..that people applaud something like Mersenne's Prime or SETI when spare CPU cycles are concerned, but when an action to the benefit of everyone - namely checking up on the environment - is undertaken using the same technology that those same people start commenting on artificial climate change: "what about the power usage", "this will cause more rapid climate change" etc etc.
Actually, you can also sign up to share your unused computer cycles for Biological Structure prediction, here at the UW in Seattle.
Just, think, you too can help find out how biology and chemistry actually work, and save half the energy by turning off your monitor while it churns through the structure predictions.
Can't recall the link, but you can probably Google for Baker Labs and UW and Structure Prediction and find a link somewhere.
this Sunday at oh dark 30 (ok, 5:30 am PST, but I like to sleep in until 10 or 11 am) on this very subject.
Global Warming - it's a really hot issue at the Beeb.
Plus, as a bonus, it has absolutely nothing to do with certain cartoon riots, and they get to avoid talking about the whole smoking ban that's also causing ill feelings.
That, plus the fact that Seattle is famous worldwide as Green central for US cities (hey, I know it's not true, we killed the monorail and all that, plus we drive a lot, but they actually believe the spin we put out).
With the Wi-Fi, do your townspeople ever leave, never to be seen again? My son got rather upset when his favorite neighbors hit the road in the Gamecube version.
That's a good point. What if you visit another town via WiFi while on the bus, some of your villagers leave, and then you get off the bus, never to see them again.
Quite a depressing thought, actually.
I know of a few animals that I wouldn't mind having left, but there are some that I quite enjoy. One problem with not planting enough flowers, trees, and ignoring weeding is more animals move away.
Then quite honestly, I'd say you have better things to be doing with the remainder of your life than bitching about why you can't use Nintendo's newest controller....
That's easy for you to say.
But what makes your right to play games more important than their right to play games?
Why not fritter your life away playing games? It's better than thinking about other things, or drinking, or...
So, can we assume that noone will ever hack it, ever?
For example, noone will ever stick a USB card in the laptop while you get coffee, use the auto connect that always kicks in thanks to how USB works, and then copy it to decrypt it later when they have lots of time, right?
is that they will make it easy to get into any system, since they have your password in them.
The bad things are: 1. Now physical hacking gets easier and you can hack a copy or just take the card and return it after scan. 2. People will have a physical device to lose. This is always a good idea. 3. We'll start seeing movies where thieves steal the InfoCards from the guard, or chop off the hand that has it on a locked wrist. Really good movies. 4. We can all rest securely knowing that noone would ever suddenly jack up the "cost" of the card, such as requiring you pay $5000 a year when they suddenly upgraded the OS, "for security reasons".
I would like to see games that helps or motivates a person to train their physical fitness with controllers hand-held and/or worn on the feet with an adjustable clip. With a controller on each limb I would imagine all sports that don't involve resistance could be developed for. Consider a game in which a player competes directly against a boxer or martial artist. Consider aerobic exercise a la Dance Dance Revolution. -Anonymous
This was what I was thinking, in addition to the other standards (light sabers, wands, avatars):
Karate games (with pads on elbows, gloves on hands) - controller in dominant hand;
Dance games (similar);
Rave games - at first, like dance games, later it will interact with external lighting pods and change the music itself (feedback loops), and multiple players will make it behave differently - in advanced forms it will be used for online parties, dance competitions, and mini-raves for teens;
Karaoke games - the controller will have a voice mike expansion for this, and as you move it and press buttons, different karaoke effects will kick in - again, will borrow concepts from Rave games above - really annoying if you have bad singers, of course, and likely to show up on Police Blotters;
Inevitable FPS variants - Be The Cop, Be The Grunt, Be The Spy, Be The Warrior, Be The Gerbil, whatever. But more fun than the ones they crank out now...
Online games like Sims 3: The Revolution where people literally interact with the game - also at home versions.
Or cave paintings. The Lascaux paintings are no older than about 20,000 years.
Of course not. The pirate fish ate them all. A classic case of supply and demand - the pirate fish liked the supply of cro-magnons so they demanded to eat them. Hence no Cro-Magnons.
Of course, convincing the Cro-Magnons to walk into the water to be eaten was a bit tricky, but they were very good pirate fish.
Yet they used this as an example of an attack on science. "nonbelievers of global warming". Since when did belief have a place in science? Should we be worried about possible global warming? Yes. Should we act to reduce carbon emissions? Probably. Do we have proof of global warming? Not currently. So many people have such a firm belief that they are scientific that they are sure that no thinking person could question their belief.
