According to the article, the number of Bachelor's of Science degrees has increased greatly, which means we have a lot more techs, not scientists
Damned insightful. Your 4-year degree(s) in microbiology or chemistry or botany or genetics doesn't make you a scientist. It's a permission slip to work at LabCorp or Glaxo or similar starting at $16/hr + benefits.
Did they even attempt to quantify how the industry has ballooned in this time period? Fark no. What manner of pedantic idiocy ignores the landscape, grabs the "worst" market segment, says it's worse, and draws a conclusion about the landscape?
Record sales of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Shenmue, or Nintendogs screw the NIMF's pooch. Sure the "mature" market segment has grown, but so have all the others. Can we stop [Leisure Suit Larry PC] pretending [Night Trap SegaCD] we've never had [Voyeur 3DO] the sex discussion, much less the violence one?
Wonder which cherry-picked six games from "the late 90s" they used...considering their AVOID list for 2004 reads like a catalog of best-sellers:
1. Far Cry
2. F.E.A.R.
3. The Warriors
4. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
5. True Crime: New York City
6. Blitz: The League
7. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
8. God of War
9. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
10. Urban Reign
11. Conker: Live and Reloaded
12. Resident Evil 4
while their RECOMMENDED top 5 consist of 4 movie licenses (Goblet of Fire, The Incredibles, King Kong, Narnia) plus Zelda.
I think their rigorous statistical sieve musta filtered out such family-friendly classics as Mortal Kombat and Thrill Kill. Far be it from me to weigh one-on-one fights to-the-death/decapitation/disembowelment against survival horror, tactical espionage, and a foul-mouthed squirrel.
What ad wizard came up with NIMF's donation gif?
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He claims to be the first to include a new variable: well-known vs. unknown artists. Previous studies [he cites] have shown p2p does *not* hurt record sales.
His methodology is to see how the RIAA's lawsuit waves coincide with drops in filesharing and bumps in record sales. All insightful corrections, but before anybody can claim the Last Word, the model needs to address the perception that today's platinum records just aren't worth buying.
I'll sit back, eat some chips, and watch yet another partial solution to this question enjoy its 15 minutes of fame. Music people will pay to own, I think, comes in equal parts from the heart and crotch. P2P or not, nobody can sell too many records riding manufactured trends that were insincere to begin with.
But with mass-market certification serving as a coarse crapware filter, maybe botnets will suffer a little.
As long as the fine-tooth combs of FOSS apps like AdAware stick around, the only downside is increased overhead for developers. Gotta crawl before you can walk, but it'll provide an excuse for vendors to create a premium price point ["with GoldSeal Cleanware suite - add $80"]. I'm ambivalent.
Prof. Hwang Woo-suk at Seoul National University, South Korea's stem cell pioneer, is under fire for giving too much credit for his strides in cloning research to a foreign scientist. -- 8/4/05
Under U.S. rules, collecting eggs from women working on a cloning project would be considered unethical.
Under US law, collecting eggs from anyone to work on a cloning project is "unethical." At the risk of spreading FUD, I believe we have a no-tolerance policy towards human cloning.
(If I'm wrong, the propaganda has worked).
So perhaps the egg had to come from an interested party. While I completely understand the potential for abuse if that party is an employee, it is entirely conceivable nothing improper occurred. It's her cell to sell.
If the head scientist used her own egg, would that be more ethical? Family members' eggs? Bought them on the black market? I can't believe we're talking about job security as the salient ethical detail in this context. There is a goddamn baleen whale in the foyer.
Do I believe anyone would relinquish precious bodily fluids to keep a job? No. Assuming it is ethical to buy and sell these for the express purpose of cloning research--as Dr. Schatten has--I don't see why we need to abridge the right to contract. Barring the event that your employer is Dracula, it might be considered a privilege to contribute to a historic experiment.
For once, the debate has everything to do with the price of eggs in China.
[1] "Which Came First, the Breach of Ethics, or the Egg?", Nature, August 2005
[2] "Why'd the Korean lab worker cross the road?", New York Times, 4/1/2003
The way the article goes from "total surface area of the earth" to "a medium-sized state" led me to believe he really does mean back-to-back panels tiling the region.
Sure you can put them on your roof, and just think of the savings in lawn maintenance!
it should be just as outlawed as heroin. I recall reading somewhere that the withdrawal symptoms are actually more severe, how true that is I cannot attest to.
