Technically correct, but it should also be noted that proper nutrition goes a long way in reducing meal portions, and curbing unnecessary snacking. There can still be a mental component behind eating behaviors but by properly nourishing the body, you can blunt the chemical motivators for additional eating, leading to an overall reduction in calories in the diet.
Even fruit juice's calorie->nutrition ratio is too high for my preferences. I'd rather spend my calories on foods I really crave if I'm going to spend the calories.
I've wondered this for awhile, what advantage does quicktime provide that causes people to continue to use it? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious.
(For that matter, why were people using Realplayer?)
This isn't a necessary quality of subsidized hardware, it's dependent on the approach of the manufacturer in qualifying what goes on the platform. Nintendo has been fairly draconian on this historically, but even Nintendo is now pitching Wiiware. Xbox360 has established success with Xbox Live Arcade. PS3's store is off to a rocky start but can only improve. Everyday Shooter for instance was developed by 1 guy with a computer and a guitar.
There are definitely obstacles in getting user-content on the platforms, but this is still an issue of balance between quality/security control and freedom. This will depend on the implementation. PS3 is willing to allow free-content packs for UT3, while MS could allow the same, they demanded that Epic pay MS in order to give free content to the users(even though the users had already paid for XBL...). The difference was in the implementation, but both platforms are on subsidized hardware. I'm sure we can imagine alternative methods of quality control that will still allow for freebies to work their way onto the platform. They could even declare that the developer's game experience is seperate from the user-created game experience and allow full access to mods/maps albeit with no guarantee of quality, much like the system already in place for todays PC gamers.
Pretty much. The Xbox360 has USB inputs but by MS mandate, developers are not allowed to use a keyboard as a gaming input. I don't believe mice work natively like keyboards do, but it would be trivial to add support for this.
The window for the xbox360 to also market itself as a desktop console has passed. It's a bit late for a massive turnaround like this. The console would need to identify itself as a desktop right off the bat to avoid such ambiguity. The market pitch needs to be clear and cohesive and would have to fight the established knowledge of the Xbox360 as a traditional TV/Couch console. More importantly, development support would still be needed to take advantage of the standardized platform. MS can't just enable kb/mouse support, it needs to get both consumer and developers synchronized for the launch of a kb/mouse game on the Xbox360. It can try it and fail with little cost, but having failed with a half-hearted attempt will make consumers and developers more apprehensive at embracing a future full-fledged attempt.
I'm not really wondering if it will happen though, in my opinion it's more a question of when. Keyboard/mouse have proven themselves to be great input devices and I'm sure some console will eventually involve these input devices as a centerpiece(PS3 has it enabled, but has emphasized the use of sixaxis instead). While they may be a bit awkward to use on a couch as console users are accustomed, my first several months playing the Xbox360 was on my PC monitor, there's no reason they can't just put the kb/m on the desktop to play.
It's a nice ideal, but AMD has no authority or power to make this happen. The difference between PCs and Consoles is who is in control. With a console the manufacturer can dictate standardization, but with a PC the user gets to decide what goes where. AMD will need to ask all the gaming-hardware manufacturers to join together voluntarily to make the user's choices fit into a standard. They can't just restrict the user to standardized options, the user will pick as they please.
I think the best chance for standardized PC gaming is for someone to pitch a desktop-console. Essentially they'd just be selling a standardized box of subsidized PC hardware. Market it well enough to developers and to consumers and hopefully enough people will hop on board to make it a defacto standard by popularity. What would make this difference is pre-packaging an affordable gaming box instead of having casual consumers pick out hardware on their own. Hardcore gamers will of course prefer to do this themselves, but casual consumers would rather that things "just work".
I suspect that the purpose is similar to that of the self-inflating tires. They keep you running until you can fix it properly. Since not all cars are equipped with flat-proof tires, it's a good idea for drivers to be acquainted with how to pull over and change a flat. However, manually patching hull cracks in mid-flight is an unreasonable expectation of a pilot, so this technology has found a niche.
This was happening to me. In the end my solution was to just turn off the TV and set the remote aside. I sat up and turned to squarely face her and only her and listened attentively to what she had to say. No snide remarks or annoyance either. It's pretty clear that I interrupted what I was occupied with and put else everything aside to focus on what she apparently was dead set on talking about right and now.
