Actually AWT is smaller than Swing. But porting them to Dalvik would be no small task and then you have the question of WHY? They are not good frameworks to write a mobile app that uses a small screen and touch! Yes if you know java you have an advantage but not the huge one you have stated. I am working on porting an app I wrote in java to Android. The backed processing will port but UI which is a good bit of it will not.
If you have a spare box it may be cheap but then if you ever need to buy an extra machine that spare box just became expensive. Could it be used as an extra workstation? Most NAS boxes you find at Best Buy are pretty cheap and easy. Also a lot of them run Linux and use less power than that spare box. Also most NAS boxes have an easy web interface. Then you have boxes like the Drobo that offer all sorts of RAID like features that you will not get just using a spare box. Here is a DLink two bay box for under $140 and at the higher end you can get an 8 bay drobo pro for around $1500 that will give you more storage than you features than you going to get out of any "Spare" box server. Of course if you are very technical in nature I would suggest building a server and running OpenFiler on it. The only thing better IMHO would be if OpenFiler got ported to OpenSolaris and or BSD and integrated ZFS in it. But that is not a cheap or easy solution.
"Not only that, but all of the code from other Java programs will run on your Android phone — although it won't look pretty or run as fast as it does on multicore servers.'"" No because if it has any type of UI odds are that uses swing or awt. Not only that but I doubt that the Android JVM has all the standard libraries that are available on Sun Java. Yes they will know the syntax of the language but the libraries will be totally different. Not to mention that is probably very little code running on servers that you will want to run on a phone.
And yes I write in java and I have an Android phone and I have looked at the Android SDK.
If you have a spare box. They also take up space, may not support RAID, be harder to manage and use, and eat up more power than an inexpensive NAS. If you are the techie type then yes go for it but for most offices a simple NAS is money well spent. If you want an advanced NAS install OpenFiler on a server box.
Even better would be some kind of document management system. You create a folder for each job and everybody checks the file in and out to work on it. You can even keep older versions and revert if somebody blows it. You would also have a single machine to backup all your critical data.
That was a few years ago as you said. IE 8 is pretty secure but no not perfect. As Firefox has grown in popularity so have the number of exploits aimed at it. The key is to let windows users run as admin. Once you do that your security issues decrease.
But then again I tend to use firefox or Chrome myself.
I am sure you do but that is because you have never been in a law suit with a big company. They can drag on and on and cost millions of dollars. Even if you win you don't win. Microsoft will never go after IBM because IBM has enough patents that they could bury Microsoft a thousand times over. Microsoft might go after Google but we don't know what patents Google has to hold over Microsoft's head. What Microsoft will do is go after companies that do not want to risk their core business and are willing to pay token fees to not have to pay big legal costs. When they have enough case law on their side they will go after other customers using Linux and drive Linux from the market. It will be a case of use Linux and get sued or buy Windows. At this point it may be well worth it to see how BSD and Solaris fair. However until we know what the patents are we can not fix it. Microsoft is playing this one well and close to the vest. The Obama admin is how trying to just figure out how to save it's parties majority in congress and has do stomach to go after Microsoft for anti-trust again. The EU might but I would not hold my breath.
While I am a big Firefox fan I will say that you will save zero using Firefox over say IE8. If you have properly configured workstations and a good firewall and keep updated Windows 7, Vista, and even XP are not nightmares to keep working. I doubt that you could move everybody to Linux because of software requirements and they are probably tired of having to defend using Windows. As much as I am Linux user and fan for this place it may be a good workable solution. They know how to manage Windows and don't want to learn how to deal with Linux or Unix. Being tied completely to a single vendor isn't the ideal solution but it is not unusual or without some benefits.
I would say that this is about the best advice I have seen. I might suggest adding a small safe at the facility to keep another copy of the data as well as sending it off to iron mountain or a local safety deposit box. The only problem I see with the safety deposit box is disaster recovery. hurricanes and tornadoes can make a safety deposit box unavailable for a time but banks safes will usually survive those even when the bank does not. flood, earthquake, Volcano, and Tsunami can destroy even a bank vault. How fast you must respond to a disaster and what threats you must deal with must also be kept in mind. Hurricanes are probably the easiest to deal with since you have days of warning. The exception to that is if you live in the Keys where it is possible to have less than 24 hours of warning. Yes Hurricanes I know about from first hand experience. Finally I must repeat his second suggestion. Test your restores. I backup you have never restored isn't a back up.