It turns out you need a total surface area the size of a medium sized US state in about six places around the world (say one on each continent) to do the job.
Does anybody else see a problem covering Wyoming with solar arrays?
Cool beans. I bet there's more AI going on in Quake; the enemies seem a little smarter and more agile than in Doom. I'm lamenting my rdram situation as well...too hot to overclock, too expensive to upgrade.
Not to nitpick, but the settings I mentioned aren't "amazingly pretty." My point is precisely that while Doom3 runs better than you'd expect on budget hardware, another modern game *is* borderline unplayable. Even at minimum resolution / quality. It's worth pointing out to potential buyers. If you've had a better experience with Quake, I'm interested to hear it.
I'm on a rig like that right now, and it runs Doom 3 at 1024x768 with specular lighting at around 30fps
If you can't milk more than 30 fps out of Doom3 on that card, I don't think you're in a position to suggest video settings. Tweaks for further improvement are documented out the wazoo.
Having just slogged through Quake 4 on a 9500 pro, 512MB pc800, 2.53GHz P4, I can't recommend anyone else do this. Doom3 was surprisingly decent, but Quake at 1280x1024 / medium / no shadows did 20-30 fps with more stutter than Gary the Retard. Multiplayer is out of the question.
If I can't run Oblivion, that'll be the deal-breaker.
If everything you quote is updated in real time, does yesterday's text get memory-holed?
I'm trying to wade through the excitability in TFA...Nelson seems to describe what I'll call "some wicked-cool Minority Report stuff." His abstract goal sounds like a fusion of copy editing and graphic design...two functions evidently (cf. Geocities) too disparate for one person to manage, even within the boundaries of conventional print or HTML.
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It'll never happen. The whole point of a home theater system is to have everything as big as possible, whereas with computers...
wait, the original Xbox launch was a conspiracy to put a PC in your entertainment center *disguised* as a receiver!
According to the article, the number of Bachelor's of Science degrees has increased greatly, which means we have a lot more techs, not scientists
Damned insightful. Your 4-year degree(s) in microbiology or chemistry or botany or genetics doesn't make you a scientist. It's a permission slip to work at LabCorp or Glaxo or similar starting at $16/hr + benefits.
Emergency preparedness is a different one.
http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2006/01/29#a1423
You still get tanks from google.cn with three other spellings that don't translate to "Gate of Heavenly Peace," which is what Tiananmen is.
Did they even attempt to quantify how the industry has ballooned in this time period? Fark no. What manner of pedantic idiocy ignores the landscape, grabs the "worst" market segment, says it's worse, and draws a conclusion about the landscape?
Record sales of Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Shenmue, or Nintendogs screw the NIMF's pooch. Sure the "mature" market segment has grown, but so have all the others. Can we stop [Leisure Suit Larry PC] pretending [Night Trap SegaCD] we've never had [Voyeur 3DO] the sex discussion, much less the violence one?
Wonder which cherry-picked six games from "the late 90s" they used...considering their AVOID list for 2004 reads like a catalog of best-sellers:
1. Far Cry
2. F.E.A.R.
3. The Warriors
4. Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
5. True Crime: New York City
6. Blitz: The League
7. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
8. God of War
9. Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
10. Urban Reign
11. Conker: Live and Reloaded
12. Resident Evil 4
while their RECOMMENDED top 5 consist of 4 movie licenses (Goblet of Fire, The Incredibles, King Kong, Narnia) plus Zelda.
I think their rigorous statistical sieve musta filtered out such family-friendly classics as Mortal Kombat and Thrill Kill. Far be it from me to weigh one-on-one fights to-the-death/decapitation/disembowelment against survival horror, tactical espionage, and a foul-mouthed squirrel.
http://www.mediafamily.org/
He claims to be the first to include a new variable: well-known vs. unknown artists. Previous studies [he cites] have shown p2p does *not* hurt record sales.
His methodology is to see how the RIAA's lawsuit waves coincide with drops in filesharing and bumps in record sales. All insightful corrections, but before anybody can claim the Last Word, the model needs to address the perception that today's platinum records just aren't worth buying.
I'll sit back, eat some chips, and watch yet another partial solution to this question enjoy its 15 minutes of fame. Music people will pay to own, I think, comes in equal parts from the heart and crotch. P2P or not, nobody can sell too many records riding manufactured trends that were insincere to begin with.
Now where's my walker and my dentures?
I really like the Nespresso machine at work.
