Funny, i see a direct correlation between the well-behaved-ness of late teen/20's/30's adults and the parents that raised them.
Genes have "something" to do with it and peers have "something else" to do with it, but the most responsible parents regarding discipline and self control will in almost every single case result in well behaved children and eventually adults. I've yet to see this as untrue.
On another note, i will say that completely sheltering your kid from the world as a whole will also lead to culture and social shock when they are "released." Those types usually go nuts and lead rather "interesting" lives (read: The proverbial sex, drugs and rock and roll). That, in my opinion, is bad parenting.
I must respectfully point out that you have stated "melting-pot" in reference to the people in school.
The definition of a melting-pot is...a pot that is melting. That pot is doing its job as it knows how but the flame which fuels that job is destroying the pot which will destroy the contents.
It strikes me as a rather accurate portrayal of the public school system both socially and educationally.
Indeed, we as well will homeschool our kids as long as there is anything we can reasonably do about it. Public school, in my opinion, should be a last resort for the education of americans. IMO, homeschooling families and private schools should receive tax credits for the money they're saving the government.
What's wrong with this story is that I had a $6800 balance on a visa that i paid the minimum on monthly. I then paid the entire account off (~$6775) in one feel swoop and no one was "alerted" to it at all...
LOL, i don't know how it works over there, but over here if you open a piece of mail that wasn't meant for you, it's a felony and will land you in jail...:-P
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Processing power would have to be it. Very few multiplayer games exceed 10-15kbps bandwidth usage during online play. That leaves a LOT of open bandwidth for sound....
Does anyone have a reason why they can't talking while playing? Seems to me that it wouldnt have been harder to implement it a little further... *confused*
I guess talking BEFORE and AFTER a game is kinda pointless. Just pick up the dang phone and call them...or talk across the room you're probably both going to be sitting in anyway.
I think of course that parents should do the job right... However, they aren't doing the job right, so that leaves us at a loss as to what to do. Honestly what do you suggest? You can't exactly force values on parents so they'll properly teach their children. Meanwhile, my kids will someday have to go to school with these other kids.
Honestly if it takes legislation to keep media out of the eyes of kids too young to have it, then so be it. I will properly (in my opinion) judge what my children are and aren't allowed you watch/play. Maybe you do a perfectly fine job at that yourself, but i'd wager the vast majority of parents do NOT.
Who's going to make the choices for those who refuse to choose?
There have been countless studies based on far more opinion that show that young kids behavior is heavily effected negativley by video game and TV media of a violent nature... Kids watching power rangers do nothing but fight with each other and when those fights turn violent they are using the "techniques" used on power rangers to fight. (attempted karate i guess you could call it) Kids who watch Barney (as silly and sad as it is) are much calmer, they share with each other, and generally get along well.
I think certain regulations should be enacted, but i also feel that if parents did a decent job AT their job, we wouldnt have these issues. I, for instance, might not want a future 11 year old son playinga game as violent as F.E.A.R.
Maybe you think i'm off base, but kids are NOT adults and they can NOT judge things for themselves. They don't always know what things they learn in "fake world" can be transferred to "real world." It's just a set up for things later down the road IMHO.
I totally agree. Something like the google personalized homepage interface. You just click the boxes and drop them where you want... Well, obviously not the good interface, but you understand what I mean.
There are some games that give you this sort of control, but they're usually games with highly over crowded HUD's anyway. If you've played Planetside or Tribes 2, they both have configurable HUDS that are something like this... (at least i think T2 does. I know planetside does.)
I think the Half-Life series very well understands this... -You get a weapons menu when you try to scroll through weapons but otherwise it's not there -You get the flashlight in the top right -You get health, armor and ammo
Then you have games like Deus Ex: Invisible War. -Half the stinkin screen is HUD. To make matters worse, the HUD is elyptical so it creates this circle in the center of your screen that is the only useful part of your video display...
naturally, it comes from theinq and i can't seem to find a link to it at the moment, but i read in some article on there a couple days ago that over 50% of new motherboards shipped are still shipping with AGP slots as opposed to PCI-E. That's all i've got since i can't find the story, but i'm not entirely sure the sales are "almost non existent." Or maybe I misunderstood the statement.
