My girls are 9 and 12. Our computer is in the family room and is positioned so that anyone in the room can see the screen.
Both of them want a computer in their bedroom which I have refused. Seems like every time that they go to a friend's who has their computer in the bedroom, there's something inappropriate on youtube that I catch them with.
I realize that they're going to see this stuff but if I have a chance to talk them about it, it keeps it from getting out of control.
That's a really good point. Relating the time spent playing WOW vs. time spent watching tv.
I play about 2-3 hours a day at a sitting but definitely don't play every day.
My wife growls at me for the time I watch playing wow but I'm able to have a conversation with her and watch tv at the same time (my tv and PC are in the same room).
Why is it (generally in the minds of non-gamers) that time spent with the TV is somehow "better" than time spent gaming?
I suppose that if you completely coccoon into the game vs. remaining aware of the outside world it's a problem but that applies to anything.
I often play wow with both my girls on my lap telling me what to kill and which quests to run. (most of my toons are also female because the girls name them).
Seems like yet another media sponsored backlash against time spent away from the tv.
I rarely watch TV, but as I watched last night, I was amazed at that every show after 9pm, and most before, feature violence (more often than not killing vs. a good beating!).
Through conventional media, we are bathed in violence whether real in the news, or fictional.
How people, and the media in particular, can point the finger at gaming as a particularly bad influence without looking at themselves is hypocritical beyond belief.
Look at the prime time schedule of most networks and the vast majority of programming revolves around violence in one form or other.
That been said, there are numerous drivers out there who I would have loved to lob a fireball at after a good session of WoW!
I seem to remember that someone was looking to implement these in Canada and Northern Europe to service remote locations with no or limited road access.
I can certainly see the issues of securing big chunks of land in urban centres, but what about some place in the middle of nowhere?
Seems reasonable that someone could figure out how to economically service them.
as we all know, having a telescope inside of Earth's atmosphere is not as good as having one in space as the effects of the atmosphere make it as though you're looking through a lense smeared with vaseline. (as I recall from that astronomy class I took)
If you're going to spend this money, why not figure out how to update/fix/improve Hubble and move on from there. You're already got the platform, is there no way to take advantage of it?
I completely agree and I remember people saying the same thing about Canadians.
I think what we're seeing is not necessarily LESS smart people, it's more about the gap between the have's and have not's. In this case the "have ingenuity" vs. "the masses"
I would argue that there are MORE smart people in the world now than ever (US, Canada, UK, wherever) there are also even more "stupid" people in *insert country here* than ever as well.
Just like being in a class full of morons at school, for every smart person, there's a roomfull of people hauling down the class average.
I can't even imagine how simple that your return would have to be for you to even consider this!
Sure, there's value in allowing people to choose the most convenient channel for interaction but there's got to be a filter that says, "just because I can do something doesn't necessarily mean that I should do it!"
I'd be very curious to know how many people e-file via SMS. They must have an extraordinary threshold for pain!
While there are share issuances that act like debt such as preferred shares that have a financial obligation from the company, not all shares have a cash value on them.
Preferred shares generally have a fixed time to live and are "bought" back by the company at a future date (paying off the principle) with a fixed debt servicing cost (usually a dividend).
While the common shares of a company may be evaluated with EPS or EBITDA or whatever, the shares could be reduced to 0 value (or infinite value) without a direct consequence to the issuer. (without the implied challenges/opportunities to raising additional capital)
That's why some stocks, like google's, trade at significant multipliers to their actual earnings (exactly what happened in dot bomb) based on the "expert's" view of where the company's earnings would be in the future.
ATMs (in Canada and I'm assuming the US) run on a private X.25 network. Moving off OS2 to windows or linux or BeOS should make no difference as to their security as these boxes are seriously locked down and disabled to the point that they'll only communicate with boxes that they're set to communicate with.
You might get the BSoD now and again but they should be pretty secure.
Excellent point! The Earth is not in any danger (well except for when the Sun goes brown dwarf in about 5 Billion years or so)
Life (animal and vegetable) as we know will need to evolve yet again if the climates change.
