The point of this is that believe it or not, every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book.
Without mentioning names I will say that I refuse to believe that "every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book". Some of their advisor(s) maybe.
Frankly I also find it hard to believe that the Prince and the CIA manual are covering the exact same concepts in the exact same way. At best I would perhaps say that someone interested in this sort of literature could, or would, read both, as well as the Art of War.
At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft.
I have yet to read The Prince's chapter on sleight of hand.
It all comes down to the type of praise you receive. If you perform well on a task and are told, "Wow, you must be smart!" it teaches you to value your skill, and thus fosters a performance orientation. But if instead you are told, "Wow, you must have worked hard!" it teaches you to value your effort and thus fosters a mastery orientation.
If things are that simplistic what happens with a child that receives no praise? Or different sort of praise for different tasks? Or praise one day and none the other.
I'm not saying that everybody needs to play on the hardest difficulties they can possibly manage and devote hours to mastering every game they touch. Few of us have that kind of time or patience, and it's better spent developing more useful skills or actually being creative or productive. I don't play on Hard all the time, or always shoot for 100% completion. And I'm certainly not telling you not to play RPGs - I play them occasionally myself now, confident that now I'm enjoying them for the characters and story and not as a source of fake achievement. What I am saying is that you should pay attention to what's going on in your head when you play these games.
I almost hesitate to ask but what is the difference between "fake achievement" and so-called "real achievement" surely the difference between them are only in your own head.
Having RTFA I would say that it appears that someone has had some sort of insight into his own personality and from that have extrapolated some sort of general theory of how people are motivated. No research or objective evaluation of empiric data used as a basis for this claim; pure conjecture.
So to answer the question.
So which type would that make me?
It makes you the type that your are. Nothing more, and nothing less. Personally I would recommend you continue enjoying games the way you want to enjoy them; have fun and darn anyone that says you shouldn't.
The enemy of my enemy is someone I should though fiendish machinations and plots encourage to attack my enemy. Then when they are both severely weakened I will gloat from afar through some sort of remote viewing device while I activate the absolutely certainly deadly virus I have created! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
So you know what, fuck you Manulife. You are in no situation to reverse a doctors' diagnosis based on some pictures you found on the internet.
Agreed. I wonder what that company would do with someone with say a bipolar disorder. "Oh he was exceptionally cheerful and friendly; therefore he can't possible have crippling depressive phases." Speaking from experience I can say that depression, at least in my personal experience and from dialogue with family members with a similar affliction, comes in varying intensity at sometimes random intervals. And during the summer months is it generally easier to have a prolonged positive phase, while during the winter the depressive phases can be harder to deal with.
A cousin of mine killed himself at the age of nineteen; it came as a total surprise to everyone except his absolutely closes friends and relatives "he always seemed like he was in such a good mood" someone said about him afterwards. Society seems to pressure people into hiding these types of problems, or at least people with these types of problems tend to keep them to themselves. One of the very worst things that can happen is to not be believed, or have people belittle what they don't understand.
I have no personal knowledge of this particular case, but this kind of shit from the Insurance Company in question can only add to problems that are already bad enough. Personally I hope the Canadian authority shaft this company hard.
Seeing as the topics of genre and Neal Stephenson has been raised I will link this lecture by mister Stephenson. Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre; were he talks about SF and the idea of genres in general.
Take a walk out to the streets in a large city these days, and the behavior you'll see makes the marauding Vikings look positively gentlemanly.
Actually the Vikings habit of combing their hair and taking a bath once a week made them the cleanest bastards of their time. Though I suppose it was prudent to scrub of some blood and guts now and again.
Bah forgot to add that I was also told that music being mixed the way it is today removes the "dynamic" of the sound as all instrument is mixed up to the max. This is done so that when you listen to music on your car-radio with the volume turned a bit down you are still able to hear all the instruments clearly.
Going in to an area of which I know little about; a friend of mine who spend most of his time working as a sound man, while creating his own and producing the music of other friends in a now pretty expensive home-studio setup; told me that mp3 in particular and digital media in general removes part of the audio-spectrum, especially in at the top and bottom frequencies that might not be immediately detectable by a human ear. However this, or so I am told, means that you get a lot more tired (perhaps not the right word) from listening to an mp3 than the same track on tape or vinyl. And the removal of those frequencies lessens the quality of the music.
Of course if someone has actually understanding and knowledge of this I would like to either be corrected or have it explained in a better and more comprehensive way.