But there is more to it than that. PCs are a Pain. Really one or two are not bad but when you get to 100 or more then trying to keep them all working and configured is just not fun. First you don't have to use EC2 Ubuntu offers a cloud solution that you can install on your own machines. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private. One use for using a cloud based system would be security. Suppose you want to allow your people access to the internet but you don't want to worry about all the latest exploits. Block the internet on their machines but give them the option to run a browser on your cloudserver. They get to use the internet but on a Linux box isolated from their production machine. Or if you can migrate to Linux completely "Not an easy task" you could have people running simple nettops with flash drives and use a cloud server to run the actual desktops. You can do much the same with Citrix. In the end it comes down to ease of management. If you have a bunch of folks that only need too run 3 or four programs all day long there is no reason to support hundreds of full PCs and all the crap that means.
I do agree but it is slightly better than nothing. At this point if google takes a payoff then they are just as evil as anybody else. If the keep fighting then they are slightly better than others.
Actually I hear it is a carrier issue and not an Apple issue. In most other countries the iPhone supports tethering out of the box. Of course you from Finland so that alone is reason enough to hate the iPhone.
I think you are assuming way too much ignorance. Maybe they just don't worry as much about government interfering in their lives as people in the US do. Reminds me of an episode of the Britcom Yes Minister. The EU wanted to issue universal ID cards and the Minister was freaking out because he was sure that the people of the UK would never stand for it. When he was asked wouldn't the other EU nations put up a stink about it he said. "The Germans will love it and the Spanish and Italians will ignore it. Only the British will be angry about it." It could just a cultural bias in that a good percentage of Germans would be willing to trust their government for the benefits that this offers.
Well to be honest not every vector is 100% microsofts fault. Adobe flash has been a huge source of vectors. I have seen machines infected running firefox. Of course part of the problem is that Win65-ME used a broken security model from the start and a lot of software was written that run on that broken model. And of course there are the IE6 dependent web apps that didn't follow real standards but instead trusted in Microsoft and used their "standards" and now will not run on ie7 or ie8.
Not really. Okay so the other framer down the road hears about this and comes and sells his flour for $2.50 and puts the shuck out of business. But scalpers are very different than the case you describe.
He is not selling flour or beans. He is selling candy. Nobody has to go to a concert or sporting event. This is a 100% luxuary item. Simple solution is don't buy from scalpers.
"1. 1080p is current technology. Even if we assume we will not have hologram visual output within the near future, there will still be some new technology that the powers that be will sell to the masses. It may be an incremental improvement, but it will still be enough to drive the markets."
Someday but not for a long time. 1080p will be a video standard for a long time. The production of 1080p panels will become mainstream and create huge economies of scale. Also 1080p really is good enough. Of course we may see game makers and video card makers start chasing frame rate instead of resolution at that point. You may start to see cards listed at HD, HD120 and HD240. Or you may see 3d take off but 1080p is going to be the mainstream standard for a very long time. "1a. As long as it's new and shiny, there will always be someone to buy it." Yes but that will be pushed farther and farther upstream. You will always have the super high end CAD/CAM, workstation, Video production market. And you will always have the nut case gamers. You know the ones that are playing with LN2 cooling. Those are outside of the mainstream. Look at the title. There are still coprocessors and FPGA cards even now to handle super high end math on PCs. They are just rare. You also see them on servers for encryption. 3. Workstations will still probably have Intel or AMD cpus. But it will not really matter much. On workstations more and more of the high end lifting will be done by nVidia. Of course Ibm may offer Power based workstation and maybe are will offer one with 32 ARM cores with a huge number of GPUs. Who knows for sure but I think nVidia will fight hard to keep that market. 4. I don't know where the middle range will fall. In servers I think AMD will keep fighting it out. On the desktop they will for a while but the margins in that are going to get even thinner over time. 5. ARM doesn't make any chips at all. The just design the cores. ARM cores dominate the embedded space. You will not find a single Smartphone that doesn't use an ARM. MIPS has become an also ran. It is still in there but they are few and far between. PPC is still around in that space. They are doing very well in the game console market and automotive. ARM has does so well in the low end that I think it will be very hard to beat them. When you say you are also saying. nVidia Tegra and Tegra 2 Ti OMap line. Marvel Qualcom "Snapdragon" Samsung Apple the new A4 in the iPad. AVR makes some ARM core systems. and goodness knows how many more companies all making fast low power and cheap ARM based systems.