All true believers of His Noodlyness know that Global Warming is caused by the Lack of Pirates. Possibly Pirates are responsible for emitting carbon, especially those who light bonfires, set ships afire, and light their hair or beards on fire whilst attacking merchant ships.
All we need to do is just get more Pirates.
Now, I've noticed that some High Officials in the White House have recently been showing Pirate behaviors, using blunderbusses and all, but that's not enough. We need eyepatches, hats, hooks, parrots, and Arrrrrs - and lots more.
P.S.: Please don't lick us. We're not psychoactive, just poisonous. And watching you ugly humans writhe on the ground in pain really puts a damper on our day.
"I think science has always been under assault to some extent. I think there are fashions in cycles in which science is attacked for a period of time and is embraced for a period of time and it's attacked again. Generally attack against science is part of a greater attack against intellectualism in general. I think right now we're in an anti-intellectual period in the United States, but I think the pendulum will swing back in the other direction again. I agree with you that we're not seeing anything now that hasn't happened in earlier centuries."
will come back to haunt him.
Everyone knows that any so-called science that attempts to invalidate The Great Spaghetti Monster is heresy and will be rewritten - or rather, redrawn with crayons - in the classrooms of our nation.
Sometimes, I've gone on a tree-chopping crusade across villages, sometimes I've been a master gardener building a wide variety of fruit trees (and the ever elusive strawberry tree, or cherry tree with its blossoms), sometimes I've been a t-shirt collector, sometimes I've been out for gold making gold trees by burying sacks of 10,000 bells at a time.
Other times I've been a music collector.
Sometimes I've wanted lots of neighbors, so I've planted flowers and weeded everything to look nice - other times I've been a recluse, so I've put pitfall traps in front of my animal neighbors houses and laughed as they fell into them, and planted trees so they can't get out, while destroying all the flowers.
It's like the real world, except noone ever dies, they just move away and leave you to wallow in your pit of despair.
Fisher went on a quest to unravel the mystery of the brain in love. She teamed up with Art Aron, a psychologist and professor at Stony Brook University in New York and Lucy Brown, a professor in neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
And here's your answer! Looks like Dr. Fisher may not be a neuroscientist, but her research team indeed does include Dr. Brown, a professor in both Neurology and Neuroscience.
Call me highly skeptical. Helen Fisher [rutgers.edu] is a physical anthropologist [wikipedia.org]. As in population geneticists, primatologists, and paleoanthropologists. This is a far cry from being an expert in studying the "circuitry" that underlies love.
I don't know about that, many of the groups I've seen here at the UW have collaborative research involving fairly diverse researchers from multiple disciplines, and I've seen a number of scientific papers in ScienceDirect, from various medical, biochemical, and genetics journals that make the underlying science seem to be within the realm of reason.
But, lacking a direct link to the article, I'm just saying it's within the current state of information as I understand it and she's not that unusual a person to be involved in such research.
But, yes, an anthropologist is probably not a neuroscientist, although one could have multiple Ph.D. or M.Sc., M.A. degrees in similar fields.
My main beef, really, is against large, expensive, fantastical weddings. If people wanna elope, I'm all for it.
No argument here.
People could get married like they do in France or Denmark, a small civil wedding, a nice meal at home with friends and family, and then use the money they would have spent on these insane weddings Americans do to buy a new house together, or get the down payment on one.
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..that people applaud something like Mersenne's Prime or SETI when spare CPU cycles are concerned,
but when an action to the benefit of everyone - namely checking up on the environment - is undertaken using the same technology that those same people start commenting on artificial climate change:
"what about the power usage", "this will cause more rapid climate change" etc etc.
Actually, you can also sign up to share your unused computer cycles for Biological Structure prediction, here at the UW in Seattle.
Just, think, you too can help find out how biology and chemistry actually work, and save half the energy by turning off your monitor while it churns through the structure predictions.
Can't recall the link, but you can probably Google for Baker Labs and UW and Structure Prediction and find a link somewhere.
this Sunday at oh dark 30 (ok, 5:30 am PST, but I like to sleep in until 10 or 11 am) on this very subject.
Global Warming - it's a really hot issue at the Beeb.
Plus, as a bonus, it has absolutely nothing to do with certain cartoon riots, and they get to avoid talking about the whole smoking ban that's also causing ill feelings.
That, plus the fact that Seattle is famous worldwide as Green central for US cities (hey, I know it's not true, we killed the monorail and all that, plus we drive a lot, but they actually believe the spin we put out).
