heh, don't take *issue* with my belief:) you can disagree, but remember, this is just a forum.
My point is only that creating an experiment in the more traditional scientific sense is really difficult because whether a person is acting violently or not is really just a matter of opinion. Popping a balloon in my opinion is not violent, it is just something that that particular kid probably enjoyed. Even if exposure to excessive amounts of violent media leads to violent behavior, it would be very difficult to eliminate all other environmental factors to deduce that the violent media is the root of the violent behavior. It seems like you are suggesting a statistical analysis which is different from a scientific experiment. You are right though, that statistical analysis does not show any relation between violent media and youth violence. What I was meaning to say before (albeit, poorly) was that measuring a person's "violent tendencies" as part of a scientific experiment is nearly impossible for a few big reasons.
1. There is no fine line between violent and non-violent. For instance, I would consider a threat a form of violence, although no real violent actions have been done. Some would likely disagree. 2. Because of the nature of the problem, this is not something that could be tested in a controlled environment, therefore it would be very difficult to eliminate all other environmental factors to within a degree of reasonable accuracy.
Thinking as a scientist, testing a drug, for instance, is a much easier topic because the testing can be done on animals, and then later on humans. With drugs, most of the time, a particular result is being sought... Does my migraine go away, can I achieve a longer more fulfilling erection, etc. based on the increase of a certain set of chemicals. With the case of violent media leading to violent behavior, you are asking to test whether any one of an infinite number of possible images/impressions would lead to any one of an infinite number of possible behaviors.
I did find it hard to believe, so I did a little searching... Wouldn't you know it, the Surgeon General did a study: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolenc e/youvioreport.htm
But, what does he know, so I figured the Washington State Dep't of Health may know better:
http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/Videoresearch.doc
Again, they're probably just wrong, so I checked the Journal of American Medicine, and wouldn't you know it... A researcher from John Hopkins University had this to say:
Consensus is lacking on whether video games with violent content fuel aggressive behavior in children and adolescents... If video games do increase violent tendencies outside the laboratory, the explosion of gaming over the past decade-from $3.2 billion in sales in 1995 to $7 billion in 2003, according to industry figures-would suggest a parallel trend in youth violence. Instead, youth violence has been decreasing.
I'm admittedly being a dick, but one thing people need to realize is that violence and violent behavior can't be easily measured. The statistical analysis of youth violence doesn't show any correlation with video games and suggests that attacking violent video games will likely yield little/no results in slowing down youth violent behavior.
A study such as what you mention is much harder to pull off than you realize. How exactly are a person's "violent tendencies" measured? I wrote a paper on this very topic (the affect of violent video games on adolescents) in undergrad and one study I read equated a small child popping balloons to "violent behavior" or one child recognizing "violent words." The problem is that violence isn't an easily definable behavior. There have been a number of court cases where cities/states have tried to ban violent video games, but each has been thrown out because it is unprovable that video game violence leads to real violence. Now, if only I could find my paper to point to some links.
This is the only one that comes to mind quickly, but many may argue that a trade organization representing video game mfgrs is biased. But, some facts are impossible to ignore.
Adolescent violence is a problem primarily in the US despite other countries having a equivalent number of video game playing adolescents
In the last 20 years (actually since 1983) youth violence has been significantly decreasing, while video game sales has become a 7 billion dollar a year business. The decrease in adolescent violence is theorized to be due to increased youth programs and decreased gang-related activity and membership.
I worked for a couple of years at a small university and being new to teaching, but somewhat of a versed IT pro, I decided to be very idealistic about picking textbooks. I think it is *very* important to read what you are choosing to teach from before you decide. Don't just assume that the book from the last time the course was taught will be *good enough*!!
That being said, there is another important factor when choosing books. Make sure there are adequate exercises/test questions to go along with a book. I decided to teach a course on a programming language not necessarily popular with most academics (Perl), and I evaluated the few textbooks available. I felt that none were adequate and decided to teach out of one of my favorite books. It was the worst teaching experience I had. It is nearly impossible to create unambiguous questions for tests and creating exercises that are challenging while still short enough to be small assignments is another task I was not prepared to handle. Students need to learn one concept at a time and they need to do a few exercises to get the hang of each new concept. If you throw all the information at them and expect them to accomplish one large task, then many otherwise bright students will be overwhelmed and will not perform as well as they would like. Then, when the time comes, they will let you know using the all-powerful course evaluation that they were not happy with the course. Many people (especially students) do not realize how much goes into creating a textbook. If it were really a great scam to take money from students, then textbook authors and publishers would be huge, rich companies. Quite a bit of time is spent on the exercises and teaching resources involved in the book. In my estimation, I would say that more time is spent in the external content than is spent on what the student receives.
