The key to solving disease is not going to be found in cures, but instead in vaccines. IIRC, small pox is the only disease to ever be "killed", that is, to be no longer found in the wild in the world. This wasn't done with fancy anti-virals but with a simple vaccine that stopped the spread of infection. Now, this approach cannot work for diseases that use other animals as hosts, and I am not suggesting that we should not use treatments like this to cure patients who would otherwise suffer greatly or die. However, I find the idea of speeding the evolution of diseases which currently only present a small inconveniece dangerous. Even more dangerous is using this approach against one disease that they mention: polio. This disease was responsible for one of the most devestating epidemics in recent history, but thanks to vaccines has been eliminated in the wild from the Western Hemisphere, and is slowly being killed in the rest of the world as well. Using this drug against it instead of continuing with the vaccination program could result in a recurrence of the plague that struck America in the first part of the 20th century.
Every study I have seen cited to say that violent video games cause violence show a correlation between the two, NOT a causation effect. There are also a multitude of studies showing a correlation between blacks and low standardized test scores, so by the same logic, blacks are less intelligent than whites. Studies showing a correlation between violence and violent video games can always be explained by saying that the type of people who are violent are going to enjoy playing violent games. If you want to convince me that games cause violence show me a study that refutes the fact that of the tens of millions of people who play violent video games, only a handful have committed unusually violent acts.
Perhaps they should release all the SSN of any admins they have just out of principle, teach them a little lesson in what it's like to have their privacy violated.
Nintendo has repeatedly shied away from including backlights for two main reasons. 1) They consume an enormous ammount of power. Remember the 6 AAs it took to run the Game Gear and they only lasted a few hours, and weighed a ton. The new Gameboy runs for 20 hrs with 2 AAs and the reflective LCD they use only needs a minimal ammount of light. 2) Backlights are yet another part that can break, and if it burns out, youre left with a $100 paperweight.
Now, as far as I know, TVs can only display a resolution of 640x480 (with the exception of HDTV and such) and all the current console games take this into account, designing the games to look good at that, or often even lowers res. But computer games are designed to display on a much smaller, much higher res screen, and when they're inflated to fill a TV screen at a much lower res, won't they look like crap?
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The key to solving disease is not going to be found in cures, but instead in vaccines. IIRC, small pox is the only disease to ever be "killed", that is, to be no longer found in the wild in the world. This wasn't done with fancy anti-virals but with a simple vaccine that stopped the spread of infection. Now, this approach cannot work for diseases that use other animals as hosts, and I am not suggesting that we should not use treatments like this to cure patients who would otherwise suffer greatly or die. However, I find the idea of speeding the evolution of diseases which currently only present a small inconveniece dangerous. Even more dangerous is using this approach against one disease that they mention: polio. This disease was responsible for one of the most devestating epidemics in recent history, but thanks to vaccines has been eliminated in the wild from the Western Hemisphere, and is slowly being killed in the rest of the world as well. Using this drug against it instead of continuing with the vaccination program could result in a recurrence of the plague that struck America in the first part of the 20th century.
Every study I have seen cited to say that violent video games cause violence show a correlation between the two, NOT a causation effect. There are also a multitude of studies showing a correlation between blacks and low standardized test scores, so by the same logic, blacks are less intelligent than whites. Studies showing a correlation between violence and violent video games can always be explained by saying that the type of people who are violent are going to enjoy playing violent games. If you want to convince me that games cause violence show me a study that refutes the fact that of the tens of millions of people who play violent video games, only a handful have committed unusually violent acts.
Perhaps they should release all the SSN of any admins they have just out of principle, teach them a little lesson in what it's like to have their privacy violated.
Nintendo has repeatedly shied away from including backlights for two main reasons. 1) They consume an enormous ammount of power. Remember the 6 AAs it took to run the Game Gear and they only lasted a few hours, and weighed a ton. The new Gameboy runs for 20 hrs with 2 AAs and the reflective LCD they use only needs a minimal ammount of light. 2) Backlights are yet another part that can break, and if it burns out, youre left with a $100 paperweight.
Now, as far as I know, TVs can only display a resolution of 640x480 (with the exception of HDTV and such) and all the current console games take this into account, designing the games to look good at that, or often even lowers res. But computer games are designed to display on a much smaller, much higher res screen, and when they're inflated to fill a TV screen at a much lower res, won't they look like crap?