She apparently noticed 2 things. That if she really needed my attention on something important, she could have it; no need for her to be insecure about where she stands among my priorities. The other thing is that her choice of timing was clearly disruptive because I had to drop what I was doing in order to focus. Since she doesn't need to keep testing to assuage her insecurity any longer, she can just wait for a better time. Perhaps she's just especially perceptive, but this worked for me.
A comparison of/two/ websites really didn't warrant a headline. All it takes to get a high post count is to make a forum without account registration or without captcha, then your polygraph testing forum will explode with tens of thousands of posts...advertising viagra.
There are way too many factors to make solid conclusions from a test sample of 2.
Union labor is required. The ports can't just hire random people, the workers don't need degrees but it is definitely skilled labor where efficiency is critical due to the required turnaround times in tight spaces.
Even in the case of military cargo in a public port, the military may load/unload the containers on their own in the interests of security, but the military still has to pay the union even though the union didn't do any work. I don't particularly care about whether unions are good or bad, I'm just saying that they can't just grab more manpower just because they want it.
I never had to fight off any guilt. I was raised in a church community and I guess I was either predisposed or the lessons took hold because the good behavior came pretty naturally. Abstinence was a little tough to maintain but I did that too without any outside pressure(insert slashdot jokes here). Even though I'm not a christian now, I still end up sticking to/most/ of the values out of preference(insert more slashdot jokes here). I was definitely happier back when I believed.
The wacky beliefs had lots of room for interpretation and the weird metaphysical stuff wasn't relative to the actual day to day living. But then there was the homosexuality issue. As odd as this must sound the invisible all-powerful entity I could reconcile with because whether he/she/it existed wouldn't mean much in terms of real-world living. Bad things happening to good people? Maybe God just has a hands-off management style. Evolution/Aliens? Again, not relevant to day to day life.
But a God that creates gays only so that his followers can hate them? There's no rationale to explain that, and it's unavoidably relevant to the real-world. I don't identify with that attitude towards homosexuality, and I don't want to be associated with it either, even if it's just a minor portion of a much larger way of life. I'm not gay nor do I have a lot of gay friends, but the mental disconnect from a primary mission of love for all except for gays was still too much to work around. If I just decide to pick and choose my values out of the Bible so I can avoid this disconnect like I had been doing, I realized I might as well abandon association with the larger group and just call my values my own.
But I also had to abandon the relationships I'd formed in that group because I didn't want to explain my issues to them. I was happier before I went down the trail of thought that lead me here. I wouldn't want them to follow me.
1) Disclosure: The customer should be made aware of potential changes to their usage by the company. Even if every company does it, every company should disclose it, and I would think that a court would allow a customer to break out of a contract without contract termination penalty aside from the legal costs incurred(the amount of legal costs to the customer will vary depending on the company's temperament)
2) Understanding what is disclosed: 60 pages of fine print is still good enough for disclosure. Even if there's just 1 page of fine print, you've still got to sit and read through it while everybody else waits and many people don't want to cause that kind of disturbance and will simply sign. That's their responsibility of course, but that's how most people are. Even if disclosure is satisfied it will have very little effect since most just won't read all that bullshit.
That's why the bullshit is there. It's not enough to say that "We're not responsible for damages", which is an all-inclusive statement. They'll explicitly list every kind of potential damage they can possibly imagine just to fill the page out, and THEN follow it up with legalese that translates to: "And anything else we haven't mentioned", which makes all that filler redundant anyway. Then after a few pages of this fine print, you'll see 1 brief sentence about a very important issue, sandwiched between more fine print. For example, "This unlimited service may be subject to termination for excess use." (I.e an undetermined bandwidth cap on your unlimited service).
But in either case, it's moot, because these agreements are standard across all companies and contracts are non-negotiable unless you are a large company(which no consumer is).
It still sends the message that I prefer to watch things on my schedule rather than a predefined one. It's a bit more noticable because the lack of a viewer is hard for them to measure, but an additional view on Hulu is easily registered. It's a satisfactory middle ground between watching in real-time and bittorrenting the show and then watching.
I don't mind the 15-30 second ads, I find them a reasonable exchange for my show and I even watch them since they're short enough that it's not worth getting up or doing something else. I just wish they'd stop repeating the same goddamn ad.
