"We found that students who reported playing more violent video games in junior and high school engaged in more aggressive behavior," said lead author Anderson, of Iowa State University. "We also found that amount of time spent playing video games in the past was associated with lower academic grades in college."
Amazing, people who like to pursue violent images tend to be more agressive. Who'da thunk it. You mean if I (was a student and decided to) play Madden instead of study, my grades might go down? Me no understand...
In the second study, 210 college students played either a violent (Wolfenstein 3D) or nonviolent video game (Myst). A short time later, the students who played the violent video game punished an opponent (received a noise blast with varying intensity) for a longer period of time than did students who had played the nonviolent video game.
Duh, it makes sense to me that the people who were asleep (i.e. playing Myst) would want to avoid loud noises, and the people who had been shooting virtual guns wouldn't mind them as much. This is more a study on adaptive behaviour (if that's the right term for how we adapt to our current environment) than violent video games.
Or maybe all this stuff is just so obvious as to be useless??
It seems to me, like you said, the J tend towards one on one style human confrontation, from Bruce Lee to Goku to Street Fighter (the game not the movie, although I guess you could argue either). A's tend to go for the One Man VS The World scenario, from John Wayne to Rambo/Commando to Quake.
America is a violent culture, but I think that's more a reflection of the highly competitive social structure than anything else. One thing the article doesn't (unsurprisingly) cover, is the cathartic nature of violent games. If I'm pissed at something, a good 20 minute Quake session tends to provide a positive (or at least neutral) outlet for that agression. At least the people I'm trying to blow to bits (pun) are trying to do the same to me.
respectable enough to take a review of a beta project and say it should die a quiet death?
And how can they not be biased, most people are biased for the things they know well and understand, Windows Magazine.. Count the pages per issue that contain MS ads and tell me they are unbiased. --
one pissed off opinion from another person expressing his blatant choice in OS's.
Yes, choice. My choice. The fact that I've used computers extensively for 10 years, all but the last one extensively on the Microsoff platform. Recently is has been proven (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that this wasn't because they produced the best software, well, maybe it was the best software, but they cheated to keep it that way. Or should I say the platform upon which it is run. Microsoft stumbled, thanks to IBM's ego, upon the true power over the home PC, it's operating system. Apple had a chance, but kept the shortsighted view and tried to control the hardware too. Hardware is commodity stuff, as it turned out. I believe if fairly obvious now that Operating Systems are the same. Unfortunately the company with a stranglehold on the home PC doesn't think so, AND HAS BROKEN LAWS TO HOLD THEIR POSITION. And in doing so has hurt the consumer. So that's why I'm pissed.
"If you stick your head in the ground and ignore or dismiss the negaive actions of powerful entities, they will have no recourse but to continue with that course of action, because it's obvious nobody cares. It's the same with your average eight-year old. "
Basically it means that if you don't respond to the actions of someone, be they an eight-year old or a billion dollar corportation, they will continue doing the same thing. If someone hurts you, and you want them to stop, the simplest thing is to tell them. If that doesn't work, you tell other people too. Unfortunately in this situation M$ has been able to squeeze so much money out of the market, that they can state their position whenever and wherever they want. I don't have that option, so I rant here.
You could have bought OS/2, Apples, or even kept the faith in very advanced for its day NeXT Boxes or BeBoxes.
Yes, I could have, unfortunately every program that comes out has a cute little Window on the package. The OS is just the foundation, a foundation with no buildings is a useless. Microsoft used every tactic it could to keep people from building on other's foundation, because they know the only real money comes from owning the land. (lot's o'metaphors phor you.)
You didn't choose NOT to run a Microsoft Product, you chose to waiste money on supporting a government that is just as unruely and unjust as any corporation that exists. Fear the capitalism? them move somewhere else or leave it be. DON'T take my choice!
Capitalism needs a free market to function properly, when a company, say in a Monopoly position, abuses that power, if fscks up the market. Study the history of capitalism if you don't believe that.
If the INFORMATION is free, why would you NEED support?
Because knowledge and information are two different things.
'scuse me, this wasn't advertising, it was publicity, and there's no such thing as bad publicity. When getting paid in full is having people talk about you all day long, I'd say they did a pretty good job. They should thank Bruce for the free PUBLICITY.
Similarily for soundtracks, product shots, guest stars, just about anything could be change to reflect your preferences.
Sweeet, does this mean that when I watch it, it will be all nude?