Of course every thing changes. Windows may be so entrenched that we never get away from the X86 on desktops and laptops. Which I feel is a shame. Or Intel may throw enough money at the X86 to make a fast low power X86 that competes with the ARM. But the ARM will still probably be cheaper to make. My prediction is that things in the GPU market will not change a whole lot. The majority of PCs will ship with integrated graphics just as today. The difference is that they will no longer suck. Once they no longer suck people will buy more games and fewer medium to high end video cards because there will be no good reason. That that do will probably use them to drive multiple cheap 1080p displays. But most people will stick with one. I do think that wireless HDMI will become a popular option if we ever get a good cheap standard for it. Maybe a from of streaming over wifi to wifi enabled TVs.
You are correct with what I meant about workstations. I see nVidia pushing the idea of the personal super computer more and more. Yes it will probably have an X86 CPU but will probably have several nVidia chips as well. As to the gpu and cpu on the same die I do think you will see it very soon. Just as the FPU has moved on die so will the GPU. As the low end gets better and getter the high end will be used by fewer and few people. Just as it has happened with audio.
They will still be available but less people will use them. And lets be honest. Every game maker on the planet will jump for joy the day that every $299 PC and netbook can run games at 1080p with all the eyecandy maxed out.
I tend to agree that moderate gaming really isn't harmful. How much is moderate is in interesting question. I tend to agree with you in that I think getting outside and doing something is important. I am also big into doing real stuff. I would much rather see kids build real gocarts than race mario cart all day and ride real bikes and other real activities. Gaming is fun but like most things can be over done.
Again is the instant rejection of every gaming post that can is negative.
I have not tried X9 but one of the big things that FS has going for it is the community. I admit I am an odd FS user but I don't like flying fighters, bombers, or airliners in FS. I love to fly GA and Homebuilts. There is a very good Aircamper for FS9.
Now you have me wondering just how hard it would be to make scenery for XP.
Do you honestly think that you would see the same level of dismissal if the psych studies showed that gamers where less violent? Or that pron caused fewer sex crimes?
Blanket statements are of course always wrong. Heck some where there is probably a nice Klan member that is just in the Klan to make their parents happy but never goes to the meetings and never says a bad word to anybody.
Even if this study is correct not every gamer will become a menace to society anymore than every smoker will get lung cancer.
Frankly I wonder about the physical effect of intense video games on young peoples physical health. Even not violent games like racing games or flight simulators can cause a lot of adrenaline and other stress hormones to be released into the blood stream. Sure a little is probably harmless or even helpful but what about constant stimulation? Has anybody studied that effect I wounder? Could playing an hour or two of video-games a day be like riding a roller coaster an hour or two a day? I know that I can feel real stress while trying to land a Cessna 182 at Franklin NC airport in FSX if the weather in game is bad. And frankly I am an old guy. What effect would it have on a kid? More maybe? Maybe less since they have probably never flown a real airplane? Over all the effect of gaming on all humans is an interesting project.
except that is a matter of faith. This is study. I may be a flawed study but the vast majority of those opposing it are simply doing so on faith or really bad science. Along the lines of "I play violent video games and I have never killed anybody".
A lot of study has gone into desensitizing through immersion as a method of treating phobias. If those studies are valid then isn't it possible that beyond a threshold that video game play could also desensitize people to violence. And frankly just saying that no everybody that plays video games become mass murders is as dumb as saying that just because very smoker doesn't get lung cancer that there is no connection.
Heck I am not even saying this is a good study but instead commenting on the quick and faith based dismissal that I see on slashdot.
Or other companies rely on the nation the factory is in to enforce their own laws? That is honestly a valid business practice. After all do you check that every supplier of every product you buy is following any labor rules?
Of course I think the answer to this problem is to not do business with companies in countries that don't enforce even modest labor laws.
Apple could always just open factories in the US and make stuff here. In the long run it would be better for them. If you keep the money in the US the more people in the US will have more money to spend on Apple products. Also I think made in the US might actually sell more items if they did it right. But then I am all in favor of the idea that we have got to start making stuff again.
What I find so interesting is how people on Slashdot are so willing to attack a study that comes up with an answer they don't like. If you read the link it actually seems very interesting and well balanced. I wonder if any study would ever be good enough for the Slashdot audience. In that respect the Slashdot readership reminds me of creationists. "No study can prove us wrong because we know the truth."
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Actually AWT is smaller than Swing. But porting them to Dalvik would be no small task and then you have the question of WHY?
They are not good frameworks to write a mobile app that uses a small screen and touch!
Yes if you know java you have an advantage but not the huge one you have stated.
