Just as a side note lets also consider that they are basing this on the fact that over 30 years there has been a "significant" whereas no mention of the increase in medical knowledge to identify a variety of problems including autism as increased over the same time frame worldwide (worldwide as they mention in the paper this is based not only in the US but other countries seeing an "increase as well) where 30 years ago bi-polar would have been recognized as schizophrenia and to what degree the patient had it by probably would have resulted in either hospitalization, electro-shock or even lobotomy rather than pharmaceutical and environmental changes to retard or even restrict person issues and personal and external danger situations.
Personally I agree with other comments that this is JUNK science at its best - feeding directly into the media scare tactics and overly sensational tactic to draw in more numbers of viewers which in turn is exactly what they are stating causes autism through this BS number crunching.
Lets break it down to the very basics - as television popularity grew in these "studied" regions and the so called increase of Autism occurred there as well did anyone check the numbers to see the growth rate in population in the areas where cable television came to as well?
I know on a personal level, if I am moving into an area one of the things I check (besides the basics, fire, police, hospitals, utilities availability and crime levels) is whether or not cable television is available in the area, if not I am not moving there, this study over this time span jobs change, people move, families grow, etc and moving becomes a necessity hence migration to better locals with more amenities become a desire and cable television becomes easier and more predominate in mainstream life - just as seafood consumption, contaminated rainfall, UV radiation, HD radio, computer use, god killing kittens because you masturbate more, whatever you want to add to this list.
This study literally could be done with ANYTHING, basically just a form letter study with a blank for [inset modern convenience here] say increase in cell phone towers or segways in a populated area causing [insert medical problem here] acne or erectile dysfunction or whatever.
Amazing... Simply ask a question hoping to gather some info and ideas and the incensed reaction from the Windows Elitists and their foaming at the mouth amazed responses that someone should dare consider something other than windows...
Lets review this persons response shall we...
*Abhorrent? Please. Licensing costs for 14 copies of XP Pro Academic Upgrade would run just under a grand.* - Obviously current affairs are not a strong point with you - most schools are closing down programs or closing all together, for years the teachers themselves had had to purchase their own supplies for the classes they teach, supplies the schools used to supply (pencils, Scissors, Construction Paper, paste)
*If the machines are running 95 and 98, I'd bet more then a few are old enough that they probably shouldn't be running XP so the actual cost likely is less.* - this combined with the privious statement shows your true lack of understanding within the modern school system let alone proper project planning and managment - IF the PC's in question are indeed incapable of running WinXP well then it will just cost less in licensing then LOL no, because then you have to upgrade/replace the PC to modernize the PC to run todays software and so then it will indeed cost far MORE - the person posting the original question was hoping to find a low cost solution to a modern need and as even Micro$oft and its ferverent backers will all agree, linux is moving up the usability ladder and showing up more and more in mainstream life - get used to it LOL
*Yes it's a significant chunk of change, but not crippling expensive. Obviously running 95, 98, and XP Home may not be the best solution overall, but it apparently seems to work for the time being.* -See my first section in response to this, amazing some people actually think our school system can just go buy anything - sad to have that little understanding of the modern school crisis faced today
*What you are proposing is installing an operating system that is completely foreign to them. The software that they already own has been untested on it. It may or may not work. The availability of future software titles that run natively is also limited. Neither the kids nor the teachers have any experience with it. And to top it off, you even point out that you can't really support it like you should.* - Has anyone knows children learn at a far faster rate and adapt to new tech far faster than adults, they wouldnt have a problem (and prolly would help the teachers as well) adapt and learn the new systems in no time - your assuming that Point-N-Click is a windows only thing?? take 1 PC, Load Ubuntu or whatever distro on it, load and setup Wine, add the needed software and test, once you are sure its stable, image the PC and load on the other PC's (after taking some time to familirize the staff with the new OS and the dreaded Point-N-Click on the icon interface as they prolly never seen that before)
*Sounds like a great plan!* - despite your sarcasm, it does, nothing better than saving a cash strapped school system a few thousand needed elsewhere desperatly dollars than dump them into the coffers of Micro$oft that will dump Million$ (of its Billion$ in revenue/profit) into the school and educational systems worldwide, but cries licensing disputes right here in the US itself for the further education and empowerment of the youth here and now.
Has anyone noticed the WinXP ad at the top
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Wasnt sure if anyone had noticed the blatent line at the top of the article but just before the headline of dell teaming up with novell/suse there is a line that states "dell recommends running microsoft windows xp"
seems strange to announce a linux partnership and still have that of all things at the top of the page dont you all think?