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Radio is already getting into this with their bit streaming forays. Tech allows them to specifically target different ads in their bit streams, while their over the air version all has the same ads. Of course, why anyone would want to listen to radio with commercials is beyond me, but there ya go.
As her Goebbels well knew, tell someone a lie often enough and long enough and they will believe it, no matter how outrageous.
The NEW version get's clothes BRIGHTER than EVER before! Improved RELIABILITY and SCALABILITY. Help protect Microsoft's FREEDOM to INNOVATE.
I've recently been working on trying to formulate some type of license of new media. The interesting aspects of digital media have made it patently clear that our current laws and attitudes are insufficient to fully explore digital media's potential.
The basic idea is to remove the profit motive from distrubution and reproduction,i.e. you can use it the artifact, and share the artifact, but only the original creator is allowed to sell it. This idea is similar to the GPL, but different in very important ways. To use the standard metaphor, it would be free beer, not free speech. (with the original owner protected to profit from any addictions that manifest)
To sum up, do you think such a thing is worthwhile/possible, and where is a good place to start, because, thanks to all that's good, IANAL. --
Was Streetlawyer trolling? a troll savant? Don't know. My opinions are (as usual) my own.
Check his user info, or check the underthreads, or read his (or DMG's??) TrollHOWTO, You can read some of it here, there's a link at the bottom
But that's how misinformed, naive, or just plain ignorant most of/. is now (at least the ones who post), they can't even recognize the trolls. Of course, this is because the trolls run the place now, because they get fed so often. Most of the time it's just fun to laugh at, but what can I say, it's monday, so there ya go.
The problem comes when the corporations use the profits from their endeauvors to lobby the government into passing laws that help them control their product, despite a lack of actual scarcity in the product. By limiting our rights under the law, they can ensure good profits for the foreseeable future. See Mass Media Companies : 20th Century, for details on how to proceed.
Sorry couldn't resist. Actually I think Streetlawyer has a point. "Open source" does not help you if you can't (or dont have time to) understand the source.
Read the other guys post, *you* is not you who can't code, it's the same people who wrote Linux. Having the source means *someone* can. Without it, only one per^H^H^Hcompany can, it's I think this recent situation shows exactly how motivated they are to do that. And BTW, you're agreeing with a troll which just makes this thread even funnier.
I would have thought that most of the Microsoft apologists would have lost their fervor after said company was found guilty of fucking everyone over in a Federal court of law. I guess some people just get used to it. I got sick of it, so there ya go. Here's to another 20 years of expensive easter eggs!!
Microsoft has millions of dollars and a lot of easily convinced people to push their agenda. Linux has people who love it. There is a fundamental difference, some people embrace it, some people ignore it, some just go about their merry lives, hoping things will get better but never doing anything about it.
There was a recent store closing in my town. A bookstore that could no longer compete and was forced to close its doors. Since then, a small awareness has arisen in people that the votes they make with their dollars and their actions help shape the world around them. If the only thing they look at is their own convenience, and their own bottomline, well, then that's how the community crumbles.
If you stick your head in the ground and ignore or dismiss the negaive actions of powerful entities, they will have no recourse but to continue with that course of action, because it's obvious nobody cares. It's the same with your average eight-year old.
Just the tip of the iceberg of a counter rant, and MHO.
The satellites do make a good solution for people who don't want to live in neosubopolises. So far, neither telephony nor cable cos have expressed much interest in serving the rural communities. As someone who would like to retire someplace remote, it'll be nice to have a solution when I no longer desire, nah, require Quaking of some sort... --
it's a matter of hard you want to try and control it. Try all the way, and you will fail. You can get real close though. Just because someting is possible, does not make it a moral imperative. Do you? I know they do.
and when anonymous cowards whine about not getting their points heard, it's time for simple pointers, troll doggy, my karma has gone up four points this year, but that's because of killing trolls, killing trolls seems to be a negative thing to do. bizatch.
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"We found that students who reported playing more violent video games in junior and high school engaged in more aggressive behavior," said lead author Anderson, of Iowa State University. "We also found that amount of time spent playing video games in the past was associated with lower academic grades in college."
Amazing, people who like to pursue violent images tend to be more agressive. Who'da thunk it. You mean if I (was a student and decided to) play Madden instead of study, my grades might go down? Me no understand...
In the second study, 210 college students played either a violent (Wolfenstein 3D) or nonviolent video game (Myst). A short time later, the students who played the violent video game punished an opponent (received a noise blast with varying intensity) for a longer period of time
than did students who had played the nonviolent video game.
