NOW we get into an arena of virtual ethics. Yes, this guy could comit a crime in-game based on the rules (features?) of the game, but what he did is still ethically wrong.
Now, it is up to the government to decide if an in-game crime is a real crime or not, and THEN they need to decide if the company that built the game can be held responsible for using a rule-system that allowed for the crime to happen. Remember, these are suddenly real-world tax dollars fighting a problem that could be solved through changing the rules of the game. As a taxpayer, I vote for that option.
I knew that equality of the sexes had reached a new level when I saw Collins get interviewed a few months ago and the interviewer asked "What's the significance of having a female pilot for the Return to Flight"?
Collins gave the reporter a half-condesending look and said "There is no significance".
Finally, we have reached a point where no one gives a shit about equality of the sexes questions. I think we can say the women's rights movement has culturally ingrained itself into American Culture, because no one really gives a shit about it anymore.
Not what I was addressing, but a really good point... when I was writing the parent, I kept confusing game players with roch stars in my mind, and they are not the same: One is a consumer and the other a producer of content. I suppose Carmack is not the best example.
I guess the core of my arguement above was that I have a hard time seeing games having the same culture changing impact that rock music did. I think I'll put games on the same playing feild as TV, but not Rock and Roll.
...games don't have that same rebelious feeling about them that rock music has. You can devote your life to rock and roll and there is a glamour to it. The same cannot be said for video games.
John Carmack will never, ever be regaurded the same way that John Lennon is.
Games, while becoming more acceptable socially, are never going to be regaurded as "cool" like rock.
Oh, and not for nothing, you can teach science, but you cannot teach creativity
Agreed- but science is all about cretivity as well. You can teach anyone FACTS of science, but I don't think you can teach them to BE a scientist... in the same way I can hand any person a script and tell them to memorize it, they could read back what I gave them, but they might not bring out the life of the script the way an actor would.
While the country was in love with space movies and sci-fi in the 60's and 70's, public intrest in Appollo dwindled a bit. It was not as exciting as the movies made it out to be. Perhaps a film can be made that will make science seem "exciting" and be a box-office hit, but the principles behind what makes a good movie and what makes good science could not be further apart. This idea has it's heart in the right place, but it's not going anywhere.
I'm not a programmer, and I've never seen the/. backend, but I can't imagine it would be that hard to BUILD a spellchecker in that would highlight words not in a dictionary before articles get posted.
You know, that's what I thought at first, too. But lets remember Discovery is 21 years old now. If you had a 21 year old car, would not not treat it a little more gently than something new? Would you not expect a few maintenence issues?
The real issue here is the amount of time (and money) now being spent on each shuttle mission. Soon the crew will have just enough time in orbit to make sure they can get home, and that'll be about it. SOMEONE REPLACE THE DAMN THING ALREADY!!!!
And let me take Atlantis home. It'd look awesome on the roof of my apartment building.
If you are spreading information on a product, even just reviewing it, it's promoting that product. you are making someone think about it and be aware of it. Isn't that the nature of advertising in the first place?
It's a review. Arguably, any review is an advertisment. I like seeing in-depth game reviews on Slashdot, but keep them off the main page. That's what subsections are for.
I can't beging to tell you how many times I've been sent an email by my boss, and then 30 seconds later they are in my face asking why I have not read it yet.
At least in a work enviroment "when I get to read it" doesn't work. It has to be read as soon as it's recived, or else I look like a dumb ass.
I'm a depressed person. While I've not been officially diagnosed, I think the recent suicide attempts have proven that.
Now, I don't fucking want help. I rather like being this far below the average person. It's easier down here. No one understands that, and I'm expected to "get better" so that my friends and family will "feel better" about me.
Songs on the radio become hits simply because we hear them over and over. We might not even like them at first.
What effect does hearing these same songs over and over while we play make us actually like the music. I mean, if you DIDN'T play the game, but got the soundtrack, would you find it as enjoyable?
True, my experiences with home schooling were a little weird, and does contribute to me strong feelings against it. At the same time, I have this exchange very frequently:
Me: I was homeschooled
Them: Ah, that explains a lot.
Having limited access to peers in a social setting at a early age makes it damn hard to adjust later on. When I did start going to public school, it was about five years before I started to "get the hang of it", and even now I can tell I don't understand social situations correctly. The ironic thing is I'm an incredibly social person.
My real problem with Home schooling is you are limiting the scope of how a child is going to see the world. Their primary source of information is their parents. It makes it hard to have to adjust to another person's viewpoint to learn anything from them.
Dude, speaking from experience as a home schooling survivor, just send your kids to public school. I'm forever fucked socially and educationally for that bullshit. Unless you yourself hold a degree in education and are giving your children daily interaction with other kids, you are setting them up for a lifetime of hell.
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NOW we get into an arena of virtual ethics. Yes, this guy could comit a crime in-game based on the rules (features?) of the game, but what he did is still ethically wrong.
Now, it is up to the government to decide if an in-game crime is a real crime or not, and THEN they need to decide if the company that built the game can be held responsible for using a rule-system that allowed for the crime to happen. Remember, these are suddenly real-world tax dollars fighting a problem that could be solved through changing the rules of the game. As a taxpayer, I vote for that option.
