The problem is that you are assuming there is some difference between the knowledge you hold about science and the knowledge a religious person knows about religion.
The same principal that prevents him from converting to another religion (faith) is the same idea that prevents you from suddenly believing that the sun revolves around the earth.
Given that you cannot at any given moment detect the true center of the solar system, you realize you are and always have been taking it as an article of faith that what your teachers/professors/textbooks told you is the truth while the religious person is taking it as an article of faith that what his teachers/priests/tomes told him is the truth.
When it comes down to it, about 99.9% of all the academic knowledge you hold is based on faith, which is why people can hold such a wide variety of beliefs about its true nature all at the same time.
When I have a computer problem, I try one thing, then if that doesn't work I try another.
When I have a social problem, I try one thing. And then I keep trying it and trying it, and when people tell me to try something else I keep trying the same thing anyways. Because that's how it works in the movies.
There are, but the bad vastly outnumber the good. I will always love cowboy bebop and gungrave but I will always hate dbz and yuyu hakusho.
And I will always cringe at bleach, as good as the series is, every time he increases to a new more powerful level than before and every fight becomes a blur of bright light and poor sound effects.
You nailed it. This is my biggest problem with science fiction today. They give too much power to the good guys, and then they have to scale up the bad guys to compensate. Eventually the battle reaches a point where you can't even relate to it anymore. The matrix committed this error along with nearly every anime I've ever seen.
My other problem is that eventually you end up at a point where some genius with access to the script decides to, for example, destroy a sun in an easily repeatable way, and then for the rest of the series, blowing up a sun is a solution for every problem but has to be ignored. It is short sighted and every writer should read their script and look for these obvious and completely avoidable future plot holes.
Are you gentoo, I ask because I'm trying to find out if this is gentoo specific. It amazes me how common the problem is and yet how little it is talked about.
I have gotten through most of the delays by messing with alsa (specifically the.alsarc file and dmix).
I can think of one example where story trumped gameplay, for me anyhow.
The whole Legacy of Kain series was all story with very little compelling gameplay, but I played through it anyways because I wanted to see what happened. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea, but I really loved it.
Although I've never used itunes I think the main difference between netflix and itunes may be that on netflix you have detailed reviews and ratings for every title no matter how far down the tail it is, whereas on itunes you don't have ratings? and so buying the longtail is more of a risk.
Also I think there may be a psychological difference between a buck a track and 17 bucks per month. When you are buying at a price per song, you are thinking about whether you are likely to get your money's worth, however I routinely stick random crap tv shows on my netflix queue without considering production value.
You say it isn't going to happen, but it is already well underway. All that is needed is the 11 biggest states to enact this law and it is done. All that is needed to guarantee victory is 270 electoral votes.
Even if they can't manage to get 270 votes under this system, 150 would be so influential it could make this system work anyways 99% of the time anyways.
California, Illinois, and two other states already have laws floating around their governments to this effect. So to say that it will never happen is... wrong.
I think more importantly than that, I don't think checking accounts are protected against fraud most of the time. Giving your checking account to a business like blockbuster is just begging to have your account emptied when you need it most.
From what I understand, a hundred years ago or so the two parties switched roles. Democrats used to be the conservatives and republicans (along with lincoln) were the liberals. Of course that doesn't prevent current day repubs from citing lincoln as a champion of their party, even though the republican party was actually disolved and rebuilt from the ground up since he was president.
I should probably research this to make sure it is correct but instead I'll put a disclaimer, I am no historian.
I wrote down a wrong forumla for one of the 2 vs 1 weights down the tree, ie a=b+2c instead of a=2b+c causing me to get the same answer as you but with the 3 and 4 swapped. Then all the equations ended up working out but the top level large equation.
I feel stupid now for wasting the last hour on that getting the wrong answer.
Don't offer $1000. Jesus no. In fact don't offer anything, just specify that the aount they are asking is too much and to have a nice day. I was reading a transcript of an exchange with a registrar over a domain name that started at $5000 and ended up at about $100 as he made it clear that each amount specified was too much and that he was 'sorry but as an individual he'd have to decline'.
I wouldn't be surprised if the emails you get are nearly automated. They are just hoping for that one big score, and if you offer a thousand dollars, you will get drawn into a haggle that will cost you.
Every design change tacks x amount of time onto the release. Its like hey, lets spend four months coding fur and birth into this game.
The game is at this point a month late and then Will Wright has to explain himself after CNN plays a video of a hairy 10 legged creature giving birth out of a vagina some idiot placed on its forehead.
If you keep doing what you're doing, you will keep getting what you are getting (nothing). It sounds obvious, I know, and yet, socially it is easy to fall into that trap.
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The problem is that you are assuming there is some difference between the knowledge you hold about science and the knowledge a religious person knows about religion.
The same principal that prevents him from converting to another religion (faith) is the same idea that prevents you from suddenly believing that the sun revolves around the earth.
Given that you cannot at any given moment detect the true center of the solar system, you realize you are and always have been taking it as an article of faith that what your teachers/professors/textbooks told you is the truth while the religious person is taking it as an article of faith that what his teachers/priests/tomes told him is the truth.
When it comes down to it, about 99.9% of all the academic knowledge you hold is based on faith, which is why people can hold such a wide variety of beliefs about its true nature all at the same time.
