Playing an FPS on a console is like playing a flight simulator with an NES controller... seriously, what the hell is up with those stupid little thumbsticks? It is SO HARD to aim with them.
I hate it when people say "that study is pointless, I could have told you that, it's common sense," or something of the like. If we don't constantly re-evaluate and confirm our assumptions we are likely to end up holding a lot of false and contradictory beliefs. If David Hume were alive today he'd give you an internet bitchslap. As it is he's probably rolling in his grave.
Vista isn't that bad. But getting it for anything other than DirectX 10 is a bad decision. I really wish Microsoft had the balls to sell DirectX as a separate product, then maybe people would respect them more.
Maybe he is just marketing the book to the largest audience possible; the average female body is not the sort of airbrushed toothpick they like to show in beauty advertisements.
On the other hand, I knew how to type so well by the time I got to school that my mandatory touch-typing classes in middle and high school were a giant waste of time. Go figure.
Some schools require this sort of education, I guess it isn't federally mandated or something though.
It would make sense if they had some girls play Tetris and a control group of girls who didn't play Tetris, and then showed that the Tetris group of girls gained MORE core density than the non-Tetris control group. Obviously if they just measured one group of girls over a length of time and said "look! they played Tetris and theys gots bigger brains now, y'all!" the scientists would be laughed out of the room by their colleagues and every undergraduate college student in the world.
Actually it is a formidable source of information. The trick is to research properly by investigating the citations. You can't cite Wikipedia but it can be an excellent place to begin research.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Sure the cameras didn't solve many crimes -- that's because criminals don't like to commit crime on camera! We ought to consider how many crimes the cameras prevented.
Don't get me wrong, I hate surveillance as much as the next guy, but it can't be defeated with such an obvious straw-man argument.
Yeah it was. I lol'd several times while reading that book. That whole thing about God making the universe being widely regarded as a "bad move" and that bit about the tiny space war fleet being swallowed by a dog were both hilarious.
Right, because Britain and the rest of Europe is totally free of moneymakers and religious charlatans. There definitely wasn't an epidemic of both during the middle ages and the renaissance, that's for sure.
This has nothing to do with the "one child" policy. The Pygmalion effect is the part where when the doctors say "this child has the genes to succeed," it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to psychology, and that child's success due to the prophecy will in turn support the doctors' original assertion that the genes are related to success, statistically! There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, as they say.
If everyone believed it you could start just predicting that redheads would be smarter than all children and the pygmalion effect might take hold.
Well, those are all good points. Of course, from this perspective it isn't "low-budget" from the developer's view, as even though development is cheap compared to other games it represents a significant portion of his resources, making it relatively "high-budget." I think my original point that "high-risk, low-budget" is an oxymoron still stands, at least as a generalization.
So, if addiction is defined as not being control how much you use a particular thing, wouldn't addiction treatment involve empowering that person to gain control over it, regardless of whether or not they quit cold turkey and regardless of the method employed?
I'll make sure to spread the word that everyone has to say "caveperson" now in order to avoid hurting your delicate feelings, regardless of whether they are sexist or not.
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Playing an FPS on a console is like playing a flight simulator with an NES controller ... seriously, what the hell is up with those stupid little thumbsticks? It is SO HARD to aim with them.
I hate it when people say "that study is pointless, I could have told you that, it's common sense," or something of the like. If we don't constantly re-evaluate and confirm our assumptions we are likely to end up holding a lot of false and contradictory beliefs. If David Hume were alive today he'd give you an internet bitchslap. As it is he's probably rolling in his grave.
Vista isn't that bad. But getting it for anything other than DirectX 10 is a bad decision. I really wish Microsoft had the balls to sell DirectX as a separate product, then maybe people would respect them more.
Classic "door in face" technique.
So, you're saying that you don't see the value in writing scientific papers about psychological issues? Psychology is a science, you know.
I disagree. Fallen Earth has been having an excellent launch this month.
The "MIB88 Megamod" for Fallout 2 vastly expands the game. It's like playing the game all over in. A lot of fun. The MIB88 team is Russian.
Maybe he is just marketing the book to the largest audience possible; the average female body is not the sort of airbrushed toothpick they like to show in beauty advertisements.
On the other hand, I knew how to type so well by the time I got to school that my mandatory touch-typing classes in middle and high school were a giant waste of time. Go figure.
Some schools require this sort of education, I guess it isn't federally mandated or something though.
It would make sense if they had some girls play Tetris and a control group of girls who didn't play Tetris, and then showed that the Tetris group of girls gained MORE core density than the non-Tetris control group. Obviously if they just measured one group of girls over a length of time and said "look! they played Tetris and theys gots bigger brains now, y'all!" the scientists would be laughed out of the room by their colleagues and every undergraduate college student in the world.
Actually it is a formidable source of information. The trick is to research properly by investigating the citations. You can't cite Wikipedia but it can be an excellent place to begin research.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Sure the cameras didn't solve many crimes -- that's because criminals don't like to commit crime on camera! We ought to consider how many crimes the cameras prevented.
Don't get me wrong, I hate surveillance as much as the next guy, but it can't be defeated with such an obvious straw-man argument.
Yeah it was. I lol'd several times while reading that book. That whole thing about God making the universe being widely regarded as a "bad move" and that bit about the tiny space war fleet being swallowed by a dog were both hilarious.
I'm sure the burners will love you publishing pictures of their drug use and nudity all over the internet.
Right, because Britain and the rest of Europe is totally free of moneymakers and religious charlatans. There definitely wasn't an epidemic of both during the middle ages and the renaissance, that's for sure.
You don't have to be rich to get fucked ... if you're handsome! Being funny may also possibly work out.
This has nothing to do with the "one child" policy. The Pygmalion effect is the part where when the doctors say "this child has the genes to succeed," it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to psychology, and that child's success due to the prophecy will in turn support the doctors' original assertion that the genes are related to success, statistically! There are lies, damned lies, and statistics, as they say.
If everyone believed it you could start just predicting that redheads would be smarter than all children and the pygmalion effect might take hold.
Well, those are all good points. Of course, from this perspective it isn't "low-budget" from the developer's view, as even though development is cheap compared to other games it represents a significant portion of his resources, making it relatively "high-budget." I think my original point that "high-risk, low-budget" is an oxymoron still stands, at least as a generalization.
No, it isn't. Something that is low-budget is also low-risk by definition.
Isn't "high-risk, low-budget" sort of an oxymoron?
Oh, I thought you were replying to the OP, I didn't see the Score: 0 tool above you.
So, if addiction is defined as not being control how much you use a particular thing, wouldn't addiction treatment involve empowering that person to gain control over it, regardless of whether or not they quit cold turkey and regardless of the method employed?
I'll make sure to spread the word that everyone has to say "caveperson" now in order to avoid hurting your delicate feelings, regardless of whether they are sexist or not.
Personally, I am very worried that the sky is falling, aren't you? I don't think anybody is going to misunderstand that this is NOT a toy gun.
My bad, that's "twelve-step nonsense." In any case I don't think that encouraging people to see themselves as helpless is very healthy.