What should be done, really should be done is a comprehensive study of non-chemical addiction. I cannot imagine a person who is pathologically addicted to video games acting normal with some other stimulus substituted for video games. The problem with a study like this is it isn't going to be used to fix addiction; if it is used at all it will be used to control video games in some way. Just look at the headlines and see how the media is spinning it to get their headcount: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=video+game+addiction
The original intention of my question was that given some certain scale one would see all papers returning a false positive. I would be interested to see what that scale would be, especially if there were some AI algorithm trying to figure out stupid permutations to get past the plagiarism filter...
I'm curious having never used it. Do they do matching on a full document level? Do they do it by paragraph, by sentence, by phrase? Is there some kind of heuristic to prevent rewording, synonym replacement? How do they handle false positives like two block quotes from the same source?
"Those sound like mostly horrible conditions to work in!:)"
While I don't think all of them are horrible; the fact that he couldn't come up with a full 10 items for his top 10 list really explained the reason that some of those others actually made it.
I tried this in my undergrad days. You can churn out quite a bit of good code but one error and your night is gone. BTW I had to repeat assembly the following semester.
While I wouldn't mind getting rid of the cost of the middleman, I do wonder how much savings I would get if I directly got my media from the providers. There have been plenty of high profile cases of the media companies trying to push iTunes or Walmart to increase prices and them simply saying the customer won't pay that. If I skip the cable company (who has to compete) in favor of the media cartel (that doesn't really), then there is no one with the collective capital and organization to push back against the cartels when they say give me more (or they do stupid stuff to lock their media).
Just a second. I want to address the social diagnosis of addiction (i.e. that done by non-professionals). I've heard plenty of people throw the accusation that someone is addicted to video games because they spend a large chunk of time playing them. They want to think their diagnosis is correct but by itself time spent playing cannot be a good indication of addiction. You might ask why not? Obviously if someone is as much time playing video games than working something is wrong, correct? Well the average American spends nearly as much time watching TV as they do working and that number is climbing. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/record-high-tv-use-despite-onlinemobile-video-gains/ So is nearly every American addicted to the TV, well that is a different argument but I would wager that most people who cry out video game addiction wouldn't call TV addiction on their significant other, child, friend,...
If a man vegges out for a College football marathon on Saturday and doesn't move for 15 hours, he is normal. However if a man vegges out for 8 hours straight on a Saturday playing a video game, his life is in shambles and he has no grasp on reality.
If only I'd known that before. Lets do a little social experiment. Let's confiscate all the TVs, CD players, and computers in north central Africa. Surely if they are no longer exposed to such a vile catalyst, all their violence problems will work themselves out...
While their past actions in the employ of the RIAA might make them good lawyers, the complete disregard for both justice and the standard of law in this country pretty much makes them crappy appointments for the JUSTICE department.
I am suggesting that on a college campus (like in the study) that the Facebook users largely outnumber the non-users. Even in my graduate level classes the users outnumber the non-users and you are talking about a group that is outside the social networking generation.
Also, I find it a bit odd that you find outdoor activities mutually exclusive with using a computer. Using Facebook doesn't have to take that much time. Since it has been blocked at work I usually spend 15 minutes total a week checking up with friends and acquaintances. Plenty of other time to do things like hike or bike or whatever. I have several friends who use Facebook to post images of themselves rock climbing.
Nice job there. You admitted you've never even seen the website and yet show complete derision for it and anyone who uses it. Obviously anyone who has a need for something like it is an idiot because they don't have the same needset as you. No sane person would ever have a need for pull type communication. We should all just talk face to face. Nevermind my brothers are both nearly a 12 hour offset from my timezone. Nevermind that my cousin spends months at a time under the world's oceans. I agree that MySpace has a crap setup leading to eye-burning layouts, but 110 million people disagree that push type communication is the only valid way to communicate.
"Who is a non-user?" Facebook has become a very common thing. How big is the sample set of non-users compared to users? Is there any relevant personality trends that run through those who refuse to use Facebook?
Why have a crew at all? Think of the surprise that the Somali pirates would get if they got on board and found no one. Just a sailboat with a locked server room.
I know I'm breaking/. rules by reading the article but this line caught my eye: "Not to be outdone, Corpus Christi rancher Star Locke proposes a 100-percent sales tax on "any video game containing any form of human violence" to help reduce property taxes in Texas."
Lets throw some examples here. 100% tax on:
1) GTA.
2) Generic violent shooter.
3) Generic WWII reenactment game.
4) Historically accurate reenactment game.
5) Game reenacting the recorded actions of Christ.
I'm going to go out on a limb and think he isn't as against that last one (and probably some of the others) as his comment seems.
I have not read it but I am familiar with similar concepts. The problem that most managers have with throwing people at a due date is that they throw new people at an already behind project which is disaster. You can't throw new people on a team that is behind and get anywhere.
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Most vessels hundreds of years ago didn't haul cargo that emitted explosive gases...
The official term for the others are privateers...
I would argue that different songs at least change the game play dramatically compared to changing the player names and stats in a football game.
