Repeat after me: 'Correlation does not imply causation' does not imply 'correlation is not useful'.
Moreover you've spent the rest of your post making an entirely different point! Namely, that the correlation might not exist. Which, I'll add, he conceded before you even attacked him!
Geek culture is driven by geeks. Now on the IQ scale 100 is average and geek culture tends to 120 plus, that alone ensures an obvious lack of popularity.
As for ego, let's be honest having to put up with all the jock straps and cheer leaders at high school and the various other sub 110 crowds, has worn down the humour of geeks when it comes dealing with them.
I think your first sentence tells me more about the `ego' thing than any other could.
It would be more like the government requiring car manufacturers to do something about car theft, since an 'infected computer' is essentially out of the user's control. And yes, the Australian government DOES require all cars to have an immobiliser.
I suspect they feel it's most definitely 'gone viral'. You might not have heard of it, but Lamebook is definitely a popular website with a lot of fans.
They are not after Slashdot's traffic, they are trying to protect themselves from Facebook's hefty law department.
This is not the point. The point is not to fill your mind with memoties of trig identities. It's to prepare you for memorisation and to teach you to remember.That would be like saying "Miss! I wrote this short story and I don't get why I did it! I'll never need to write THIS SHORT STORY ever again! What a waste of my schooling!". Sometimes you gotta do useless stuff to learn skills. A footballer doesn't need to dribble the ball around traffic cones anytime in his life except for at training.
You even say 'we need to know how to think mathematically'. A part of that is using your memory to good effect, both in having a large bank of memorised knowledge and in knowing what you need to memorise and what you can do without.
I'll start worrying about the slippery slope once someone is actually being persecuted who isn't guilty.
The fact is, nobody gets fined who doesn't break the law, and while the Police may get money from the red light cameras and the speed cameras, nobody loses who doesn't break the rules. There are no losers here except criminals.
This isn't like (to go down a slashdot rabbit hole, perhaps) Sony removing Other OS from the PS3 to prevent piracy while stepping on your freedoms. The only freedom being taken by a red light camera is your freedom to run red lights. If you have a problem with this then Id ask you to explain to me who the loser is.
Sony may like its systems closed, but Nintendo has as long a history of locked-down, anti-piracy measures and closed systems. The Wii does not play DVDs. Homebrew (slash piracy...) cartridges for DS are banned. Online is a joke. As far back as the NES and as recently as the DSi (no transferring downloadable games between systems), Nintendo is all about proprietary.
A lot of the people who buy from them do so out of a feeling they are protesting against DRM and big corporations, that they are helping out a `little guy'.
A very corporation-esque stunt like this MIGHT serve to turn off some of their fanbase.
Do graduate students use the system? At my university, roughly 20-30 percent of 'staff' are actually postgrads and a hig percentage of those use Apple stuff and smartphones. The dusty old crones in the permanent staff do not.
This is better than driving the SUV and not recycling the beer cans. Morally bankrupt is a bit of a stretch - I suppose you've never been even slightly hypocritical? I forgot that despite dying 13 years ago, Mother Theresa can still post on/.
I'm not trying to say there aren't times when realistic health works great; only that in plenty of cases (I'd argue in the overwhelming majority) it isn't ideal.
This is the problem with a HUD. Health bars look dumb, and remind you that you're not playing a person but some abstraction of a person. Magic bars, too. It's unfortunate that the real-world mechanics of death are no fun to play, and so we have to create an unreal world, but hiding this is an important aspect of design in *SOME* games.
On the other hand, the current crop of games trying to 'go no HUD' are often worse. Putting the health bar on the player's back doesn't make it less of a health bar, and serves only to remind me that they're trying to fool me. HUD is at worst a necessary evil, and at best a useful tool.
Like it or not, the political process as it stands right now is structured in such a way that we, the people, did in fact vote for Kevin Rudd.
You can kick and scream and say 'you voted for a party', but you're being ridiculous. I could take your reduction one step further and say that you voted for a representative in your own electorate, and not a party. It just *happens* they're a member of a party.
You know as well as I do that the Labor campaign was about Rudd. Was their slogan "Labor 07"? No, it was Kevin Rudd versus John Howard, no matter how reductive you want to be, there's a presumption that Rudd will remain in office for 3 years. That's why succession was such a big issue when it was Howard-Costello.
Knowing a technical detail doesn't change the fact, and the fact is that this succession has proved Labor's claims at the 2007 election disingenuous. It's the ultimate broken election promise.
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You might be getting patted down at the airport but I'm damn sure you're paying a lot less for the flight.
It's a Mario Kart clone.
Repeat after me: 'Correlation does not imply causation' does not imply 'correlation is not useful'.
Moreover you've spent the rest of your post making an entirely different point! Namely, that the correlation might not exist. Which, I'll add, he conceded before you even attacked him!
