."
You're probably right - there's a good chance that Sony and Microsoft will let this segment of the market stick with Nintendo. But that's their own decision - it doesn't make that segment NOT a part of the market. It just makes it a part of the market that some companies choose not to court.
Your argument is like saying that Barbie games don't expand the market to pre-teen girls, just because those girls will not go out and buy Grand Theft Auto or World of Warcraft next. Anyone who buys games is part of the video game market, regardless of whether they buy ALL games. They play some kind of video game, and any company who wants to sell video games to them could design one to appeal to them. Some companies do, some companies don't.
While you're right that junk food packs on the calories faster than exercise can burn them, don't completely count out exercise. You don't just burn the calories during the exercise - it boosts your metabolism so that you're burning more calories all the time. Again, not to the point where you'll burn off a candy bar just by watching TV, but exercising AND cutting out excess junk will definitely result in more weight loss than cutting out the junk alone. It may only be a pound or two more a month, but over the course of a year that can make a big difference.
Unfortunately, saving a few people is not adequate proof. Unless he can show that there is little chance that those people would not have improved without his treatment, he doesn't have scientific proof. He has anecdotes. Possibly very interesting anecdotes, but anecdotes nonetheless.
And even if he has no interest in making money off of the suffering, if he had an interest in saving as many lives as possible you'd think he would do what is necessary to support his theories and spread the word.
I haven't done any actual research on electricity in nerves, but I have suffered from L'Hermittes Syndrome. After radiation therapy degrades the myelin sheath of your spinal cord, for several months you can shock yourself by turning your neck the right way (usually putting your chin down to your chest). It doesn't hurt, but it does feel VERY similar to the buzz you get when you touch something plugged into a wall outlet. Similar enough that I would be outright shocked if it turned out to be caused my anything other than electricity.
I think you missed the parent's point. Some of us are just looking for one that lets us make calls. Period. The cel phone would be useless without it, and anything else isn't valuable enough to waste our money on. Nothing more useful than that.
But of course there is no money to be made by telling people all they have to do is follow the proper diet
WTF? Tell that to the late Dr. Atkins. Hell, there are plenty of books out there now specifically about treating cancer through diet (though most are responsible enough to view it as a supplement to rather than replacement for traditional therapies), and they sell. If your dad had any actual proof, trust me, he'd be a rich man.
That claims that there are no clinical trials primarily because the drug is already in use and therefore not re-patentable.
How do you explain clinical trials that utilize drugs whose patents have already expired? Such as this chemo regimen, which was in clinical trials just in the past couple of years despite several of the drugs being unpatentable. (I don't think they're giving out any new patents for prednisone and mustard gas these days.)
Sorry to interrupt. Back to your regularly scheduled Raging Against The Big Bad Pharmaceutical Machine.
But they're parts of you that have already turned traitor and are trying to kill you. So trust me, you won't feel too guilty about it. If nothing else, it'll serve as a stern warning to all those other cells that they damn well better keep their DNA in line.
A month after I got my eMac (in June 2002, still using the same machine), weird things started happening. Random crashes, files moving around my desktop and renaming themselves. I tried whatever I could find in the online help files, but nothing fixed it.
I called support (note, I had not bought any kind of applecare package, but this WAS only a month after purchase), and the guy had me remove each stick of RAM to test if one was bad. The best part was, after explaining to me how to get to the RAM, he believed me when I said I could handle it from there and just said OK, if one is bad then take it to the Apple store and exchange it. This was a great change from some tech supports who insist on hand-holding through every freaking step. I took the bad stick of RAM to the apple store, they tested it themselves, and handed me a new one. Problem solved! Quickly and easily. Maybe the Apple store in Cambridge, MA is just more efficient than most.
Don't forget all the Jack FM formatted stations (in addition to the dozens actually named Jack, there are Bobs and Mikes and Dougs and others that don't have silly names but still use the "ipod on shuffle" format). It'd be incredibly easy for them to slip indie stuff in, since their slogan is "We play anything(/everything)" anyhow. These stations are pretty hot right now, and growing - I'll bet they're where a lot of this ends up.
True enough, radioactivity isn't contagious. Remove the source of radiation, and with any luck, the body will heal.
Someone on a cancer mailing list I'm on recently suggested bathing in epsom salts after radiation treatment because it "pulls the radiation out of the body." She even said something to the effect of the radiation is attracted to the salts or something. I resisted the urge to smack her upside the head and just politely explained to her how radiation therapy actually works.
You can play the GBA versions on your DS. I've played one of the DKCs (forget which) on my sister's DS.
But aside from that, what I hope they wind up doing is finding a way to take the old-school games that you download onto your Wii, and put them on your DS. Some attachment to the Wii that loads them onto a cartridge for the DS or something. Then you'd have whatever size library they have for the Wii, available portably. And I'm sure it would inspire a lot of cross-buying, more so than the sad GBA/GC connections worked into a few games (actually, I'd rather NOT have away of contacting Tingle, thank you very much!).
