Maybe CYOA is the only entire 'genre' in second person, but a more 'literary' example is Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), which is also deliciously self-referential. The odd chapters (including the first) are in second person, and are about you preparing and continuing to read the book.
Sometimes I use a very elaborate, conscious decision-making method, but at some point I realized that its real purpose is to tap into the subconscious.
What I'm talking about is the 'spreadsheet' method, where you write your choices on each row, and rate them 0-10 according to various factors. For example, when choosing what university to attend, one might consider location, size of student body, academic reputation, student/faculty ratio, etc. Rate your choices according to all these factors, and then compute a weighted average score for each. (Maybe location counts for half of academic reputation, etc.)
Then, sort the choices by their weighted average. Very often you will find that you are surprised, or perhaps not quite happy with the results, so you adjust the weights a little and sort them again. Continue adjusting the weights (and possibly the ratings) until you feel satisfied with the result.
So, my hypothesis about this method is that the actual ratings and weights you come up with are not that meaningful; statistically the whole process is basically "Garbage In, Garbage Out." However, through the process you were able to tap into what your subconscious mind actually thinks about all your choices, and come up with a satisfying decision.:)
Did he even read the CC licenses? Or even their 1-page blurbs? He claims that CC tries to subvert fair use:
"[it] does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous 'fair use' provisos of existing copyright law"
"I could always use excerpts for commercial or noncommercial purposes. It's called fair use. I can still do that, but Creative Commons seems to hint that with its license means that I cannot."
Yet every single CC license clearly states "Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above."
Lessig wrote a very interesting book on the subject. An articulate response to that would be great, but Dvorak is just spreading clueless FUD.
Then you are lucky... but your doctor should not dismiss the possibility just because of your age. I had angina at age 29: chest pain, dizziness, as you described, and shortness of breath after exertion. I went to the hospital, and had an emergency angioplasty and 2 stents placed in my coronary arteries.
A sensible, "evidence-based" user can find all kinds of helpful health information via the internet, but it's just like any other research enterprise: you shouldn't immediately believe everything you read. (Even this.)
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Maybe CYOA is the only entire 'genre' in second person, but a more 'literary' example is Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979), which is also deliciously self-referential. The odd chapters (including the first) are in second person, and are about you preparing and continuing to read the book.
Sometimes I use a very elaborate, conscious decision-making method, but at some point I realized that its real purpose is to tap into the subconscious.
:)
What I'm talking about is the 'spreadsheet' method, where you write your choices on each row, and rate them 0-10 according to various factors. For example, when choosing what university to attend, one might consider location, size of student body, academic reputation, student/faculty ratio, etc. Rate your choices according to all these factors, and then compute a weighted average score for each. (Maybe location counts for half of academic reputation, etc.)
Then, sort the choices by their weighted average. Very often you will find that you are surprised, or perhaps not quite happy with the results, so you adjust the weights a little and sort them again. Continue adjusting the weights (and possibly the ratings) until you feel satisfied with the result.
So, my hypothesis about this method is that the actual ratings and weights you come up with are not that meaningful; statistically the whole process is basically "Garbage In, Garbage Out." However, through the process you were able to tap into what your subconscious mind actually thinks about all your choices, and come up with a satisfying decision.
Yet every single CC license clearly states "Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above."
Lessig wrote a very interesting book on the subject. An articulate response to that would be great, but Dvorak is just spreading clueless FUD.
A sensible, "evidence-based" user can find all kinds of helpful health information via the internet, but it's just like any other research enterprise: you shouldn't immediately believe everything you read. (Even this.)
You can read about my experience if you wish.