Hello all,
Firstly I think this is a magnificent idea with some possible drawbacks.
It would be simple to distribute with a donation of a CD Writer or 2 per library with a OSS catalogs on DVD distributed out to each library through the existing library resource network already in place, for instance here in Michigan a larger library organization is the lakeland Org., gathering a representative from each org (which already exists) they in turn contact the OSS distribution org for access to the DVD listing, DVD get delivered and then are listed in the software dewey decimal system for access too.
Then as joe/jane user comes in, looks through the available list and selects a desired program/OS to try at home, he/she asks the librarian for the disk with *** software on it. for a fee of the CD and small recoup for library time and equipment (1$ US perhaps)the software is cooked to CD and presented to joe/jane at that time. With this said, the first time joe or jane asks for software, they are presented with a form stating quite explicatly that NO support comes from the library system for this software at all. seek a technician (perhaps even have a local Tech listed as someone to contact)
The software is free, the overhead of electrical and the librarian, the CD and the access DVD's is covered via the fee. local techs gain business, libraries become cool places for geeks and non-geeks to hang again, ice cream tastes better, your clothes fit and look better, your teeth are whiter, etc etc etc
smeg is NOT a made up word, but an abbreviation of an actual word, smegma, the cheesy sebaction secretion around the forskin of a penis...
LOL
ya smeg j/k
In my opinion, the New Battlestar Galactice lived up to exactly what it stated, a NEW version of it, all the great stories of the past are just personal version recreations of the original, even the bible, they are all told through the eyes and mind of the storyteller.
As far as the FTL, believable as it told us NOTHING as far as the physics behind it so you cant debunk what ya dont know.
As far as the sound in space, yeah, a pet peeve with me but ya know what, it was lightly done just to give a hint of motion via our ears rather than just our eyes because I thought the ships looked like they were crawling through space by sight, but then, without reference we are accustom to (trees passing, mountains looming higher, day to night to day) there is no reference for the actual speed.
Starbuck as a female, interesting twist, hot as hell too... Boomer as a female as well, another cute twist and she was pretty eye candy as well. As far as the 12 models of cylons and the nympho-bot on earth, just remember, she is open to learning and experiencing as no better way to implant a chip (or god knows what else) in a human but when they are so preoccupied with thier jollies banging amok in some hotty (glowing spinal thing WTF was up with that the built in orgasmitron??)
Apollo was annoing in my thought, but got better toward the end of part 2 when he stopped be the "its all about my feelings" whiner. the drunkard XO with a confidence problem, overused but effective in this. Adama and the president, good matching, they are gonna hate to be banging uglies through the enevitable series to follow LOL
I liked it, I hope for a weekly series so I dont have to wait for 1 or 2 installments a year to find out what happens next, much like stagate, farscape and firefly (bring it back josh!!)
of course the felony seems to disappear, for at that point a released movie, much like software and other digital media are then protected by the sister act/law based on copyright infringments and actual piracy (in which you make and distribute for PROFIT digital media (software, movies, images, etc)) so, if it is on your system, a hacker makes it through your firewall, your security is down and the RIAA come through and scan your IP at that time, the hacker makes it off (with a big kiss to the tush from the RIAA) and the owner (be it legit or not) gets nailed with the quoted 10 charges, as they have assumed they will assume 10 people have accessed the file, therefor if they are going to "assume" 10 people accessed it, then you would be charged 10 times under thier assumtion (which could chage at a moment, your mileage may vary) and all the fees, fines and prison time also increases 10 times the original amount...
true, but even if no one downloads it, access it or anything, if the RIAA see it on your server, FTP, webpage or HDD then they will ASSUME 10 people have taken it, image that, not are you guilty of 1 offence, but by THIER assumtion, you are instantly a winner of 10!! counts of breaking the law.. now how is that the right and just of this act... you have 1 copy of a pre-release and you turn around have the RIAA come in and charge you for 10 counts or more (after all, it is a assumption of 10, they could under the word assume assume 100, 1000, 00 you name it) laws and acts as this can NOT be right or just nor allowed in this case or any other, you either break it or you dont, but placing it at a minimum of 10 for 1 offence is pure ludicris and reckless irresponsible government actions
HMmmm interesting, take a look of this quote right off the CNET article itself...
"it does not say any actual copyright infringement must take place--only that the file be available in a shared folder, Web site or FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site. "It says we don't care if anybody got any of these copies," Jaszi said. "We're going to conclude that at least 10 people did. It relieves the copyright owner of having to prove that any violation of their rights actually happened."
