But like 6-8 months (maybe at E3) ago didn't Will Wright go off on Nintendo saying they and the Wii sucked because they didn't appreciate game designing as an "art form" and that Nintendo was only interested in making games that were 'fun'?
I would like to see a climate study done by someone who doesn't have an agenda.
It seems like everyone I see starts with the premise that Global Warming is reaching epic proportions or that it is bullshit. It doesn't seem like anyone is going out there from a neutral point of view.
It seems like anyone can spin data to prove a point they already have in mind.
"The environment is responsible to what happens to species," said Van Dam. "Biological factors are secondary, according to our results."
Isn't it the biological factors that really effect a creature's ability to deal with the environment. I mean TFA actually states that rodents are susceptible because of their short lifespans... um, that's biology.
It is a combination of factors that causse extinctions, not just one single thing.
I think dual monitors makes me more productive at work. For instance now I am posting on/. checking my personal e-mail and chatting on IM all at the same time... talke about workplace efficiency!
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Yeah because all the low income humans I know have PCs and high speed connections to download movies.
The only people I know who use P2P file sharing are friends of mine who just want everything that comes out so they download them and then play them on their $10,000 entertainment systems. I think for them it is the fun of getting something for free rather than an issue of income that drives them to file sharing.
Dunno, maybe I am just sheltered and don't know the file sharers who would truly qualify as "low income humans"
Yeah definitely understand that phenomenon and that did help ALOT. But what happened in the SAIC case is they bid it cost plus expenses so they kept having requirement gathering sessions where they were selling the client on additional functionality. "Wouldn't it be great if it did this? We can make that happen." Without adding the 'for an extra 100K and 3 months' bit.
Geez
Not to speak ill of anyone but that's a lot of money to produce a big pile of shit. Now I would be willing to cut them some slack EXCEPT it's not the first time they have done this. Simultaneously with the FBI system, SAIC was working on a case management project for another intelligence agency, burned through millions of dollars and produced basically a bunch of screen shots and proof that they didn't understand what this agency wanted. Like the FBI this agency farmed the project out to a different company (a smaller company that I used to work for) and we managed to do in one year what SAIC failed to do in 2 years because we weren't focused on milking the government cash cow we were focused on coding a product that WORKED and MET THE BUSINESS NEEDS of the client. It's not rocket science.
No, I would disagree. I understand the concept of a representative sample and have taken statistics, thanks, but in TFA she says "Well, let's take World of Warcraft as an example. Let's say there are around 6 million subscribers for the game. I'd say that 40 percent of the players are addicted." I am just wondering based on what. Her number may well be correct but there is nothing that even MENTIONS her using a representative sample. It is simply, in TFA, an off the cuff baseless number. I would love to know her methodologies for coming up with that number but none were mentioned simply this alarmist headline about 40% being adicted.
First, is it just me or did she seem to pull that 40% number right out of her ass? How many of the 6 million users did she interview. If you work at a place where all you see is people who are addicted then I am pretty sure you are going to think that a lot of people are addicted.
Secondly, she seems to be immediately discounting true emotional problems really quickly in her example. Oh there's this 18 year old kid who plays all the time and doesn't get along with his family. Well does he not get along with his family BECAUSE he plays all the time or does he play all the time BECAUSE he doesn't get along with his family. Seems that she is not asking the question.
She's an adiction specialist, of course she thinks it's an adiction. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
It occurs to me that it would be pretty difficult to trace back to the user who is doing the searching by knowing what they are searching for. Sure I have Googled myself and have entered my address into Google Maps, Map Quest, etc. But I have Googled about a hundred other people and thousands of addresses. It would be an interesting game of what do all these things have in common for someone to triangulate all this information back to who I am.
Granted I have never done a search on my or anyone elses Social Security Number, that's just asking for it.
Now if they could only get my iPod battery to last long enough to get through more than 70 minutes of video...
I really don't think that movies on an iPod are going to be viable until the batteries improve. Either I will have to watch a movie in two parts or I will have to watch it tethered to my PC in which case I might as well use a service other than iTunes.
Is RFID seriously going to make identifying Americans abroad THAT much easier? I mean I think that the fanny-packs, cameras, American Flag jumpsuits, and USA #1 trucker hats do a pretty good job of that on their own.
