There actually aren't any studies that positively link videogames to actual violence. Violent feelings, maybe. But none whatsoever that link it to violence, and many that show evidence against violence in light of video game playing, not to mention just looking at the overall violent crime rate juxtaposed with the popularity rise of video games (hint: violence goes down as video game play goes up).
If it were 99%, I'd disagree with you. 1% of people who play video games is a hell of a lot of people going on killing sprees. But we're talking 1/300,000,000 people or so. Maybe one killing spree a year, even fewer that can be 'tied' to video games. Hell, that's just a product of having a ton of people... you get that large of a sample set, an outlier will eventually show up.
OMG! You mean you don't know everything that might possibly appear on a news site? Say it ain't so!
I hear that Google can find all kinds of information on just about anything you might be interested in. Wouldn't that have been quicker than posting a comment?
Microsoft isn't willing to pay his company for the damages their patches cause. Why should he be willing to do the same to other companies?
It comes down from the top. If Microsoft wouldn't build systems out of swiss cheese, there wouldn't be nearly as many recalcitrant patchers.
Sounds like my old boss... we drug him kicking and screaming from Windows NT4 to Windows XP about a year ago. And that was only because we agreed to put progman.exe in his startup folder and did our best to migrate everything and reset everything so it looked as identical to NT4 as we could make it.
The definition of who is a person has changed, not the rights of a person. When the country was founded, slaves were not people, and women were only barely counted as such.
I do agree about the constitutional protections only applying to US Citizens, though. I've never heard of constitutional protections extending elsewhere.
Just because the US is better than the UK and Australia doesn't make it good. Censorship and general "good" are not a zero-sum game, with the current best being as good as it gets.
If you're guaranteeing 5 nines, you'd be stupid to be using a single machine. Update a test environment, verify it works, then take down your cluster a machine at a time updating each one. No downtime if you do it right, that way you can "bank" your downtime to deal with network outages and such that are outside your control.
How specially tuned to the specific hardware was your netbook boot, though? Would it work on every x86 machine with a BIOS? Or were your cut corners including compiling in all the modules to the kernel that your machine would need?
Don't get me wrong, I admire the 5 second boot time. I'd love to have it. But it needs to be a general-purpose speedup for it to work with a major distro.
Yes, let's all move in the same direction on the same projects, thereby destroying that which makes Linux so successful.
Linux works BECAUSE of the fracturing, not in spite of it. Yes, there are downsides to that where applications and such aren't terribly cohesive. But there are upsides, where you get the source to everything and no one can ever take it away from you. You don't get that benefit with your beloved OS X. It may look shinier, but OS X still has a ton of UIinconsistencies. Don't kid yourself... no OS has the consistency thing down, and I'd rather take the more stark inconsistency of Linux for the benefits it provides than pay through the nose for OS X + hardware, then all the little nickel and dime utilities you need for OS X.
Yup, only in America. If you make gun ownership illegal, then only people who break the laws will have guns. Making sure that criminals have the power advantage over most everyone. That's some good thinking there!
Of course, legal guns never stopcrime, right?
Maybe it should be illegal to drop lawsuits by private parties against private parties. Or by companies against private parties. It'd force people to be a hell of a lot more sure about what they were doing, and wouldn't really have an effect on valid lawsuits.
But you're a responsible parent. The problem is that there are tons of irresponsible parents that think that we need Richard Blumenthals to protect their kids, since they're too busy to do so themselves. And especially the new phenomenon of so many kids being raised by their grandparents.
And if we started cutting asinine executive compensation for selling off the company's capital to turn a profit that quarter while driving the company into the ground, you wouldn't even have to take that 10% cut.
How old are they? I've found virtualbox is great, as is wine. I play Starcraft and Diablo II in wine with no issues whatsoever, and most other things run in Virtualbox ok.
Hope they never decide to pull the plug on your DRM'd music you love so much.
DRM is a fancy way of saying "renting". You are at the mercy of the company providing you access, and therefore you don't actually own anything. The music industry feels confident in the DRM because it knows it can turn off your access any time for any reason. If you're comfortable paying for the privilege of being the industry's bitch, good for you. But don't pretend that it's freedom or a good thing in any way.
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There actually aren't any studies that positively link videogames to actual violence. Violent feelings, maybe. But none whatsoever that link it to violence, and many that show evidence against violence in light of video game playing, not to mention just looking at the overall violent crime rate juxtaposed with the popularity rise of video games (hint: violence goes down as video game play goes up).
