FYI - XBMC now runs very well on the AppleTV (aside from HD support). You can replace your Roku and AppleTV with, well an AppleTV. It removes all the crappy restrictions and provides a beautiful interface my 3 and 4 year olds can use and my wife is happy with. It might be worth a look if you haven't tried it
Yes, but it isn't that sensational to say
In all reality, 5 minutes in any of these mediums will tell you what the rest of the content will be like.
I think you have a good point. While the special effects may have been revolutionary for the time, I still sometimes giggle when I watch Star Wars (A New Hope) because some things are obviously miniatures and it brings me out of the movie when I realize what I am watching is not real. There is obvious differences between people (real), the set (semi-real), and miniatures (obviously not real) - and it is apparent that all three things are not the same.
In a game, as long as there is nothing disrupting the "realism", it is still very engaging. If it starts as low-res, it can stay low-res. If you start high-res, even small pixel issues can ruin the entire effect
That is the way it should be, but BMI calculations are terrible for those of us whom are tall. I'm 6'4" and in order to be "normal" weight with regards to BMI, I must be under 205 lbs. To be my height and under 200 lbs would be a pretty unhealthy weight.
A possible conclusion of this data is that the BMI calculation becomes less relevant as the general population gets taller. As the average height increases, the BMI calculation starts calling people with healthy weights "overweight"
Minorities are an invention of mass-delusions by the public...
Funny, I thought minorities were an invention of statistics
When physicians are required to interact in electronic, shared systems, they can't lord over all the responsibility in care environments
As patients, we often forget that most diagnoses are really just a SWAG. A doctor usually can't be 100% confident that his diagnosis is correct, but does his best based on his expertise and the training he has. If I were a doctor, my daily concern would be malpractice suits. I don't even want to know how many incorrect engineering decisions I make in a year. If I had to be concerned about being sued for every one of those incorrect decisions, I would be lording over the data as well because I know there is always multiple ways to interpret the same data set.
I wish fear mongering didn't sell articles. Before all the rants begin about how the elitist and corrupt medical community don't want the public to see how they are being manipulated, we need to remember the group of people we are talking about. Most doctors office decisions are made by doctors. While this is a highly skilled group, I wouldn't expect IT to be a strong focus in med school. A much simpler explanation for why IT is not strong in your local doctor's office is because they don't know enough about it to trust it, or understand why and how it could help.
The limited production in ages past meant that EVERYTHING was default. Want a car? Here's a Model T. It comes in black.
Is it valid to call a variable that cannot be changed a default? A default setting implies that it has the possibility of being changed, therefore not the default setting. Only now when you can get a car in 10 different colors could the default be black.
Exactly. While I believe corporations should act ethically, that specifically involves following both the spirit and the letter of the laws of the countries they operate in. It is a dangerous road if we expect corporations to be responsible for what people do with their equipment. Jim Beam and GM are not responsible for drunk drivers, nor is Smith and Wesson responsible for homicide. I prefer corporations to hold a common carrier status. It is the job of politicians to help govern what should and should not be done with the equipment available. The outcry should be against Iran's government, not Nokia.
Good marketing is giving people what they want and Nintendo has done well in understanding just that. Unfortunately, most people would rather get something without any effort than they would to actually practice, learn, then succeed.
"Polis" which means "great gathering of lobbyists"
What? Did you just make that up? If politicians are nothing but lobbyists, whom exactly would they be lobbying?
Polis is the greek word for their contemporary city/state. Politics would be things "of the state" (e.g. governance).
Is that because there just aren't enough decent writers out there? Or that those other decent writers want way too much money?
I think that is more on target. Writing anything from a neutral point of view is difficult/impossible. If you are taking the time to edit an article, you are most likely not an impartial 3rd party. Hopefully what this could encourage is more well written articles. As with all articles, the obviously false information can get edited out by other users. If the information then gets continually changed the article gets frozen (a la Scientology).
I can see this going awry, but I'd be interested to see where it heads.
Spending $10 to print and spiralbind a textbook is a lot cheaper than paying $150 for a hardcover version.
While I have no data to back it up, I would have to believe that it is less expensive to have one publishing company produce all the hardbound books and ship them than it is for each school district to print 100 at Kinkos and spiral bound it. Economies of scale need to come into effect.
The remainder of the money goes to the publisher and author(s). Even in our School Textbook 2.0 world, they both would need to get paid. I would be hard pressed to believe that with the same profit margins this could turn out to be less expensive in the end.
The rest of my family would glaze over and say something rude if I tried to talk about this kind of thing.
I think you are getting to the root cause of what I think the article missed. Most people are not interested in actually striving to find out the truth (regardless of what the truth happens to be). Pop philosophy is helping people justify the beliefs they already have, regardless of what it is. To do that, all you need is a plausible sounding argument.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
