Intelligence is a vague term. I don't believe it really exists as a testable "thing" as people learn in different systems - what they can associate things with that fits comfortably into their envioronment.
Still, Mensa is ok - if a group of like minded people want to get together, that's cool. But they are not nessaceraly what I would consider to be a collective of intelligent people.
I have far more respect for those who just use what's refered to as common sense - that to me is the sign of real intelligence.
If only common sense was a little more common...:)
I bet if you were to try and sell a box of placebos as a miricle cure, the FDA wouldn't approve it.
Kinda weird when you consider that drugs are tested against placebos.
This would also only work if the subject knows what the effects of morphine are.
If you have the strongest conviction and belief that something will relax you, chances are you'll feel those effects given that you also believe you have taken the placebo.
Mind-body stuff is cool but doesn't get enough attention - conservitive science still seems to tie it up with some sort of "new age fad".
As a side note:
I once read about an experiment (and later saw a similar experiment on TV) where school kids were asked to imagine that their white blood cells were huge disease destroying tough guys that went around beating the crap out of disease... after 1/2 an hour saliva tests were run and compared with earlier tests - they found that the immune system was more active!
Free the bandwidth from these Dr Who leak downloading bandwidth wasters and speed up my number of Slashdot homepage refreshes per second, while I wait for the next story to be posted!
Modchips on Playstations have been avaliable for almost as long as the Playstation itself. Sony's obviously been aware of this the whole time but haven't clamped down on it until now - it's been years! When did the first PS come out? 98?
I've always believed in cases like this, they don't really care - piracy builds their userbase - obviously in the short term the only sale that's made comes from the hardware (and there's bugger all in that) but give it a few years, they have a healthy market share and then that's when they stomp down on it.
There's so much software out there that's made it's way into the mainstream through piracy.
I believe that Microsoft have kinda been doing the same thing with XP up till now - took them 4 or so years until they got serious about piracy (when they block updates to pirate copies of Windows later this year).
Hey, Microsoft does innovate.... they innovate crap!
Where'd you think the talking paperclip comes from?
Too bad it's more annoying and offensive than any other piece of software in existance, but it's still innovation.
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.sh tml#talking
Really, it may seem petty, but glaring grammatical errors like this are an immediate turn-off. I read stuff like this and immediately assume the author is a nitwit and don't bother reading further.
THAN I loaded up the post in my browser, THAN I saw something that was a more unnecessary post THEN usual... another bloody typo complaint. THAN I replied in a suitably smartarse fashion.
"Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault"
Those crazy MPU guys with their ISP Assaulting BitTorrent Raids.
The real crime was their low ratio.
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There are thousands and thousands of small businesses who this sort of thing could work really well for.
While it costs next to nothing to set up, anyone who spends the time learning about how the technology works could potentially run a nice little side business, rolling premade boxes out by charging perhaps for hardware, install, config and ongoing support.
The telco market is pretty competitive but as software is now becoming more important than hardware in this business, these sorts of things are going to get easier.
I work for a company that supports and designs complex converged communications solutions for large corporates and what's become clear over the past couple of years is that the IP Telephony market is overtaking traditional TDM based systems exponetially.
The vendors used to make the majority of their cash from the hardware side.
The type of hardware that systems run on is becoming less important, as is the manufacturer - it's the software and what you can do with it that's driving a lot of decisions nowadays.
One example is that there are a lot of good open standards now on most platforms which allows for easier integration of other existing systems in a business from databases to other PBX's - this is all enabled because of software, not hardware.
Interesting side note for the linux peeps - Avaya, who is probably the largest telephony vender in the world for large corps (they spun off from Lucent in 2001) use Red Hat - they use proprietry hardware and software of course, but thought this may interest some...
I'm suprised as not everyone has a game console but anyone can walk into a movie theatre.
As for the PC games, very few (reletivly speaking) have a PC capable of playing these games the way they are intended to be played.
And for those who do, I would have thought that the prices for games are too high.
Still, if they can make this much money at this stage, there must be a huge potential in the years to come.
As a side note, I'd be interested to know how much the game industry spent on marketing compared to previous years!!
But the WM app called "e" has not been in CVS until now and you need this to actually use the WM side of E17. Only the libs, and dev tools, etc have been avaliable up till now.
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Totally agree.
:)
Intelligence is a vague term. I don't believe it really exists as a testable "thing" as people learn in different systems - what they can associate things with that fits comfortably into their envioronment.
Still, Mensa is ok - if a group of like minded people want to get together, that's cool. But they are not nessaceraly what I would consider to be a collective of intelligent people.