They (the RIAA and other low lifes) are going to ASSUME 10 people found the file and downloaded it, hmmm there is justice for ya, NO PROOF, lets just ASSUME they are guilty of passing it about to others, interesting concept, remind anyone of the ideals behind the movie "minority report" no actual crime nor proof of said crime, just 3 retards in a pool making crap up, hey the RIAA is really just 3 retards in a pool now LOL
****** INCOMING TRANSMISSION******
From: Bill Gatius of Borg
To: Earth
*****MESSAGE*****
I am Bill Gatius of Borg, your open source model of resistence is futile, I will buy you out and assimilate your code into the Micro$oft collective. you WILL sservice us with your monitary credits and bow to our superior marketing model.
***** E O F *****
Laughing Loudly, Imagining James Earl Jones saying "This is CN..... aaawwwww fuck it, this is the Bullshit News Network, bitch of the political money masses... eat me Bill Gates
I happen to work for the RIAA and as far as we all in the office are concerned, THANK YOU AMERICA for clearing enough space for all our porn to be transplanted onto your hard drives in the near future in hidden folders so as to not clog up our hard drive space with it for our all day wanks:D
thank you all again,
Maynard Gonagoblind
Chief Wanker of RIAA Information Bureau
p.s. we still love you Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, here at the RIAA
Firstly, Bye Red Hat, they in My opinion were getting WAAYYYY to uppity for themselves anyway and will enevitablly be back for the masses soon enough once they figure out that a directed taret marketing ans distibution scheme is doomed to fail.
Then tho, that allows for a MUCH broader expance and growth for the remaining upper level distributions (SuSE, Mandrake, *BSD, ETC) for the people to use and or support and by support I refer to NOT just coding but also $$$ in actually buying a set of CD's or paying for support if needed. In this also you will find the resulting ingoring of RHEL from the people in the "real world" uses of an OS being the ones to talk of good OS's NOT mentioning RHEL ever to anyone.
Linux need not cry because of RH, rejoice in the rest of Linux becoming better and upholding the real linux life
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Just as a side note lets also consider that they are basing this on the fact that over 30 years there has been a "significant" whereas no mention of the increase in medical knowledge to identify a variety of problems including autism as increased over the same time frame worldwide (worldwide as they mention in the paper this is based not only in the US but other countries seeing an "increase as well) where 30 years ago bi-polar would have been recognized as schizophrenia and to what degree the patient had it by probably would have resulted in either hospitalization, electro-shock or even lobotomy rather than pharmaceutical and environmental changes to retard or even restrict person issues and personal and external danger situations.
Personally I agree with other comments that this is JUNK science at its best - feeding directly into the media scare tactics and overly sensational tactic to draw in more numbers of viewers which in turn is exactly what they are stating causes autism through this BS number crunching.
Lets break it down to the very basics - as television popularity grew in these "studied" regions and the so called increase of Autism occurred there as well did anyone check the numbers to see the growth rate in population in the areas where cable television came to as well?
I know on a personal level, if I am moving into an area one of the things I check (besides the basics, fire, police, hospitals, utilities availability and crime levels) is whether or not cable television is available in the area, if not I am not moving there, this study over this time span jobs change, people move, families grow, etc and moving becomes a necessity hence migration to better locals with more amenities become a desire and cable television becomes easier and more predominate in mainstream life - just as seafood consumption, contaminated rainfall, UV radiation, HD radio, computer use, god killing kittens because you masturbate more, whatever you want to add to this list.
This study literally could be done with ANYTHING, basically just a form letter study with a blank for [inset modern convenience here] say increase in cell phone towers or segways in a populated area causing [insert medical problem here] acne or erectile dysfunction or whatever.
Amazing... Simply ask a question hoping to gather some info and ideas and the incensed reaction from the Windows Elitists and their foaming at the mouth amazed responses that someone should dare consider something other than windows...
Lets review this persons response shall we...
