I wonder how different the study would be if the subject of the, um, shocks wasn't an average woman but some burly dude like the Gears of War soldiers or maybe Daniel Craig as Bond, or on the other end of the spectrum a child? Assuming the responses of the virtual subjects were exactly the same (or deemed close enough) regardless of appearance, how they were "treated" by folks taking the study would show a lot.
Also.. the woman in the experiment was really unrealistic-looking. I can imagine level or realism being a major factor in treatment as well.
Nothing is being done *with* the content. It is merely being pointed to. In fact, they're not making money off the content, but off the ads surrounding it. That's why IMO it's such a slippery slope to make claims based on copyright ownership in this case.
To make personal attacks and claim I'd have no idea how to make money off my own business is just out of line, unfounded, and inaccurate to boot.
This has nothing to do with copyright and everything to do with trying to make more money off ads. The judge should have told the greedy buggers to take care of it on their end if they wanted the cash. In fact, they could have engineered it so that the generated *extra* revenue from those links but sadly they're complete idiots.
What bothers me is stupid decisions like this are then regarded as "precedent" when they should actually be regarded as 100% BS.
Dude yes. It's all part of a plan to capture and study a giant space squid that's so big there's fusion reactions going on in its 'nads. It will be used to power Japan's big Evangelion biomechs.
Well it makes sense to me!
Yeah I've been looking at putting ads into sci-fi games in order to increase immersion. Imagine, on GoW's war-ravaged Sera, as you drive a big sunlight-shooting tank through the streets, you get to see billboards of Evan Almighty and Saks Fifth Ave. Will people totally love this stuff and thank me for it? Only time will tell.
I'm just waiting until robots get "intelligent" enough that they'll join a special church I'll create just for them. By then I assume they'll be earning salaries. Which means donations. Which means my own 1500-acre estate complete with anti-robot defenses (just in case).
Brown paper bags aren't sexy, but some people just aren't a visual treat so I'm not surprised.
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Well they're good ideas in any case. Something along the lines of a Nintendo DS screen would be ideal, as that is one of the better touch-sensitive screens out there as far as I know. Voice recognition software... well, Google ought to have the best out there given their vast amount of available training data for speech processing.
OMG a thought for the future (and yes Google is the closest to making this a reality): voice recognition matched with machine translation matched with sophisticated voice synthesis = complete language independence! Now *that* would be one heck of an advancement in communication. (yeah I know it's off-topic but I needed to write it down).
Replace humanity with doppelgangers and by the time the few that are left figure out it will be far too late. Unless those few are ninjas; then the ownage that ensues will be amazing.
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So, an internet-enabled phone that isn't total rubbish at it? Sounds good to me.
I wonder exactly how much of the software Google will be writing, because as more mobiles become internet-capable it seems to me that making viruses for them can start to make sense. I don't think most mobile software is all that secure, but I'm thinking if Google has a stake in it, it will at least be secure *enough.*
That elephant and gorilla and seal can't come close to Chewie, who actually knew how to play a chess-type game (sorta). If they're geeky, then Chewie is like the Stephen Hawking of animals....Wookies count as animals, right?
I'd have been more pleased with a "nerdiest animals" list which would include Ace the Bathound, Krypto the Superdog, and Mr. Ed.
Bye-bye karma:-(
Considering how much content the game has overall, the fact that there are a few extra bonuses for having the player's guide actually makes sense to me. There are so many items to get already that if they got rid of the ones that you *need* the guide for, nobody would really have noticed or complained about a lack of weapons/armor/etc. So that Zodiac Spear, who really cares? It's a single-player game so it's not like the designers screw anyone over. Plus you gotta be a big fan of spears considering something like Genji Gloves + Tournesol is scary strong as well.
