I think as an earlier post stated, there should be some distinction between games which are human-vs-human and human-vs-computer(punching bag).
Also I think it is pretty safe to say that after half-an hour of punching a punching bag that when encountering a room full of punching bags it will be easier to ignore them. Mainly because you will be tired.
When playing games against the computer there is always the power switch and the computer is faster excuse to rationalize loss. When playing humans it is obviously more personal. It might however be good for a human to experience interaction and losing/winning games to other humans on a regular basis. Vs not having any experience with win/lose situations. Not many studies seem to focus on this.
In any case I think there are still a lot of factors which haven't been taken into account in the catharsis theory world.
From reading the article: "Japan's Patent Law provides that researchers who invent products as part of their company jobs have the patent for them, but adds that their employers can claim the patent after paying "deserving bonuses" to the inventors."
But its still his own fault for not knowing the law and signing stupid contracts. But then again I don't know every law or read everything detail of software license agreements either!:)
Good old NTT is offering 100Mbs fiber to za home. (if you live in Tokyo, pay the $250 install fee etc) For about ~$70 a month... with providers available for another $20 or less, no bandwidth restrictions. My question would be how long can THAT last.
The US gov should help fund laying fiber everywhere and rebuilding infra. Like with interstate highways, railroads and stuff.
I think you must be referring to the Japan of the 80s. They screw over their employees quite well here too. In fact, the average salary for a starting programmer here is half that of the US. Factor in the cost of living and its not pretty. (at least in Tokyo)
Stock options? What are those? Maybe if you started the company... you might get some.:)
Not sure about 4billion, but the banks in Japan have been said to have around 400billion in unrecoverable bad loans.
Korea booing all the teams they played, except perhaps Germany...
that was kinda annoying too. I guess its better than getting shit thrown at you by the crowd like some of the qualifying matches.
from Microsoft with lots of pretty colors. Nevermind I guess we don't have it yet. And SourceForge ads... they don't have enough of those in Japan. And they imitate movies... see... its clever. At least the first few hundred times i saw it I thought it was clever.
Certain bodies of information ARE kept secret in China, namely anything to do with the governments practices. Perhaps the biggest entity (business?) in China being the government, I think this is an important point.
The Chinese people are just as money oriented as the rest of us. Only recently have they started producing creative works on the scale of other countries in the region. Once they try to sell their movies and creative engineering works, they will recognize the profit to be made by protecting intellectual property. It only takes one ripped off feeling factory-owner-bureaucrat to make an IP law.:)
It invents new avenues accross which to travel, from printing press to mail to wire to laser to satellite...
Now it has the internet to travel accross... It has google... It has databases... It has caching and mirroring... It has terrabyte storage... It has offsite backups... It knows where you live...
It has new CCD eyes everywhere... It can never be stopped... It will rise up and dominate us with an army of machines? Uhm nevermind...
"it shouldn't be as bloated and resource intensive as Photoshop."
Why not? Its dynamically scaling images, dithering, optimizing palettes, mundging in widgets, throwing on some stylesheets which may or may not cascade with their freaky transparency and glow effects, layers, inline-frames, parsing tons of shit javascript, html, css, handling plugins and still spitting out something viewable in realtime...
Currently email addresses and URLs are the only reason a native Chinese speaker needs to use ASCII.
Actually they are probably using ASCII on their keyboards whenever they enter ANYTHING! Unless they happen to be doing char recognition with the mouse.... which I doubt.
The US companies are just doing business, no more and no less, and that business helps along that change.
Gotta be careful of letting companies "just do business"... because they have a tendency to ignore things which might not be in the interests of humanity... but are profitable, such as:
Slashdot Mirror
I think as an earlier post stated, there should be some distinction between games which are human-vs-human and human-vs-computer(punching bag).
Also I think it is pretty safe to say that after half-an hour of punching a punching bag that when encountering a room full of punching bags it will be easier to ignore them. Mainly because you will be tired.
When playing games against the computer there is always the power switch and the computer is faster excuse to rationalize loss. When playing humans it is obviously more personal. It might however be good for a human to experience interaction and losing/winning games to other humans on a regular basis. Vs not having any experience with win/lose situations. Not many studies seem to focus on this.
In any case I think there are still a lot of factors which haven't been taken into account in the catharsis theory world.
Excuse my rambling.
From reading the article:
:)
"Japan's Patent Law provides that researchers who invent products as part of their company jobs have the patent for them, but adds that their employers can claim the patent after paying "deserving bonuses" to the inventors."