I have far more respect for those who just use what's refered to as common sense - that to me is the sign of real intelligence.
If only common sense was a little more common...
but placebo's work... if it works, and you market it as such, how can that be fraud?
I bet if you were to try and sell a box of placebos as a miricle cure, the FDA wouldn't approve it.
Kinda weird when you consider that drugs are tested against placebos.
This would also only work if the subject knows what the effects of morphine are.
If you have the strongest conviction and belief that something will relax you, chances are you'll feel those effects given that you also believe you have taken the placebo.
Mind-body stuff is cool but doesn't get enough attention - conservitive science still seems to tie it up with some sort of "new age fad".
As a side note:
I once read about an experiment (and later saw a similar experiment on TV) where school kids were asked to imagine that their white blood cells were huge disease destroying tough guys that went around beating the crap out of disease... after 1/2 an hour saliva tests were run and compared with earlier tests - they found that the immune system was more active!
New Zealand and Fiji are *not* Australian territories! - A proud kiwi!
as long as it doesn't involve beowulf clusters of anything (including mongolians), sure!
Free the bandwidth from these Dr Who leak downloading bandwidth wasters and speed up my number of Slashdot homepage refreshes per second, while I wait for the next story to be posted!
Damn courts with their jury summons.
Modchips on Playstations have been avaliable for almost as long as the Playstation itself. Sony's obviously been aware of this the whole time but haven't clamped down on it until now - it's been years! When did the first PS come out? 98?
I've always believed in cases like this, they don't really care - piracy builds their userbase - obviously in the short term the only sale that's made comes from the hardware (and there's bugger all in that) but give it a few years, they have a healthy market share and then that's when they stomp down on it.
There's so much software out there that's made it's way into the mainstream through piracy.
I believe that Microsoft have kinda been doing the same thing with XP up till now - took them 4 or so years until they got serious about piracy (when they block updates to pirate copies of Windows later this year).
Acrobat Reader is the culprit, not the file format.
OS X's preview app loads PDF's up as fast as the Notepad app loads up text files in Windows.
free, is it?
you gotta sort out that "r" key problem. :)
I's a half cylindar.
Doorways? we don't need no stinkin' doorways!
Oops... looks like that was stolen too.. oh well.
Hey, Microsoft does innovate.... they innovate crap!h tml#talking
Where'd you think the talking paperclip comes from?
Too bad it's more annoying and offensive than any other piece of software in existance, but it's still innovation.
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.s
- A nitwit
"Music Piracy Unit Raids ISP in BitTorrent Assault" Those crazy MPU guys with their ISP Assaulting BitTorrent Raids. The real crime was their low ratio.
There are thousands and thousands of small businesses who this sort of thing could work really well for. While it costs next to nothing to set up, anyone who spends the time learning about how the technology works could potentially run a nice little side business, rolling premade boxes out by charging perhaps for hardware, install, config and ongoing support. The telco market is pretty competitive but as software is now becoming more important than hardware in this business, these sorts of things are going to get easier. I work for a company that supports and designs complex converged communications solutions for large corporates and what's become clear over the past couple of years is that the IP Telephony market is overtaking traditional TDM based systems exponetially. The vendors used to make the majority of their cash from the hardware side. The type of hardware that systems run on is becoming less important, as is the manufacturer - it's the software and what you can do with it that's driving a lot of decisions nowadays. One example is that there are a lot of good open standards now on most platforms which allows for easier integration of other existing systems in a business from databases to other PBX's - this is all enabled because of software, not hardware. Interesting side note for the linux peeps - Avaya, who is probably the largest telephony vender in the world for large corps (they spun off from Lucent in 2001) use Red Hat - they use proprietry hardware and software of course, but thought this may interest some...
Wow! A 3D Blue Screen of Death? That would look really cool with Shader 2.0
I'm suprised as not everyone has a game console but anyone can walk into a movie theatre. As for the PC games, very few (reletivly speaking) have a PC capable of playing these games the way they are intended to be played. And for those who do, I would have thought that the prices for games are too high. Still, if they can make this much money at this stage, there must be a huge potential in the years to come. As a side note, I'd be interested to know how much the game industry spent on marketing compared to previous years!!
But the WM app called "e" has not been in CVS until now and you need this to actually use the WM side of E17. Only the libs, and dev tools, etc have been avaliable up till now.
It gives the "Blue Screen" special effect an entirely different meaning...
What happens if someone takes your car for a joyride cross country? Can you claim that back?