It seems to me that this whining is probably just gaming companies whose products didn't make the sales they wanted. Used games are an obvious scapegoat.
Instead of "our game sucked so no one bought it," they can now say "our game didn't sell well because most people waited and bought used copies."
If they really have a problem with used games, they need to come up with a "better" content distribution method. Something "Steam-ish."
MS does seem to think the answer to any and all security problems is enabling that danged firewall. Since when will a firewall protect you from an E-Mail virus? (Not that viruses have anything "directly" to do with security all the time...) But the thing is, dealing with the windows firewall is a hassle. If I want a firewall, i'll get a router and use IT as a firewall. (which i have by the way). Hardware firewalls don't completely get in the way like software ones do.
Microsofts stance on security would be best placed in tha area of finding and plugging holes. Part of me wonders: Does MS have any team of people that look for security holes in windows? Or do they just wait until some 3rd party comes out with a release about a newly discovered hole and THEN decide to fix it.
This isn't intended to bash MS, because i use and pretty much depend on their products, but it is meant to maybe gander at their priorities. As a USER of their software I probably care about MS security a lot more than the people who DON'T use it and just bash it on here.:-D I do feel secure in using windows for the most part, but due to past hiccups it's just that nagging feeling... It's just an awfuly big target and THAT makes all the difference.
Aside from the fact that this has nothing to do with your rights online:
I personally have no problem with this. Given even the small chance of someone attempting to do something on a plane when i'm flying, i don't see a problem with them checking my or anyone elses ID and denying someone that flight based on a suspision. Of course one can never say "this is what i would do" until they are in that situation.
IMHO: This is a relatively minor issue anyway in the big scheme of "rights." That's just me maybe...
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Funny, i see a direct correlation between the well-behaved-ness of late teen/20's/30's adults and the parents that raised them.
Genes have "something" to do with it and peers have "something else" to do with it, but the most responsible parents regarding discipline and self control will in almost every single case result in well behaved children and eventually adults. I've yet to see this as untrue.
On another note, i will say that completely sheltering your kid from the world as a whole will also lead to culture and social shock when they are "released." Those types usually go nuts and lead rather "interesting" lives (read: The proverbial sex, drugs and rock and roll). That, in my opinion, is bad parenting.
I must respectfully point out that you have stated "melting-pot" in reference to the people in school.
The definition of a melting-pot is...a pot that is melting. That pot is doing its job as it knows how but the flame which fuels that job is destroying the pot which will destroy the contents.
It strikes me as a rather accurate portrayal of the public school system both socially and educationally.
Indeed, we as well will homeschool our kids as long as there is anything we can reasonably do about it. Public school, in my opinion, should be a last resort for the education of americans. IMO, homeschooling families and private schools should receive tax credits for the money they're saving the government.
Funny how it mysteriously hasn't evolved at all over the last 11 million years...
What's wrong with this story is that I had a $6800 balance on a visa that i paid the minimum on monthly. I then paid the entire account off (~$6775) in one feel swoop and no one was "alerted" to it at all...
I've done this twice in as many years.
I'm suspicious of these claims.
LOL, i don't know how it works over there, but over here if you open a piece of mail that wasn't meant for you, it's a felony and will land you in jail... :-P
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All I'm going to say is that actions speak louder than words. I'll believe it when i see it.
I like how morons with mod points go through here and mark perfectly legit posts as trolls.
Processing power would have to be it. Very few multiplayer games exceed 10-15kbps bandwidth usage during online play. That leaves a LOT of open bandwidth for sound....
Does anyone have a reason why they can't talking while playing? Seems to me that it wouldnt have been harder to implement it a little further... *confused*
I guess talking BEFORE and AFTER a game is kinda pointless. Just pick up the dang phone and call them...or talk across the room you're probably both going to be sitting in anyway.
Maybe i'm wrong, but i could have sworn they (RIM) came out with this information several weeks ago...
Does anyone else remember seeing this elsewhere?
Your only getting half my point here...
I think of course that parents should do the job right... However, they aren't doing the job right, so that leaves us at a loss as to what to do. Honestly what do you suggest? You can't exactly force values on parents so they'll properly teach their children. Meanwhile, my kids will someday have to go to school with these other kids.