A friend of mine in school damaged her brain drinking water to try and pass a drug test. No joke.
Gee whiz. They'll let just any old nerds in here these days, won't they?
Agreed. It's a conflict of interest.
But with mass-market certification serving as a coarse crapware filter, maybe botnets will suffer a little. As long as the fine-tooth combs of FOSS apps like AdAware stick around, the only downside is increased overhead for developers. Gotta crawl before you can walk, but it'll provide an excuse for vendors to create a premium price point ["with GoldSeal Cleanware suite - add $80"]. I'm ambivalent.
...on your bookshelf?
Hopefully the literary equivalent of MIDI won't leave the cellular world either.
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200508/kt200508042 0430510440.htm
Prof. Hwang Woo-suk at Seoul National University, South Korea's stem cell pioneer, is under fire for giving too much credit for his strides in cloning research to a foreign scientist. -- 8/4/05
Good old-fashioned nationalist dick-waving.
Under U.S. rules, collecting eggs from women working on a cloning project would be considered unethical.
Under US law, collecting eggs from anyone to work on a cloning project is "unethical." At the risk of spreading FUD, I believe we have a no-tolerance policy towards human cloning.
(If I'm wrong, the propaganda has worked).
So perhaps the egg had to come from an interested party. While I completely understand the potential for abuse if that party is an employee, it is entirely conceivable nothing improper occurred. It's her cell to sell.
If the head scientist used her own egg, would that be more ethical? Family members' eggs? Bought them on the black market? I can't believe we're talking about job security as the salient ethical detail in this context. There is a goddamn baleen whale in the foyer.
Do I believe anyone would relinquish precious bodily fluids to keep a job? No. Assuming it is ethical to buy and sell these for the express purpose of cloning research--as Dr. Schatten has--I don't see why we need to abridge the right to contract. Barring the event that your employer is Dracula, it might be considered a privilege to contribute to a historic experiment.
For once, the debate has everything to do with the price of eggs in China.
[1] "Which Came First, the Breach of Ethics, or the Egg?", Nature, August 2005
[2] "Why'd the Korean lab worker cross the road?", New York Times, 4/1/2003
I think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
The way the article goes from "total surface area of the earth" to "a medium-sized state" led me to believe he really does mean back-to-back panels tiling the region.
Sure you can put them on your roof, and just think of the savings in lawn maintenance!
it should be just as outlawed as heroin. I recall reading somewhere that the withdrawal symptoms are actually more severe, how true that is I cannot attest to.
You could learn a lot from a junky.
...is catching it.
It turns out you need a total surface area the size of a medium sized US state in about six places around the world (say one on each continent) to do the job.
Does anybody else see a problem covering Wyoming with solar arrays?
You remember a couple months ago when the /. headlines were "Is Google outgrowing itself?"
That was when GOOG hit $300. It's currently $390.
The patent in TFA calls the invention "a coffee beverage" and "a process for making such products." What gives?
Cool beans. I bet there's more AI going on in Quake; the enemies seem a little smarter and more agile than in Doom. I'm lamenting my rdram situation as well...too hot to overclock, too expensive to upgrade.
Happy hunting!
Not to nitpick, but the settings I mentioned aren't "amazingly pretty." My point is precisely that while Doom3 runs better than you'd expect on budget hardware, another modern game *is* borderline unplayable. Even at minimum resolution / quality. It's worth pointing out to potential buyers. If you've had a better experience with Quake, I'm interested to hear it.
I'm on a rig like that right now, and it runs Doom 3 at 1024x768 with specular lighting at around 30fps
If you can't milk more than 30 fps out of Doom3 on that card, I don't think you're in a position to suggest video settings. Tweaks for further improvement are documented out the wazoo.
Having just slogged through Quake 4 on a 9500 pro, 512MB pc800, 2.53GHz P4, I can't recommend anyone else do this. Doom3 was surprisingly decent, but Quake at 1280x1024 / medium / no shadows did 20-30 fps with more stutter than Gary the Retard. Multiplayer is out of the question.
If I can't run Oblivion, that'll be the deal-breaker.
If everything you quote is updated in real time, does yesterday's text get memory-holed?
I'm trying to wade through the excitability in TFA...Nelson seems to describe what I'll call "some wicked-cool Minority Report stuff." His abstract goal sounds like a fusion of copy editing and graphic design...two functions evidently (cf. Geocities) too disparate for one person to manage, even within the boundaries of conventional print or HTML.