There is no difference between this and downloading Warner's shows off non BBC torrent site.
When I have a computer problem, I try one thing, then if that doesn't work I try another.
When I have a social problem, I try one thing. And then I keep trying it and trying it, and when people tell me to try something else I keep trying the same thing anyways. Because that's how it works in the movies.
My question to you is: What dollar amount equates to a single first degree murder? 10 thousand? 1 million? 50 million? a billion?
4.1 million dollars can do alot of good and prevent alot of bad. Does this guy deserve to die for it?
There are, but the bad vastly outnumber the good. I will always love cowboy bebop and gungrave but I will always hate dbz and yuyu hakusho.
And I will always cringe at bleach, as good as the series is, every time he increases to a new more powerful level than before and every fight becomes a blur of bright light and poor sound effects.
For some reason the censors never go apeshit over a naked alien.
You nailed it. This is my biggest problem with science fiction today. They give too much power to the good guys, and then they have to scale up the bad guys to compensate. Eventually the battle reaches a point where you can't even relate to it anymore. The matrix committed this error along with nearly every anime I've ever seen.
My other problem is that eventually you end up at a point where some genius with access to the script decides to, for example, destroy a sun in an easily repeatable way, and then for the rest of the series, blowing up a sun is a solution for every problem but has to be ignored. It is short sighted and every writer should read their script and look for these obvious and completely avoidable future plot holes.
Are you gentoo, I ask because I'm trying to find out if this is gentoo specific. It amazes me how common the problem is and yet how little it is talked about.
.alsarc file and dmix).
I have gotten through most of the delays by messing with alsa (specifically the
One step closer to a 64 bit mplayer. Now we will just need a replacement for apple codecs and a 64 bit flash and I'll be set.
I really have no idea how big a problem spam is these days
I described it to you but you didn't get my message.
but you also have to plan on how to acquire and dispose of or store huge numbers of movies that there probably won't ever be peak demand for again.
They sell them for 7 bucks a pop to their renters for a big fat profit.
I wish slashdot had a jobs section too. I'd be looking through it now.
Artist's take on piracy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9KcVFN7qlc
I can think of one example where story trumped gameplay, for me anyhow.
The whole Legacy of Kain series was all story with very little compelling gameplay, but I played through it anyways because I wanted to see what happened. I know it is not everyone's cup of tea, but I really loved it.
Although I've never used itunes I think the main difference between netflix and itunes may be that on netflix you have detailed reviews and ratings for every title no matter how far down the tail it is, whereas on itunes you don't have ratings? and so buying the longtail is more of a risk.
Also I think there may be a psychological difference between a buck a track and 17 bucks per month. When you are buying at a price per song, you are thinking about whether you are likely to get your money's worth, however I routinely stick random crap tv shows on my netflix queue without considering production value.
You say it isn't going to happen, but it is already well underway. All that is needed is the 11 biggest states to enact this law and it is done. All that is needed to guarantee victory is 270 electoral votes.
Even if they can't manage to get 270 votes under this system, 150 would be so influential it could make this system work anyways 99% of the time anyways.
California, Illinois, and two other states already have laws floating around their governments to this effect. So to say that it will never happen is... wrong.
He's not exactly hiding.
His blog.
http://www.digitalpoint.com/~shawn/
I think more importantly than that, I don't think checking accounts are protected against fraud most of the time. Giving your checking account to a business like blockbuster is just begging to have your account emptied when you need it most.
From what I understand, a hundred years ago or so the two parties switched roles. Democrats used to be the conservatives and republicans (along with lincoln) were the liberals. Of course that doesn't prevent current day repubs from citing lincoln as a champion of their party, even though the republican party was actually disolved and rebuilt from the ground up since he was president.
I should probably research this to make sure it is correct but instead I'll put a disclaimer, I am no historian.
Well on the other hand, "Electronic Frontier Foundation" doesn't make headlines. "Pirate Party" does.
Wow, I'm really mad at myself.
I wrote down a wrong forumla for one of the 2 vs 1 weights down the tree, ie a=b+2c instead of a=2b+c causing me to get the same answer as you but with the 3 and 4 swapped. Then all the equations ended up working out but the top level large equation.
I feel stupid now for wasting the last hour on that getting the wrong answer.
Don't offer $1000. Jesus no. In fact don't offer anything, just specify that the aount they are asking is too much and to have a nice day. I was reading a transcript of an exchange with a registrar over a domain name that started at $5000 and ended up at about $100 as he made it clear that each amount specified was too much and that he was 'sorry but as an individual he'd have to decline'.
I wouldn't be surprised if the emails you get are nearly automated. They are just hoping for that one big score, and if you offer a thousand dollars, you will get drawn into a haggle that will cost you.
This is just my opinion.
Every design change tacks x amount of time onto the release. Its like hey, lets spend four months coding fur and birth into this game.
The game is at this point a month late and then Will Wright has to explain himself after CNN plays a video of a hairy 10 legged creature giving birth out of a vagina some idiot placed on its forehead.
If you keep doing what you're doing, you will keep getting what you are getting (nothing). It sounds obvious, I know, and yet, socially it is easy to fall into that trap.
You'd think it would cost the same as a movie rental. About 3 bucks.