*Abhorrent? Please. Licensing costs for 14 copies of XP Pro Academic Upgrade would run just under a grand.*
- Obviously current affairs are not a strong point with you - most schools are closing down programs or closing all together, for years the teachers themselves had had to purchase their own supplies for the classes they teach, supplies the schools used to supply (pencils, Scissors, Construction Paper, paste)
*If the machines are running 95 and 98, I'd bet more then a few are old enough that they probably shouldn't be running XP so the actual cost likely is less.*
- this combined with the privious statement shows your true lack of understanding within the modern school system let alone proper project planning and managment - IF the PC's in question are indeed incapable of running WinXP well then it will just cost less in licensing then LOL no, because then you have to upgrade/replace the PC to modernize the PC to run todays software and so then it will indeed cost far MORE - the person posting the original question was hoping to find a low cost solution to a modern need and as even Micro$oft and its ferverent backers will all agree, linux is moving up the usability ladder and showing up more and more in mainstream life - get used to it LOL
*Yes it's a significant chunk of change, but not crippling expensive. Obviously running 95, 98, and XP Home may not be the best solution overall, but it apparently seems to work for the time being.*
-See my first section in response to this, amazing some people actually think our school system can just go buy anything - sad to have that little understanding of the modern school crisis faced today
*What you are proposing is installing an operating system that is completely foreign to them. The software that they already own has been untested on it. It may or may not work. The availability of future software titles that run natively is also limited. Neither the kids nor the teachers have any experience with it. And to top it off, you even point out that you can't really support it like you should.*
- Has anyone knows children learn at a far faster rate and adapt to new tech far faster than adults, they wouldnt have a problem (and prolly would help the teachers as well) adapt and learn the new systems in no time - your assuming that Point-N-Click is a windows only thing?? take 1 PC, Load Ubuntu or whatever distro on it, load and setup Wine, add the needed software and test, once you are sure its stable, image the PC and load on the other PC's (after taking some time to familirize the staff with the new OS and the dreaded Point-N-Click on the icon interface as they prolly never seen that before)
*Sounds like a great plan!*
- despite your sarcasm, it does, nothing better than saving a cash strapped school system a few thousand needed elsewhere desperatly dollars than dump them into the coffers of Micro$oft that will dump Million$ (of its Billion$ in revenue/profit) into the school and educational systems worldwide, but cries licensing disputes right here in the US itself for the further education and empowerment of the youth here and now.
Wasnt sure if anyone had noticed the blatent line at the top of the article but just before the headline of dell teaming up with novell/suse there is a line that states "dell recommends running microsoft windows xp" seems strange to announce a linux partnership and still have that of all things at the top of the page dont you all think?
Novell announced this in the beginning of this month now that it has bought SuSE and Ximian and has an extensive explaination of it on thier site.
Hello all, Firstly I think this is a magnificent idea with some possible drawbacks. It would be simple to distribute with a donation of a CD Writer or 2 per library with a OSS catalogs on DVD distributed out to each library through the existing library resource network already in place, for instance here in Michigan a larger library organization is the lakeland Org., gathering a representative from each org (which already exists) they in turn contact the OSS distribution org for access to the DVD listing, DVD get delivered and then are listed in the software dewey decimal system for access too. Then as joe/jane user comes in, looks through the available list and selects a desired program/OS to try at home, he/she asks the librarian for the disk with *** software on it. for a fee of the CD and small recoup for library time and equipment (1$ US perhaps)the software is cooked to CD and presented to joe/jane at that time. With this said, the first time joe or jane asks for software, they are presented with a form stating quite explicatly that NO support comes from the library system for this software at all. seek a technician (perhaps even have a local Tech listed as someone to contact) The software is free, the overhead of electrical and the librarian, the CD and the access DVD's is covered via the fee. local techs gain business, libraries become cool places for geeks and non-geeks to hang again, ice cream tastes better, your clothes fit and look better, your teeth are whiter, etc etc etc
smeg is NOT a made up word, but an abbreviation of an actual word, smegma, the cheesy sebaction secretion around the forskin of a penis ...
LOL
ya smeg j/k
In my opinion, the New Battlestar Galactice lived up to exactly what it stated, a NEW version of it, all the great stories of the past are just personal version recreations of the original, even the bible, they are all told through the eyes and mind of the storyteller.
..
As far as the FTL, believable as it told us NOTHING as far as the physics behind it so you cant debunk what ya dont know.
As far as the sound in space, yeah, a pet peeve with me but ya know what, it was lightly done just to give a hint of motion via our ears rather than just our eyes because I thought the ships looked like they were crawling through space by sight, but then, without reference we are accustom to (trees passing, mountains looming higher, day to night to day) there is no reference for the actual speed.
Starbuck as a female, interesting twist, hot as hell too... Boomer as a female as well, another cute twist and she was pretty eye candy as well. As far as the 12 models of cylons and the nympho-bot on earth, just remember, she is open to learning and experiencing as no better way to implant a chip (or god knows what else) in a human but when they are so preoccupied with thier jollies banging amok in some hotty (glowing spinal thing WTF was up with that the built in orgasmitron??)