Honestly if it takes legislation to keep media out of the eyes of kids too young to have it, then so be it. I will properly (in my opinion) judge what my children are and aren't allowed you watch/play. Maybe you do a perfectly fine job at that yourself, but i'd wager the vast majority of parents do NOT.
Who's going to make the choices for those who refuse to choose?
who's regulating kids?
There have been countless studies based on far more opinion that show that young kids behavior is heavily effected negativley by video game and TV media of a violent nature... Kids watching power rangers do nothing but fight with each other and when those fights turn violent they are using the "techniques" used on power rangers to fight. (attempted karate i guess you could call it) Kids who watch Barney (as silly and sad as it is) are much calmer, they share with each other, and generally get along well.
I think certain regulations should be enacted, but i also feel that if parents did a decent job AT their job, we wouldnt have these issues. I, for instance, might not want a future 11 year old son playinga game as violent as F.E.A.R.
Maybe you think i'm off base, but kids are NOT adults and they can NOT judge things for themselves. They don't always know what things they learn in "fake world" can be transferred to "real world." It's just a set up for things later down the road IMHO.
typo: "well obviously not the GOOGLE interface" is what i meant to say...
I totally agree. Something like the google personalized homepage interface. You just click the boxes and drop them where you want... Well, obviously not the good interface, but you understand what I mean.
There are some games that give you this sort of control, but they're usually games with highly over crowded HUD's anyway. If you've played Planetside or Tribes 2, they both have configurable HUDS that are something like this... (at least i think T2 does. I know planetside does.)
I think the Half-Life series very well understands this...
-You get a weapons menu when you try to scroll through weapons but otherwise it's not there
-You get the flashlight in the top right
-You get health, armor and ammo
Then you have games like Deus Ex: Invisible War.
-Half the stinkin screen is HUD. To make matters worse, the HUD is elyptical so it creates this circle in the center of your screen that is the only useful part of your video display...
Nuff said.
naturally, it comes from theinq and i can't seem to find a link to it at the moment, but i read in some article on there a couple days ago that over 50% of new motherboards shipped are still shipping with AGP slots as opposed to PCI-E. That's all i've got since i can't find the story, but i'm not entirely sure the sales are "almost non existent." Or maybe I misunderstood the statement.
ah, how right you are...
It seems to me that this whining is probably just gaming companies whose products didn't make the sales they wanted. Used games are an obvious scapegoat.
Instead of "our game sucked so no one bought it," they can now say "our game didn't sell well because most people waited and bought used copies."
If they really have a problem with used games, they need to come up with a "better" content distribution method. Something "Steam-ish."
MS does seem to think the answer to any and all security problems is enabling that danged firewall. Since when will a firewall protect you from an E-Mail virus? (Not that viruses have anything "directly" to do with security all the time...) But the thing is, dealing with the windows firewall is a hassle. If I want a firewall, i'll get a router and use IT as a firewall. (which i have by the way). Hardware firewalls don't completely get in the way like software ones do.
:-D I do feel secure in using windows for the most part, but due to past hiccups it's just that nagging feeling... It's just an awfuly big target and THAT makes all the difference.
Microsofts stance on security would be best placed in tha area of finding and plugging holes. Part of me wonders: Does MS have any team of people that look for security holes in windows? Or do they just wait until some 3rd party comes out with a release about a newly discovered hole and THEN decide to fix it.
This isn't intended to bash MS, because i use and pretty much depend on their products, but it is meant to maybe gander at their priorities. As a USER of their software I probably care about MS security a lot more than the people who DON'T use it and just bash it on here.
Well, seeing that Microsoft heavily endorses and supports napster, i think this promises to be interesting...
The point is i dont want to be flying with someone who DOESN'T have or WON'T show an ID card.
Aside from the fact that this has nothing to do with your rights online:
I personally have no problem with this. Given even the small chance of someone attempting to do something on a plane when i'm flying, i don't see a problem with them checking my or anyone elses ID and denying someone that flight based on a suspision. Of course one can never say "this is what i would do" until they are in that situation.
IMHO: This is a relatively minor issue anyway in the big scheme of "rights." That's just me maybe...
So you're saying that I'm either with you or against you?
Uh, That had absolutely nothing to do with what i said. Try this.