Geek culture is driven by geeks. Now on the IQ scale 100 is average and geek culture tends to 120 plus, that alone ensures an obvious lack of popularity.
As for ego, let's be honest having to put up with all the jock straps and cheer leaders at high school and the various other sub 110 crowds, has worn down the humour of geeks when it comes dealing with them.
I think your first sentence tells me more about the `ego' thing than any other could.
Malaysia is over 60% muslim, which is coincidental because 60% of the world's muslim population lives in Asia, whereas only 20% is in the middle east.
How ironic.
But, you started a sentence with a conjunction.
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Wish I could mod this (-1 Butthurt).
...anyone calling themself a 'hactivist' deserves to be locked up as far as I'm concerned.
I mean...fucking hell. Hacktivist.
My bad, it might be the WA govt. Requires it to be fitted if you sell the car too IIRC.
It would be more like the government requiring car manufacturers to do something about car theft, since an 'infected computer' is essentially out of the user's control. And yes, the Australian government DOES require all cars to have an immobiliser.
I suspect they feel it's most definitely 'gone viral'. You might not have heard of it, but Lamebook is definitely a popular website with a lot of fans.
They are not after Slashdot's traffic, they are trying to protect themselves from Facebook's hefty law department.
This is not the point. The point is not to fill your mind with memoties of trig identities. It's to prepare you for memorisation and to teach you to remember.That would be like saying "Miss! I wrote this short story and I don't get why I did it! I'll never need to write THIS SHORT STORY ever again! What a waste of my schooling!". Sometimes you gotta do useless stuff to learn skills. A footballer doesn't need to dribble the ball around traffic cones anytime in his life except for at training.
You even say 'we need to know how to think mathematically'. A part of that is using your memory to good effect, both in having a large bank of memorised knowledge and in knowing what you need to memorise and what you can do without.
Understanding medical literature requires a fairly good grasp of statistics.
Writing medical literature apparently does not :')
I'll start worrying about the slippery slope once someone is actually being persecuted who isn't guilty.
The fact is, nobody gets fined who doesn't break the law, and while the Police may get money from the red light cameras and the speed cameras, nobody loses who doesn't break the rules. There are no losers here except criminals.
This isn't like (to go down a slashdot rabbit hole, perhaps) Sony removing Other OS from the PS3 to prevent piracy while stepping on your freedoms. The only freedom being taken by a red light camera is your freedom to run red lights. If you have a problem with this then Id ask you to explain to me who the loser is.
Or you could stop running red lights.
Sony may like its systems closed, but Nintendo has as long a history of locked-down, anti-piracy measures and closed systems. The Wii does not play DVDs. Homebrew (slash piracy...) cartridges for DS are banned. Online is a joke. As far back as the NES and as recently as the DSi (no transferring downloadable games between systems), Nintendo is all about proprietary.
A lot of the people who buy from them do so out of a feeling they are protesting against DRM and big corporations, that they are helping out a `little guy'.
A very corporation-esque stunt like this MIGHT serve to turn off some of their fanbase.
Do graduate students use the system? At my university, roughly 20-30 percent of 'staff' are actually postgrads and a hig percentage of those use Apple stuff and smartphones. The dusty old crones in the permanent staff do not.
This is better than driving the SUV and not recycling the beer cans. Morally bankrupt is a bit of a stretch - I suppose you've never been even slightly hypocritical? I forgot that despite dying 13 years ago, Mother Theresa can still post on /.
I'm not trying to say there aren't times when realistic health works great; only that in plenty of cases (I'd argue in the overwhelming majority) it isn't ideal.
This is the problem with a HUD. Health bars look dumb, and remind you that you're not playing a person but some abstraction of a person. Magic bars, too. It's unfortunate that the real-world mechanics of death are no fun to play, and so we have to create an unreal world, but hiding this is an important aspect of design in *SOME* games.
On the other hand, the current crop of games trying to 'go no HUD' are often worse. Putting the health bar on the player's back doesn't make it less of a health bar, and serves only to remind me that they're trying to fool me. HUD is at worst a necessary evil, and at best a useful tool.
Not if It's my name.
If inscribed on a sphere, it's still 2-dimensional. You're looking for Euclidean.
mod this insightful not funny
Like it or not, the political process as it stands right now is structured in such a way that we, the people, did in fact vote for Kevin Rudd.
You can kick and scream and say 'you voted for a party', but you're being ridiculous. I could take your reduction one step further and say that you voted for a representative in your own electorate, and not a party. It just *happens* they're a member of a party.
You know as well as I do that the Labor campaign was about Rudd. Was their slogan "Labor 07"? No, it was Kevin Rudd versus John Howard, no matter how reductive you want to be, there's a presumption that Rudd will remain in office for 3 years. That's why succession was such a big issue when it was Howard-Costello.
Knowing a technical detail doesn't change the fact, and the fact is that this succession has proved Labor's claims at the 2007 election disingenuous. It's the ultimate broken election promise.