I think it could help a lot of people get from "mostly happy" to "Wow, this is a great time to be alive!"
Anti-depressants don't make you happy, they just make it harder to be depressed. Similarly, treating non-depressed people with this device would not make them happier. It would likely make them emotionally dulled, incapable of feeling anything, including happiness, just as non-depressives that take anti-depressives report experiencing.
A beast made of the meanest parts of other (some also mythical) beasts? I can't think of any interpretation if either chimera or phantom menace that equates the two.. (ok I can think of one, but it involves taking the definition of chimera and cutting it off after "A mythical beast...")
This is what happens when you get your definitions from D&D manuals instead of a dictionary. In common usage, chimera means an illusion or fabrication.
I am now lamenting the state of the American education system.
"I rob a convenience store and steal a can of Diet Coke. I like it so much that the next day, I go out and buy a case. I tell my friend that I like Diet Coke, and he buys a case. Does this then lead to the conclusion that robbing convenience stores is good for Coca-Cola? It certainly does not."
The only reason this is inconclusive is that it costs more to produce two cases of soda than one case of soda. When it's all bits, the cost to replicate is virtually nonexistent. That's a hard fact that will never not be true. The industry has to learn to cope with that fact sooner or later. Slashdot types want it to happen now, because they're on the bleeding edge. They don't necessarily have the best arguments for it though.
Eventally, business models will turn on their heads and everyone will have what they want. I'd say in 10-20 years that will happen, even if the technology is there already.
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I think it could help a lot of people get from "mostly happy" to "Wow, this is a great time to be alive!"
Anti-depressants don't make you happy, they just make it harder to be depressed. Similarly, treating non-depressed people with this device would not make them happier. It would likely make them emotionally dulled, incapable of feeling anything, including happiness, just as non-depressives that take anti-depressives report experiencing.
A beast made of the meanest parts of other (some also mythical) beasts? I can't think of any interpretation if either chimera or phantom menace that equates the two.. (ok I can think of one, but it involves taking the definition of chimera and cutting it off after "A mythical beast...") This is what happens when you get your definitions from D&D manuals instead of a dictionary. In common usage, chimera means an illusion or fabrication. I am now lamenting the state of the American education system.
"I rob a convenience store and steal a can of Diet Coke. I like it so much that the next day, I go out and buy a case. I tell my friend that I like Diet Coke, and he buys a case. Does this then lead to the conclusion that robbing convenience stores is good for Coca-Cola? It certainly does not."
The only reason this is inconclusive is that it costs more to produce two cases of soda than one case of soda. When it's all bits, the cost to replicate is virtually nonexistent. That's a hard fact that will never not be true. The industry has to learn to cope with that fact sooner or later. Slashdot types want it to happen now, because they're on the bleeding edge. They don't necessarily have the best arguments for it though.
Eventally, business models will turn on their heads and everyone will have what they want. I'd say in 10-20 years that will happen, even if the technology is there already.
So what you're saying is that this iTablet G5 is going to come with a wireless rotary dial mouse.
That's cool.