And buy essentially the same thing for less than $500 US.
Remember, the first rule of marketing - early adopters of electronics pay $1000 to $2000, people who can wait for the bug-free version pay $500-$1000, and people who can wait until more than fifty percent adoption pay $300-$500, at the zero, one, and two year marks.
Gosh, I never knew any of this. I thought I just showed up at med school, gave them a check and they handed me a stethiscope and scalpal and sent me on my way. Thanks. I guess I'll just go into forestry instead...
Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the rivers of British Columbia!
I agree, Med School is a good path, especially a surgical track.
Or, if you want to do tech, you can be like me and work for the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington (or a similar such college/university department) and do Bioinformatics or Data Management for various scientific studies. I work in Medical Genetics, and we rarely lack for work.
Speaking of which, can we have your brain?
Are you sure? Think about it...
How about now? Come on, once you're dead, you won't miss it...
[in joke for studies involving Neuropathology and brain harvesting]
We merely lived on farms and saw horses, steer/cows, rams/sheep, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats doing it all the time.
Same thing, only not human.
Of course, acting on such things is now illegal in my state (Washington). And we all know that once you pass a law, noone will ever think of doing such things or violate the laws, right?
Now where's the irony key on my keyboard, think it's next to the hypocritical society key I should have used after reading the WSJ editorial about how evil High Hefner is/was...
It all comes down to the economics. If you want to stop it, you either have to affect the demand side (by corporate reforms, limits on L1/L2/H1B visas, or a dearth of skilled workers worldwide) or the supply side (by say, making it so Indian tech workers start getting paid more, as is already happening).
Me, I love working for the feds in medicine. That works a lot better.
I beg to differ on the scientific conclusions in this regard. The science is quite settled on the statistical link of certain cancers to tobacco usage, especially worldwide, regardless of your belief to the contrary.
Your point on media and violence is more scientifically founded, however.
This does not however, mean that game violence or media violence is or is not a contributing factor to GTA-inspired behaviors, but I'd love to see the research proposals for such a study:
let's see, I'm going to need a few helicopters, a lot of fast cars, guns, lots of guns, lots of ammo, a few grenade launchers, and Get Out Of Jail Free cards for the research city.
Now I just need to find someone to finance the grant... do you think the tobacco institute might do it?
In Polar RPGs, from countries like Russia, Canada, Norway, and the like, oh and Australia and South Africa, you get richer art content, more humor, and insane pop songs that richochet in your head.
Oh, and igloos and caribou.
Plus penguins. You can never have enough penguins.
1: We have evidence that Violence and Violent Video Games are correlated. Nobody has any clue if violent games makes kids violent, or if violent kids like violent games; but it's politically unpopular to accuse your constituients' kids of being thugs. (FYI, this is the kind of evidence that says smoking and cancer are correlated, but nobody really cares whether or not cancer causes smoking)
Actually, we have large volumes of statistical scientific data which proves that smoking is a leading cause of certain forms of cancer - mouth, lung, and throat in particular. Now, if you were say a firefighter, the intake of cancerous materials from exposure to toxics in inhaled smoke and vaporized chemicals might be a higher factor, but for your average joe, it is the leading indicator. In short, unless you are someone who normally ingests large amounts of smoke and other cancer-causing agents, smoking is what will get you. Now, if you are a gas huffer from age 5 - well, that's a higher risk factor.
After all, people forget that NASA's height of popularity was when we were bogged down in an endless pointless war that we were losing, as the nation went bankrupt. A generation of kids grew up plastered to the TV set at each Moon launch.
Deja Vu.
More stadium exhibitions of gladiatoral combat for the masses.
Now, if we could just capture one of those eight-armed Martian Beasts, we could really have a show!
It's all about sight, sound, and experience
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People believe what they see, even when they shouldn't.
People believe what they hear, even when it shouldn't be there.
And people's experience shows that 99 percent of everything they see on the Internet must be true, or it wouldn't be written down, like for example the obvious Fact that not only is the Moon made of Yellow Cheese, but it's quite tasty.
I looked at the list of games - with pics - they showed, and so far, NR has way more fun games than any of the other consoles, plus they're cheaper to buy.
Sony's trying to catch up, and has a few cool games.
xBox360 - well, sorry, so far nothing if you're not into sports games or FPS. Other than cross-platform games.
and all the kids there have iPods, so his pronouncements have no actual effect on them, other than meaning they can't "buy" them, they just have to "borrow" them from their friends...
Overlords, and worship at their ever-increasing telomeric overproductive DNA strand replicative feet.
Or, I would, except I've noticed they have bizarre multi-nucleic aberrant patterns in later generations that makes it difficult to get mono-nucleic offspring in vivo as one would expect in the real world...
Nobody ever talks about some of the side effects of what we do to get these lines going, since we're not permitted to create new cell lines, as any decent scientific experiment would demand.
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so I can, um, backup up my music?
USB is my life, but $980 for a player? my flash card cost me $79 total.
And buy essentially the same thing for less than $500 US.
Remember, the first rule of marketing - early adopters of electronics pay $1000 to $2000, people who can wait for the bug-free version pay $500-$1000, and people who can wait until more than fifty percent adoption pay $300-$500, at the zero, one, and two year marks.
Gosh, I never knew any of this. I thought I just showed up at med school, gave them a check and they handed me a stethiscope and scalpal and sent me on my way. Thanks. I guess I'll just go into forestry instead...
Leaping from tree to tree as they float down the rivers of British Columbia!
Sorry to dissapoint, penguins [wikipedia.org] are artic.
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Um, you might want to check the definition of polar again.
There are two poles, North and South, one region being called the Arctic (sic), the other the Antarctic (sic), both taken from the Latin root.
Oh, and Janos, but he's a Pole of a different sort
I agree, Med School is a good path, especially a surgical track.
