Hell, compare it to manga, which has really started to dominate that industry, even outside of Japan and 'otakus'. But it's exactly as you said - where American comics were all superhero type, manga comes in everything for any age and every genre with every potential storyline you could phantom. Different drawing styles too.
Also, if parents let their kids search for porn on Google, it's up to the parents to stop it, Somehow, I doubt the child asks permission to search porn on Google, nor are the parents aware of it.
And come on, if the new-gen computer savvy parents are using all their abilities to look through history, router logs, Temporary Internet Files and so on...well, isn't that like the obsessive parent who doesn't let their kid out because they're convinced they are doing drugs?
Sure, when they're really young it makes sense, but somehow I doubt kids are looking up porn (willingly) at that age. Kids do need to start getting some level of privacy as they get older, rather, they should be taught certain values and morals, as opposed to rules.
"Games don't have to have top of the line graphics to be fun. Nintendo got it right with the Wii."
In fact, the top played multiplayer games...the kinda stuff you see at Lannies and LAN cafes, aren't top graphics either. And those are more serious competitive gamers. DotA (Warcraft III), CS, CS:S, WoW, Starcraft etc.
And if you look at the next-gen competitive games - Stuff like SC2, TF2, etc...even they aren't that fancy in terms of graphics. More accessible means more people means more competition and more popularity.
Let's not forget, it also protects them from law. That way if someone sues for "I burnt my arm by putting it directly on the light" they can say "Yeah, but we said not to...we didn't actually expect someone would *do* it..."
Though, on a second thought. Is multi-tasking what we need to survive in a world that seems exceedingly busy, with so much stuff happening at once? With work moving more into your home life, you have to think about work, family, friends and hobby's all at the same time.
How many of us younger people have felt impatient when we've gone to our parents while they're doing something and asked them for something or another, only to get the "..." response. When following up, the "Sorry young man, busy with this. Come to me later."
I know I've gotten frustrated thinking that if it had been me, I'd have been able to handle being interrupted by something completely different. Maybe not as effective, but certainly more efficient. In today's world, time is the scarcest resource - so efficiency is good right?
I agree. While multitasking has made certain aspects of my life more productive - just going about my days, being able to do many things at once, thus being more efficient with my time, it made stuff that required my full concentration very, very hard.
I never really bothered studying in earlier years of High School, but when I came to Year 12, I figured being intelligent wouldn't get me through it alone. But while all my mates at school seemed to find it easy to sit down and study, I struggled. Just being able to sit down and focus without my mind wandering off into oblivion.
I found that listening to music and studying helped for certain things like Maths or Physics, but that was still multitasking - by keeping my mind half on the music, it avoided that half to go onto other things.
English and History on the other hand, were a lot harder. I actually found most of my study from that came not by actually studying, but from when my mind wandered during another activity.
I've also tried meditation when more interested in the Eastern Arts, but I found that my head sounded like 3 radios at once, constantly flicking frequencies. It just wouldn't stop.
I've gotten very excited about many activities, but have never been able to concentrate on them fully. And certain activities require this...=S
Now, going into uni as an Engineer, if I'm to do anything interesting, like research and all that, I imagine my main enemy will be to sit down and *focus* on the task at hand. =S
Yeah, I was thinking about that too. They probably never thought it'd be this big.
Hell, imagine if by some fluke everyone votes Pirate Party at next election. "In todays news, the new American President met with the Prime Minister of Sweden, the head of the Pirate Party, to try to establish an alliance for the war on terror. The Pirates politely declined the offer, stating that as long as the RIAA and MPAA existed within American borders, they would always be enemies. The Pirate Captain further stated that "Money wasted on wars and security could be better spent on file servers and bandwidth.""
Still, it'd be worth it...just for the hilarity. A country run by pirates...=P
"I'd argue that being the first with a permanent base there has an INCALCULABLE value over longer timespans."
I think that is the hardest thing for most people. You're investing in something that possibly only your grandchildren could start to really reap the benefits of fully. I bet that's not enough incentive for many.
It's a step in a right direction. Money from space tourism will mean more development and competition in the area, meaning more funding and new technology which'll eventually give way to more commercial applications of sending humans into space for cheaper and longer periods of time IMO.
I think the problem for people to try to fund these things is the future goals are too far off.
Imagine trying to justify to a company to fund a say, space colony on Mars because "In five hundred years time, it'll be thriving". I'm sure if someone spent money on this kinda thing, it'd only really start to be worth it many years later - very probably beyond their lifetimes. And this is something which will cost millions to do.