I did read the article, and I don't get your implication one bit. The implication I got was simple, there is a need for a set of server APIs and a set of desktop APIs. Although I don't necessarily agree for a few reasons: 1. the current purpose of a significant number of linux desktops is to develop/deploy software that will most likely be hosted on a server system. 2. if the group working on the standard has reached this far out, they are stepping outside of a useful scope... They seem to be creating a distro rather than defining the standard set of APIs for all distros.
To get back to the point at hand, I was simply pointing out that the grandparent (was it you?) indicated that the creation of more standards was ridiculous because having a desktop standard and a server standard is all that is needed. I pointed out that this was what the article suggested. The section you quote is pretty clear, "while assembling another set of modules..." How you came up with [paraphrased] mixing/matching modules from each will allow you to claim LSB compliance [/paraphrased] is baffling.
So go ahead and pick another random sentence from the article then come up with some BS inference and hopefully with enough bolding and capitalization you can once again imagine you made an intelligent observation.
RTFA, what you suggest is exactly what they are proposing:
As such, there will be different modules, and assembling a set of modules will give you the LSB server standard, while assembling another set of modules will give you the LSB desktop standard going forward
In XP fixing the damaged TCP/IP stack is even worse because it cannot be uninstalled from the OS so that a clean version can be installed. Sometimes forcing a windows reinstall! It doesn't matter how good the kernel is when the OS has so many other holes.
This is a common misconception, there is a very easy way:
Because intellignece is not the key attibute required for wealth -- I believe the dominant attribute is a lack of morals.
Looking through the list of America's wealthiest people (see how many Waltons you can find), it seems the crotch you were pulled out of is another equal factor.
I wasn't really good at making my point above, but what I was trying to say is that anything involving a car is a giant, maggot-infested, steaming rip-off.
I mean, the result of years of payments ends up being basically no equity anyways,
According to the car dealer.
I'm not sure what you mean here... Whether I traded my last two cars (and soon the one I have now) in or sold them to someone myself, I would not have received near the money I put into them. Having a car is a losing game for most of us, so what I've decided to do is spend the rest of my life spending as little as possible on a vehicle that I can get the most miles from. I've resigned the fact that I'm gonna get the shaft and have decided to make sure my resources are spent on items that have a chance of turning into more money or personal fulfillment (home improvements, education for myself and kids, building a nest-egg of stock and/or real estate investments, etc.).
I think people are misreading what I meant. You and I are very similar. I've been buying used cars all along, my last car was the first car I ever financed and I drove it into the ground. Originally fincanced a '97 in November of '99 that still had some factory waranty and only 28,000 miles on it. I was looking at the odometer today and I have 152,000 miles. What's really sad is that I feel like Al Bundy in the episode where he pushes his car into the garage and thinks out loud: "Two more payments and you're all mine"
The point I was trying to get across is that there is no good way to get a car. Leasing or buying, used or new. Even if you think you got a good deal, you get screwed on insurance and gas. Or, someone without insurance will plow into your car while your parked! Saying that you get scewed in a lease to me just doesn't seem right. I would feel more comfortable saying that maybe you get screwed the most with a lease, but no matter what you do, if you want to drive from point A to point B in a car, you might as well accept that you've been screwed by someone... C'est la vie.
Not to defend car leasing, because I've never leased a car, but buying a car is about the worst investment a person can make.
I've owned three different cars in my adult life and in the case of the first two, I never had to make payments (but insurance when you are an independent male less than 25 years old is highway robbery). In each case though, on the trade-in I was only able to get 500$.
I'll admit I beat up my cars, I take good care of them mechanically (frequent oil changes, all scheduled maintenance, etc.), but every car I've owned has achieved over 150,000 miles. Therefore, by the time I'm done with 'em, they are worthless anyways. So, leasing doesn't sound too bad... I mean, the result of years of payments ends up being basically no equity anyways, so why not pay less and get something nicer. (now, if I could only figure out how to keep under 12,000 miles a year and I'd lease)
What's really funny to me is that M$ on one hand is spending so much time to bash free/open software, yet, on the other, they are going to now say that hardware will be free in the future. To me, this just seems like another stab in the dark for Sun to find a niche.
