The murder rate in this country has fallen precipitously. In the 1980's more people were killed in Washington DC each year than in Beirut and Northern Ireland combined. No one can explain the big decrease in murders in the US, but over the same period the number and intensity of violent games has increased. Young men, the primary killers in all societies the world over, usually get into trouble because they are bored.
The reviews the game mags did were all bogus. If a game came from a major publisher - it got a favourable review, even if it wouldn't run for more than 5 minutes without crashing.
The only games that they would ever can were independents because they didn't offer advertising bucks.
If you were in the process of becoming an undead with part of Sauron's consciousness in your head.
Any bearer of the Ring other than a Hobbit would have been become Sauron with several centuries. The Hobbits were so closely connected to the Earth that they were resistant to it's power in a way that no other living creatures were, except Bombadil.
I hate living the city, I miss chasing Tornados on the plains, seeing comets and meteor showers and the Milky Way. Most people in cities don't even know you can see the galaxy we live in or the one next door. Then again I love being gainfully employeed and very fast internet.
Stuff that matters my ass. If so many of you idiots don't know what the christian science monitor is how am I supposed to believe that this is new for nerds? or News that matters.
The CSM is the only independent newspaper left that does real reporting. If you want to know what is really happening in Afghanistan or Iraq go to the CSM, then again I doubt that most of you are really that curious.
The brutal wisdom of the real world doesn't fit well with the easy coastal Academnic Philosophies. The CSM is a solid newspaper, maybe the only really independent newspaper left.
2 minutes so everyone else can post. I am sure everyone wants to post on this topic, all 110 of them.
And who is this Cowboy neal guy? Why does he keep talking about Microsoft.
Sounds like Micro-Soft envy to me.
Yep, it is still zero. So I am getting more spam and I didn't get to start my lame as comments at 1? What is up with that.
Ohh slashdot requires me to wait 2 minutes between lame as posts.... OHHHH isn't that clever.
Our 4 year old is the only one in the household that knows how to use the big TV and satellite system to it's full potential. He routinely records his favorite show weeks in advance even though he doesn't know how to read.
A poster above state one part of the problem: you have to give the computer explicit, detailed instructions to get it to do anything useful. Using a non-procedural language doesn't change this fact, because the other part of the problem is that the machine is a procedure machine.
All modern CPUs are Von Neuman machines, they work by proceeding from one instruction to the next unless they encounter a branch. On this type of machine it will always be possible for a single error to bring the whole system down.
With programmable "hardware" it may well become possible to start building machines that are partially non-procedural, but the Von Neuman architecture actually works - so it won't be going away anytime soon.
One of the most interesting amomalies in cosmology right now are discrepencies in red-shift of galaxies that are obviously interacting with each other.
There are a lot objects in these pictures interacting with each other. I am curious about the red-shift values of these interacting objects.
ECT should be your absolute last option. I have seen several people subjected to it and the result is the temporary erasure of their personalities. With repeated shocks the results become permanent.
The place where I used to work, it was used more for punishment of bad behavior than for treatment.
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The murder rate in this country has fallen precipitously. In the 1980's more people were killed in Washington DC each year than in Beirut and Northern Ireland combined. No one can explain the big decrease in murders in the US, but over the same period the number and intensity of violent games has increased. Young men, the primary killers in all societies the world over, usually get into trouble because they are bored.
If they were going to file a 10-K, they would have done it before now.
The reviews the game mags did were all bogus. If a game came from a major publisher - it got a favourable review, even if it wouldn't run for more than 5 minutes without crashing. The only games that they would ever can were independents because they didn't offer advertising bucks.
If you were in the process of becoming an undead with part of Sauron's consciousness in your head. Any bearer of the Ring other than a Hobbit would have been become Sauron with several centuries. The Hobbits were so closely connected to the Earth that they were resistant to it's power in a way that no other living creatures were, except Bombadil.
I hate living the city, I miss chasing Tornados on the plains, seeing comets and meteor showers and the Milky Way. Most people in cities don't even know you can see the galaxy we live in or the one next door. Then again I love being gainfully employeed and very fast internet.
Stuff that matters my ass. If so many of you idiots don't know what the christian science monitor is how am I supposed to believe that this is new for nerds? or News that matters. The CSM is the only independent newspaper left that does real reporting. If you want to know what is really happening in Afghanistan or Iraq go to the CSM, then again I doubt that most of you are really that curious. The brutal wisdom of the real world doesn't fit well with the easy coastal Academnic Philosophies. The CSM is a solid newspaper, maybe the only really independent newspaper left.
I wonder how long it will take them to ban me if I keep doing this?
2 minutes so everyone else can post. I am sure everyone wants to post on this topic, all 110 of them. And who is this Cowboy neal guy? Why does he keep talking about Microsoft. Sounds like Micro-Soft envy to me.
If my post level is 0, why is my read level 1? Oops have to wait for the 2 minute warning.
Yep, it is still zero. So I am getting more spam and I didn't get to start my lame as comments at 1? What is up with that. Ohh slashdot requires me to wait 2 minutes between lame as posts .... OHHHH isn't that clever.
starting at 1? Okay I am using fewer junk characters, but I bet it will be 0/
Our 4 year old is the only one in the household that knows how to use the big TV and satellite system to it's full potential. He routinely records his favorite show weeks in advance even though he doesn't know how to read.
I for one, miss the artsy side of my brain. It went on vacation to Paris, but I had to stay and take that circuits final.
A poster above state one part of the problem: you have to give the computer explicit, detailed instructions to get it to do anything useful. Using a non-procedural language doesn't change this fact, because the other part of the problem is that the machine is a procedure machine. All modern CPUs are Von Neuman machines, they work by proceeding from one instruction to the next unless they encounter a branch. On this type of machine it will always be possible for a single error to bring the whole system down. With programmable "hardware" it may well become possible to start building machines that are partially non-procedural, but the Von Neuman architecture actually works - so it won't be going away anytime soon.
Uh-oh. Somebody taught them to use Photoshop.
One of the most interesting amomalies in cosmology right now are discrepencies in red-shift of galaxies that are obviously interacting with each other. There are a lot objects in these pictures interacting with each other. I am curious about the red-shift values of these interacting objects.
... TV isn't.
They are gonna have a dog and pony on next week!
I love that show! DARPA with her wacky ideals and her lawyer partner with a corncob in the butt.
that wrote this piece o shit software I am trying to port to windows.
Hey he lived to be ... well really old and having lots of sex while getting there.
ECT should be your absolute last option. I have seen several people subjected to it and the result is the temporary erasure of their personalities. With repeated shocks the results become permanent. The place where I used to work, it was used more for punishment of bad behavior than for treatment.
PayPal is a bank, it should be regulated as a bank.