I am working on porting an app I wrote in java to Android.
The backed processing will port but UI which is a good bit of it will not.
If you have a spare box it may be cheap but then if you ever need to buy an extra machine that spare box just became expensive. Could it be used as an extra workstation?
Most NAS boxes you find at Best Buy are pretty cheap and easy. Also a lot of them run Linux and use less power than that spare box.
Also most NAS boxes have an easy web interface.
Then you have boxes like the Drobo that offer all sorts of RAID like features that you will not get just using a spare box.
Here is a DLink two bay box for under $140
and at the higher end you can get an 8 bay drobo pro for around $1500 that will give you more storage than you features than you going to get out of any "Spare" box server.
Of course if you are very technical in nature I would suggest building a server and running OpenFiler on it. The only thing better IMHO would be if OpenFiler got ported to OpenSolaris and or BSD and integrated ZFS in it.
But that is not a cheap or easy solution.
"Not only that, but all of the code from other Java programs will run on your Android phone — although it won't look pretty or run as fast as it does on multicore servers.'""
No because if it has any type of UI odds are that uses swing or awt. Not only that but I doubt that the Android JVM has all the standard libraries that are available on Sun Java.
Yes they will know the syntax of the language but the libraries will be totally different.
Not to mention that is probably very little code running on servers that you will want to run on a phone.
And yes I write in java and I have an Android phone and I have looked at the Android SDK.
If you have a spare box.
They also take up space, may not support RAID, be harder to manage and use, and eat up more power than an inexpensive NAS.
If you are the techie type then yes go for it but for most offices a simple NAS is money well spent.
If you want an advanced NAS install OpenFiler on a server box.
Why use a spare box?
There are are ton of inexpensive NAS solutions you can get at Best Buy.
Or pick up a Drobo.
Even better would be some kind of document management system.
You create a folder for each job and everybody checks the file in and out to work on it. You can even keep older versions and revert if somebody blows it.
You would also have a single machine to backup all your critical data.
That would seem to be the ideal solution.
That was a few years ago as you said. IE 8 is pretty secure but no not perfect. As Firefox has grown in popularity so have the number of exploits aimed at it.
The key is to let windows users run as admin. Once you do that your security issues decrease.
But then again I tend to use firefox or Chrome myself.
I am sure you do but that is because you have never been in a law suit with a big company.
They can drag on and on and cost millions of dollars. Even if you win you don't win. Microsoft will never go after IBM because IBM has enough patents that they could bury Microsoft a thousand times over.
Microsoft might go after Google but we don't know what patents Google has to hold over Microsoft's head.
What Microsoft will do is go after companies that do not want to risk their core business and are willing to pay token fees to not have to pay big legal costs.
When they have enough case law on their side they will go after other customers using Linux and drive Linux from the market. It will be a case of use Linux and get sued or buy Windows.
At this point it may be well worth it to see how BSD and Solaris fair.
However until we know what the patents are we can not fix it. Microsoft is playing this one well and close to the vest. The Obama admin is how trying to just figure out how to save it's parties majority in congress and has do stomach to go after Microsoft for anti-trust again. The EU might but I would not hold my breath.
While I am a big Firefox fan I will say that you will save zero using Firefox over say IE8.
If you have properly configured workstations and a good firewall and keep updated Windows 7, Vista, and even XP are not nightmares to keep working.
I doubt that you could move everybody to Linux because of software requirements and they are probably tired of having to defend using Windows.
As much as I am Linux user and fan for this place it may be a good workable solution. They know how to manage Windows and don't want to learn how to deal with Linux or Unix.
Being tied completely to a single vendor isn't the ideal solution but it is not unusual or without some benefits.
I would say that this is about the best advice I have seen.
I might suggest adding a small safe at the facility to keep another copy of the data as well as sending it off to iron mountain or a local safety deposit box.
The only problem I see with the safety deposit box is disaster recovery. hurricanes and tornadoes can make a safety deposit box unavailable for a time but banks safes will usually survive those even when the bank does not. flood, earthquake, Volcano, and Tsunami can destroy even a bank vault. How fast you must respond to a disaster and what threats you must deal with must also be kept in mind. Hurricanes are probably the easiest to deal with since you have days of warning. The exception to that is if you live in the Keys where it is possible to have less than 24 hours of warning. Yes Hurricanes I know about from first hand experience.
Finally I must repeat his second suggestion. Test your restores.
I backup you have never restored isn't a back up.