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damn... I meant:
Here you go:
bash$ gcc -o test main.c
bash$
Here you go: bash$ gcc -o test main.c bash$ As you can see, the new version of GCC clearly has some hurdles to jump before being production ready.
heh, don't take *issue* with my belief :) you can disagree, but remember, this is just a forum.
My point is only that creating an experiment in the more traditional scientific sense is really difficult because whether a person is acting violently or not is really just a matter of opinion. Popping a balloon in my opinion is not violent, it is just something that that particular kid probably enjoyed. Even if exposure to excessive amounts of violent media leads to violent behavior, it would be very difficult to eliminate all other environmental factors to deduce that the violent media is the root of the violent behavior. It seems like you are suggesting a statistical analysis which is different from a scientific experiment. You are right though, that statistical analysis does not show any relation between violent media and youth violence. What I was meaning to say before (albeit, poorly) was that measuring a person's "violent tendencies" as part of a scientific experiment is nearly impossible for a few big reasons.
1. There is no fine line between violent and non-violent. For instance, I would consider a threat a form of violence, although no real violent actions have been done. Some would likely disagree.
2. Because of the nature of the problem, this is not something that could be tested in a controlled environment, therefore it would be very difficult to eliminate all other environmental factors to within a degree of reasonable accuracy.
Thinking as a scientist, testing a drug, for instance, is a much easier topic because the testing can be done on animals, and then later on humans. With drugs, most of the time, a particular result is being sought... Does my migraine go away, can I achieve a longer more fulfilling erection, etc. based on the increase of a certain set of chemicals. With the case of violent media leading to violent behavior, you are asking to test whether any one of an infinite number of possible images/impressions would lead to any one of an infinite number of possible behaviors.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolen
But, what does he know, so I figured the Washington State Dep't of Health may know better: http://www.doh.wa.gov/cfh/Videoresearch.doc
Again, they're probably just wrong, so I checked the Journal of American Medicine, and wouldn't you know it... A researcher from John Hopkins University had this to say:
I'm admittedly being a dick, but one thing people need to realize is that violence and violent behavior can't be easily measured. The statistical analysis of youth violence doesn't show any correlation with video games and suggests that attacking violent video games will likely yield little/no results in slowing down youth violent behavior.
This is the only one that comes to mind quickly, but many may argue that a trade organization representing video game mfgrs is biased. But, some facts are impossible to ignore.
there's no denying his place in the anals of British explorers
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I deny that he holds a place in anyone's 'anals'!
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Hey, this is useful to the last three of us that still haven't played it :-)
I worked for a couple of years at a small university and being new to teaching, but somewhat of a versed IT pro, I decided to be very idealistic about picking textbooks. I think it is *very* important to read what you are choosing to teach from before you decide. Don't just assume that the book from the last time the course was taught will be *good enough*!!
That being said, there is another important factor when choosing books. Make sure there are adequate exercises/test questions to go along with a book. I decided to teach a course on a programming language not necessarily popular with most academics (Perl), and I evaluated the few textbooks available. I felt that none were adequate and decided to teach out of one of my favorite books. It was the worst teaching experience I had. It is nearly impossible to create unambiguous questions for tests and creating exercises that are challenging while still short enough to be small assignments is another task I was not prepared to handle. Students need to learn one concept at a time and they need to do a few exercises to get the hang of each new concept. If you throw all the information at them and expect them to accomplish one large task, then many otherwise bright students will be overwhelmed and will not perform as well as they would like. Then, when the time comes, they will let you know using the all-powerful course evaluation that they were not happy with the course. Many people (especially students) do not realize how much goes into creating a textbook. If it were really a great scam to take money from students, then textbook authors and publishers would be huge, rich companies. Quite a bit of time is spent on the exercises and teaching resources involved in the book. In my estimation, I would say that more time is spent in the external content than is spent on what the student receives.
You know you're on /. right? I mean, a dupe article is guaranteed... Just give it a day or two.
You say tomato, I say tomato...
I did read the article, and I don't get your implication one bit. The implication I got was simple, there is a need for a set of server APIs and a set of desktop APIs. Although I don't necessarily agree for a few reasons: 1. the current purpose of a significant number of linux desktops is to develop/deploy software that will most likely be hosted on a server system. 2. if the group working on the standard has reached this far out, they are stepping outside of a useful scope... They seem to be creating a distro rather than defining the standard set of APIs for all distros.
