It all depends on what you use the computers for. If you let your kids play videogames everyday, sure their minds aren't going to be challenged and they will get worse grades.
Its not the computer that is evil, its what parents let their kids do with them.
Frankly I don't find this study worthwhile at all. Of course a study done by educators is going to tell you to stay away from computers. People fear what they don't understand and frankly 95% of the educators out there have no clue when it comes to computers.
heh, why do you think the Mac is so popular at schools? (j/k mac people, don't hurt me)
A managed service product such as the one my company offers works with anything out there. Ours runs on linux fwiw, and from what I read here is much better than the others listed. (though I can't force myself to slashvertize in a comment really, I'm an admin, not a salesperson.)
Wow, these guys don't know where to shop. I can get a lot more than nine ladies dancing for only $19.95 per month on certain sites... and dancing's not all they do... heh heh.
I disagree, with the exception of the one "hell" level, the later levels get monotonous. And after you get the soul cube, aren't even challenging anymore. They need to nerf the hell outof the soul cube.
Made some damn good money because contractors get something regular employees don't get.... overtime pay.
Putting in all those 60+ hour weeks don't seem so bad when you're getting time and a half for all the hours after 40.
The only downside for me was the fact that I didn't get any benefits like vacation days, or health insurance, but my wife's job carried the health insurance for my family, so we were good.
They're releasing it on the 41st annaversary of Doctor Who!? HA! They will fail utterly, everyone is going to be watching hours of Doctor Who marathons and won't even think about playing a silly video game!...
EQ sucked its first month of release. The servers were down so much they gave everyone an extra free month. That being said it turned out to be the most successful MMORPG in America, despite a rocky launch, many think mainly because it was first.
Today however, there's a different climate. This is arguably the third generation of 3d MMORPGs. A buggy release won't cut it. That being said I have no idea of the quality of EQ2, it may very well be ready. I gave up playing MMORPGs when I signed off of DAoC last year.
Anarchy Online however, I was excited about, played it for 1 week, and threw away. Thats how bad that game sucked. It might be cool now but man... if you release a beta to the public and charge for it, many people will remember and won't come back and it will haunt you for years to come. I know I won't play anything with the name "funcom" on it. Then again, "Sony" is a bit bigger than funcom...
Five things I've learned driving 100 miles a day on congested interstates:
1: Traffic updates (at least where I live) come every 10 minutes, usually on the 10s, so if I want them I know exactly when to turn the radio on.
2: Always check traffic 10 minutes before you set out from work.
3: Always keep backup routes in mind.
4: Memorize street names wherever you go.
5: The same places will back up at the same times nearly every day, plan for it. I don't need any stupid electric gadget to tell me that I75 southbound is going to be backed up at paddock from about 7AM to 9:30AM. It happens every day.
I know about 30 ways to get from downtown Cincinnati to Dayton. Several of them are even fun with the top down in a convertible. Never have I thought, "Gee, I need an instant traffic update button.", because you know, anything I can't find out on the AM within 10 minutes wouldn't help me anyway because the alternate would be too far out of the way as it is. And I enjoy the AM as it is because well, Gary Burbank rules in the afternoons and in the mornings there's two stupid sports guys who argue about crap. Either way I'm more entertained than I would be by music that I've heard before.
**** HOWEVER ****
Even without that, to say the US is backwards because our cars don't have these things, check out MSN autos, you can actually have instant traffic reports delivered directly to your cell phone if you want them to be.
Course this guy named John Phillips is liable to shoot at groundhogs from his helicopter, I'm not sure if you get that in GB, but I guess around here it adds to the spice of life.
Comedy Central used to have a show called Short Attention Span Theater, in that spirit, here's a summary of the show:
JS: You guys suck, you aren't real journalists, you're nothing but media whores out for attention. Crossfire guys: Oh yeah!? Well when you had John Kerry on your show, all you asked him were these silly questions! JS: My show is on after puppets making crank phone calls, yours is on CNN. Crossfire guys: *insert more BS here* JS: *insert more pnwage here*
Ideally, yes, but realistically, it would take quite some time to do reverse DNS lookups on domain names inside of messages, especially if there were many domain names, and if some of those domain names have invalid nameservers, the timeout factor would take a long time to process those mails. With the SURBL a company like mine that processes millions of e-mails a day can cache the SURBL locally to make the SURBL queries happen in milliseconds, so its a nice check.
The human rate of error would actually be far worse than that of a spamassassin + RBL + DNSBL type filter. A human fatigues, the machine does not. The new filters are smart enough to update themselves, and while a human might catch some things the machine does not, the machine is less likely to fat finger a button and send your important emails to/dev/null.
I thought Karma was capped at 50 now anyway (well, before they took away the numbers, it was capped at 50) so whats the big deal about karma? Everyone is either a newbie, an asshole, or has perfect karma.
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It all depends on what you use the computers for. If you let your kids play videogames everyday, sure their minds aren't going to be challenged and they will get worse grades.
Its not the computer that is evil, its what parents let their kids do with them.
Frankly I don't find this study worthwhile at all. Of course a study done by educators is going to tell you to stay away from computers. People fear what they don't understand and frankly 95% of the educators out there have no clue when it comes to computers.
heh, why do you think the Mac is so popular at schools? (j/k mac people, don't hurt me)
A managed service product such as the one my company offers works with anything out there. Ours runs on linux fwiw, and from what I read here is much better than the others listed. (though I can't force myself to slashvertize in a comment really, I'm an admin, not a salesperson.)
Wow, these guys don't know where to shop. I can get a lot more than nine ladies dancing for only $19.95 per month on certain sites... and dancing's not all they do... heh heh.