Duh, it makes sense to me that the people who were asleep (i.e. playing Myst) would want to avoid loud noises, and the people who had been shooting virtual guns wouldn't mind them as much. This is more a study on adaptive behaviour (if that's the right term for how we adapt to our current environment) than violent video games.
Or maybe all this stuff is just so obvious as to be useless??
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From the Japanese/American angle.
It seems to me, like you said, the J tend towards one on one style human confrontation, from Bruce Lee to Goku to Street Fighter (the game not the movie, although I guess you could argue either). A's tend to go for the One Man VS The World scenario, from John Wayne to Rambo/Commando to Quake.
America is a violent culture, but I think that's more a reflection of the highly competitive social structure than anything else. One thing the article doesn't (unsurprisingly) cover, is the cathartic nature of violent games. If I'm pissed at something, a good 20 minute Quake session tends to provide a positive (or at least neutral) outlet for that agression. At least the people I'm trying to blow to bits (pun) are trying to do the same to me.
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dang, I coulda sworn I paid $219 for my IIIx. But I guess some people can't read a phonebook or a calendar without 65K colors.
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forget that cheap part, Wince machines cost 2-3 times a much as a palm.
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Kind of like a paper book, isn't it?
Only Microsoft could silence 50 years of innovation with one fell swoop.
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WinMag is respectable enough to take seriously.
respectable enough to take a review of a beta project and say it should die a quiet death?
And how can they not be biased, most people are biased for the things they know well and understand, Windows Magazine.. Count the pages per issue that contain MS ads and tell me they are unbiased.
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one pissed off opinion from another person expressing his blatant choice in OS's.
Yes, choice. My choice. The fact that I've used computers extensively for 10 years, all but the last one extensively on the Microsoff platform. Recently is has been proven (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that this wasn't because they produced the best software, well, maybe it was the best software, but they cheated to keep it that way. Or should I say the platform upon which it is run. Microsoft stumbled, thanks to IBM's ego, upon the true power over the home PC, it's operating system. Apple had a chance, but kept the shortsighted view and tried to control the hardware too. Hardware is commodity stuff, as it turned out. I believe if fairly obvious now that Operating Systems are the same. Unfortunately the company with a stranglehold on the home PC doesn't think so, AND HAS BROKEN LAWS TO HOLD THEIR POSITION. And in doing so has hurt the consumer. So that's why I'm pissed.
"If you stick your head in the ground and ignore or dismiss the negaive actions of powerful entities, they will have no recourse but to continue with that course of action, because it's obvious nobody cares. It's the same with your average eight-year old. "
Basically it means that if you don't respond to the actions of someone, be they an eight-year old or a billion dollar corportation, they will continue doing the same thing. If someone hurts you, and you want them to stop, the simplest thing is to tell them. If that doesn't work, you tell other people too. Unfortunately in this situation M$ has been able to squeeze so much money out of the market, that they can state their position whenever and wherever they want. I don't have that option, so I rant here.
You could have bought OS/2, Apples, or even kept the faith in very advanced for its day NeXT Boxes or BeBoxes.
Yes, I could have, unfortunately every program that comes out has a cute little Window on the package. The OS is just the foundation, a foundation with no buildings is a useless. Microsoft used every tactic it could to keep people from building on other's foundation, because they know the only real money comes from owning the land. (lot's o'metaphors phor you.)
You didn't choose NOT to run a Microsoft Product, you chose to waiste money on supporting a government that is just as unruely and unjust as any corporation that exists. Fear the capitalism? them move somewhere else or leave it be. DON'T take my choice!
Capitalism needs a free market to function properly, when a company, say in a Monopoly position, abuses that power, if fscks up the market. Study the history of capitalism if you don't believe that.
If the INFORMATION is free, why would you NEED support?
Because knowledge and information are two different things.
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Say hi to the folks on k22320inchfan for me!
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Nice Palm VII review :)
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it's flamer. Flamer.
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'scuse me, this wasn't advertising, it was publicity, and there's no such thing as bad publicity. When getting paid in full is having people talk about you all day long, I'd say they did a pretty good job. They should thank Bruce for the free PUBLICITY.
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there's no such thing as bad advertising. Especially when it's, "Hey we screwed up, but look how fast we can fix it."
The smear campaign COMES FROM the public, which is a bit different that normal, remember, this is GNU software.
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Similarily for soundtracks, product shots, guest stars, just about anything could be change to reflect your preferences.
Sweeet, does this mean that when I watch it, it will be all nude?