Everything fits on one memory card, except you really need two because some things you can't get without visiting another town (either make your own or borrow a friend's). You could say that paying off your mortgage is "beating the game," but it's more like that's when the game actually starts, because you no longer owe all your money to Nook and can save up and do stuff with it instead. There's no way to save up money until you've paid your mortgage, except leaving $30,000 bell bags lying around. But on the other hand, once you get the biggest house you could complete most other goals in the game without ever paying your mortgage off - you'll just need to find lots of places to put those bell bags.
The main point is, saying you've "beat" AC is much like saying you "beat" The Sims. Sure, there are goals to be accomplished, and paying your mortgage is the most obvious one - but you don't really ever "beat" it.
There's tons of stuff to do besides that. Get 100K on your HRA score, collect every fish and insect (which take at least a year to do), get all four golden tools, collect every item in the catalog including every model (which requires getting 999,999,999 bells in your bank account, which takes forever by itself unless you hit it REALLY big in the stalk market). I've hung out on the gamefaqs AC forums, and I'm not sure that anyone has actually completed everything there is to complete in the game, at least not without a whole lotta cheat codes. Although even after you do all that, you can try to max out your HRA score - I think the top on record is 420,000.
So basically, people are getting screwed over because Nintendo releases a better version in less than 2 years, and they have no way to anticipate it.
How is that getting screwed over? You still have the hardware you bought. It still works with the games you bought, as well as new games being produced. You obviously thought the hardware was worth $XXX when you bought it, with that particular set of specs in that particular year - it doesn't retroactively lose value (as in, it was still worth the same when you bought it). You've gotten two years of play out of it, which you would have lost had you waited. If you're really desperate, you can sell it on eBay for a small loss and buy the next one. Regular DSes go for $80-90 on eBay - do you think that $50 (or less) loss is worth the 2 years of gameplay people got on them before deciding to upgrade to a Lite?
The research is fuzzy on birth order effects - some studies show that they play a role in things like career choices and success of relationships, but then other studies show that they don't affect things like the "big 5" personality traits. And then people who have done either type of study claim that their study shows that birth order either does or doesn't matter, period, which doesn't make it any less confusing.
But in my experience, if one sibling is a black sheep or burnout of any kind, it's almost never the oldest. I actually noticed this strongly as an undergrad at MIT; probably 75% of the people I knew there were oldest siblings. The next youngest generally fell into one of three categories: a) rarest, also went to MIT (specifically, hardly ever another top school) b) was "artsy" and "found their own path" or c) total burnout.
I'm not saying that birth order is completely responsible, but it's probably a main supplement to the genetics.
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Somebody's already getting paid to make this NBC site. Somebody's already deemed it "cool" enough for them to be involved in on the technical side. The question is whether this will translate into being cool enough for the young masses to migrate from (or at least share time with) youtube. Maybe exclusive NBC content will win? Maybe youtube's entrenchment will win? Maybe NBC has something special up their sleeves that kids will drool over - or ignore entirely? The geeks at the top don't get to make those calls, nor do they hold much sway over the people who do - the users themselves.
Some of these women nearly lost their kids because they couldn't prove via DNA tests that the kids were theirs - child services thought they'd switched them at the hospital or something, even though the father was the father.
Ok, so that might indicate that they are more likely to think that they are the arbiters of cool, but it does not make it any more true.
I sincerely hope that the people you are referring to, the people in the top eschelons of engineering and technology, are not deluded enough to think that they dictate coolness to the teenagers of the world. I would hope that they have higher opinions of themselves than to equate themselves to pop stars and television producers.
Not really. In the onion version of Ask An X, X never gives a reply that has anything at all to do with the question. If the Onion had Ask a Pirate, for instance, someone would ask the pirate for advice on making someone notice them, and the pirate would reply with some random speech to his shipmates or something. On the youtube ones, the X seems to actually give a reply that has something to do with the question, but in the style of X.
Actually, it *is* pretty ironic, given that it doesn't really appear to have any features that would upstage the iPhone at all. Maybe size, but that cuts into the video playback size pretty severely.
You're probably right - there's a good chance that Sony and Microsoft will let this segment of the market stick with Nintendo. But that's their own decision - it doesn't make that segment NOT a part of the market. It just makes it a part of the market that some companies choose not to court.
Your argument is like saying that Barbie games don't expand the market to pre-teen girls, just because those girls will not go out and buy Grand Theft Auto or World of Warcraft next. Anyone who buys games is part of the video game market, regardless of whether they buy ALL games. They play some kind of video game, and any company who wants to sell video games to them could design one to appeal to them. Some companies do, some companies don't.
This did not lead to kinder, gentler Wii-ing. It led to the dog learning the difference between the wiimote and the laser pointer.
While you're right that junk food packs on the calories faster than exercise can burn them, don't completely count out exercise. You don't just burn the calories during the exercise - it boosts your metabolism so that you're burning more calories all the time. Again, not to the point where you'll burn off a candy bar just by watching TV, but exercising AND cutting out excess junk will definitely result in more weight loss than cutting out the junk alone. It may only be a pound or two more a month, but over the course of a year that can make a big difference.
And even if he has no interest in making money off of the suffering, if he had an interest in saving as many lives as possible you'd think he would do what is necessary to support his theories and spread the word.