It's hard to give incentive to people for things that are too far into the future for them to reap the benefits of.
Just imagine if there was no cold war, quite possibly, we wouldn't even be using satellites to the extent we rely on them today.
I'd say part of this could be related to the fact many IT guys can be really smart, but their love for IT and computers put them into an industry that doesn't necessarily pay the best. I was actually planning to go into IT, but decided engineering would be more interesting considering the current state of the industry, which is only really interesting at higher levels (Enterprise Architecture, etc) or R&D.
I reckon this'll mean that either businesses will do even more outsourcing, or they'll have to pay more if they start finding they can't hire anyone willing to work, or anyone *decent* willing to work.
The real question is, is this inability to retain this generation mean businesses are struggling to hire anyone at all? Because there *are* a lot of people out there with ability to do these kinda jobs...it might just mean more and more IT people will be anti-social people who did a quick programming course at TAFE or something and more and more of the smarter IT guys go off to do different stuff.
Maybe God is the name of the dude who programmed us for his research project?
Let's see...our planet is mostly blue, everything seems to be destroying each other, our international culture is far from stable, we've been filled with viruses since the dawn of time, there are things which incessantly annoy us most of the time and most of space is inefficiently used up by well, nothing.
I hope the God got an "F" and gave up on his dream of "Macrosoft".
Yes, but how many of us just want to secure our small businesses? Or even our home networks? Or hell, just want to learn more about computers and networks?
Besides, the real criminal hackers will probably still get away with it...smart enough to hide such tools - and they'll still be available online on overseas sites. The people who'll get caught are random teenagers who decide it'll be fun to learn to be hackers by port scanning their school...
The main issue I find with people bagging religion is that they clump one man's *interpretation* of the religion as the sole argument for the religion and then try to find logic against it, which isn't hard.
Jack Thompson, for instance, lacks any sort of logic, and thus, if someone were to point to him and see him as a 'true' Christian, then it's easy to bag 'Christianity'.
There's so many ways of interpreting a religion that if you really come down to it, any argument against it can be rejected, just as any argument for it can be the same. The issue is athiests with the inability to understand this fact, and Christians with the inability to argue this fact.
Take the Ten Commandments. Rules made for the JEWS - yet cited in most anti-Christian arguments. Furthermore, we must see the Israelites at the time as a primitive society in need of simple black/white laws - not a law book that takes every thing into consideration.
Life is grey, but the Bible makes it out to be black and white. Is this really the word of the lord? Or is He making it simple on people who cannot comprehend such greyness?
If you really look at Christianity at the most basic level - it says have faith in Jesus, and you go to heaven, your sins forgotten. The rest is just tips on how to live your life.
I think the biggest issue with dogs these days is owners who buy it thinking it's a *toy*.
I have a two-year-old German Shepherd. He's my little bro. And we treat him like family. He gets bored as hell sometimes, because both my parents work, I go to uni, and everyone else goes to school...but we make sure when we get back, I give him a nice long play, take him for walks, and generally, relate or talk to him whenever he's around.
He doesn't bark excessively because he feels rather secure about himself.
At the same time, I see some pathetic owners who buy a dog for Christmas, then just lock it up outside, only relating to it by giving it food. Hell, sometimes they don't even do that. The dog becomes insecure and begins barking for attention, or scared of anything that moves.
Or they don't train the dog. A dog is like a child - you gotta teach it...and teach it when it's YOUNG. My dog has only *once* done a crap while on a walk in the park - once in two years when he was a puppy. It's not that hard teaching it to only shit in one spot - makes it easier to clean too.
My last two ex-girlfriends had dogs that they didn't toilet train...it shits all over their houses.
Pretty much, if you don't want to treat a dog like an intelligent, leaving thing with emotions and feelings, needing attention and a purpose to life...get a furby.
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Hell, compare it to manga, which has really started to dominate that industry, even outside of Japan and 'otakus'. But it's exactly as you said - where American comics were all superhero type, manga comes in everything for any age and every genre with every potential storyline you could phantom. Different drawing styles too.
~Jarik
And come on, if the new-gen computer savvy parents are using all their abilities to look through history, router logs, Temporary Internet Files and so on...well, isn't that like the obsessive parent who doesn't let their kid out because they're convinced they are doing drugs?
Sure, when they're really young it makes sense, but somehow I doubt kids are looking up porn (willingly) at that age. Kids do need to start getting some level of privacy as they get older, rather, they should be taught certain values and morals, as opposed to rules.