I was kinda pumped for the new American Gladiators, but I stopped watching after the first few episodes.
The fun game atmosphere is gone, and now it's all hyper-competition and 'roid-fueled trashtalking. I would never have expected that basic sportsmanship was actually so integral to my enjoyment of this whimsical game. It's like going from little league softball to halo 3 team deathmatch teabagging.
I don't know that the natural disaster of Katrina is a good comparison. Google 'Three Gorges Dam Displacement' and you can see an intentional man-made disaster in China on a Katrina-scale.
Poor fishermen kicked out of their homes and told to figure things out on their own? They'll have a hell of a time resettling themselves with a new job/trade. At least with Katrina's displacement we have an educational/economic infrastructure in place for the victims to dig out an interim minimum wage.
I'm not the one who modded your comment, but my guess is an issue in presentation. The parent post is fine, while the GP is so brief that it could easily be construed as flippant, particularly given that it's presented over the internet through text.
Yeah, I opened the.pdf and ended up going straight to the references which were overwhelmingly chinese. I noticed a reuters reference in there and that was in regards to a little nugget of information regarding rising popularity of videogames...
A report about the reliability of it's own references? This report would have to be taken with a block of salt.
I would think that by that point where money is abundant beyond the context of buying goods/services for yourself, it becomes an abstract score for them. Grinding for phat lewt/XP can get pretty addicting. Moral and ethical obstacles are probably handled by not thinking about them or drumming up justifications to keep doing what they do.
The human mind can be remarkably pliable in solving unpleasant internal conflicts. Consider all the terrible things that humans consciously do to other humans, and the extremely distant and abstract cries of open-source proponents and competing businesses are relatively simple to ignore. Even if he recognizes what he's doing, he could just buy back his conscience with charitable donations.
So in addition to being rich and an asshole, I'd imagine that he has a pretty high self-esteem, and has no problems falling asleep at night..
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Technically correct, but it should also be noted that proper nutrition goes a long way in reducing meal portions, and curbing unnecessary snacking. There can still be a mental component behind eating behaviors but by properly nourishing the body, you can blunt the chemical motivators for additional eating, leading to an overall reduction in calories in the diet.
Even fruit juice's calorie->nutrition ratio is too high for my preferences. I'd rather spend my calories on foods I really crave if I'm going to spend the calories.
I mean, why use .mov at all? Why not put the videos into divx or xvid, or anything else?
I've wondered this for awhile, what advantage does quicktime provide that causes people to continue to use it? I'm not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious.
(For that matter, why were people using Realplayer?)
This isn't a necessary quality of subsidized hardware, it's dependent on the approach of the manufacturer in qualifying what goes on the platform. Nintendo has been fairly draconian on this historically, but even Nintendo is now pitching Wiiware. Xbox360 has established success with Xbox Live Arcade. PS3's store is off to a rocky start but can only improve. Everyday Shooter for instance was developed by 1 guy with a computer and a guitar.
There are definitely obstacles in getting user-content on the platforms, but this is still an issue of balance between quality/security control and freedom. This will depend on the implementation. PS3 is willing to allow free-content packs for UT3, while MS could allow the same, they demanded that Epic pay MS in order to give free content to the users(even though the users had already paid for XBL...). The difference was in the implementation, but both platforms are on subsidized hardware. I'm sure we can imagine alternative methods of quality control that will still allow for freebies to work their way onto the platform. They could even declare that the developer's game experience is seperate from the user-created game experience and allow full access to mods/maps albeit with no guarantee of quality, much like the system already in place for todays PC gamers.
Pretty much. The Xbox360 has USB inputs but by MS mandate, developers are not allowed to use a keyboard as a gaming input. I don't believe mice work natively like keyboards do, but it would be trivial to add support for this.
The window for the xbox360 to also market itself as a desktop console has passed. It's a bit late for a massive turnaround like this. The console would need to identify itself as a desktop right off the bat to avoid such ambiguity. The market pitch needs to be clear and cohesive and would have to fight the established knowledge of the Xbox360 as a traditional TV/Couch console. More importantly, development support would still be needed to take advantage of the standardized platform. MS can't just enable kb/mouse support, it needs to get both consumer and developers synchronized for the launch of a kb/mouse game on the Xbox360. It can try it and fail with little cost, but having failed with a half-hearted attempt will make consumers and developers more apprehensive at embracing a future full-fledged attempt.
