"It is absolutely beyond any doubt that such killer games desensitise unstable characters and can have a stimulating effect," Mr Beckstein said on Monday.
Although true, I don't see how banning a game is going to prevent future violence. You can't apply that "logic" to other areas:
1) Pretty females can have a stimulating effect on sex offenders (known and unknown), so will you ban women from walking in public?
2) Good tasting food can have a stimulating effect on people with eating disorders, so will you ban good tasting food?
How about doing something constructive and helping people recognize problems in their kids, providing free help to families with issues, and promiting good family relationships, instead?:P Your counter-logic fails because it ignores "desensitise unstable characters".
I mean one of those pompous idiots who thinks no one in the Windows world can program, Ohh, absolutely not - too bad that those who can programm only bother with malware.
Dr. William Gray, hurricane researcher out of Colorado State University, has suggested that his funding may have been cut due to his unwillingness to accept the common view of anthropogenic global warming, which he calls "grossly exaggerated." He suggests in the same interview that many of his colleagues who have been around for a long time have similar feelings and experiences.
Just another contrarian viewpoint because he's too stuck to see it? Or someone whose experience provides the nuances required to see that global warming is a house of cards? Dr. William Gray is a 75 year old retired professor who wants public funding for waiting a couple of years to see if Global Warming turns out to be a dud like he says it will. And you are surprized he doesn't get the money?
BTW, his predictions on the 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season quoted in your article were wrong.
Ok, so maybe Eli Whitney's case isn't the best to use to support my case; however, my example is that particular device - or something similar - would be invented anyway even without patents. Indeed, your example proves my point there; the cotton gin was invented without the benefit of a good patent system!
I think as long as people have enough resources and free time, innovation will occur just because some people like to innovate.
Or things get stuck at a low level, because an improvement doesn't mean any more money for those who could develop something new. Or the new development is kept a secret, using violence to keep it that way.
Or worth yet, PAY for the bandwidth. Or move to the US - which you can't 'cause you're an Linux Communist. But as long as you've got a Granny to complain how Vista is making it easier for Script-Kiddies to produce even more evil, free Windows downloads...
And who is the devil I know? Some scriptkiddie who cracked Vista and is making fun with his malware infested crack? Nope, Microsoft. As opposed to some scriptkiddie who cracked Linux and is making fun with his malware infested crack. Of course people who believe that the sole existence of the OSS community makes sure they won't ever get hit by malware never would download from a site without checking that their DNS server wasn't spoofed. And only download the source, check it thoroughly and then compile it - hey, you already can't trust Suse anymore.
So Linux is safer because when you get a "free" Vista CD you KNOW it isn't legit, while the "free and open Linux distro" CD you get may or may not be a trap? I'm all for bashing Microsoft, but that line of "reasoning" isn't.
Well, it sure seems to be necessary for playing certain types of movie files. Perhaps our friends at Apple should separate the movie playing part out, so those of us who don't care about playing interactive QuickTime files can avoid security holes like this one. Why exactly should Apple do that? Any decent programmer could write one themself. But obviously there aren't any in the Windows camp.
No, QuickTime doesn't need to "allow interactive behavior". It just needs to play video. If I want interactive behavior, I'll use Flash or Java. Another fool who never understood what Quicktime is. For the n-th time: Quicktime is not a movie player.
i'm sorry but I don't remember mentioning that the Ipod is doomed I believe I was just being more realistic in pointing out that Microsoft has released a quality product that relatively stacks up quite well against the Ipod, in QUALITY AND SALES. Just as this article is saying. However, predictably the trendy Ipod has a large following with many of its followers/sheep/hipster wannabe users instantly bashing Microsoft for attempting to provide some competition/innovative features against the Ipod and even attempting to challenge a device you have already voted for with your wallet. HOW DARE MICROSOFT? And bravo to you for coming to the rescue of the Ipod so eagerly. As if you needed something more than the informed masses and every second person on the subway wearing white headphones to justify your undying, unconditional love for it. Keep on keepin' on sharpshooter.And I'm sorry to tell you that you are wrong on several accounts. The quality of the Zune is up to debates, the sales are slow. This article doesn't even mention quality, and the only thing it says about marketshare is that one market research firm says it "took second place in the portable digital player market in its first four days of sales [...] with 9 percent of the market behind the iPods". Last time I checked the iPods had around 75% market share. Even if it had dropped to 50% (given that Sandisk's hasn't changed much that's bloody unlikely), it would still outsell the brand-new Zune 5 times over. You wanne-be-hipsters buying brown Zunes or the new "you're not cool if you still buy an iPod"-Sandisk simply don't get it, nobody wants to be told by you what is the new cool.