I've known of *many* great games that have secrets you can't really discover on your own too easily. Some games were indeed worse off for it, but FFXII is IMO not one of them. Granted I'm not a crazed "must collect every item" sort of player. In fact, I *have* the collector's guide, and I *still* blundered and opened some random chests and lost a chance at the Zodiac Spear. But it's all good:-)
The training for high-speed train conductors is mostly in simulators as far as I know. And that seems to be alright (though I do think commercial pilots have a tougher job on their hands, skill-wise). Granted, the first couple of *actual* flights might cause more anxiety if the co-pilot hasn't had to fly a real plane until there are passengers on board, but I wouldn't expect anything more serious than that. They're not the only ones in the cockpit anyway.
Though any trainee that breaks his Wiimote strap during simulation, I'd probably kick out of the program. That's simply unacceptable!
I was all anti-Xbox when that thing first came out. In my eyes it was so much worse than the GCN that I couldn't understand purchasing one. PS2 sale numbers owned it hard, and were I a Sony guy I would have been talking the same talk as Apple folks are today.
And now the Xbox family is doing just fine, all things considered. Maybe MS will actually turn a profit on those things within the next couple of years. After all, they do know something about running a competitive business, and with consoles they have the experience of trying to break into a market with an already-dominant product out there. Maybe soon enough the Zune will be where the 360 is. And as MS releases new "versions" like the Zune Micro or whatever they feel like calling it, they'll get more competitive.
I'm a Creative guy right now anyway. My next player will likely be an Archos. But the Zune/iPod war has only begun if you ask me.
Well that's good news because now I can say that playing MTG and Guild Wars and reading comic books has been simply to increase my brain size. Nothing to do with being a huge nerd. Oh, wait.
Well, then I suppose the whole point is that people are exercising their right to be ignorant morons. An inalieanble right, granted:-), but not a good one to privilege over anyone's well-being, particularly another nation's populace. If every country were isolationist, I'm sure few would care who's leading who else.
Hmmm well the best answer to that is, think about what Stalin's "approval rating" would have been during his rule? I would venture 100%. And not out of popular fear, but popular love and admiration.
The 80% does not surprise me in the least, and doesn't make me think "oh, he must be a swell guy after all" for a second.
I don't think anyone emigrated from the USSR on those grounds, haha. As an emigrant myself (1989) I of course agree that there were *countless* problems and taking all into account made one heck of a case for getting out of there. Difficulty of moving from one city to another was a bother, but a minor one considering the difficulty of moving from one *apartment* to another (since that happened more often, and nearly everyone had to deal with it, newly married couples or those with newborns being a prime example). You basically had to either switch with someone, or wait for someone to leave the city altogether.
So, assuming I actually understood the article, it means that we will be able to create nanobiobots literally capable of mutation. I'm not sure how self-replication will work, but if it somehow does, we could potentially create a very deadly little bugger.
Nevermind that as there's medical research in something cool there's *always* military research to go along with it. So making nice nanobiobots will go hand-in-hand with making mean ones.
Wow I want to write a Superman comicbook right now.
They had no less than what they have now unless you're talking about overpriced "luxury" items which only those that used to already be rich back in the USSR days can afford. Things haven't gotten better for nearly any of the people I personally know that have chosen to remain in Russia.
But one thing the USSR certainly didn't have but Russia has now, is a populace whose belief in Communism has been substituted by a belief in the teachings of the Russian Orthodox church.
It's not going to be charging Skype-to-Skype, which is what this article is talking about as far as I can tell. It will be charging $30/year for Skype-to-phone... which is what it was doing from the get-go unless you're talking about its special promotion to release that functionality for free for a time. And actually to begin with it was charging 30 euros, not $30 (closer to $40 at the time). I for one doubt too many folks will go to "the next thing that is free." Me, I've been paying for Skype-to-phone and phone-to-Skype (SkypeOut and SkypeIn, respectively) since they were available because I spent most of last year out of the country, and been quite satisfied.