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But like 6-8 months (maybe at E3) ago didn't Will Wright go off on Nintendo saying they and the Wii sucked because they didn't appreciate game designing as an "art form" and that Nintendo was only interested in making games that were 'fun'?
I would like to see a climate study done by someone who doesn't have an agenda.
It seems like everyone I see starts with the premise that Global Warming is reaching epic proportions or that it is bullshit. It doesn't seem like anyone is going out there from a neutral point of view.
It seems like anyone can spin data to prove a point they already have in mind.
Isn't it the biological factors that really effect a creature's ability to deal with the environment. I mean TFA actually states that rodents are susceptible because of their short lifespans... um, that's biology.
It is a combination of factors that causse extinctions, not just one single thing.
I think dual monitors makes me more productive at work. For instance now I am posting on /. checking my personal e-mail and chatting on IM all at the same time... talke about workplace efficiency!
Yeah because all the low income humans I know have PCs and high speed connections to download movies.
The only people I know who use P2P file sharing are friends of mine who just want everything that comes out so they download them and then play them on their $10,000 entertainment systems. I think for them it is the fun of getting something for free rather than an issue of income that drives them to file sharing.
Dunno, maybe I am just sheltered and don't know the file sharers who would truly qualify as "low income humans"
Yeah definitely understand that phenomenon and that did help ALOT. But what happened in the SAIC case is they bid it cost plus expenses so they kept having requirement gathering sessions where they were selling the client on additional functionality. "Wouldn't it be great if it did this? We can make that happen." Without adding the 'for an extra 100K and 3 months' bit.
Geez
Not to speak ill of anyone but that's a lot of money to produce a big pile of shit. Now I would be willing to cut them some slack EXCEPT it's not the first time they have done this. Simultaneously with the FBI system, SAIC was working on a case management project for another intelligence agency, burned through millions of dollars and produced basically a bunch of screen shots and proof that they didn't understand what this agency wanted. Like the FBI this agency farmed the project out to a different company (a smaller company that I used to work for) and we managed to do in one year what SAIC failed to do in 2 years because we weren't focused on milking the government cash cow we were focused on coding a product that WORKED and MET THE BUSINESS NEEDS of the client. It's not rocket science.
No, I would disagree. I understand the concept of a representative sample and have taken statistics, thanks, but in TFA she says "Well, let's take World of Warcraft as an example. Let's say there are around 6 million subscribers for the game. I'd say that 40 percent of the players are addicted." I am just wondering based on what. Her number may well be correct but there is nothing that even MENTIONS her using a representative sample. It is simply, in TFA, an off the cuff baseless number. I would love to know her methodologies for coming up with that number but none were mentioned simply this alarmist headline about 40% being adicted.
First, is it just me or did she seem to pull that 40% number right out of her ass? How many of the 6 million users did she interview. If you work at a place where all you see is people who are addicted then I am pretty sure you are going to think that a lot of people are addicted. Secondly, she seems to be immediately discounting true emotional problems really quickly in her example. Oh there's this 18 year old kid who plays all the time and doesn't get along with his family. Well does he not get along with his family BECAUSE he plays all the time or does he play all the time BECAUSE he doesn't get along with his family. Seems that she is not asking the question. She's an adiction specialist, of course she thinks it's an adiction. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
It occurs to me that it would be pretty difficult to trace back to the user who is doing the searching by knowing what they are searching for. Sure I have Googled myself and have entered my address into Google Maps, Map Quest, etc. But I have Googled about a hundred other people and thousands of addresses. It would be an interesting game of what do all these things have in common for someone to triangulate all this information back to who I am. Granted I have never done a search on my or anyone elses Social Security Number, that's just asking for it.
Now if they could only get my iPod battery to last long enough to get through more than 70 minutes of video... I really don't think that movies on an iPod are going to be viable until the batteries improve. Either I will have to watch a movie in two parts or I will have to watch it tethered to my PC in which case I might as well use a service other than iTunes.
Is RFID seriously going to make identifying Americans abroad THAT much easier? I mean I think that the fanny-packs, cameras, American Flag jumpsuits, and USA #1 trucker hats do a pretty good job of that on their own.