Apollo was annoing in my thought, but got better toward the end of part 2 when he stopped be the "its all about my feelings" whiner. the drunkard XO with a confidence problem, overused but effective in this. Adama and the president, good matching, they are gonna hate to be banging uglies through the enevitable series to follow LOL
I liked it, I hope for a weekly series so I dont have to wait for 1 or 2 installments a year to find out what happens next, much like stagate, farscape and firefly (bring it back josh!!)
well, my takes and views on it
of course the felony seems to disappear, for at that point a released movie, much like software and other digital media are then protected by the sister act/law based on copyright infringments and actual piracy (in which you make and distribute for PROFIT digital media (software, movies, images, etc)) so, if it is on your system, a hacker makes it through your firewall, your security is down and the RIAA come through and scan your IP at that time, the hacker makes it off (with a big kiss to the tush from the RIAA) and the owner (be it legit or not) gets nailed with the quoted 10 charges, as they have assumed they will assume 10 people have accessed the file, therefor if they are going to "assume" 10 people accessed it, then you would be charged 10 times under thier assumtion (which could chage at a moment, your mileage may vary) and all the fees, fines and prison time also increases 10 times the original amount ...
true, but even if no one downloads it, access it or anything, if the RIAA see it on your server, FTP, webpage or HDD then they will ASSUME 10 people have taken it, image that, not are you guilty of 1 offence, but by THIER assumtion, you are instantly a winner of 10!! counts of breaking the law.. now how is that the right and just of this act ... you have 1 copy of a pre-release and you turn around have the RIAA come in and charge you for 10 counts or more (after all, it is a assumption of 10, they could under the word assume assume 100, 1000, 00 you name it) laws and acts as this can NOT be right or just nor allowed in this case or any other, you either break it or you dont, but placing it at a minimum of 10 for 1 offence is pure ludicris and reckless irresponsible government actions
HMmmm interesting, take a look of this quote right off the CNET article itself... "it does not say any actual copyright infringement must take place--only that the file be available in a shared folder, Web site or FTP (File Transfer Protocol) site. "It says we don't care if anybody got any of these copies," Jaszi said. "We're going to conclude that at least 10 people did. It relieves the copyright owner of having to prove that any violation of their rights actually happened." They (the RIAA and other low lifes) are going to ASSUME 10 people found the file and downloaded it, hmmm there is justice for ya, NO PROOF, lets just ASSUME they are guilty of passing it about to others, interesting concept, remind anyone of the ideals behind the movie "minority report" no actual crime nor proof of said crime, just 3 retards in a pool making crap up, hey the RIAA is really just 3 retards in a pool now LOL
billgates@borg-collective.aka.microsoft.com billgates@emporerofhell.com billgates@donkeyblower.net
****** INCOMING TRANSMISSION****** From: Bill Gatius of Borg To: Earth *****MESSAGE***** I am Bill Gatius of Borg, your open source model of resistence is futile, I will buy you out and assimilate your code into the Micro$oft collective. you WILL sservice us with your monitary credits and bow to our superior marketing model. ***** E O F *****
Laughing Loudly, Imagining James Earl Jones saying "This is CN..... aaawwwww fuck it, this is the Bullshit News Network, bitch of the political money masses... eat me Bill Gates
I happen to work for the RIAA and as far as we all in the office are concerned, THANK YOU AMERICA for clearing enough space for all our porn to be transplanted onto your hard drives in the near future in hidden folders so as to not clog up our hard drive space with it for our all day wanks :D
thank you all again,
Maynard Gonagoblind
Chief Wanker of RIAA Information Bureau
p.s. we still love you Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, here at the RIAA
Firstly, Bye Red Hat, they in My opinion were getting WAAYYYY to uppity for themselves anyway and will enevitablly be back for the masses soon enough once they figure out that a directed taret marketing ans distibution scheme is doomed to fail. Then tho, that allows for a MUCH broader expance and growth for the remaining upper level distributions (SuSE, Mandrake, *BSD, ETC) for the people to use and or support and by support I refer to NOT just coding but also $$$ in actually buying a set of CD's or paying for support if needed. In this also you will find the resulting ingoring of RHEL from the people in the "real world" uses of an OS being the ones to talk of good OS's NOT mentioning RHEL ever to anyone. Linux need not cry because of RH, rejoice in the rest of Linux becoming better and upholding the real linux life