~Jarik
"Games don't have to have top of the line graphics to be fun. Nintendo got it right with the Wii."
In fact, the top played multiplayer games...the kinda stuff you see at Lannies and LAN cafes, aren't top graphics either. And those are more serious competitive gamers. DotA (Warcraft III), CS, CS:S, WoW, Starcraft etc.
And if you look at the next-gen competitive games - Stuff like SC2, TF2, etc...even they aren't that fancy in terms of graphics. More accessible means more people means more competition and more popularity.
~Jarik
*rubs eyes to make sure he isn't seeing things* O_O
Slashdotters *complimenting* the current state of entertainment...!?
Now I've seen everything...
~Jarik
Neo: There's blue speckles in my red pill...
Morpheus: What!? Cypher, you been buying those cheap damn Puerto Rican made stuff again?
"So, essentially, a computer is an extension of my body?"
You, my friend, have yet to experience the ultimate enlightenment of geek-hood.
~Jarik
So does that mean Homeland Security have on their Terrorist Checklist - "Reads Slashdot" too?
As you said, it's not like we send streaming video over mobile phones - at least, not mainstream yet.
SMS sends very small data. So if they were to charge prices competitive to PC bandwidth or something, they'd be getting a few cents revenue a month...
~Jarik
Let's not forget, it also protects them from law. That way if someone sues for "I burnt my arm by putting it directly on the light" they can say "Yeah, but we said not to...we didn't actually expect someone would *do* it..."
Though, on a second thought. Is multi-tasking what we need to survive in a world that seems exceedingly busy, with so much stuff happening at once? With work moving more into your home life, you have to think about work, family, friends and hobby's all at the same time.
How many of us younger people have felt impatient when we've gone to our parents while they're doing something and asked them for something or another, only to get the "..." response. When following up, the "Sorry young man, busy with this. Come to me later."
I know I've gotten frustrated thinking that if it had been me, I'd have been able to handle being interrupted by something completely different. Maybe not as effective, but certainly more efficient. In today's world, time is the scarcest resource - so efficiency is good right?
~Jarik
I agree. While multitasking has made certain aspects of my life more productive - just going about my days, being able to do many things at once, thus being more efficient with my time, it made stuff that required my full concentration very, very hard.
I never really bothered studying in earlier years of High School, but when I came to Year 12, I figured being intelligent wouldn't get me through it alone. But while all my mates at school seemed to find it easy to sit down and study, I struggled. Just being able to sit down and focus without my mind wandering off into oblivion.
I found that listening to music and studying helped for certain things like Maths or Physics, but that was still multitasking - by keeping my mind half on the music, it avoided that half to go onto other things.
English and History on the other hand, were a lot harder. I actually found most of my study from that came not by actually studying, but from when my mind wandered during another activity.
I've also tried meditation when more interested in the Eastern Arts, but I found that my head sounded like 3 radios at once, constantly flicking frequencies. It just wouldn't stop.
I've gotten very excited about many activities, but have never been able to concentrate on them fully. And certain activities require this...=S
Now, going into uni as an Engineer, if I'm to do anything interesting, like research and all that, I imagine my main enemy will be to sit down and *focus* on the task at hand. =S
`Jarik
Yeah, I was thinking about that too. They probably never thought it'd be this big.
Hell, imagine if by some fluke everyone votes Pirate Party at next election. "In todays news, the new American President met with the Prime Minister of Sweden, the head of the Pirate Party, to try to establish an alliance for the war on terror. The Pirates politely declined the offer, stating that as long as the RIAA and MPAA existed within American borders, they would always be enemies. The Pirate Captain further stated that "Money wasted on wars and security could be better spent on file servers and bandwidth.""
Still, it'd be worth it...just for the hilarity. A country run by pirates...=P
~Jarik
This is where China could lend a hand.
"I'd argue that being the first with a permanent base there has an INCALCULABLE value over longer timespans."
I think that is the hardest thing for most people. You're investing in something that possibly only your grandchildren could start to really reap the benefits of fully. I bet that's not enough incentive for many.
~Jarik
It's a step in a right direction. Money from space tourism will mean more development and competition in the area, meaning more funding and new technology which'll eventually give way to more commercial applications of sending humans into space for cheaper and longer periods of time IMO.
~Jarik
Have they learned nothing after the Wiimote? I can see it now - a sign next to a ticket purchasing kiosk in a mall - "Beware of flying phones!"
~Jarik
I think the problem for people to try to fund these things is the future goals are too far off.
