Slashdot Title: Studies Say Video Games Increase Violent Behavior
"The studies show a relationship between violent and aggressive behavior and video game playing."
It has already been pointed out that this study is about a correlation between video-game playing and violent behaviour. However, the media's need to sell advertising (and Slashdot's too??) will probably result in article titles like the Slashdot title above, and John Q. Public will be duped again by weasel words and false reporting. (Not that JQP is all that bright in the first place if he is suckered in by this stuff.)
People with violent-behaviour problems probably also have attention-deficit/impulse-control problems and probably order out for pizza at a statisitically significantly higher rate since they don't have the patience to make their own meals. Therefore, eating pizza causes violent behaviour and PIZZA MUST BE BANNED IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!
This is just the way that Microsoft operates. Adhearing to open standards means creating a commodity product, and commodity products are nowhere near as profitable as owning a de-facto standard. Also, commodity products create a level playing field, and Microsoft isn't particularly competitive on a level playing field, and they are well aware of this.
Frankly, I'm surprised that they chose to start with an open standard rather than starting with a completely proprietary standard, as they would be able to lock out competitors longer with the latter. Of course, this way they get to leverege the work done by the Kerberos people and are able to feign compliance with a recognized and (heretofore) respected standard.
In fact, I'll bet many of you are grinding your teeth that I keep using the word "meme" so damn much.
I'd imagine anyone who objects to your material loves you for using the word "meme" so much. It makes you sound like a crackpot who lines his hat with tin foil. You should probably use a different term.
"Children: The ultimate scapegoat for any political agenda."
Some of you might be interested to know that 8-bit Commodore computers are still alive and in use. In fact, there's even an active hardware company that can sell you a 2GB hard drive, a 20-MHz CPU accelerator with 16MB of RAM, a 16-MB RAM disk with battery backup, a UART chip, and a high-density floppy disk for your Commodore 64. Check out:
I'm not an expert on business computing, but it seems to me that Sun should be reaching the end of its rope within the next couple years. As Linux matures, CIOs will be saying, "Hmmm, I can go with SPARC/Solaris and have a good system, or I can go with Intel(etc.)/Linux and have a system that's _almost_ as reliable, probably faster, and costs 1/5 as much. Hmmm."
Perhaps his new vocation for the next few years should be launching law suits against the individuals and organizations he identifies in the statement he made upon being released from prison.
Well, actually, there are several "Prime Meridians". The usage of the non-Greenwich ones tends to be historical and very localized; however, modern GIS software still has to support the silly things:
Greenwich 0 00' 00" Bern 7 26' 22.5" E Bogota 74 04' 51.3" W Brussels 4 22' 04.71" E Ferro 17 40' 00" W Jakarta 106 48' 27.79" E Lisbon 9 07' 54.862" W Madrid 3 41' 16.58" W Paris 2 20' 14.025"E Rome 12 27' 08.4" E Stockholm 18 03' 29" E
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Slashdot Title: Studies Say Video Games Increase Violent Behavior
"The studies show a relationship between violent and aggressive behavior and video game playing."
It has already been pointed out that this study is about a correlation between video-game playing and violent behaviour. However, the media's need to sell advertising (and Slashdot's too??) will probably result in article titles like the Slashdot title above, and John Q. Public will be duped again by weasel words and false reporting. (Not that JQP is all that bright in the first place if he is suckered in by this stuff.)
People with violent-behaviour problems probably also have attention-deficit/impulse-control problems and probably order out for pizza at a statisitically significantly higher rate since they don't have the patience to make their own meals. Therefore, eating pizza causes violent behaviour and PIZZA MUST BE BANNED IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!
"New studies show that 100% of all smokers die."
April 1st is the start of the new fiscal year for the Government of Canada.
(No, I don't work for them... directly.)
The problem is that whatever the conditions of the deal that they signed with Microsoft will mean the end of them. Embrace, sign, extinguish.
This is just the way that Microsoft operates. Adhearing to open standards means creating a commodity product, and commodity products are nowhere near as profitable as owning a de-facto standard. Also, commodity products create a level playing field, and Microsoft isn't particularly competitive on a level playing field, and they are well aware of this.
Frankly, I'm surprised that they chose to start with an open standard rather than starting with a completely proprietary standard, as they would be able to lock out competitors longer with the latter. Of course, this way they get to leverege the work done by the Kerberos people and are able to feign compliance with a recognized and (heretofore) respected standard.
In fact, I'll bet many of you are grinding your teeth that I keep using the word "meme" so damn much.
I'd imagine anyone who objects to your material loves you for using the word "meme" so much. It makes you sound like a crackpot who lines his hat with tin foil. You should probably use a different term.
"Children: The ultimate scapegoat for any political agenda."
Heh, I guess "Given enough eyeballs, all [lies] are shallow."
I'm not an expert on business computing, but it seems to me that Sun should be reaching the end of its rope within the next couple years. As Linux matures, CIOs will be saying, "Hmmm, I can go with SPARC/Solaris and have a good system, or I can go with Intel(etc.)/Linux and have a system that's _almost_ as reliable, probably faster, and costs 1/5 as much. Hmmm."
Perhaps his new vocation for the next few years should be launching law suits against the individuals and organizations he identifies in the statement he made upon being released from prison.
Well, actually, there are several "Prime Meridians". The usage of the non-Greenwich ones tends to be historical and very localized; however, modern GIS software still has to support the silly things:
Greenwich 0 00' 00"
Bern 7 26' 22.5" E
Bogota 74 04' 51.3" W
Brussels 4 22' 04.71" E
Ferro 17 40' 00" W
Jakarta 106 48' 27.79" E
Lisbon 9 07' 54.862" W
Madrid 3 41' 16.58" W
Paris 2 20' 14.025"E
Rome 12 27' 08.4" E
Stockholm 18 03' 29" E