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I wonder how different the study would be if the subject of the, um, shocks wasn't an average woman but some burly dude like the Gears of War soldiers or maybe Daniel Craig as Bond, or on the other end of the spectrum a child? Assuming the responses of the virtual subjects were exactly the same (or deemed close enough) regardless of appearance, how they were "treated" by folks taking the study would show a lot.
Also.. the woman in the experiment was really unrealistic-looking. I can imagine level or realism being a major factor in treatment as well.
Nothing is being done *with* the content. It is merely being pointed to. In fact, they're not making money off the content, but off the ads surrounding it. That's why IMO it's such a slippery slope to make claims based on copyright ownership in this case.
To make personal attacks and claim I'd have no idea how to make money off my own business is just out of line, unfounded, and inaccurate to boot.
This has nothing to do with copyright and everything to do with trying to make more money off ads. The judge should have told the greedy buggers to take care of it on their end if they wanted the cash. In fact, they could have engineered it so that the generated *extra* revenue from those links but sadly they're complete idiots. What bothers me is stupid decisions like this are then regarded as "precedent" when they should actually be regarded as 100% BS.
Dude yes. It's all part of a plan to capture and study a giant space squid that's so big there's fusion reactions going on in its 'nads. It will be used to power Japan's big Evangelion biomechs.
Well it makes sense to me!
Yeah I've been looking at putting ads into sci-fi games in order to increase immersion. Imagine, on GoW's war-ravaged Sera, as you drive a big sunlight-shooting tank through the streets, you get to see billboards of Evan Almighty and Saks Fifth Ave. Will people totally love this stuff and thank me for it? Only time will tell.
I'm just waiting until robots get "intelligent" enough that they'll join a special church I'll create just for them. By then I assume they'll be earning salaries. Which means donations. Which means my own 1500-acre estate complete with anti-robot defenses (just in case).
Brown paper bags aren't sexy, but some people just aren't a visual treat so I'm not surprised.
Well they're good ideas in any case. Something along the lines of a Nintendo DS screen would be ideal, as that is one of the better touch-sensitive screens out there as far as I know. Voice recognition software... well, Google ought to have the best out there given their vast amount of available training data for speech processing.
OMG a thought for the future (and yes Google is the closest to making this a reality): voice recognition matched with machine translation matched with sophisticated voice synthesis = complete language independence! Now *that* would be one heck of an advancement in communication. (yeah I know it's off-topic but I needed to write it down).
Replace humanity with doppelgangers and by the time the few that are left figure out it will be far too late. Unless those few are ninjas; then the ownage that ensues will be amazing.
So, an internet-enabled phone that isn't total rubbish at it? Sounds good to me.
I wonder exactly how much of the software Google will be writing, because as more mobiles become internet-capable it seems to me that making viruses for them can start to make sense. I don't think most mobile software is all that secure, but I'm thinking if Google has a stake in it, it will at least be secure *enough.*
That elephant and gorilla and seal can't come close to Chewie, who actually knew how to play a chess-type game (sorta). If they're geeky, then Chewie is like the Stephen Hawking of animals. ...Wookies count as animals, right?
I'd have been more pleased with a "nerdiest animals" list which would include Ace the Bathound, Krypto the Superdog, and Mr. Ed.
Bye-bye karma :-(
The military should have its soldiers drink 2-4 drinks per day. Casualties will drop by 18% and morale will rise.
Heh my bad thanks for pointing out that I used 'conductor' rather than 'driver.' I don't mind the sarcasm ^_^
Considering how much content the game has overall, the fact that there are a few extra bonuses for having the player's guide actually makes sense to me. There are so many items to get already that if they got rid of the ones that you *need* the guide for, nobody would really have noticed or complained about a lack of weapons/armor/etc. So that Zodiac Spear, who really cares? It's a single-player game so it's not like the designers screw anyone over. Plus you gotta be a big fan of spears considering something like Genji Gloves + Tournesol is scary strong as well. I've known of *many* great games that have secrets you can't really discover on your own too easily. Some games were indeed worse off for it, but FFXII is IMO not one of them. Granted I'm not a crazed "must collect every item" sort of player. In fact, I *have* the collector's guide, and I *still* blundered and opened some random chests and lost a chance at the Zodiac Spear. But it's all good :-)
The training for high-speed train conductors is mostly in simulators as far as I know. And that seems to be alright (though I do think commercial pilots have a tougher job on their hands, skill-wise). Granted, the first couple of *actual* flights might cause more anxiety if the co-pilot hasn't had to fly a real plane until there are passengers on board, but I wouldn't expect anything more serious than that. They're not the only ones in the cockpit anyway.