"I concede, things are not bright sunshine and frolicking puppies for the gaming industry at the moment."
Now, excuse me, I've bought two Nintendogs games this year alone for the DS.
It is - in fact - bright sunshine (just ask Mario) and frolicking puppies (see massive Nintendog sales) in the gaming industry at the moment.
Now, if you're trying to push tin - or FPS - right now, yeah, noone wants to buy your product, but that's because it's Yet-Another-FPS syndrome.
Try being innovative and create something new.
And hence is shooting out outrageous fantasy articles like this to try to get lots of hits and emails to justify his pay.
The chances of Apple switching to Windows is the chance that Cheney will start becoming a nice guy - nil.
With the Wi-Fi, do your townspeople ever leave, never to be seen again? My son got rather upset when his favorite neighbors hit the road in the Gamecube version.
That's a good point. What if you visit another town via WiFi while on the bus, some of your villagers leave, and then you get off the bus, never to see them again.
Quite a depressing thought, actually.
I know of a few animals that I wouldn't mind having left, but there are some that I quite enjoy. One problem with not planting enough flowers, trees, and ignoring weeding is more animals move away.
Then quite honestly, I'd say you have better things to be doing with the remainder of your life than bitching about why you can't use Nintendo's newest controller....
...
That's easy for you to say.
But what makes your right to play games more important than their right to play games?
Why not fritter your life away playing games? It's better than thinking about other things, or drinking, or
Well?
Personally, I think we should just brand the passwords on the computers, or stick them on our foreheads using postits.
Well, that's cool.
...
So, can we assume that noone will ever hack it, ever?
For example, noone will ever stick a USB card in the laptop while you get coffee, use the auto connect that always kicks in thanks to how USB works, and then copy it to decrypt it later when they have lots of time, right?
Gonna be a lot of missing laptops and PDAs
there's a bill in the Washington State Legislature (no direct bill link, as it has multiple versions, to mandate 2 percent biofuel usage here.
At least according to today's local papers.
So stealing my laptop will allow anyone to go to websites and impersonate me?
Why, yes, yes it will.
Aren't you sleeping soundly, Citizen?
Trust the Computer: The Computer is Your Friend.
Be The Gerbil
Nope, not Richard Gere sim, perhaps I should have said Be The Hamster.
Yes, for Hamtaro Interactive games.
I expect small fry will find these really fun, well, and all those Furrie Folk.
is that they will make it easy to get into any system, since they have your password in them.
...
The bad things are:
1. Now physical hacking gets easier and you can hack a copy or just take the card and return it after scan.
2. People will have a physical device to lose. This is always a good idea.
3. We'll start seeing movies where thieves steal the InfoCards from the guard, or chop off the hand that has it on a locked wrist. Really good movies.
4. We can all rest securely knowing that noone would ever suddenly jack up the "cost" of the card, such as requiring you pay $5000 a year when they suddenly upgraded the OS, "for security reasons".
Hmm. Good thing I own MSFT shares
I would like to see games that helps or motivates a person to train their physical fitness with controllers hand-held and/or worn on the feet with an adjustable clip. With a controller on each limb I would imagine all sports that don't involve resistance could be developed for. Consider a game in which a player competes directly against a boxer or martial artist. Consider aerobic exercise a la Dance Dance Revolution.
...
-Anonymous
This was what I was thinking, in addition to the other standards (light sabers, wands, avatars):
Karate games (with pads on elbows, gloves on hands) - controller in dominant hand;
Dance games (similar);
Rave games - at first, like dance games, later it will interact with external lighting pods and change the music itself (feedback loops), and multiple players will make it behave differently - in advanced forms it will be used for online parties, dance competitions, and mini-raves for teens;
Karaoke games - the controller will have a voice mike expansion for this, and as you move it and press buttons, different karaoke effects will kick in - again, will borrow concepts from Rave games above - really annoying if you have bad singers, of course, and likely to show up on Police Blotters;
Inevitable FPS variants - Be The Cop, Be The Grunt, Be The Spy, Be The Warrior, Be The Gerbil, whatever. But more fun than the ones they crank out now
Online games like Sims 3: The Revolution where people literally interact with the game - also at home versions.
Or cave paintings. The Lascaux paintings are no older than about 20,000 years.
Of course not. The pirate fish ate them all. A classic case of supply and demand - the pirate fish liked the supply of cro-magnons so they demanded to eat them. Hence no Cro-Magnons.