At this rate i bet bernanke was secretly a really good fed chairman...we just havent realized it yet.
Indeed. Unbeknownst to the general public Bernanke managed to repeatedly dissuade our alien Lizardfolk overlords from adding more secret taxes to your online transactions. In truth he is one of humanity's greatest heroes!
I know that this might be a bit off-topic, but I bought the Tex Murphy games on Good Old Games. They ran through preconfigured DosBox (same original resolution though) and they worked straight "out of the box" as it were; no problems there at least. They have a lot of other games to if people are interested, though, as I said, don't know about the graphics bit but if DosBox can scale I am sure you can mess around with it as much as you desire.
If there's a genuine medical need for special equipment like a larger monitor then of course it's good practice to provide that where it's economically viable to do so.
Readers were asked to read under six especially demanding conditions known to cause eye fatigue. These were: reading small text sizes; reading low-contrast gray text; reading with a light source behind the reading material to cause glare; reading from too close a distance, which causes the eyes to point inward towards each other (convergence stress); reading from variable focal distances (accommodative stress); and reading while wearing glasses that simulate an astigmatism (refractive stress). While people were reading under these extra stressful conditions, we measured the activation in the orbicularis oculi muscle with a sensor placed 1.25 cm below the eye. Readers reported eye fatigue after reading under each of these conditions.
Small text sizes, low contrast, glare and refractive stress all resulted in increased activity in the orbicularis oculi, while convergence stress and accommodative stress did not, though after reading in these two conditions, readers are more likely to report headaches and pain coming from behind the eye. Stressors such as small text size and glare are reported as irritation on the front of the eye.
My personal experience relating to computer screens is that growing up I had CRT, until my mid-twenties when LCD started becoming affordable. Up until I was about nineteen I did not know about changing resolutions on my screen and thus ran in Windows native resolution (which in the case of 95/98/XP seemed to be 60hz). I suffered from frequent migraines that would start with flashing lights in-front of my eyes and end with two days of such blinding headache that I was unable to do anything buy stay in bed, inside a dark room, and during the first day I would throw up at least once. Several days after such an episode I would feel like I was serious hungover. Turning the refresh rate up to 100hz effectively cured me over night, I did not have another episode until my late twenties when I played console with a mate on a CRT TV an entire evening.
Perhaps a bit of a digression there. But do not underestimate the importance of a good screen and a comfortable text/gui-size; undue strain on your eyes can significantly reduce the quality and quantity of your work.
Particularly in the field of electronic voting systems a cracking contest is snake oil.
That is because the real threat for voting system integrity is not hackers but corruption of people that are in some way in control over the voting systems.
I will claim that open and verifiable oversight over any voting process is of the utmost importance. However I can not agree that that simply having a cracking contest is "snake oil"; unless it is presented as absolute proof that the entire process itself is incorruptible. The "corruption of people" is an potential threat in all voting systems regardless of method; electric, paper, mechanical, or what have you.
Yet I find the concept of actively encouraging people to hack your system, through for instance competitions, far more comforting than insisting that the only security is total secrecy. Particularly in the field of electronic voting systems.
My question for Slashdot is: are there any resources out there that explain computer viruses, malware, adware, and general safe computer practices to non-technical people in an easy-to-digest format?
Each time you run a file downloaded from the internet a kitten dies. There job done.
The Motion Picture Association of American wants to rent movies to TV viewers earlier in the release window, but they don't want anyone potentially streaming that video out to other appliances. That's why last week they went back to the FCC to once again ask for the power to disable analog ports on consumer television sets.
I reckon that it is rather pointless to imagine that such a policy will affect people's ability to download/watch pirated content. If people want to watch a movie/series for free then there is very little stopping them as it is. At least if something like this offer existed those that wouldn't mind paying would be able to do so.
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If you want to effectively fight fire employ fire.
Depends entirely on the fire, counter-fire does have it uses; but for most fires I would recommend water or perhaps anti-fire foam.
The point of this is that believe it or not, every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book.
Without mentioning names I will say that I refuse to believe that "every single president in the US or leader elsewhere has read that book". Some of their advisor(s) maybe.
Frankly I also find it hard to believe that the Prince and the CIA manual are covering the exact same concepts in the exact same way. At best I would perhaps say that someone interested in this sort of literature could, or would, read both, as well as the Art of War.
At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft.
I have yet to read The Prince's chapter on sleight of hand.