Was anyone with a brain actually listening to all these Ipod fanboys? I don't think I was the only one who realized all the Ipod fanboys rejoicing over the Amazon sales records meant nothing. Call it what you want but Zune only HAS one player. AND are brand new to the DAP market.
Well, MSfandoofus, as far as Amazon goes, the Zune has three players - each color counts as one. And that's what all the other MSfandoofuses point out - not that either helps your theory that the iPod is doooomed.
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I could actually imagine that happening here... in Germany.
"Oh, hübsches Oberteil! Was heißt das was da drauf steht?" O_o
Translated to German it means Porno Star. Yeah, that would be hard to figure.1) Pretty females can have a stimulating effect on sex offenders (known and unknown), so will you ban women from walking in public?
2) Good tasting food can have a stimulating effect on people with eating disorders, so will you ban good tasting food?
How about doing something constructive and helping people recognize problems in their kids, providing free help to families with issues, and promiting good family relationships, instead?
Wanna bet he meant the Philippines (or Vietnam, where Typhoon Durian is hitting now)?
is buying into a rumour that's going even farther than the long-time rumour-mill favourite iPhone - which has yet to show up.
No sir, I DON'T LIKE IT! Actually, yes it can - but the wiping isn't wireless.
That's funny coming from somebody who doesn't know what Quicktime is.
NOAA are also GW "sceptics".
Who else claims to be the expert on Hurricans and made prededictions?
http://www.discover.com/issues/sep-05/departments
Just another contrarian viewpoint because he's too stuck to see it? Or someone whose experience provides the nuances required to see that global warming is a house of cards? Dr. William Gray is a 75 year old retired professor who wants public funding for waiting a couple of years to see if Global Warming turns out to be a dud like he says it will. And you are surprized he doesn't get the money?
BTW, his predictions on the 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season quoted in your article were wrong.
Ok, so maybe Eli Whitney's case isn't the best to use to support my case; however, my example is that particular device - or something similar - would be invented anyway even without patents. Indeed, your example proves my point there; the cotton gin was invented without the benefit of a good patent system!
I think as long as people have enough resources and free time, innovation will occur just because some people like to innovate.
Or things get stuck at a low level, because an improvement doesn't mean any more money for those who could develop something new. Or the new development is kept a secret, using violence to keep it that way.Or worth yet, PAY for the bandwidth. Or move to the US - which you can't 'cause you're an Linux Communist. But as long as you've got a Granny to complain how Vista is making it easier for Script-Kiddies to produce even more evil, free Windows downloads...
One of those? Ohh, you mean not one of those Windows Weenies who can't program?
Step 4: Download from the Google-bombed site with the spyware-ridden version of the distro.
I didn't know Linus has his own distro.
So Linux forces me to have high-bandwidth internet access.
How do you know you which free Linux-ISOs you can trust? Better the devil you know.
So Linux is safer because when you get a "free" Vista CD you KNOW it isn't legit, while the "free and open Linux distro" CD you get may or may not be a trap? I'm all for bashing Microsoft, but that line of "reasoning" isn't.
i'm sorry but I don't remember mentioning that the Ipod is doomed I believe I was just being more realistic in pointing out that Microsoft has released a quality product that relatively stacks up quite well against the Ipod, in QUALITY AND SALES. Just as this article is saying. However, predictably the trendy Ipod has a large following with many of its followers/sheep/hipster wannabe users instantly bashing Microsoft for attempting to provide some competition/innovative features against the Ipod and even attempting to challenge a device you have already voted for with your wallet. HOW DARE MICROSOFT? And bravo to you for coming to the rescue of the Ipod so eagerly. As if you needed something more than the informed masses and every second person on the subway wearing white headphones to justify your undying, unconditional love for it. Keep on keepin' on sharpshooter.And I'm sorry to tell you that you are wrong on several accounts. The quality of the Zune is up to debates, the sales are slow. This article doesn't even mention quality, and the only thing it says about marketshare is that one market research firm says it "took second place in the portable digital player market in its first four days of sales [...] with 9 percent of the market behind the iPods". Last time I checked the iPods had around 75% market share. Even if it had dropped to 50% (given that Sandisk's hasn't changed much that's bloody unlikely), it would still outsell the brand-new Zune 5 times over. You wanne-be-hipsters buying brown Zunes or the new "you're not cool if you still buy an iPod"-Sandisk simply don't get it, nobody wants to be told by you what is the new cool.