The S95 is superior in some ways to the S100 and is a lot cheaper right now due to being discounted. Worth buying on a price/performance standpoint IMHO. Goes down to f/2.0 which is unusual for a compact and performs relatively well in low light. Plus you will always have it with you due to its small size, so you're more likely to be able to "capture the moment" when you need it.
The study did NOT find that gaming changes your brain. Slashdot editors - please RTFA when you get sent a submission!
It found a correlation between certain brain physiology and gaming but they state fairly carefully: "Whether the volumetric differences in ventral striatum between frequent and moderate video game players are preconditions that lead to a vulnerability for preoccupation with gaming or whether they are a consequence of long-lasting activation during gaming can not be determined with a cross-sectional study."
They're not claiming causality here. They're claiming a correlation in their findings. Not ruling it out, but they're definitely not saying they found one causes the other. So the headline is completely wrong.
Yeah I thought this too. Slashdot editors are absolutely appalling. Whether it is confusing "then" and "than" (how???) or misspelling normal everyday words, their illiteracy only detracts from the stories they put out.
Are you American? You guys just got rid of the King. We not only got rid of the King, we chopped his head off!
OK so we got another King a bit after that and it kind of went back to where it had been...
On a more serious note, there is specific human rights legislation to protect the public from government but, believe it or not, conservatives hate it.
I thought I was doing OK on 15Mbps...actually I am doing OK on that. You've just got an exceptionally fast ADSL link. With none of the drawbacks of using Virgin's shitty services.
When RMS came to talk in Oxford way way back he was staying in the house of one of the OxLUG people. I remember him giving me advice on how to avoid my housemates' very loud party by hiding in a library. Obviously he was his own unique character, and I've never met anyone quite like him, but the world needs people like him as much as other kinds of people.
Who taught them Perl? Where did they learn to call subroutines with an ampersand? A Perl 4 manual?
OK they're novices but even I didn't write loops using C-style loops as a novice Perl coder because I was reading that it was more readable to do for($a..$b) instead.
OK that's an interesting point. Why do you think that? I mean, if you should do something that a law compelling you to do it could, surely, not be much harm, right?
There are obvious counterpoints such as if someone falls off their bicycle in front of you you should stop to check they are OK, but a law compelling you to do so would be silly. I am not sure this is quite the same as that though.
BTW thank you for a reasoned reply that isn't full of ad hominem crap like some of the posters on here.
Oh, and how do you know this? Hung out with enough pedos? You know, it's incredibly rare - if you meet any/many you may be attracting them by your behavior.
It was covered as part of a sports coaching course.The course was mainly health and safety. Part of health and safety obviously covered coaching children, and it was part of the taught material we were given. Not pornography, obviously, but general paeodphilic behaviour.
Idiot. Kids were being abused a long time before there were suggestive photos of them. Breaking the cycle doesn't involve cameras, it's far deeper with basic attitudes toward children as property.
It must be tough being quite as rude and dismissive as you are, because you'll never learn anything by yourself, and no one will want to teach you anything.
I claimed that removing child porn from the hands of paedos was important to breaking the cycle of low self-esteem. You claim it isn't important(?) - or..well I'm not sure. You don't seem to be claiming much by way of counterpoint. Perhaps you just wanted to argue a bit more? In which case, that's fine by me, argue away, but please don't expect a response.:)
Thing is, allowing paedos to watch their sicko porn only makes their "condition" worse. It's a known vicious circle as their low self-esteem only makes them watch more of it. Also, Penn and Teller were not talking about child porn consumption so it is a slightly different thing!
The point isn't to prevent kids being abused by having the paedos watch porn. The point is to sort the paedos out so they aren't fantasising about kids. Breaking the cycle involves removing the porn.
Punish the producers yes, and sort out the people watching it too.
Ignoring the specific question of whether the person in the story is guilty...
How can you morally have a problem with the law asking you to report kiddie porn on someone's computer? When you see someone committing a crime like this, what *should* you do? It's not like seeing your friend going 5mph over the speed limit.
You shouldn't say "this person I found with kiddie porn has not abused any kids that I know of so hey their kiddie porn is probably not worth the attention of authorities" because you have no idea when they might act out their fantasies for real. You have no idea if they have already done so as you're not clairvoyant.
We're not discussing whether a 15-year old videoing herself on her phone and texting her boyfriend is kiddie porn, or whether some guy cracking one off over a downloaded picture is direct abuse of that kid. Those are separate issues.
Google+ is coming to Google Apps. That is absolutely going to happen. I have this from a friend working at Google. There are very large Apps customers who they want to keep pleased.
Google+ is next for the chop because the company just don't care about it enough, in my view. Not enough momentum to make it work, Facebook is just too big now and it is not going to succeed, I don't think.
What do you mean "again"? You remember who I am? If so, you must have no life.
I suppose a DBA going into space is cool. The point still stands that it is a very effective tactic. When will we see another company do a similar thing?
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The S95 is superior in some ways to the S100 and is a lot cheaper right now due to being discounted. Worth buying on a price/performance standpoint IMHO.
Goes down to f/2.0 which is unusual for a compact and performs relatively well in low light.
Plus you will always have it with you due to its small size, so you're more likely to be able to "capture the moment" when you need it.
That's a separate issue. The TV licence is still not a tax, even if you don't agree with the principle.