But there is more to it than that. PCs are a Pain. Really one or two are not bad but when you get to 100 or more then trying to keep them all working and configured is just not fun.
First you don't have to use EC2 Ubuntu offers a cloud solution that you can install on your own machines. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private.
One use for using a cloud based system would be security. Suppose you want to allow your people access to the internet but you don't want to worry about all the latest exploits.
Block the internet on their machines but give them the option to run a browser on your cloudserver.
They get to use the internet but on a Linux box isolated from their production machine.
Or if you can migrate to Linux completely "Not an easy task" you could have people running simple nettops with flash drives and use a cloud server to run the actual desktops. You can do much the same with Citrix.
In the end it comes down to ease of management. If you have a bunch of folks that only need too run 3 or four programs all day long there is no reason to support hundreds of full PCs and all the crap that means.
I do agree but it is slightly better than nothing.
At this point if google takes a payoff then they are just as evil as anybody else.
If the keep fighting then they are slightly better than others.
Actually I hear it is a carrier issue and not an Apple issue.
In most other countries the iPhone supports tethering out of the box.
Of course you from Finland so that alone is reason enough to hate the iPhone.
Thanks It was a long time since I had seen that one.
I think you are assuming way too much ignorance.
Maybe they just don't worry as much about government interfering in their lives as people in the US do.
Reminds me of an episode of the Britcom Yes Minister.
The EU wanted to issue universal ID cards and the Minister was freaking out because he was sure that the people of the UK would never stand for it.
When he was asked wouldn't the other EU nations put up a stink about it he said.
"The Germans will love it and the Spanish and Italians will ignore it. Only the British will be angry about it."
It could just a cultural bias in that a good percentage of Germans would be willing to trust their government for the benefits that this offers.
Well to be honest not every vector is 100% microsofts fault.
Adobe flash has been a huge source of vectors.
I have seen machines infected running firefox.
Of course part of the problem is that Win65-ME used a broken security model from the start and a lot of software was written that run on that broken model.
And of course there are the IE6 dependent web apps that didn't follow real standards but instead trusted in Microsoft and used their "standards" and now will not run on ie7 or ie8.
Not really.
Okay so the other framer down the road hears about this and comes and sells his flour for $2.50 and puts the shuck out of business.
But scalpers are very different than the case you describe.
He is not selling flour or beans. He is selling candy.
Nobody has to go to a concert or sporting event. This is a 100% luxuary item. Simple solution is don't buy from scalpers.
"1. 1080p is current technology. Even if we assume we will not have hologram visual output within the near future, there will still be some new technology that the powers that be will sell to the masses. It may be an incremental improvement, but it will still be enough to drive the markets."
Someday but not for a long time. 1080p will be a video standard for a long time. The production of 1080p panels will become mainstream and create huge economies of scale. Also 1080p really is good enough. Of course we may see game makers and video card makers start chasing frame rate instead of resolution at that point. You may start to see cards listed at HD, HD120 and HD240.
Or you may see 3d take off but 1080p is going to be the mainstream standard for a very long time.
"1a. As long as it's new and shiny, there will always be someone to buy it."
Yes but that will be pushed farther and farther upstream. You will always have the super high end CAD/CAM, workstation, Video production market. And you will always have the nut case gamers. You know the ones that are playing with LN2 cooling.
Those are outside of the mainstream. Look at the title. There are still coprocessors and FPGA cards even now to handle super high end math on PCs. They are just rare. You also see them on servers for encryption.
3. Workstations will still probably have Intel or AMD cpus. But it will not really matter much. On workstations more and more of the high end lifting will be done by nVidia. Of course Ibm may offer Power based workstation and maybe are will offer one with 32 ARM cores with a huge number of GPUs. Who knows for sure but I think nVidia will fight hard to keep that market.
4. I don't know where the middle range will fall. In servers I think AMD will keep fighting it out. On the desktop they will for a while but the margins in that are going to get even thinner over time.
5. ARM doesn't make any chips at all. The just design the cores. ARM cores dominate the embedded space. You will not find a single Smartphone that doesn't use an ARM. MIPS has become an also ran. It is still in there but they are few and far between. PPC is still around in that space. They are doing very well in the game console market and automotive.
ARM has does so well in the low end that I think it will be very hard to beat them.
When you say you are also saying.
nVidia Tegra and Tegra 2
Ti OMap line.
Marvel
Qualcom "Snapdragon"
Samsung
Apple the new A4 in the iPad.
AVR makes some ARM core systems.
and goodness knows how many more companies all making fast low power and cheap ARM based systems.