Given that life on Earth has survived numerous asteroid impacts and such that wiped out significant percentages of both animal and plant species, I'm sure that life will be around for quite a while, thank you very much.
It's all good if you're a cockroach or a Horeshoe crab, those bad boys have adaptation totally figured out!
I don't think that this is the scenario that's envisioned with DRM. If you create content, then you OWN the content.
What DRM wants to do is protect people who make their living creating content ( like music and images ) and allow them to make a living at what they do. If they choose to open up the content to the world, then that should be their choice.
The challenge to telco's and content creators is to price this stuff and facilitate the distribution of the content so that you WANT to share it and you don't feel fiscally raped every time you do want to share it.
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MOD this up it's funny.
My girls are 9 and 12. Our computer is in the family room and is positioned so that anyone in the room can see the screen.
Both of them want a computer in their bedroom which I have refused. Seems like every time that they go to a friend's who has their computer in the bedroom, there's something inappropriate on youtube that I catch them with.
I realize that they're going to see this stuff but if I have a chance to talk them about it, it keeps it from getting out of control.
why yes....all we had to add was "please" to our request! (oh, and throw in a case of beer now and then)
That's a really good point. Relating the time spent playing WOW vs. time spent watching tv.
I play about 2-3 hours a day at a sitting but definitely don't play every day.
My wife growls at me for the time I watch playing wow but I'm able to have a conversation with her and watch tv at the same time (my tv and PC are in the same room).
Why is it (generally in the minds of non-gamers) that time spent with the TV is somehow "better" than time spent gaming?
I suppose that if you completely coccoon into the game vs. remaining aware of the outside world it's a problem but that applies to anything.
I often play wow with both my girls on my lap telling me what to kill and which quests to run. (most of my toons are also female because the girls name them).
Seems like yet another media sponsored backlash against time spent away from the tv.
There was also a move to a mmm.domain.com a while ago that also wasn't cool enough to make the grade.
.com all over again.(but worse)
The problem here is that there are too many people focussed on getting rich quick and NOT focussing on building a sustainable business.
It's like
Excellent point!
.com.
Remember how they added Nortel to the TSX (Toronto) exchange back in
I ton of people lots their life savings when it went KABOOM!
I would avoid any fund that tracks an index with stocks in it that are not proven over the long (ie 10+ years)
Sure there are the GM's of the world, but they'll be over shadowed with stable stocks that will grow over the long term.
I think it's Esso's that have these now.
The damned things start at you as soon as you put your credit card in and start filling up.
They are annoying as hell, add no value and are filled with ads.
Suffice to say that I boycott Esso.
I rarely watch TV, but as I watched last night, I was amazed at that every show after 9pm, and most before, feature violence (more often than not killing vs. a good beating!).
Through conventional media, we are bathed in violence whether real in the news, or fictional.
How people, and the media in particular, can point the finger at gaming as a particularly bad influence without looking at themselves is hypocritical beyond belief.
Look at the prime time schedule of most networks and the vast majority of programming revolves around violence in one form or other.
That been said, there are numerous drivers out there who I would have loved to lob a fireball at after a good session of WoW!
Good points.
I seem to remember that someone was looking to implement these in Canada and Northern Europe to service remote locations with no or limited road access.
I can certainly see the issues of securing big chunks of land in urban centres, but what about some place in the middle of nowhere?
Seems reasonable that someone could figure out how to economically service them.
DRM is absolutely a necessity if OpenDocument is to become a viable choice in secure applications.
If I work on secret stuff and I want to control who gets access to something that I write, I can use DRM.
This is especially useful when I write nasty things about my PHB and want to control who sees my picture of him with his admin assistant.
as we all know, having a telescope inside of Earth's atmosphere is not as good as having one in space as the effects of the atmosphere make it as though you're looking through a lense smeared with vaseline. (as I recall from that astronomy class I took)
If you're going to spend this money, why not figure out how to update/fix/improve Hubble and move on from there. You're already got the platform, is there no way to take advantage of it?
I have an issue where I can no longer play Civ III because my game CD cracked in the center and is no longer readable.
There's no real solution to this problem except for me to buy a whole new version of the game which is a total waste.