It all comes down to the type of praise you receive. If you perform well on a task and are told, "Wow, you must be smart!" it teaches you to value your skill, and thus fosters a performance orientation. But if instead you are told, "Wow, you must have worked hard!" it teaches you to value your effort and thus fosters a mastery orientation.
If things are that simplistic what happens with a child that receives no praise? Or different sort of praise for different tasks? Or praise one day and none the other.
I'm not saying that everybody needs to play on the hardest difficulties they can possibly manage and devote hours to mastering every game they touch. Few of us have that kind of time or patience, and it's better spent developing more useful skills or actually being creative or productive. I don't play on Hard all the time, or always shoot for 100% completion. And I'm certainly not telling you not to play RPGs - I play them occasionally myself now, confident that now I'm enjoying them for the characters and story and not as a source of fake achievement. What I am saying is that you should pay attention to what's going on in your head when you play these games.
I almost hesitate to ask but what is the difference between "fake achievement" and so-called "real achievement" surely the difference between them are only in your own head. Having RTFA I would say that it appears that someone has had some sort of insight into his own personality and from that have extrapolated some sort of general theory of how people are motivated. No research or objective evaluation of empiric data used as a basis for this claim; pure conjecture. So to answer the question.
So which type would that make me?
It makes you the type that your are. Nothing more, and nothing less. Personally I would recommend you continue enjoying games the way you want to enjoy them; have fun and darn anyone that says you shouldn't.
The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
The enemy of my enemy is someone I should though fiendish machinations and plots encourage to attack my enemy. Then when they are both severely weakened I will gloat from afar through some sort of remote viewing device while I activate the absolutely certainly deadly virus I have created! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
So you know what, fuck you Manulife. You are in no situation to reverse a doctors' diagnosis based on some pictures you found on the internet.
Agreed. I wonder what that company would do with someone with say a bipolar disorder. "Oh he was exceptionally cheerful and friendly; therefore he can't possible have crippling depressive phases." Speaking from experience I can say that depression, at least in my personal experience and from dialogue with family members with a similar affliction, comes in varying intensity at sometimes random intervals. And during the summer months is it generally easier to have a prolonged positive phase, while during the winter the depressive phases can be harder to deal with.
A cousin of mine killed himself at the age of nineteen; it came as a total surprise to everyone except his absolutely closes friends and relatives "he always seemed like he was in such a good mood" someone said about him afterwards. Society seems to pressure people into hiding these types of problems, or at least people with these types of problems tend to keep them to themselves. One of the very worst things that can happen is to not be believed, or have people belittle what they don't understand.
I have no personal knowledge of this particular case, but this kind of shit from the Insurance Company in question can only add to problems that are already bad enough. Personally I hope the Canadian authority shaft this company hard.
Seeing as the topics of genre and Neal Stephenson has been raised I will link this lecture by mister Stephenson. Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre; were he talks about SF and the idea of genres in general.
In an attempt at humour I will add that making "IE less secure" seems redundant. Much like this post.
Take a walk out to the streets in a large city these days, and the behavior you'll see makes the marauding Vikings look positively gentlemanly.
Actually the Vikings habit of combing their hair and taking a bath once a week made them the cleanest bastards of their time. Though I suppose it was prudent to scrub of some blood and guts now and again.
I for one welcome our new Mutated Spaceworm overlords!
Bah forgot to add that I was also told that music being mixed the way it is today removes the "dynamic" of the sound as all instrument is mixed up to the max. This is done so that when you listen to music on your car-radio with the volume turned a bit down you are still able to hear all the instruments clearly.
Going in to an area of which I know little about; a friend of mine who spend most of his time working as a sound man, while creating his own and producing the music of other friends in a now pretty expensive home-studio setup; told me that mp3 in particular and digital media in general removes part of the audio-spectrum, especially in at the top and bottom frequencies that might not be immediately detectable by a human ear. However this, or so I am told, means that you get a lot more tired (perhaps not the right word) from listening to an mp3 than the same track on tape or vinyl. And the removal of those frequencies lessens the quality of the music.
Of course if someone has actually understanding and knowledge of this I would like to either be corrected or have it explained in a better and more comprehensive way.
At this rate i bet bernanke was secretly a really good fed chairman...we just havent realized it yet.
Indeed. Unbeknownst to the general public Bernanke managed to repeatedly dissuade our alien Lizardfolk overlords from adding more secret taxes to your online transactions. In truth he is one of humanity's greatest heroes!