But its still his own fault for not knowing the law and signing stupid contracts. But then again I don't know every law or read everything detail of software license agreements either!
Is it just me or do the little girls in Ghibli movies sound whiney in English, but cute in Japanese?
Heres a good link with a summary of news and links from around the world. Heres the Japan link.
I already have a "gaijin" (foreigner) registration card that I'm legally required to carry with me for random police checks, so what's one more.
Doesn't seem to work with my Reboot Season III disc... *sniff* T_T I get an endless stream of div by zero errors.
That's the advantage of hardware players, you don't have to mess with them. (not usually anyway)
Just fill out this form. /. partners.
They probably need a few hundred
And maybe signing up for their newsletter might be informative too. Or sign up for some training so you too can be ready for the new era of imaging. Or create a "trouble ticket" and let them know about the problems you are having with their JPEG technology. Or get a quote so you can pay for that JPEG based digital camera you bought. And last but not least... Sign up for a job there... since they will effectively own you and all your jpeg files.
Good old NTT is offering 100Mbs fiber to za home. (if you live in Tokyo, pay the $250 install fee etc) For about ~$70 a month... with providers available for another $20 or less, no bandwidth restrictions. My question would be how long can THAT last.
The US gov should help fund laying fiber everywhere and rebuilding infra. Like with interstate highways, railroads and stuff.
I think you must be referring to the Japan of the 80s. They screw over their employees quite well here too. In fact, the average salary for a starting programmer here is half that of the US. Factor in the cost of living and its not pretty. (at least in Tokyo)
:)
Stock options? What are those? Maybe if you started the company... you might get some.
Not sure about 4billion, but the banks in Japan have been said to have around 400billion in unrecoverable bad loans.
Bra[s|z]il booing kahn was pretty weak.
Korea booing all the teams they played, except perhaps Germany...
that was kinda annoying too. I guess its better than getting shit thrown at you by the crowd like some of the qualifying matches.
from Microsoft with lots of pretty colors. Nevermind I guess we don't have it yet. And SourceForge ads... they don't have enough of those in Japan. And they imitate movies... see... its clever. At least the first few hundred times i saw it I thought it was clever.
And the real reason the japanese phones are so popular is because they have all these spiffy picture characters you can use.
It looks like nVidia is trying to get the manufacturati in line... for what an Inquirer link is worth.
ya don't.
But information wants to be free, right?
It invents new avenues accross which to travel, from printing press to mail to wire to laser to satellite...
Now it has the internet to travel accross...
It has google...
It has databases...
It has caching and mirroring...
It has terrabyte storage...
It has offsite backups...
It knows where you live...
It has new CCD eyes everywhere...
It can never be stopped...
It will rise up and dominate us with an army of machines? Uhm nevermind...
"it shouldn't be as bloated and resource intensive as Photoshop."
Why not? Its dynamically scaling images, dithering, optimizing palettes, mundging in widgets, throwing on some stylesheets which may or may not cascade with their freaky transparency and glow effects, layers, inline-frames, parsing tons of shit javascript, html, css, handling plugins and still spitting out something viewable in realtime...
sounds as complicated as photoshop to me.
like an origami boulder
And it might be good for picking up on the hot chic with the Stephen Hawking fetish in Japanese class...
Currently email addresses and URLs are the only reason a native Chinese speaker needs to use ASCII.
Actually they are probably using ASCII on their keyboards whenever they enter ANYTHING! Unless they happen to be doing char recognition with the mouse.... which I doubt.
Projectors win in cost and screen size.
The NEC LT150 is down to $2500 versus the average plasma display at $5000+, that $2500 or so price difference can buy your HTPC too.
And what's a few cables to us Nerds.
Uh, they do. It's called Windows.
Unless you're running it on a Mac...
was the Virtual Boy online?
Here is a shoebox sized one for about $300 etc. With mb and powersupply. Here for the table case. etc. (*warning* Japanese)
Gotta be careful of letting companies "just do business"... because they have a tendency to ignore things which might not be in the interests of humanity... but are profitable, such as:
- destroying the environment
- monopolizing markets
- stomping on worker rights
to name a few... but we all knew zat.If we really wanted to solve these problems
we probably need to make a new OS...
Enter: Eros OS.
A capability system based OS... then once we get some software, we'll be set. Yay!
Remember.. refactoring is important!
More specifically:
First Hot Grits Post
"hot grits (course ground hominy meal, made into a mush usually very thick)"
"...I try to be as rational, logical, and non-religious about every decision I make because it's the only chance I have of succeeding..."
But many religions are very successful without worrying about being rational... or logical. How do you explain that!? Ha!