To get back to the point at hand, I was simply pointing out that the grandparent (was it you?) indicated that the creation of more standards was ridiculous because having a desktop standard and a server standard is all that is needed. I pointed out that this was what the article suggested. The section you quote is pretty clear, "while assembling another set of modules..." How you came up with [paraphrased] mixing/matching modules from each will allow you to claim LSB compliance [/paraphrased] is baffling.
So go ahead and pick another random sentence from the article then come up with some BS inference and hopefully with enough bolding and capitalization you can once again imagine you made an intelligent observation.
Unfortunately, Linus was immediately sacked for infringing on my patent: Patent 1,234,567: Speaking against software patents in a public forum.
RTFA, what you suggest is exactly what they are proposing:
As such, there will be different modules, and assembling a set of modules will give you the LSB server standard, while assembling another set of modules will give you the LSB desktop standard going forward
I could be wrong, but IMO, they aren't the same licenses. The GPL and BSD licenses differ quite a bit.
Is it odd or even service packs that usually cause problems?
In XP fixing the damaged TCP/IP stack is even worse because it cannot be uninstalled from the OS so that a clean version can be installed. Sometimes forcing a windows reinstall! It doesn't matter how good the kernel is when the OS has so many other holes.
This is a common misconception, there is a very easy way:
`netsh int ip reset [log_file_name]`
Sorry, misread the title and thought this was about the news that another Final Fantasy movie is being released...
....
/me goes to corner and hangs head in shame chanting RTFA RTFA RTFA rtfa
Am I the only one sort of surprised after the amount of money lost on the other FF movie, that a studio would approve a budget to produce this one?
Because intellignece is not the key attibute required for wealth -- I believe the dominant attribute is a lack of morals.
Looking through the list of America's wealthiest people (see how many Waltons you can find), it seems the crotch you were pulled out of is another equal factor.
I'm not sure what you mean here... Whether I traded my last two cars (and soon the one I have now) in or sold them to someone myself, I would not have received near the money I put into them. Having a car is a losing game for most of us, so what I've decided to do is spend the rest of my life spending as little as possible on a vehicle that I can get the most miles from. I've resigned the fact that I'm gonna get the shaft and have decided to make sure my resources are spent on items that have a chance of turning into more money or personal fulfillment (home improvements, education for myself and kids, building a nest-egg of stock and/or real estate investments, etc.).
I think people are misreading what I meant. You and I are very similar. I've been buying used cars all along, my last car was the first car I ever financed and I drove it into the ground. Originally fincanced a '97 in November of '99 that still had some factory waranty and only 28,000 miles on it. I was looking at the odometer today and I have 152,000 miles. What's really sad is that I feel like Al Bundy in the episode where he pushes his car into the garage and thinks out loud: "Two more payments and you're all mine"
The point I was trying to get across is that there is no good way to get a car. Leasing or buying, used or new. Even if you think you got a good deal, you get screwed on insurance and gas. Or, someone without insurance will plow into your car while your parked! Saying that you get scewed in a lease to me just doesn't seem right. I would feel more comfortable saying that maybe you get screwed the most with a lease, but no matter what you do, if you want to drive from point A to point B in a car, you might as well accept that you've been screwed by someone... C'est la vie.
Not to defend car leasing, because I've never leased a car, but buying a car is about the worst investment a person can make.
I've owned three different cars in my adult life and in the case of the first two, I never had to make payments (but insurance when you are an independent male less than 25 years old is highway robbery). In each case though, on the trade-in I was only able to get 500$.
I'll admit I beat up my cars, I take good care of them mechanically (frequent oil changes, all scheduled maintenance, etc.), but every car I've owned has achieved over 150,000 miles. Therefore, by the time I'm done with 'em, they are worthless anyways. So, leasing doesn't sound too bad... I mean, the result of years of payments ends up being basically no equity anyways, so why not pay less and get something nicer. (now, if I could only figure out how to keep under 12,000 miles a year and I'd lease)
yeah, you're right dude, I mean, ever since I bought my cable converter outright I refuse to pay any monthly fee.... wait... uhmm... nevermind
What's really funny to me is that M$ on one hand is spending so much time to bash free/open software, yet, on the other, they are going to now say that hardware will be free in the future. To me, this just seems like another stab in the dark for Sun to find a niche.
Deja Vu?! That's a glitch in the matrix!
Looks like just one more reason to get top dollar when I auction my account ;)