I'm not really wondering if it will happen though, in my opinion it's more a question of when. Keyboard/mouse have proven themselves to be great input devices and I'm sure some console will eventually involve these input devices as a centerpiece(PS3 has it enabled, but has emphasized the use of sixaxis instead). While they may be a bit awkward to use on a couch as console users are accustomed, my first several months playing the Xbox360 was on my PC monitor, there's no reason they can't just put the kb/m on the desktop to play.
It's a nice ideal, but AMD has no authority or power to make this happen. The difference between PCs and Consoles is who is in control. With a console the manufacturer can dictate standardization, but with a PC the user gets to decide what goes where. AMD will need to ask all the gaming-hardware manufacturers to join together voluntarily to make the user's choices fit into a standard. They can't just restrict the user to standardized options, the user will pick as they please.
I think the best chance for standardized PC gaming is for someone to pitch a desktop-console. Essentially they'd just be selling a standardized box of subsidized PC hardware. Market it well enough to developers and to consumers and hopefully enough people will hop on board to make it a defacto standard by popularity. What would make this difference is pre-packaging an affordable gaming box instead of having casual consumers pick out hardware on their own. Hardcore gamers will of course prefer to do this themselves, but casual consumers would rather that things "just work".
Not unlike Cylons...
I suspect that the purpose is similar to that of the self-inflating tires. They keep you running until you can fix it properly. Since not all cars are equipped with flat-proof tires, it's a good idea for drivers to be acquainted with how to pull over and change a flat. However, manually patching hull cracks in mid-flight is an unreasonable expectation of a pilot, so this technology has found a niche.
Yes, but who wants post-op teabagging?
This was happening to me. In the end my solution was to just turn off the TV and set the remote aside. I sat up and turned to squarely face her and only her and listened attentively to what she had to say. No snide remarks or annoyance either. It's pretty clear that I interrupted what I was occupied with and put else everything aside to focus on what she apparently was dead set on talking about right and now.
She apparently noticed 2 things. That if she really needed my attention on something important, she could have it; no need for her to be insecure about where she stands among my priorities. The other thing is that her choice of timing was clearly disruptive because I had to drop what I was doing in order to focus. Since she doesn't need to keep testing to assuage her insecurity any longer, she can just wait for a better time. Perhaps she's just especially perceptive, but this worked for me.
A comparison of /two/ websites really didn't warrant a headline. All it takes to get a high post count is to make a forum without account registration or without captcha, then your polygraph testing forum will explode with tens of thousands of posts...advertising viagra.
There are way too many factors to make solid conclusions from a test sample of 2.
Union labor is required. The ports can't just hire random people, the workers don't need degrees but it is definitely skilled labor where efficiency is critical due to the required turnaround times in tight spaces.
Even in the case of military cargo in a public port, the military may load/unload the containers on their own in the interests of security, but the military still has to pay the union even though the union didn't do any work. I don't particularly care about whether unions are good or bad, I'm just saying that they can't just grab more manpower just because they want it.
I never had to fight off any guilt. I was raised in a church community and I guess I was either predisposed or the lessons took hold because the good behavior came pretty naturally. Abstinence was a little tough to maintain but I did that too without any outside pressure(insert slashdot jokes here). Even though I'm not a christian now, I still end up sticking to /most/ of the values out of preference(insert more slashdot jokes here). I was definitely happier back when I believed.
The wacky beliefs had lots of room for interpretation and the weird metaphysical stuff wasn't relative to the actual day to day living. But then there was the homosexuality issue. As odd as this must sound the invisible all-powerful entity I could reconcile with because whether he/she/it existed wouldn't mean much in terms of real-world living. Bad things happening to good people? Maybe God just has a hands-off management style. Evolution/Aliens? Again, not relevant to day to day life.
But a God that creates gays only so that his followers can hate them? There's no rationale to explain that, and it's unavoidably relevant to the real-world. I don't identify with that attitude towards homosexuality, and I don't want to be associated with it either, even if it's just a minor portion of a much larger way of life. I'm not gay nor do I have a lot of gay friends, but the mental disconnect from a primary mission of love for all except for gays was still too much to work around. If I just decide to pick and choose my values out of the Bible so I can avoid this disconnect like I had been doing, I realized I might as well abandon association with the larger group and just call my values my own.
