MrSteveSD writes
"The copyright on sound recordings by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and other famous bands was due to expire in the next few years. However, the EU Council has now scuttled any such hopes. The copyright term has been extended from 70 to 90 years with life-supported rockers expressing their delight."
(Slashdot 2031)
This way if the company continues to win and prosper, he will become wealthy. Otherwise no honey. This is the right way!
It won't be jilted in Windows 8. Why you people keep perpetuating this myth? Just because C++ is making a comeback (it was about time) and JavaScript/HTML5 is finding a new home, doesn't mean that we throw away
YOU likely neither know nor care about giving Oracle the finger, coward. I bet the guys making these decisions know every bit of them.
And it's important to notice they asked for LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. The really free version.
Some SP scenarios are pretty elaborate, a human player wouldn't or couldn't play you any time you want, etc. There are so many reasons what you say doesn't apply to every game.
According to an Ars Technica article,
OK, let's count to three and blame COBOL!
You throw "psychosomatic" around as if it explains something, and it does, but you probably don't appreciate that it's the tool that you use with EVERY patient. Did you see the recent story that says placebos can work even when the patient is told they're getting sugar pills? It's all in the language that the doctor uses and the expectations that he has.
It explains a hell lot if you were an expert or physician. It's a totally different league of diseases that need counseling and psychotherapy. The placebos and nocebos and various other phenomena simply make this case even stronger. If it can be fixed with a placebo then it probably could be fixed with anything that empowered the patient and his beliefs. From black magic to prayer.
Just don't try to treat a REAL situation (say: a septicemia) with placebos...
Everything that is explained scientifically, it becomes mainstream medicine. Look at acupuncture. Before knowing what kind of molecules and receptors are in its workings, we were thinking of energy gates and chi meridians. You could believe whatever you want, whatever works (actually), the thing is: if you need the fairy tail story to fix your medical problems it's ok with me, as long as you don't pay* too much about it.
*of course this goes mostly to countries in the EU that have a public health system
I insist that I don't contradict myself. I just say that psychosomatic diseases have a different approach.. Counseling and psychotherapy are much better tools than expensive MRIs and cortisone pills.
I don't contradict myself. I'm just saying that if it's not organic (meaning: real tissue damage treatable with conventional medicine/surgery/pharmacology), then anything you have faith in might help. From an amulet and a friend even to "spending" loads of money on a crook. And everything in between according to the person.
I'm not implying that psychosomatic maladies AREN'T real diseases. They are. They just need different handling. Chiropractors are not doctors. They are certified masseurs, at least here in Europe. If you only need a good poking or massage just ask your friend, spouse, whoever. The important thing here is NOT to spend loads of money for supposed alternative medicine.
If it worked for real, it wouldn't be alternative, it would have been conventional.
Haha, had the same thought. Unfortunately, these questionnaires are probably faulty by definition. Most teenagers and kids don't have the time or interest to respond to demographic questions, sliding the bias to higher ages. Moreover many kids just declare a higher age than they really have to avoid "limited version" of a game (no blood, gore, etc).
I would expect the average age to be that of a university student (18-24). Of course it gets higher and higher every year because many of us have grown up with games and continue playing.
As a medical professional (neurologist-in-training, so I know about pain and "pain") these stories make me mad.
There is no such thing as "healing with the hands" if you had a serious limb asymmetry in your hips. If it was mild, it could be corrected with the right shoes and postural exercises to teach you stand the right way. If it was serious, you should have seen an orthopedic surgeon to correct it in a surgical way. If he*fixed* you just by touch the right spots, then you probably didn't have almost anything physical in the first place and most of your symptoms were in your mind.
BEAR WITH ME! I'm not trying to play down your pain and how you felt it, I'm just explaining to you in a rational way that many diseases and maladies are sometimes psychosomatic in origin and extension. I don't imply you are crazy or anything like that. I only say that you just wanted some hands-on caring, you didn't have anything really serious (organic) going on. And that's good news.
Just don't waste too much money on alternative treatments. If an alternative treatment works, then probably help from a family or friend works as well. You don't need a professional. But don't take any chances.
'I wonder what the "memory" could be...
I, for one, welcome our new Brains-in-a-dish Overlords!
After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.