What should be done, really should be done is a comprehensive study of non-chemical addiction. I cannot imagine a person who is pathologically addicted to video games acting normal with some other stimulus substituted for video games. The problem with a study like this is it isn't going to be used to fix addiction; if it is used at all it will be used to control video games in some way. Just look at the headlines and see how the media is spinning it to get their headcount: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=video+game+addiction
The original intention of my question was that given some certain scale one would see all papers returning a false positive. I would be interested to see what that scale would be, especially if there were some AI algorithm trying to figure out stupid permutations to get past the plagiarism filter...
I'm curious having never used it. Do they do matching on a full document level? Do they do it by paragraph, by sentence, by phrase? Is there some kind of heuristic to prevent rewording, synonym replacement? How do they handle false positives like two block quotes from the same source?
I certainly am hoping there is no hot coffee involved: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Mutant_Master.jpg
The "find an error, take a shot" drinking game my roommate and I were playing probably didn't help matters either.
"Those sound like mostly horrible conditions to work in! :)"
While I don't think all of them are horrible; the fact that he couldn't come up with a full 10 items for his top 10 list really explained the reason that some of those others actually made it.
I tried this in my undergrad days. You can churn out quite a bit of good code but one error and your night is gone. BTW I had to repeat assembly the following semester.
While I wouldn't mind getting rid of the cost of the middleman, I do wonder how much savings I would get if I directly got my media from the providers. There have been plenty of high profile cases of the media companies trying to push iTunes or Walmart to increase prices and them simply saying the customer won't pay that. If I skip the cable company (who has to compete) in favor of the media cartel (that doesn't really), then there is no one with the collective capital and organization to push back against the cartels when they say give me more (or they do stupid stuff to lock their media).
I have to leave my phone in my car during work for security reasons. This would be a great idea if you can make it out of the imagination phase.
Just a second. I want to address the social diagnosis of addiction (i.e. that done by non-professionals). I've heard plenty of people throw the accusation that someone is addicted to video games because they spend a large chunk of time playing them. They want to think their diagnosis is correct but by itself time spent playing cannot be a good indication of addiction. You might ask why not? Obviously if someone is as much time playing video games than working something is wrong, correct? Well the average American spends nearly as much time watching TV as they do working and that number is climbing. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/record-high-tv-use-despite-onlinemobile-video-gains/ So is nearly every American addicted to the TV, well that is a different argument but I would wager that most people who cry out video game addiction wouldn't call TV addiction on their significant other, child, friend,... If a man vegges out for a College football marathon on Saturday and doesn't move for 15 hours, he is normal. However if a man vegges out for 8 hours straight on a Saturday playing a video game, his life is in shambles and he has no grasp on reality.
If only I'd known that before. Lets do a little social experiment. Let's confiscate all the TVs, CD players, and computers in north central Africa. Surely if they are no longer exposed to such a vile catalyst, all their violence problems will work themselves out...
Unless you boot into DOS mode, because who knows what crazy things happen on the command line.
While their past actions in the employ of the RIAA might make them good lawyers, the complete disregard for both justice and the standard of law in this country pretty much makes them crappy appointments for the JUSTICE department.
I am suggesting that on a college campus (like in the study) that the Facebook users largely outnumber the non-users. Even in my graduate level classes the users outnumber the non-users and you are talking about a group that is outside the social networking generation.
Also, I find it a bit odd that you find outdoor activities mutually exclusive with using a computer. Using Facebook doesn't have to take that much time. Since it has been blocked at work I usually spend 15 minutes total a week checking up with friends and acquaintances. Plenty of other time to do things like hike or bike or whatever. I have several friends who use Facebook to post images of themselves rock climbing.
So I should use Flicker, message boards, IM, youtube, and email, instead of just using Facebook?
Anti-pirate robot...I bet you could get some R&D funding from the RIAA...
Nice job there. You admitted you've never even seen the website and yet show complete derision for it and anyone who uses it. Obviously anyone who has a need for something like it is an idiot because they don't have the same needset as you. No sane person would ever have a need for pull type communication. We should all just talk face to face. Nevermind my brothers are both nearly a 12 hour offset from my timezone. Nevermind that my cousin spends months at a time under the world's oceans. I agree that MySpace has a crap setup leading to eye-burning layouts, but 110 million people disagree that push type communication is the only valid way to communicate.
"Who is a non-user?" Facebook has become a very common thing. How big is the sample set of non-users compared to users? Is there any relevant personality trends that run through those who refuse to use Facebook?
Why have a crew at all? Think of the surprise that the Somali pirates would get if they got on board and found no one. Just a sailboat with a locked server room.
I know I'm breaking /. rules by reading the article but this line caught my eye: "Not to be outdone, Corpus Christi rancher Star Locke proposes a 100-percent sales tax on "any video game containing any form of human violence" to help reduce property taxes in Texas."
Lets throw some examples here. 100% tax on:
1) GTA.
2) Generic violent shooter.
3) Generic WWII reenactment game.
4) Historically accurate reenactment game.
5) Game reenacting the recorded actions of Christ.
I'm going to go out on a limb and think he isn't as against that last one (and probably some of the others) as his comment seems.
Just be careful what state you are in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_law
I have not read it but I am familiar with similar concepts. The problem that most managers have with throwing people at a due date is that they throw new people at an already behind project which is disaster. You can't throw new people on a team that is behind and get anywhere.