But I also had to abandon the relationships I'd formed in that group because I didn't want to explain my issues to them. I was happier before I went down the trail of thought that lead me here. I wouldn't want them to follow me.
There are two very different goals implied here.
1) Disclosure: The customer should be made aware of potential changes to their usage by the company. Even if every company does it, every company should disclose it, and I would think that a court would allow a customer to break out of a contract without contract termination penalty aside from the legal costs incurred(the amount of legal costs to the customer will vary depending on the company's temperament)
2) Understanding what is disclosed: 60 pages of fine print is still good enough for disclosure. Even if there's just 1 page of fine print, you've still got to sit and read through it while everybody else waits and many people don't want to cause that kind of disturbance and will simply sign. That's their responsibility of course, but that's how most people are. Even if disclosure is satisfied it will have very little effect since most just won't read all that bullshit.
That's why the bullshit is there. It's not enough to say that "We're not responsible for damages", which is an all-inclusive statement. They'll explicitly list every kind of potential damage they can possibly imagine just to fill the page out, and THEN follow it up with legalese that translates to: "And anything else we haven't mentioned", which makes all that filler redundant anyway. Then after a few pages of this fine print, you'll see 1 brief sentence about a very important issue, sandwiched between more fine print. For example, "This unlimited service may be subject to termination for excess use." (I.e an undetermined bandwidth cap on your unlimited service).
But in either case, it's moot, because these agreements are standard across all companies and contracts are non-negotiable unless you are a large company(which no consumer is).
I watch BSG on a Hulu stream.
It still sends the message that I prefer to watch things on my schedule rather than a
predefined one. It's a bit more noticable because the lack of a viewer is hard for them to measure, but an additional view on Hulu is easily registered. It's a satisfactory middle ground between watching in real-time and bittorrenting the show and then watching.
I don't mind the 15-30 second ads, I find them a reasonable exchange for my show and I even watch them since they're short enough that it's not worth getting up or doing something else. I just wish they'd stop repeating the same goddamn ad.
I was kinda pumped for the new American Gladiators, but I stopped watching after the first few episodes.
The fun game atmosphere is gone, and now it's all hyper-competition and 'roid-fueled trashtalking. I would never have expected that basic sportsmanship was actually so integral to my enjoyment of this whimsical game. It's like going from little league softball to halo 3 team deathmatch teabagging.
Why do the aliens need saving?
A quick google of "vatican evolution" yielded:
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/vaticanview.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17162341-13762,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/18/news/evolution.php
Article from May 13th regarding Catholicism and aliens:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_aliens
I don't know that the natural disaster of Katrina is a good comparison. Google 'Three Gorges Dam Displacement' and you can see an intentional man-made disaster in China on a Katrina-scale.
Poor fishermen kicked out of their homes and told to figure things out on their own? They'll have a hell of a time resettling themselves with a new job/trade. At least with Katrina's displacement we have an educational/economic infrastructure in place for the victims to dig out an interim minimum wage.
I'm not the one who modded your comment, but my guess is an issue in presentation. The parent post is fine, while the GP is so brief that it could easily be construed as flippant, particularly given that it's presented over the internet through text.
Yeah, I opened the .pdf and ended up going straight to the references which were overwhelmingly chinese. I noticed a reuters reference in there and that was in regards to a little nugget of information regarding rising popularity of videogames...
A report about the reliability of it's own references? This report would have to be taken with a block of salt.
IIRC the Promised Land was occupied when the Israelites got there, so nobody's hands are clean here.
I would think that by that point where money is abundant beyond the context of buying goods/services for yourself, it becomes an abstract score for them. Grinding for phat lewt/XP can get pretty addicting. Moral and ethical obstacles are probably handled by not thinking about them or drumming up justifications to keep doing what they do.
The human mind can be remarkably pliable in solving unpleasant internal conflicts. Consider all the terrible things that humans consciously do to other humans, and the extremely distant and abstract cries of open-source proponents and competing businesses are relatively simple to ignore. Even if he recognizes what he's doing, he could just buy back his conscience with charitable donations.
So in addition to being rich and an asshole, I'd imagine that he has a pretty high self-esteem, and has no problems falling asleep at night..