If it were 99%, I'd disagree with you. 1% of people who play video games is a hell of a lot of people going on killing sprees. But we're talking 1/300,000,000 people or so. Maybe one killing spree a year, even fewer that can be 'tied' to video games. Hell, that's just a product of having a ton of people... you get that large of a sample set, an outlier will eventually show up.
OMG! You mean you don't know everything that might possibly appear on a news site? Say it ain't so!
I hear that Google can find all kinds of information on just about anything you might be interested in. Wouldn't that have been quicker than posting a comment?
Microsoft isn't willing to pay his company for the damages their patches cause. Why should he be willing to do the same to other companies? It comes down from the top. If Microsoft wouldn't build systems out of swiss cheese, there wouldn't be nearly as many recalcitrant patchers.
Sounds like my old boss... we drug him kicking and screaming from Windows NT4 to Windows XP about a year ago. And that was only because we agreed to put progman.exe in his startup folder and did our best to migrate everything and reset everything so it looked as identical to NT4 as we could make it.
The definition of who is a person has changed, not the rights of a person. When the country was founded, slaves were not people, and women were only barely counted as such. I do agree about the constitutional protections only applying to US Citizens, though. I've never heard of constitutional protections extending elsewhere.
Just because the US is better than the UK and Australia doesn't make it good. Censorship and general "good" are not a zero-sum game, with the current best being as good as it gets.
I know that Wikipedia knows everything, but doesn't an IMDB link make more sense for movies?
If you're guaranteeing 5 nines, you'd be stupid to be using a single machine. Update a test environment, verify it works, then take down your cluster a machine at a time updating each one. No downtime if you do it right, that way you can "bank" your downtime to deal with network outages and such that are outside your control.
How specially tuned to the specific hardware was your netbook boot, though? Would it work on every x86 machine with a BIOS? Or were your cut corners including compiling in all the modules to the kernel that your machine would need?
Don't get me wrong, I admire the 5 second boot time. I'd love to have it. But it needs to be a general-purpose speedup for it to work with a major distro.
Yes, let's all move in the same direction on the same projects, thereby destroying that which makes Linux so successful.
Linux works BECAUSE of the fracturing, not in spite of it. Yes, there are downsides to that where applications and such aren't terribly cohesive. But there are upsides, where you get the source to everything and no one can ever take it away from you. You don't get that benefit with your beloved OS X. It may look shinier, but OS X still has a ton of UI inconsistencies. Don't kid yourself... no OS has the consistency thing down, and I'd rather take the more stark inconsistency of Linux for the benefits it provides than pay through the nose for OS X + hardware, then all the little nickel and dime utilities you need for OS X.
Yup, only in America. If you make gun ownership illegal, then only people who break the laws will have guns. Making sure that criminals have the power advantage over most everyone. That's some good thinking there! Of course, legal guns never stop crime, right?
They have those. They have games that have permanent death, as well as games where if you die in the mission, you don't come back until the next one.
Maybe it should be illegal to drop lawsuits by private parties against private parties. Or by companies against private parties. It'd force people to be a hell of a lot more sure about what they were doing, and wouldn't really have an effect on valid lawsuits.
But you're a responsible parent. The problem is that there are tons of irresponsible parents that think that we need Richard Blumenthals to protect their kids, since they're too busy to do so themselves. And especially the new phenomenon of so many kids being raised by their grandparents.
Dosbox is surprisingly powerful, too. I've played through some of the old Leisure Suit Larry games on it. Works pretty well :)
And if we started cutting asinine executive compensation for selling off the company's capital to turn a profit that quarter while driving the company into the ground, you wouldn't even have to take that 10% cut.
And Jason and the Argonauts. Can't forget that.
If it's a paper-thin device, why not make it part of the wall? Why put a picture on that wall when you can just display one?
How old are they? I've found virtualbox is great, as is wine. I play Starcraft and Diablo II in wine with no issues whatsoever, and most other things run in Virtualbox ok.
Hope they never decide to pull the plug on your DRM'd music you love so much.
DRM is a fancy way of saying "renting". You are at the mercy of the company providing you access, and therefore you don't actually own anything. The music industry feels confident in the DRM because it knows it can turn off your access any time for any reason. If you're comfortable paying for the privilege of being the industry's bitch, good for you. But don't pretend that it's freedom or a good thing in any way.
Because you have to go to school to be a psychologist, and you only have to know the right people to be a lawmaker.
So, never then? That's what I'm getting here...
Knowing where to find Bonzi Buddy and install it to piss off your IT department ;)
Microsoft has already been ruled a monopoly... isn't dumping an illegal tactic for monopolies?