...is really just that there's a large proportion of parents who view video games as children's toys. Either they never saw the attraction, or haven't made the distinction between Asteroids and the new games on the market, or something.
Nobody (or at least very few people) has an issue with adult entertainment in the movie industry, because we've become pretty well accustomed to filtering out R+ rated material from children. The issue is that so many parents are completely unwilling to believe that a new responsibility has been placed upon them with the advent of video games. It boggles the mind to think that these parents MUST be buying these games for their kids without even looking at the box (as the content warning is pretty obvious to anyone who cares to look). The only explanation is that parents either don't realize or don't believe that they should have to look at the box.
Maybe it's time for the video game industry to shell out for some television ads pointing out that video games aren't all for children, and urging parents to pay attention to the content warnings. I have to believe that most parents who are too dim-witted to take a passing interest in what entertains their children probably spend more time watching TV than is healthy, so this measure might in itself be sufficient.
These movies wouldn't have stood on their own, mostly as a result of poor acting and a failure to find an "epic" tone. Yes, they were held to high standards, but not only did they fail to meet those expectations, they basically found the space right *below* the average over-produced Hollywood crap.
You are aware that by your logic the only it'll move from "theory and conjecture" to "fact" is when it transpires, at which time we'll all be in a world of pain?
I tend to view this situation as though we've doused the world with gasoline, and the various leaders of the industrialized (and even pre-industrialized!) world are standing around fumbling with matches while giving each other the raspberry.
My solution to this is to hire a (young) hitman to kill you at some arbitrary time of his decision within the next 30 years, or whenever the health situation starts to look bleak for you. You're gauranteed never to find yourself in this deathbed scenario!
To most financial analysts, "unethical" is basically the same thing as "illegal". Legality implies a decent ethical foundation. If that weren't the case, then they probably wouldn't find themselves in that line of work.
As I understand it, DVI can't handle high resolutions like 2048x1536, and can't really deal with 1600x1200 at a reasonable refresh frequency. Is this going to fix that? As far as I can tell, this shortcoming is the reason why CRT's are still using analog connectors.
A whole lotta people secretly buy computers because they want to play games. Games--which tend to take the form of simulations--can always use more hardware horsepower. Enough of it that the usual business apps will always run more than acceptably.
My thinking is that people won't tolerate having their applications spoon-fed to them on machines that are more than capable of running them locally (and we can safely assume that computers won't be getting slower anytime soon). The mainframe thing has been done, and people didn't like it (except for system administrators, who are primarily interested in saving themselves from any and all work).
Either everyone is so thoroughly convinced that corporate executives are supposed to be crooked that it's not news anymore, or the wealthy proprietors of the various media conglomerates somehow indirectly dictate the type of news that gets reported.
I guess electronic crime just scares the shit out of people these days; it particularly scares the shit out of the wealthy, who typically are already convinced that everyone else is after their money. And I think we all know what the judicial trend over the past few years has been.
An institute of higher learning has a certain obligation to tailor the coursework to the level of the students. If the level of students is poor, then that is the fault of the admissions board and the prerequisites. Such is life. Professors shouldn't just hold themselves up to some ideal of vigilante grading.
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You can bet they wouldn't have been so courteous to a residential customer.
...is really just that there's a large proportion of parents who view video games as children's toys. Either they never saw the attraction, or haven't made the distinction between Asteroids and the new games on the market, or something.
Nobody (or at least very few people) has an issue with adult entertainment in the movie industry, because we've become pretty well accustomed to filtering out R+ rated material from children. The issue is that so many parents are completely unwilling to believe that a new responsibility has been placed upon them with the advent of video games. It boggles the mind to think that these parents MUST be buying these games for their kids without even looking at the box (as the content warning is pretty obvious to anyone who cares to look). The only explanation is that parents either don't realize or don't believe that they should have to look at the box.
Maybe it's time for the video game industry to shell out for some television ads pointing out that video games aren't all for children, and urging parents to pay attention to the content warnings. I have to believe that most parents who are too dim-witted to take a passing interest in what entertains their children probably spend more time watching TV than is healthy, so this measure might in itself be sufficient.
I'm going out on a limb here... but maybe liberals are happy enough with the news they get from reasonably moderate sources.
These movies wouldn't have stood on their own, mostly as a result of poor acting and a failure to find an "epic" tone. Yes, they were held to high standards, but not only did they fail to meet those expectations, they basically found the space right *below* the average over-produced Hollywood crap.
Makes you wonder how many individual virus cells wonder if what they're doing is really a good idea :O
No, I absolutely don't think that had anything to do with it. At all.
So only "hard-core gamers" play games that are more recent than 1999?
You are aware that by your logic the only it'll move from "theory and conjecture" to "fact" is when it transpires, at which time we'll all be in a world of pain?
I just need to make sure you've made this leap.
It seems to be all the rage these days to reply with something like "I BET YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED RIGHT? IDIOT!!"
Someday people are going to feel awfully silly that they were worrying about terrorism instead of the warning signs of ecological degeneration.
I tend to view this situation as though we've doused the world with gasoline, and the various leaders of the industrialized (and even pre-industrialized!) world are standing around fumbling with matches while giving each other the raspberry.
My solution to this is to hire a (young) hitman to kill you at some arbitrary time of his decision within the next 30 years, or whenever the health situation starts to look bleak for you. You're gauranteed never to find yourself in this deathbed scenario!
To most financial analysts, "unethical" is basically the same thing as "illegal". Legality implies a decent ethical foundation. If that weren't the case, then they probably wouldn't find themselves in that line of work.
To me, it's absolutely hilarious that much time and money is being spent to figure out how to improve a business model that's fundamentally idiotic.
As I understand it, DVI can't handle high resolutions like 2048x1536, and can't really deal with 1600x1200 at a reasonable refresh frequency. Is this going to fix that? As far as I can tell, this shortcoming is the reason why CRT's are still using analog connectors.
I don't know about you guys, but I think it's a lot of fun to be alive at the apex of the world :)
A whole lotta people secretly buy computers because they want to play games. Games--which tend to take the form of simulations--can always use more hardware horsepower. Enough of it that the usual business apps will always run more than acceptably.
My thinking is that people won't tolerate having their applications spoon-fed to them on machines that are more than capable of running them locally (and we can safely assume that computers won't be getting slower anytime soon). The mainframe thing has been done, and people didn't like it (except for system administrators, who are primarily interested in saving themselves from any and all work).
"That was the first time I ever talked to an African American. I never understood their accent even in the movies."
Hey, at least he didn't call them "black".
Either everyone is so thoroughly convinced that corporate executives are supposed to be crooked that it's not news anymore, or the wealthy proprietors of the various media conglomerates somehow indirectly dictate the type of news that gets reported.
Probably a little of both.
I guess electronic crime just scares the shit out of people these days; it particularly scares the shit out of the wealthy, who typically are already convinced that everyone else is after their money. And I think we all know what the judicial trend over the past few years has been.
That employer will have learned their lesson about that university.
Medical schools need to adop this approach.
Step 1) Have one mandatory course be graded almost entirely on the criteria that the student find a cure for cancer.
Step 2) ???
Step 3) Profit!
So what if a few students suffer? Collateral damage!
Yeah, I bet University of Chicago students are wholly incompetent. Practically remedial arithmetic students with that group.
Insight: There's a difference between interesting assignments and impossible assignments, even where there is some overlap.
An institute of higher learning has a certain obligation to tailor the coursework to the level of the students. If the level of students is poor, then that is the fault of the admissions board and the prerequisites. Such is life. Professors shouldn't just hold themselves up to some ideal of vigilante grading.