I haven't done any actual research on electricity in nerves, but I have suffered from L'Hermittes Syndrome. After radiation therapy degrades the myelin sheath of your spinal cord, for several months you can shock yourself by turning your neck the right way (usually putting your chin down to your chest). It doesn't hurt, but it does feel VERY similar to the buzz you get when you touch something plugged into a wall outlet. Similar enough that I would be outright shocked if it turned out to be caused my anything other than electricity.
I think you missed the parent's point. Some of us are just looking for one that lets us make calls. Period. The cel phone would be useless without it, and anything else isn't valuable enough to waste our money on. Nothing more useful than that.
WTF? Tell that to the late Dr. Atkins. Hell, there are plenty of books out there now specifically about treating cancer through diet (though most are responsible enough to view it as a supplement to rather than replacement for traditional therapies), and they sell. If your dad had any actual proof, trust me, he'd be a rich man.
Except that there are unpatentable cancer treatments in clinical trials all the freaking time. See my post lower in this thread.
How do you explain clinical trials that utilize drugs whose patents have already expired? Such as this chemo regimen, which was in clinical trials just in the past couple of years despite several of the drugs being unpatentable. (I don't think they're giving out any new patents for prednisone and mustard gas these days.)
Sorry to interrupt. Back to your regularly scheduled Raging Against The Big Bad Pharmaceutical Machine.
But they're parts of you that have already turned traitor and are trying to kill you. So trust me, you won't feel too guilty about it. If nothing else, it'll serve as a stern warning to all those other cells that they damn well better keep their DNA in line.
So Nintendo doesn't get credit for an artistic Wii game because it was made by Konami, but Sony gets credit for Lumines and Katamari Damacy??
I called support (note, I had not bought any kind of applecare package, but this WAS only a month after purchase), and the guy had me remove each stick of RAM to test if one was bad. The best part was, after explaining to me how to get to the RAM, he believed me when I said I could handle it from there and just said OK, if one is bad then take it to the Apple store and exchange it. This was a great change from some tech supports who insist on hand-holding through every freaking step. I took the bad stick of RAM to the apple store, they tested it themselves, and handed me a new one. Problem solved! Quickly and easily. Maybe the Apple store in Cambridge, MA is just more efficient than most.
Don't forget all the Jack FM formatted stations (in addition to the dozens actually named Jack, there are Bobs and Mikes and Dougs and others that don't have silly names but still use the "ipod on shuffle" format). It'd be incredibly easy for them to slip indie stuff in, since their slogan is "We play anything(/everything)" anyhow. These stations are pretty hot right now, and growing - I'll bet they're where a lot of this ends up.
Someone on a cancer mailing list I'm on recently suggested bathing in epsom salts after radiation treatment because it "pulls the radiation out of the body." She even said something to the effect of the radiation is attracted to the salts or something. I resisted the urge to smack her upside the head and just politely explained to her how radiation therapy actually works.
But aside from that, what I hope they wind up doing is finding a way to take the old-school games that you download onto your Wii, and put them on your DS. Some attachment to the Wii that loads them onto a cartridge for the DS or something. Then you'd have whatever size library they have for the Wii, available portably. And I'm sure it would inspire a lot of cross-buying, more so than the sad GBA/GC connections worked into a few games (actually, I'd rather NOT have away of contacting Tingle, thank you very much!).
The main point is, saying you've "beat" AC is much like saying you "beat" The Sims. Sure, there are goals to be accomplished, and paying your mortgage is the most obvious one - but you don't really ever "beat" it.
There's tons of stuff to do besides that. Get 100K on your HRA score, collect every fish and insect (which take at least a year to do), get all four golden tools, collect every item in the catalog including every model (which requires getting 999,999,999 bells in your bank account, which takes forever by itself unless you hit it REALLY big in the stalk market). I've hung out on the gamefaqs AC forums, and I'm not sure that anyone has actually completed everything there is to complete in the game, at least not without a whole lotta cheat codes. Although even after you do all that, you can try to max out your HRA score - I think the top on record is 420,000.
How is that getting screwed over? You still have the hardware you bought. It still works with the games you bought, as well as new games being produced. You obviously thought the hardware was worth $XXX when you bought it, with that particular set of specs in that particular year - it doesn't retroactively lose value (as in, it was still worth the same when you bought it). You've gotten two years of play out of it, which you would have lost had you waited. If you're really desperate, you can sell it on eBay for a small loss and buy the next one. Regular DSes go for $80-90 on eBay - do you think that $50 (or less) loss is worth the 2 years of gameplay people got on them before deciding to upgrade to a Lite?
But in my experience, if one sibling is a black sheep or burnout of any kind, it's almost never the oldest. I actually noticed this strongly as an undergrad at MIT; probably 75% of the people I knew there were oldest siblings. The next youngest generally fell into one of three categories: a) rarest, also went to MIT (specifically, hardly ever another top school) b) was "artsy" and "found their own path" or c) total burnout.
I'm not saying that birth order is completely responsible, but it's probably a main supplement to the genetics.