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Radio is already getting into this with their bit streaming forays. Tech allows them to specifically target different ads in their bit streams, while their over the air version all has the same ads. Of course, why anyone would want to listen to radio with commercials is beyond me, but there ya go.
As her Goebbels well knew, tell someone a lie often enough and long enough and they will believe it, no matter how outrageous.
The NEW version get's clothes BRIGHTER than EVER before! Improved RELIABILITY and SCALABILITY. Help protect Microsoft's FREEDOM to INNOVATE.
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Have you even seen the sun set...at 3 p.m.?
(ayre, once, while sailing 'round the arctic circle...)
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I've recently been working on trying to formulate some type of license of new media. The interesting aspects of digital media have made it patently clear that our current laws and attitudes are insufficient to fully explore digital media's potential.
The basic idea is to remove the profit motive from distrubution and reproduction,i.e. you can use it the artifact, and share the artifact, but only the original creator is allowed to sell it. This idea is similar to the GPL, but different in very important ways. To use the standard metaphor, it would be free beer, not free speech. (with the original owner protected to profit from any addictions that manifest)
To sum up, do you think such a thing is worthwhile/possible, and where is a good place to start, because, thanks to all that's good, IANAL.
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What are your opinions on patenting and OSS
I think his call for a boycott of Amazon over patent activities spells this answer out pretty vividly.
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yes, but I wasn't sure if you were "streetlawyer". I need to update the other one. Writing about /. is not my day job, just a sick fascination.
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Was Streetlawyer trolling? a troll savant? Don't know. My opinions are (as usual) my own.
/. is now (at least the ones who post), they can't even recognize the trolls. Of course, this is because the trolls run the place now, because they get fed so often. Most of the time it's just fun to laugh at, but what can I say, it's monday, so there ya go.
Check his user info, or check the underthreads, or read his (or DMG's??) TrollHOWTO, You can read some of it here, there's a link at the bottom
But that's how misinformed, naive, or just plain ignorant most of
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The problem comes when the corporations use the profits from their endeauvors to lobby the government into passing laws that help them control their product, despite a lack of actual scarcity in the product. By limiting our rights under the law, they can ensure good profits for the foreseeable future. See Mass Media Companies : 20th Century, for details on how to proceed.
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Sorry couldn't resist. Actually I think Streetlawyer has a point.
"Open source" does not help you if you can't (or dont have time to) understand the source.
Read the other guys post, *you* is not you who can't code, it's the same people who wrote Linux. Having the source means *someone* can. Without it, only one per^H^H^Hcompany can, it's I think this recent situation shows exactly how motivated they are to do that. And BTW, you're agreeing with a troll which just makes this thread even funnier.
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I would have thought that most of the Microsoft apologists would have lost their fervor after said company was found guilty of fucking everyone over in a Federal court of law. I guess some people just get used to it. I got sick of it, so there ya go. Here's to another 20 years of expensive easter eggs!!
Microsoft has millions of dollars and a lot of easily convinced people to push their agenda. Linux has people who love it. There is a fundamental difference, some people embrace it, some people ignore it, some just go about their merry lives, hoping things will get better but never doing anything about it.
There was a recent store closing in my town. A bookstore that could no longer compete and was forced to close its doors. Since then, a small awareness has arisen in people that the votes they make with their dollars and their actions help shape the world around them. If the only thing they look at is their own convenience, and their own bottomline, well, then that's how the community crumbles.
If you stick your head in the ground and ignore or dismiss the negaive actions of powerful entities, they will have no recourse but to continue with that course of action, because it's obvious nobody cares. It's the same with your average eight-year old.
Just the tip of the iceberg of a counter rant, and MHO.
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The satellites do make a good solution for people who don't want to live in neosubopolises. So far, neither telephony nor cable cos have expressed much interest in serving the rural communities. As someone who would like to retire someplace remote, it'll be nice to have a solution when I no longer desire, nah, require Quaking of some sort...
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it's a matter of hard you want to try and control it. Try all the way, and you will fail. You can get real close though. Just because someting is possible, does not make it a moral imperative. Do you? I know they do.
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and when anonymous cowards whine about not getting their points heard, it's time for simple pointers, troll doggy, my karma has gone up four points this year, but that's because of killing trolls, killing trolls seems to be a negative thing to do. bizatch.
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This will be moderated down soon, so get the message out regardless of what the moderators try to censor.
login, get an extra point, karma whore, get another, post early, post often, elucidate and use reason.
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it was a troll moderation. got ya!
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