Imagine trying to justify to a company to fund a say, space colony on Mars because "In five hundred years time, it'll be thriving". I'm sure if someone spent money on this kinda thing, it'd only really start to be worth it many years later - very probably beyond their lifetimes. And this is something which will cost millions to do.
It's hard to give incentive to people for things that are too far into the future for them to reap the benefits of.
Just imagine if there was no cold war, quite possibly, we wouldn't even be using satellites to the extent we rely on them today.
~Jarik
I guess this is where maturity comes in.
For a fourteen year old to do that...well, wow.
But he didn't think about potential consequences - due to the lack of maturity.
~Jarik
I'd say part of this could be related to the fact many IT guys can be really smart, but their love for IT and computers put them into an industry that doesn't necessarily pay the best. I was actually planning to go into IT, but decided engineering would be more interesting considering the current state of the industry, which is only really interesting at higher levels (Enterprise Architecture, etc) or R&D.
I reckon this'll mean that either businesses will do even more outsourcing, or they'll have to pay more if they start finding they can't hire anyone willing to work, or anyone *decent* willing to work.
The real question is, is this inability to retain this generation mean businesses are struggling to hire anyone at all? Because there *are* a lot of people out there with ability to do these kinda jobs...it might just mean more and more IT people will be anti-social people who did a quick programming course at TAFE or something and more and more of the smarter IT guys go off to do different stuff.
~Jarik
Maybe God is the name of the dude who programmed us for his research project?
Let's see...our planet is mostly blue, everything seems to be destroying each other, our international culture is far from stable, we've been filled with viruses since the dawn of time, there are things which incessantly annoy us most of the time and most of space is inefficiently used up by well, nothing.
I hope the God got an "F" and gave up on his dream of "Macrosoft".
~Jarik
Yes, but how many of us just want to secure our small businesses? Or even our home networks? Or hell, just want to learn more about computers and networks?
Besides, the real criminal hackers will probably still get away with it...smart enough to hide such tools - and they'll still be available online on overseas sites. The people who'll get caught are random teenagers who decide it'll be fun to learn to be hackers by port scanning their school...
~Jarik
Great, now Omniture's misleading DNS names will be even harder to notice...
~Jarik
The main issue I find with people bagging religion is that they clump one man's *interpretation* of the religion as the sole argument for the religion and then try to find logic against it, which isn't hard.
Jack Thompson, for instance, lacks any sort of logic, and thus, if someone were to point to him and see him as a 'true' Christian, then it's easy to bag 'Christianity'.
There's so many ways of interpreting a religion that if you really come down to it, any argument against it can be rejected, just as any argument for it can be the same. The issue is athiests with the inability to understand this fact, and Christians with the inability to argue this fact.
Take the Ten Commandments. Rules made for the JEWS - yet cited in most anti-Christian arguments. Furthermore, we must see the Israelites at the time as a primitive society in need of simple black/white laws - not a law book that takes every thing into consideration.
Life is grey, but the Bible makes it out to be black and white. Is this really the word of the lord? Or is He making it simple on people who cannot comprehend such greyness?
If you really look at Christianity at the most basic level - it says have faith in Jesus, and you go to heaven, your sins forgotten. The rest is just tips on how to live your life.
~Jarik
I think the biggest issue with dogs these days is owners who buy it thinking it's a *toy*.
I have a two-year-old German Shepherd. He's my little bro. And we treat him like family. He gets bored as hell sometimes, because both my parents work, I go to uni, and everyone else goes to school...but we make sure when we get back, I give him a nice long play, take him for walks, and generally, relate or talk to him whenever he's around.
He doesn't bark excessively because he feels rather secure about himself.
At the same time, I see some pathetic owners who buy a dog for Christmas, then just lock it up outside, only relating to it by giving it food. Hell, sometimes they don't even do that. The dog becomes insecure and begins barking for attention, or scared of anything that moves.
Or they don't train the dog. A dog is like a child - you gotta teach it...and teach it when it's YOUNG. My dog has only *once* done a crap while on a walk in the park - once in two years when he was a puppy. It's not that hard teaching it to only shit in one spot - makes it easier to clean too.
My last two ex-girlfriends had dogs that they didn't toilet train...it shits all over their houses.
Pretty much, if you don't want to treat a dog like an intelligent, leaving thing with emotions and feelings, needing attention and a purpose to life...get a furby.
~Jarik
Probably scrapped so Rudd can enjoy his late night outs anonymously.
~Jarik