Because it's not a tax. It's a licence. Would you consider a gun licence a "gun tax"?
Or just not from the US. They don't ship outside the US, remember. Oh and Puerto Rico.
Good spot! Although I think you could get a second external floppy drive for them couldn't you?
Then again he probably was just getting confused about which computer he had.
The study did NOT find that gaming changes your brain.
Slashdot editors - please RTFA when you get sent a submission!
It found a correlation between certain brain physiology and gaming but they state fairly carefully:
"Whether the volumetric differences in ventral striatum between frequent and moderate video game players are preconditions that lead to a vulnerability for preoccupation with gaming or whether they are a consequence of long-lasting activation during gaming can not be determined with a cross-sectional study."
They're not claiming causality here. They're claiming a correlation in their findings. Not ruling it out, but they're definitely not saying they found one causes the other. So the headline is completely wrong.
Yeah I thought this too. Slashdot editors are absolutely appalling. Whether it is confusing "then" and "than" (how???) or misspelling normal everyday words, their illiteracy only detracts from the stories they put out.
Are you American? You guys just got rid of the King. We not only got rid of the King, we chopped his head off!
OK so we got another King a bit after that and it kind of went back to where it had been...
On a more serious note, there is specific human rights legislation to protect the public from government but, believe it or not, conservatives hate it.
I thought I was doing OK on 15Mbps...actually I am doing OK on that. You've just got an exceptionally fast ADSL link. With none of the drawbacks of using Virgin's shitty services.
Have you found you actually connect at 24Mbps?
Apparently you're allowed to choose any username you like on here. It doesn't even have to be your real name.
Due process is a term used in more countries than just the US.
When RMS came to talk in Oxford way way back he was staying in the house of one of the OxLUG people. I remember him giving me advice on how to avoid my housemates' very loud party by hiding in a library.
Obviously he was his own unique character, and I've never met anyone quite like him, but the world needs people like him as much as other kinds of people.
Who taught them Perl? Where did they learn to call subroutines with an ampersand? A Perl 4 manual?
OK they're novices but even I didn't write loops using C-style loops as a novice Perl coder because I was reading that it was more readable to do for($a..$b) instead.
That's a fair point. Something to think about.
OK that's an interesting point. Why do you think that? I mean, if you should do something that a law compelling you to do it could, surely, not be much harm, right?
There are obvious counterpoints such as if someone falls off their bicycle in front of you you should stop to check they are OK, but a law compelling you to do so would be silly. I am not sure this is quite the same as that though.
BTW thank you for a reasoned reply that isn't full of ad hominem crap like some of the posters on here.
Oh, and how do you know this? Hung out with enough pedos? You know, it's incredibly rare - if you meet any/many you may be attracting them by your behavior.
It was covered as part of a sports coaching course.The course was mainly health and safety. Part of health and safety obviously covered coaching children, and it was part of the taught material we were given. Not pornography, obviously, but general paeodphilic behaviour.
Idiot. Kids were being abused a long time before there were suggestive photos of them. Breaking the cycle doesn't involve cameras, it's far deeper with basic attitudes toward children as property.
It must be tough being quite as rude and dismissive as you are, because you'll never learn anything by yourself, and no one will want to teach you anything.
I claimed that removing child porn from the hands of paedos was important to breaking the cycle of low self-esteem. You claim it isn't important(?) - or..well I'm not sure. You don't seem to be claiming much by way of counterpoint. Perhaps you just wanted to argue a bit more? In which case, that's fine by me, argue away, but please don't expect a response. :)
Thing is, allowing paedos to watch their sicko porn only makes their "condition" worse. It's a known vicious circle as their low self-esteem only makes them watch more of it. Also, Penn and Teller were not talking about child porn consumption so it is a slightly different thing!
The point isn't to prevent kids being abused by having the paedos watch porn. The point is to sort the paedos out so they aren't fantasising about kids. Breaking the cycle involves removing the porn.
Punish the producers yes, and sort out the people watching it too.
Ignoring the specific question of whether the person in the story is guilty...
How can you morally have a problem with the law asking you to report kiddie porn on someone's computer? When you see someone committing a crime like this, what *should* you do? It's not like seeing your friend going 5mph over the speed limit.
You shouldn't say "this person I found with kiddie porn has not abused any kids that I know of so hey their kiddie porn is probably not worth the attention of authorities" because you have no idea when they might act out their fantasies for real. You have no idea if they have already done so as you're not clairvoyant.
We're not discussing whether a 15-year old videoing herself on her phone and texting her boyfriend is kiddie porn, or whether some guy cracking one off over a downloaded picture is direct abuse of that kid. Those are separate issues.
Google+ is coming to Google Apps. That is absolutely going to happen. I have this from a friend working at Google. There are very large Apps customers who they want to keep pleased.
Forget that. I just spotted it. You know what I mean. :)
Where did I say "I don't think it is not going to succeed"?
Google+ is next for the chop because the company just don't care about it enough, in my view. Not enough momentum to make it work, Facebook is just too big now and it is not going to succeed, I don't think.
No one disputes it is a good place to work! Some of us would love to work in a place like that!
What do you mean "again"? You remember who I am? If so, you must have no life.
I suppose a DBA going into space is cool. The point still stands that it is a very effective tactic. When will we see another company do a similar thing?
Those canny fuckers.