Of course every thing changes. Windows may be so entrenched that we never get away from the X86 on desktops and laptops. Which I feel is a shame.
Or Intel may throw enough money at the X86 to make a fast low power X86 that competes with the ARM. But the ARM will still probably be cheaper to make.
My prediction is that things in the GPU market will not change a whole lot. The majority of PCs will ship with integrated graphics just as today. The difference is that they will no longer suck.
Once they no longer suck people will buy more games and fewer medium to high end video cards because there will be no good reason.
That that do will probably use them to drive multiple cheap 1080p displays. But most people will stick with one.
I do think that wireless HDMI will become a popular option if we ever get a good cheap standard for it. Maybe a from of streaming over wifi to wifi enabled TVs.
You are correct with what I meant about workstations. I see nVidia pushing the idea of the personal super computer more and more. Yes it will probably have an X86 CPU but will probably have several nVidia chips as well.
As to the gpu and cpu on the same die I do think you will see it very soon. Just as the FPU has moved on die so will the GPU. As the low end gets better and getter the high end will be used by fewer and few people. Just as it has happened with audio.
They will still be available but less people will use them.
And lets be honest. Every game maker on the planet will jump for joy the day that every $299 PC and netbook can run games at 1080p with all the eyecandy maxed out.
I tend to agree that moderate gaming really isn't harmful. How much is moderate is in interesting question.
I tend to agree with you in that I think getting outside and doing something is important. I am also big into doing real stuff. I would much rather see kids build real gocarts than race mario cart all day and ride real bikes and other real activities. Gaming is fun but like most things can be over done.
Again is the instant rejection of every gaming post that can is negative.
I have not tried X9 but one of the big things that FS has going for it is the community.
I admit I am an odd FS user but I don't like flying fighters, bombers, or airliners in FS.
I love to fly GA and Homebuilts. There is a very good Aircamper for FS9.
Now you have me wondering just how hard it would be to make scenery for XP.
Do you honestly think that you would see the same level of dismissal if the psych studies showed that gamers where less violent?
Or that pron caused fewer sex crimes?
Blanket statements are of course always wrong. Heck some where there is probably a nice Klan member that is just in the Klan to make their parents happy but never goes to the meetings and never says a bad word to anybody.
Even if this study is correct not every gamer will become a menace to society anymore than every smoker will get lung cancer.
Frankly I wonder about the physical effect of intense video games on young peoples physical health.
Even not violent games like racing games or flight simulators can cause a lot of adrenaline and other stress hormones to be released into the blood stream. Sure a little is probably harmless or even helpful but what about constant stimulation?
Has anybody studied that effect I wounder?
Could playing an hour or two of video-games a day be like riding a roller coaster an hour or two a day?
I know that I can feel real stress while trying to land a Cessna 182 at Franklin NC airport in FSX if the weather in game is bad.
And frankly I am an old guy. What effect would it have on a kid? More maybe? Maybe less since they have probably never flown a real airplane?
Over all the effect of gaming on all humans is an interesting project.
except that is a matter of faith.
This is study. I may be a flawed study but the vast majority of those opposing it are simply doing so on faith or really bad science.
Along the lines of "I play violent video games and I have never killed anybody".
A lot of study has gone into desensitizing through immersion as a method of treating phobias. If those studies are valid then isn't it possible that beyond a threshold that video game play could also desensitize people to violence.
And frankly just saying that no everybody that plays video games become mass murders is as dumb as saying that just because very smoker doesn't get lung cancer that there is no connection.
Heck I am not even saying this is a good study but instead commenting on the quick and faith based dismissal that I see on slashdot.
Or other companies rely on the nation the factory is in to enforce their own laws?
That is honestly a valid business practice. After all do you check that every supplier of every product you buy is following any labor rules?
Of course I think the answer to this problem is to not do business with companies in countries that don't enforce even modest labor laws.
Apple could always just open factories in the US and make stuff here. In the long run it would be better for them. If you keep the money in the US the more people in the US will have more money to spend on Apple products.
Also I think made in the US might actually sell more items if they did it right.
But then I am all in favor of the idea that we have got to start making stuff again.
What I find so interesting is how people on Slashdot are so willing to attack a study that comes up with an answer they don't like.
If you read the link it actually seems very interesting and well balanced.
I wonder if any study would ever be good enough for the Slashdot audience.
In that respect the Slashdot readership reminds me of creationists.
"No study can prove us wrong because we know the truth."