Though any trainee that breaks his Wiimote strap during simulation, I'd probably kick out of the program. That's simply unacceptable!
I was all anti-Xbox when that thing first came out. In my eyes it was so much worse than the GCN that I couldn't understand purchasing one. PS2 sale numbers owned it hard, and were I a Sony guy I would have been talking the same talk as Apple folks are today. And now the Xbox family is doing just fine, all things considered. Maybe MS will actually turn a profit on those things within the next couple of years. After all, they do know something about running a competitive business, and with consoles they have the experience of trying to break into a market with an already-dominant product out there. Maybe soon enough the Zune will be where the 360 is. And as MS releases new "versions" like the Zune Micro or whatever they feel like calling it, they'll get more competitive. I'm a Creative guy right now anyway. My next player will likely be an Archos. But the Zune/iPod war has only begun if you ask me.
Man not me, bears are hardcore.
Thanks for pointing out my subtle humor to the feeble-minded. I appreciate it :-)
Well that's good news because now I can say that playing MTG and Guild Wars and reading comic books has been simply to increase my brain size. Nothing to do with being a huge nerd. Oh, wait.
Well, then I suppose the whole point is that people are exercising their right to be ignorant morons. An inalieanble right, granted :-), but not a good one to privilege over anyone's well-being, particularly another nation's populace. If every country were isolationist, I'm sure few would care who's leading who else.
Hmmm well the best answer to that is, think about what Stalin's "approval rating" would have been during his rule? I would venture 100%. And not out of popular fear, but popular love and admiration. The 80% does not surprise me in the least, and doesn't make me think "oh, he must be a swell guy after all" for a second.
I don't think anyone emigrated from the USSR on those grounds, haha. As an emigrant myself (1989) I of course agree that there were *countless* problems and taking all into account made one heck of a case for getting out of there. Difficulty of moving from one city to another was a bother, but a minor one considering the difficulty of moving from one *apartment* to another (since that happened more often, and nearly everyone had to deal with it, newly married couples or those with newborns being a prime example). You basically had to either switch with someone, or wait for someone to leave the city altogether.
So, assuming I actually understood the article, it means that we will be able to create nanobiobots literally capable of mutation. I'm not sure how self-replication will work, but if it somehow does, we could potentially create a very deadly little bugger. Nevermind that as there's medical research in something cool there's *always* military research to go along with it. So making nice nanobiobots will go hand-in-hand with making mean ones. Wow I want to write a Superman comicbook right now.
They had no less than what they have now unless you're talking about overpriced "luxury" items which only those that used to already be rich back in the USSR days can afford. Things haven't gotten better for nearly any of the people I personally know that have chosen to remain in Russia. But one thing the USSR certainly didn't have but Russia has now, is a populace whose belief in Communism has been substituted by a belief in the teachings of the Russian Orthodox church.
It's not going to be charging Skype-to-Skype, which is what this article is talking about as far as I can tell. It will be charging $30/year for Skype-to-phone... which is what it was doing from the get-go unless you're talking about its special promotion to release that functionality for free for a time. And actually to begin with it was charging 30 euros, not $30 (closer to $40 at the time). I for one doubt too many folks will go to "the next thing that is free." Me, I've been paying for Skype-to-phone and phone-to-Skype (SkypeOut and SkypeIn, respectively) since they were available because I spent most of last year out of the country, and been quite satisfied.