I know that this might be a bit off-topic, but I bought the Tex Murphy games on Good Old Games. They ran through preconfigured DosBox (same original resolution though) and they worked straight "out of the box" as it were; no problems there at least. They have a lot of other games to if people are interested, though, as I said, don't know about the graphics bit but if DosBox can scale I am sure you can mess around with it as much as you desire.
If there's a genuine medical need for special equipment like a larger monitor then of course it's good practice to provide that where it's economically viable to do so.
On a related note apparently reading text that is too small does have its downsides:
Readers were asked to read under six especially demanding conditions known to cause eye fatigue. These were: reading small text sizes; reading low-contrast gray text; reading with a light source behind the reading material to cause glare; reading from too close a distance, which causes the eyes to point inward towards each other (convergence stress); reading from variable focal distances (accommodative stress); and reading while wearing glasses that simulate an astigmatism (refractive stress). While people were reading under these extra stressful conditions, we measured the activation in the orbicularis oculi muscle with a sensor placed 1.25 cm below the eye. Readers reported eye fatigue after reading under each of these conditions. Small text sizes, low contrast, glare and refractive stress all resulted in increased activity in the orbicularis oculi, while convergence stress and accommodative stress did not, though after reading in these two conditions, readers are more likely to report headaches and pain coming from behind the eye. Stressors such as small text size and glare are reported as irritation on the front of the eye.
My personal experience relating to computer screens is that growing up I had CRT, until my mid-twenties when LCD started becoming affordable. Up until I was about nineteen I did not know about changing resolutions on my screen and thus ran in Windows native resolution (which in the case of 95/98/XP seemed to be 60hz). I suffered from frequent migraines that would start with flashing lights in-front of my eyes and end with two days of such blinding headache that I was unable to do anything buy stay in bed, inside a dark room, and during the first day I would throw up at least once. Several days after such an episode I would feel like I was serious hungover. Turning the refresh rate up to 100hz effectively cured me over night, I did not have another episode until my late twenties when I played console with a mate on a CRT TV an entire evening.
Perhaps a bit of a digression there. But do not underestimate the importance of a good screen and a comfortable text/gui-size; undue strain on your eyes can significantly reduce the quality and quantity of your work.
Only if they run Linux and can render Natalie Portman covered in hot grits faster than my imagination already does....woohoo!
Your imagination must be quite primitive. Mine did that instantly upon reading your post.
Grandma never did learn to drive but she can MySpace like nobody's business.
Is that some sort of perverted euphemism?
People will fight fewer wars over geographically concentrated energy resources.
To play devils advocate. "Great only religious and ideological wars left then."
George Carlin: "Garbage in; garbage out. If you got selfish ignorant citizens you are going to get selfish ignorant leaders."
Sadly there seems to be a lot of that going around in most democracies.
What? The nerve! Everyone knows fathers are supposed to ignore their children at all times, even if they're on fire.
When my siblings and I were growing up our father would deliberately put us on fire to "toughen us up a bit".
Particularly in the field of electronic voting systems a cracking contest is snake oil. That is because the real threat for voting system integrity is not hackers but corruption of people that are in some way in control over the voting systems.
I will claim that open and verifiable oversight over any voting process is of the utmost importance. However I can not agree that that simply having a cracking contest is "snake oil"; unless it is presented as absolute proof that the entire process itself is incorruptible. The "corruption of people" is an potential threat in all voting systems regardless of method; electric, paper, mechanical, or what have you.
Yet I find the concept of actively encouraging people to hack your system, through for instance competitions, far more comforting than insisting that the only security is total secrecy. Particularly in the field of electronic voting systems.
You'd be pretty heartless to hack a peacemaker.
My question for Slashdot is: are there any resources out there that explain computer viruses, malware, adware, and general safe computer practices to non-technical people in an easy-to-digest format?
Each time you run a file downloaded from the internet a kitten dies. There job done.
And those bent on ripping and sharing it online will find workarounds anyway; thus only limiting the possibilities of people already obeying the law.
The Motion Picture Association of American wants to rent movies to TV viewers earlier in the release window, but they don't want anyone potentially streaming that video out to other appliances. That's why last week they went back to the FCC to once again ask for the power to disable analog ports on consumer television sets.
I reckon that it is rather pointless to imagine that such a policy will affect people's ability to download/watch pirated content. If people want to watch a movie/series for free then there is very little stopping them as it is. At least if something like this offer existed those that wouldn't mind paying would be able to do so.