IF you're going to demand my CD, you should give me an easy/free way to keep on playing if something happens to my original disk.
I completely agree and I remember people saying the same thing about Canadians.
I think what we're seeing is not necessarily LESS smart people, it's more about the gap between the have's and have not's. In this case the "have ingenuity" vs. "the masses"
I would argue that there are MORE smart people in the world now than ever (US, Canada, UK, wherever) there are also even more "stupid" people in *insert country here* than ever as well.
Just like being in a class full of morons at school, for every smart person, there's a roomfull of people hauling down the class average.
People file their tax returns via SMS??
I can't even imagine how simple that your return would have to be for you to even consider this!
Sure, there's value in allowing people to choose the most convenient channel for interaction but there's got to be a filter that says, "just because I can do something doesn't necessarily mean that I should do it!"
I'd be very curious to know how many people e-file via SMS. They must have an extraordinary threshold for pain!
I think you've been misled, stock != debt
While there are share issuances that act like debt such as preferred shares that have a financial obligation from the company, not all shares have a cash value on them.
Preferred shares generally have a fixed time to live and are "bought" back by the company at a future date (paying off the principle) with a fixed debt servicing cost (usually a dividend).
While the common shares of a company may be evaluated with EPS or EBITDA or whatever, the shares could be reduced to 0 value (or infinite value) without a direct consequence to the issuer. (without the implied challenges/opportunities to raising additional capital)
That's why some stocks, like google's, trade at significant multipliers to their actual earnings (exactly what happened in dot bomb) based on the "expert's" view of where the company's earnings would be in the future.
This is a dangerous game as we all know.
I don't think that the Fountain of Youth is really required in this case as the critters have very short life spans (months vs. years)
Sure, if they were elephants or tortoises, then you'd have some issues.
That's the good thing about these zooplankton is that you can see many many generations over a short period of time.
Kind of cool, actually.
The reason that nobody uses MP3 as a DRM'd format is that MP3 does not support DRM in its spec.
AAC+ (from Apple) and wma (from Microsoft) are designed to support DRM in their header information (as I recall)
On a side note, from a quality perspective AAC+ is also superior to MP3 at comparable bit rates. At a smaller file size.
ATMs (in Canada and I'm assuming the US) run on a private X.25 network. Moving off OS2 to windows or linux or BeOS should make no difference as to their security as these boxes are seriously locked down and disabled to the point that they'll only communicate with boxes that they're set to communicate with.
You might get the BSoD now and again but they should be pretty secure.
Ah....I stand corrected....and so do my so-called in house experts.
Thank you.
How can this phone claim to support iTunes when it doesn't support AAC/AAC+??
The way it looks to me is that it's a MP3 player with add-on support for windows media player. Largely from within the Java space.
I can see it now:
The SIMS! - sim-GIRLS GONE WILD!!!
Featuring Bourbon Street, Cancun and Tijuana as venues!
Excellent point! The Earth is not in any danger (well except for when the Sun goes brown dwarf in about 5 Billion years or so)
Life (animal and vegetable) as we know will need to evolve yet again if the climates change.
Given that life on Earth has survived numerous asteroid impacts and such that wiped out significant percentages of both animal and plant species, I'm sure that life will be around for quite a while, thank you very much.
It's all good if you're a cockroach or a Horeshoe crab, those bad boys have adaptation totally figured out!
My 2 daughters 9 and 6 and their 7 year old friend LOVED this movie.
Although, they did say that it wasn't as funny as Finding Nemo.
Personally, this was as funny as Shrek (and that's saying something)
Very enjoyable...much is wasted on the kids tho.
I'm dying to see them. All I see at nasaTV is a bunch of blurry people hugging one another.
Of it's an out of focus microscope pic of amoeba's merging and bouncing off each other.
I don't think that this is the scenario that's envisioned with DRM. If you create content, then you OWN the content.
What DRM wants to do is protect people who make their living creating content ( like music and images ) and allow them to make a living at what they do. If they choose to open up the content to the world, then that should be their choice.
The challenge to telco's and content creators is to price this stuff and facilitate the distribution of the content so that you WANT to share it and you don't feel fiscally raped every time you do want to share it.