I knew that equality of the sexes had reached a new level when I saw Collins get interviewed a few months ago and the interviewer asked "What's the significance of having a female pilot for the Return to Flight"?
Collins gave the reporter a half-condesending look and said "There is no significance".
Finally, we have reached a point where no one gives a shit about equality of the sexes questions. I think we can say the women's rights movement has culturally ingrained itself into American Culture, because no one really gives a shit about it anymore.
Not what I was addressing, but a really good point... when I was writing the parent, I kept confusing game players with roch stars in my mind, and they are not the same: One is a consumer and the other a producer of content. I suppose Carmack is not the best example.
I guess the core of my arguement above was that I have a hard time seeing games having the same culture changing impact that rock music did. I think I'll put games on the same playing feild as TV, but not Rock and Roll.
...games don't have that same rebelious feeling about them that rock music has. You can devote your life to rock and roll and there is a glamour to it. The same cannot be said for video games.
John Carmack will never, ever be regaurded the same way that John Lennon is.
Games, while becoming more acceptable socially, are never going to be regaurded as "cool" like rock.
Oh, and not for nothing, you can teach science, but you cannot teach creativity
Agreed- but science is all about cretivity as well. You can teach anyone FACTS of science, but I don't think you can teach them to BE a scientist... in the same way I can hand any person a script and tell them to memorize it, they could read back what I gave them, but they might not bring out the life of the script the way an actor would.
While the country was in love with space movies and sci-fi in the 60's and 70's, public intrest in Appollo dwindled a bit. It was not as exciting as the movies made it out to be. Perhaps a film can be made that will make science seem "exciting" and be a box-office hit, but the principles behind what makes a good movie and what makes good science could not be further apart. This idea has it's heart in the right place, but it's not going anywhere.
...at least they picked the appropriate month to release this...
I'm going to pseudo-mod everyone -1, Troll!
Apparently the people that DO have mod points have chosen to mod us down. great.
I'm glad someone else noticed... I remember very clearly having some mod points one day that disappeared.
Any momentum your cause was going to have was hit a brick wall with the line "first thing after school today".
Man, I wish I was 17 again. I could do anything when I was 17.
Good answer. Thinking down the road, imagine this:
People start using their upstream bandwidth a lot more than ISPs intend, and they start charging more because of it.
Could it happen?
I'm not a programmer, and I've never seen the /. backend, but I can't imagine it would be that hard to BUILD a spellchecker in that would highlight words not in a dictionary before articles get posted.
Common Taco, I'm giving these ideas away.
Comon, guys! that one was approaching 150 words or so.
You know, that's what I thought at first, too. But lets remember Discovery is 21 years old now. If you had a 21 year old car, would not not treat it a little more gently than something new? Would you not expect a few maintenence issues?
The real issue here is the amount of time (and money) now being spent on each shuttle mission. Soon the crew will have just enough time in orbit to make sure they can get home, and that'll be about it. SOMEONE REPLACE THE DAMN THING ALREADY!!!!
And let me take Atlantis home. It'd look awesome on the roof of my apartment building.
...I bet fewer services will mean less servicing, no?
"There is no such thing as bad press."
I think there is a threshhold of common-knowledge here, where this is a new product and Windows is not.
If you are spreading information on a product, even just reviewing it, it's promoting that product. you are making someone think about it and be aware of it. Isn't that the nature of advertising in the first place?
It's a review. Arguably, any review is an advertisment. I like seeing in-depth game reviews on Slashdot, but keep them off the main page. That's what subsections are for.
I can't beging to tell you how many times I've been sent an email by my boss, and then 30 seconds later they are in my face asking why I have not read it yet.
At least in a work enviroment "when I get to read it" doesn't work. It has to be read as soon as it's recived, or else I look like a dumb ass.
Not with Moderate SafeSearch on...
Damnit, Larry Page! Stop with the Gurilla Marketing!
I kinda agree with you here.
I'm a depressed person. While I've not been officially diagnosed, I think the recent suicide attempts have proven that.
Now, I don't fucking want help. I rather like being this far below the average person. It's easier down here. No one understands that, and I'm expected to "get better" so that my friends and family will "feel better" about me.
Why does depression have to be cured?
Songs on the radio become hits simply because we hear them over and over. We might not even like them at first.
What effect does hearing these same songs over and over while we play make us actually like the music. I mean, if you DIDN'T play the game, but got the soundtrack, would you find it as enjoyable?
True, my experiences with home schooling were a little weird, and does contribute to me strong feelings against it. At the same time, I have this exchange very frequently:
Me: I was homeschooled
Them: Ah, that explains a lot.
Having limited access to peers in a social setting at a early age makes it damn hard to adjust later on. When I did start going to public school, it was about five years before I started to "get the hang of it", and even now I can tell I don't understand social situations correctly. The ironic thing is I'm an incredibly social person.
My real problem with Home schooling is you are limiting the scope of how a child is going to see the world. Their primary source of information is their parents. It makes it hard to have to adjust to another person's viewpoint to learn anything from them.
Dude, speaking from experience as a home schooling survivor, just send your kids to public school. I'm forever fucked socially and educationally for that bullshit. Unless you yourself hold a degree in education and are giving your children daily interaction with other kids, you are setting them up for a lifetime of hell.
Can you tell I'm a little bitter?