Of course, convincing the Cro-Magnons to walk into the water to be eaten was a bit tricky, but they were very good pirate fish.
Yet they used this as an example of an attack on science. "nonbelievers of global warming".
Since when did belief have a place in science?
Should we be worried about possible global warming? Yes. Should we act to reduce carbon emissions? Probably. Do we have proof of global warming? Not currently. So many people have such a firm belief that they are scientific that they are sure that no thinking person could question their belief.
All true believers of His Noodlyness know that Global Warming is caused by the Lack of Pirates. Possibly Pirates are responsible for emitting carbon, especially those who light bonfires, set ships afire, and light their hair or beards on fire whilst attacking merchant ships.
All we need to do is just get more Pirates.
Now, I've noticed that some High Officials in the White House have recently been showing Pirate behaviors, using blunderbusses and all, but that's not enough. We need eyepatches, hats, hooks, parrots, and Arrrrrs - and lots more.
So the toad has no natural predators in Australia? Here's the solution... just import whatever its predators are in Hawaii.
...
An even better solution would be to:
Build A Giant Fence Across Australia To Stop the Toxic Toads!
Of course, if they can hop really high, it would be a really big fence, and then we could dislocate even more locals
Not to mention your dry lake beds.
None shall be spared, except maybe those who follow The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
P.S.: Please don't lick us. We're not psychoactive, just poisonous. And watching you ugly humans writhe on the ground in pain really puts a damper on our day.
Is there a reason I should consider this important or is this just another guy wasting oxygen?
Nope. No reason. Just go back to watching Video Mods on MTV2.
words that he's said like this response:
"I think science has always been under assault to some extent. I think there are fashions in cycles in which science is attacked for a period of time and is embraced for a period of time and it's attacked again. Generally attack against science is part of a greater attack against intellectualism in general. I think right now we're in an anti-intellectual period in the United States, but I think the pendulum will swing back in the other direction again. I agree with you that we're not seeing anything now that hasn't happened in earlier centuries."
will come back to haunt him.
Everyone knows that any so-called science that attempts to invalidate The Great Spaghetti Monster is heresy and will be rewritten - or rather, redrawn with crayons - in the classrooms of our nation.
Way easier to visit other towns via wi-fi than to swap GameCube cartridges, IMHO.
This is very fun!
there is no goal, other than what you provide.
Sometimes, I've gone on a tree-chopping crusade across villages, sometimes I've been a master gardener building a wide variety of fruit trees (and the ever elusive strawberry tree, or cherry tree with its blossoms), sometimes I've been a t-shirt collector, sometimes I've been out for gold making gold trees by burying sacks of 10,000 bells at a time.
Other times I've been a music collector.
Sometimes I've wanted lots of neighbors, so I've planted flowers and weeded everything to look nice - other times I've been a recluse, so I've put pitfall traps in front of my animal neighbors houses and laughed as they fell into them, and planted trees so they can't get out, while destroying all the flowers.
It's like the real world, except noone ever dies, they just move away and leave you to wallow in your pit of despair.
Fisher went on a quest to unravel the mystery of the brain in love. She teamed up with Art Aron, a psychologist and professor at Stony Brook University in New York and Lucy Brown, a professor in neurology and neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
And here's your answer! Looks like Dr. Fisher may not be a neuroscientist, but her research team indeed does include Dr. Brown, a professor in both Neurology and Neuroscience.
Call me highly skeptical. Helen Fisher [rutgers.edu] is a physical anthropologist [wikipedia.org]. As in population geneticists, primatologists, and paleoanthropologists. This is a far cry from being an expert in studying the "circuitry" that underlies love.
I don't know about that, many of the groups I've seen here at the UW have collaborative research involving fairly diverse researchers from multiple disciplines, and I've seen a number of scientific papers in ScienceDirect, from various medical, biochemical, and genetics journals that make the underlying science seem to be within the realm of reason.
But, lacking a direct link to the article, I'm just saying it's within the current state of information as I understand it and she's not that unusual a person to be involved in such research.
But, yes, an anthropologist is probably not a neuroscientist, although one could have multiple Ph.D. or M.Sc., M.A. degrees in similar fields.
My main beef, really, is against large, expensive, fantastical weddings. If people wanna elope, I'm all for it.
No argument here.
People could get married like they do in France or Denmark, a small civil wedding, a nice meal at home with friends and family, and then use the money they would have spent on these insane weddings Americans do to buy a new house together, or get the down payment on one.