3.5 million dollars.
Thats $2.5 million from the folks at Jeopardy! and a cool $1 million from the folks at Fed-Ex for the great product placement they got there.
WTG KEN!
I disagree, with the exception of the one "hell" level, the later levels get monotonous. And after you get the soul cube, aren't even challenging anymore. They need to nerf the hell outof the soul cube.
I contracted out for about a year to a company.
Made some damn good money because contractors get something regular employees don't get.... overtime pay.
Putting in all those 60+ hour weeks don't seem so bad when you're getting time and a half for all the hours after 40.
The only downside for me was the fact that I didn't get any benefits like vacation days, or health insurance, but my wife's job carried the health insurance for my family, so we were good.
LOL a link off the front page to a page filled with hundreds of screenshots?
I weep for that man's router.
Its just my opinion that the more countries we have on a quest for knowledge, the better.
... just saying.
After all, the more countries who can build spacecraft the better when the aliens come invading...
They're releasing it on the 41st annaversary of Doctor Who!? HA! They will fail utterly, everyone is going to be watching hours of Doctor Who marathons and won't even think about playing a silly video game! ...
... go ... sulk in my geek corner now.
I'll
EQ sucked its first month of release. The servers were down so much they gave everyone an extra free month. That being said it turned out to be the most successful MMORPG in America, despite a rocky launch, many think mainly because it was first.
Today however, there's a different climate. This is arguably the third generation of 3d MMORPGs. A buggy release won't cut it. That being said I have no idea of the quality of EQ2, it may very well be ready. I gave up playing MMORPGs when I signed off of DAoC last year.
Anarchy Online however, I was excited about, played it for 1 week, and threw away. Thats how bad that game sucked. It might be cool now but man... if you release a beta to the public and charge for it, many people will remember and won't come back and it will haunt you for years to come. I know I won't play anything with the name "funcom" on it. Then again, "Sony" is a bit bigger than funcom...
Five things I've learned driving 100 miles a day on congested interstates:
1: Traffic updates (at least where I live) come every 10 minutes, usually on the 10s, so if I want them I know exactly when to turn the radio on.
2: Always check traffic 10 minutes before you set out from work.
3: Always keep backup routes in mind.
4: Memorize street names wherever you go.
5: The same places will back up at the same times nearly every day, plan for it. I don't need any stupid electric gadget to tell me that I75 southbound is going to be backed up at paddock from about 7AM to 9:30AM. It happens every day.
I know about 30 ways to get from downtown Cincinnati to Dayton. Several of them are even fun with the top down in a convertible. Never have I thought, "Gee, I need an instant traffic update button.", because you know, anything I can't find out on the AM within 10 minutes wouldn't help me anyway because the alternate would be too far out of the way as it is. And I enjoy the AM as it is because well, Gary Burbank rules in the afternoons and in the mornings there's two stupid sports guys who argue about crap. Either way I'm more entertained than I would be by music that I've heard before.
**** HOWEVER ****
Even without that, to say the US is backwards because our cars don't have these things, check out MSN autos, you can actually have instant traffic reports delivered directly to your cell phone if you want them to be.
I'm sorry that you don't have Gary Burbank where you live, he makes it worth the wait.
I have this in the US. Its called "AM Radio".
Course this guy named John Phillips is liable to shoot at groundhogs from his helicopter, I'm not sure if you get that in GB, but I guess around here it adds to the spice of life.
Comedy Central used to have a show called Short Attention Span Theater, in that spirit, here's a summary of the show:
JS: You guys suck, you aren't real journalists, you're nothing but media whores out for attention.
Crossfire guys: Oh yeah!? Well when you had John Kerry on your show, all you asked him were these silly questions!
JS: My show is on after puppets making crank phone calls, yours is on CNN.
Crossfire guys: *insert more BS here*
JS: *insert more pnwage here*
WARNING! As soon as you touch that nice shiney linux doom3 client, 20 demons are gonna jump out at you and eat you.
...
You just watch
Ideally, yes, but realistically, it would take quite some time to do reverse DNS lookups on domain names inside of messages, especially if there were many domain names, and if some of those domain names have invalid nameservers, the timeout factor would take a long time to process those mails. With the SURBL a company like mine that processes millions of e-mails a day can cache the SURBL locally to make the SURBL queries happen in milliseconds, so its a nice check.
Worse than that, click on the signup:
....
The minute your mail starts flowing, a dedicated team of over a hundred trained Screening and Preselection Specialists, working 24 hours a day**
** - Timezone differences may apply.
The human rate of error would actually be far worse than that of a spamassassin + RBL + DNSBL type filter. A human fatigues, the machine does not. The new filters are smart enough to update themselves, and while a human might catch some things the machine does not, the machine is less likely to fat finger a button and send your important emails to /dev/null.
Besides, machines are faster. Big John be damned.
I thought Karma was capped at 50 now anyway (well, before they took away the numbers, it was capped at 50) so whats the big deal about karma? Everyone is either a newbie, an asshole, or has perfect karma.
Off topic I know ... ... but when the heck are they going to replace Simonniker? Its been like 3 weeks now.
And imagine how much embarassment could be saved alone by correcting idiotic mispellings of simple words like "speech".
Imagine how much money could be saved if you could *perfect* speach recognition.
...
Heck, the hospital I used to work at by itself spent over a million dollars a year on medical transcriptionists
Imagine no lawsuits ... it isn't hard if you try ...
Love those pickles
Walmart, by itself, can combat inflation. However, at what cost?
Dammit Jim! I'm a doctor, not a network executive.