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Or, if you want to do tech, you can be like me and work for the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington (or a similar such college/university department) and do Bioinformatics or Data Management for various scientific studies. I work in Medical Genetics, and we rarely lack for work.
Speaking of which, can we have your brain?
Are you sure? Think about it
How about now? Come on, once you're dead, you won't miss it
[in joke for studies involving Neuropathology and brain harvesting]
We merely lived on farms and saw horses, steer/cows, rams/sheep, ducks, chickens, dogs, cats doing it all the time.
...
Same thing, only not human.
Of course, acting on such things is now illegal in my state (Washington). And we all know that once you pass a law, noone will ever think of doing such things or violate the laws, right?
Now where's the irony key on my keyboard, think it's next to the hypocritical society key I should have used after reading the WSJ editorial about how evil High Hefner is/was
from India, via the International Herald Tribune, as well as the Wall Street Journal (print edition).
that's where I read it.
from replacing your job.
Even the overseas marketing skills.
It all comes down to the economics. If you want to stop it, you either have to affect the demand side (by corporate reforms, limits on L1/L2/H1B visas, or a dearth of skilled workers worldwide) or the supply side (by say, making it so Indian tech workers start getting paid more, as is already happening).
Me, I love working for the feds in medicine. That works a lot better.
I beg to differ on the scientific conclusions in this regard. The science is quite settled on the statistical link of certain cancers to tobacco usage, especially worldwide, regardless of your belief to the contrary.
... do you think the tobacco institute might do it?
Your point on media and violence is more scientifically founded, however.
This does not however, mean that game violence or media violence is or is not a contributing factor to GTA-inspired behaviors, but I'd love to see the research proposals for such a study:
let's see, I'm going to need a few helicopters, a lot of fast cars, guns, lots of guns, lots of ammo, a few grenade launchers, and Get Out Of Jail Free cards for the research city.
Now I just need to find someone to finance the grant
One: everyone who buys a PC from a vendor locked into shipping a Microsoft OS, will have this preinstalled.
Two: All the rest of us will have to cope with any mistakes they make, no matter how much Firefox penetration there is.
In Polar RPGs, from countries like Russia, Canada, Norway, and the like, oh and Australia and South Africa, you get richer art content, more humor, and insane pop songs that richochet in your head.
Oh, and igloos and caribou.
Plus penguins. You can never have enough penguins.
Because, when you come down to it, using your gun to make big holes in people in buildings is what I play Western RPGs for.
Many of the other points are good ones, but:
1: We have evidence that Violence and Violent Video Games are correlated. Nobody has any clue if violent games makes kids violent, or if violent kids like violent games; but it's politically unpopular to accuse your constituients' kids of being thugs. (FYI, this is the kind of evidence that says smoking and cancer are correlated, but nobody really cares whether or not cancer causes smoking)
Actually, we have large volumes of statistical scientific data which proves that smoking is a leading cause of certain forms of cancer - mouth, lung, and throat in particular. Now, if you were say a firefighter, the intake of cancerous materials from exposure to toxics in inhaled smoke and vaporized chemicals might be a higher factor, but for your average joe, it is the leading indicator. In short, unless you are someone who normally ingests large amounts of smoke and other cancer-causing agents, smoking is what will get you. Now, if you are a gas huffer from age 5 - well, that's a higher risk factor.
About as much as Pacman creates drug addicts.
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Dude, can you spare a quarter? Got to get my fix
caused by people who play Animal Crossing. That and hitting people on the head with a butterfly net - that stings!
Now, personally, I blame the use of cars for violent crimes on the movies.
Nothing like blaming someone else for your own actions, right?
as we use it to send rockets to Mars.
After all, people forget that NASA's height of popularity was when we were bogged down in an endless pointless war that we were losing, as the nation went bankrupt. A generation of kids grew up plastered to the TV set at each Moon launch.
Deja Vu.
More stadium exhibitions of gladiatoral combat for the masses.
Now, if we could just capture one of those eight-armed Martian Beasts, we could really have a show!
People believe what they see, even when they shouldn't.
People believe what they hear, even when it shouldn't be there.
And people's experience shows that 99 percent of everything they see on the Internet must be true, or it wouldn't be written down, like for example the obvious Fact that not only is the Moon made of Yellow Cheese, but it's quite tasty.
they lived in Texas at the time and were landowners.
hint: Americans have this radical concept called mobility. you should check it out sometime. And go learn German, our original language.
well, yes, but so long as he doesn't hang out with people from Utah, I think he'll be ok.
did I mention I taught him to make sushi?
exactly - it's all about the games.
I looked at the list of games - with pics - they showed, and so far, NR has way more fun games than any of the other consoles, plus they're cheaper to buy.
Sony's trying to catch up, and has a few cool games.
xBox360 - well, sorry, so far nothing if you're not into sports games or FPS. Other than cross-platform games.
Now everyone who uses any of my biochemical pathways owes me money.
Hey! You! Stop breathing! I own your lungs!
and all the kids there have iPods, so his pronouncements have no actual effect on them, other than meaning they can't "buy" them, they just have to "borrow" them from their friends ...
Nah, Nintendo has always made a profit both on their game consoles and on their games, why should they change now?
Overlords, and worship at their ever-increasing telomeric overproductive DNA strand replicative feet.
...
Or, I would, except I've noticed they have bizarre multi-nucleic aberrant patterns in later generations that makes it difficult to get mono-nucleic offspring in vivo as one would expect in the real world
Nobody ever talks about some of the side effects of what we do to get these lines going, since we're not permitted to create new cell lines, as any decent scientific experiment would demand.
You said Fergie's got a fix for his earring?
You'll have to speak up, I'm kind of deaf after listening to my iPod at 11 for so long.