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The fact that mental illness is considered a failure by most people is disgusting. Attitudes need to be changed.
And that includes those of us with mental illnesses who have internalized those values.
The fact that mental illness is considered a failure by most people is disgusting. Attitudes need to be changed.
And that includes those of us with mental illnesses who have internalized those values.
Selling cars used to be about sex and status. Bikini-clad models, lots of chrome, the hood of a Cadillac Eldorado that could double as a helipad.
Then they discovered that women influence 80% of all car purchases ("You buy that convertible and you're sleeping on the couch. We need a station wagon for the kids!") so lots of commercials with young couples, lots of commercials with kids.
Today? Throw everything at the wall and sees what sticks. Except for bikini-clad models - too darned cold!!!
I agree that there are a ton of different mental illnesses, which is why people have to understand that not everyone has the same symptoms, in part because they're individuals, and in part because the illnesses are harder to quantify because we can't poke and prod and rummage around in the brain to find out what's not right.
Congratulations for finding an effective way to deal with it.
Every evaluation and ranking algorithm that is not based off a random number generator carries, by definition, biases favoring some criteria over others.
And, believing this, you of course browse at -2, since Slashdot's moderation system is a kind of ranking system and thus carries bias, and all biases are equal?
Two points:
1. My original statement still stands.
2. Unfortunately, I'm stuck at -1 because that's where a lot of the action is. If there were a -2, sign me up
This is bullshit. Testers are like Mexican field workers. They turn up at the offices, sit in room playing the game sections over and over, then hit a log button whenever something odd happens.
Yep, One of my nephews thought it would be cool to become a game tester, so he applied to Ubisoft. He quit after (iirc) a month because it was boring, repetitive, and only paid minimum wage.
Several people posted comments in the firehose that the math was off.
Instead of saying "generating more power from "clean" technologies than nuclear, coal and gas." they should have said "generating more power from "clean" technologies than either nuclear, coal or gas."
This would have made it clear that "clean technologies" was an aggregate sum, and that the other sources were counted individually.
The parliament isn't *doing* anything. They're studying the issue.
The more dominant one search engine is, the more likely that other search engines will try to implement the same search algorithms the dominant player is using, in order to gain market share. So this will not create a diverse ecosystem, any more than having 100 clones of Facebook or Twitter will.
Trying to solve a technical problem (that any good search algorithm is going to have be biased rather than pick sites at random) with political action isn't going to solve the problem. It's like the politicians who wanted to make a law saying that pi=3.2 because it's "easier to deal with."
And of course, having two competitors would end up having the lesser of the two trying to imitate the algorithms of the more successful one (which is just history repeating itself with PageRank).
I'm glad you liked it
The bad part is that, the better you are at "coping" on a day-to-day basis, the less likely you are to seek help when you really really need it. And the less likely those around you are going to recognize anything's wrong.
Heck, even my sisters didn't buy the PTSD diagnosis, even though the surgeons who operated on me after the sexual assault had noticed enough gaps in my immediate memory (I had totally lost something like 10 days in the first 2 weeks in hospital) that they called a psychiatrist, who I saw for a while - but it didn't gel between us. When I told one of my sisters that I was having a harder time than ever coping with PTSD and going to see a psychiatrist, she texted back "What PTSD? You've been fully functional until recently." Then she questioned the diagnosis "So what happened to you that you think you have PTSD?" "How about the murder? Or the sexual assault and the flesh eating disease?" "You have to just get over it. Pull yourself out of it. Put it behind you." Easier said than done when I'm having nightmares and hyper-vigilance and all sorts of anxiety and recurring bouts of depression. After a few decades it kind of wears a body down.
Oh well, I figure I'm doing what I can to share what's happened so that maybe people will reconsider some of the attitudes they've ingrained about mental illness. And who knows - maybe someone will say "Hey I can relate to that" or "I know someone like that" and get help instead of muddlin' through.
The resolution underlines that "the online search market is of particular importance in ensuring competitive conditions within the digital single market" and welcomes the Commission’s pledges to investigate further the search engines’ practices.
It calls on the Commission "to prevent any abuse in the marketing of interlinked services by operators of search engines", stressing the importance of non-discriminatory online search. "Indexation, evaluation, presentation and ranking by search engines must be unbiased and transparent", MEPs say.
And it's also not only unenforceable, but impossible. Every evaluation and ranking algorithm that is not based off a random number generator carries, by definition, biases favoring some criteria over others. There will always be someone crying foul because they're lower in the rankings. This is a tar pit.
As an acknowledgement of the botched launch of Assassin's Creed Unity, Ubisoft has offered free additional content to everyone who purchased the title, cancelled the game's season pass and offered a free game to users who purchased the pass.
The anticipation for Assassin's Creed Unity was such that the myriad of bugs and technical issues experienced at launch felt like an even greater slap in the face for gamers.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
