for the record I program, and although I have both windows and linux running at home my preference is windows. If you care why, it is because of the generally unfinished nature of many of the programes I use on a daily bases, compared to the windows market.
Hmm... I wonder why everyone who knows programming wants to his Windows with a virus? Is it because people who program prefer other platforms?
That's right, every other programer in the world prefers to use linux.
Linxus can be nice to develop on, but it would be the height of stupdity to assume that all programmers prefer linux. Just like I wouldn't suggest that all programmers prefer windows or macs based from my biased point of view
I have just graduated and in my experiance most classes are filled with one or two students talking and the rest waiting for the answer anyway. In my experiances with clickers, they not only get the lecturer to have a better idea of how many people are on the right track, but it starts class discussions.
In fact, some of my lecturers have mentioned that they need to re-write their classes because they don't have as much time.
If you look at the demographics of PC gamers it shows that the average gamer is 26-28 years old. Heck, if you look at MMOGs you find that the age demographic is actually higher again!.
All in all people evaluate their entertainment needs in different ways. I don't like watching TV, it isn't as engaging as most MMOGs, so I choose not to watch it.
except most game stick to a standard layout, and interface. Corporate software doesn't. when was the last time someone was given a hand controller as an interface to there corporate software? Need perpetual reuse of the WASD keys?
This would be true, if you are only acknowledging games to be an interface and not the game play. Game play can be very complex, look at anybody learning group dynamics in a MMOG for the first time. The ability to learn new things in changing new environments is a powerful skill. It doesn't matter if you learn it on the virtual plains of Kalimdor it can still be a beneficial skill.
How much math do you do in GTA? Writing? composing?
How much math do you learn in English?
name 3
I have a sneaking suspicion that you are being overly pedantic on the posters use of the world 'proving'. There are multiple papers that seem to indicate that digital games can increase things like spatial awareness, reaction time, hand-eye coordination and so forth, but like most research it doesn't definitively prove it.
However, assuming some studies which indicate something means that it is now proved is a common mistake for people outside of research fields.
for the record, if you search ACM you will find more than 3 papers that deal with the topic.
I ahve seen the effect of todays game(meaning the last 5 years) have had on kids. I've seen them become more violent afterwords. Something I did not seet 15 years ago.
And the only thing that could possibly have changed this is computer games? Could games have some impact on the minds of youth today? Sure, I guess so. However, public media and the shitty world we made for ourselves has IMHO more to blame
Preliminary studies have indicated that the brain responds very much the same way to some of the new games as it does reality. SOmething that older games do not.
2 points:
First there is research that shows that kids who play violent video games are more likely to vent their frustrations on said video games.
Secondly, I used to play war games in my back yard. I used to line my friends up with my realistic m16 and squeeze the trigger. The battery powered action would buck my rifle up and produce an electronic BANG! I'd scream "YOU'RE DEAD!!" and my friend would fall to the ground.
I don't know how that is any less effective at training my brain to be a killing machine than playing doom.
I hope games are beneficial, but I refuse to treat the new medium just like comics, and music. Our interaction is a lot higher, and it is a lot more realistic.
Sure, and yet most kids realise that they are playing a computer game. They realise that they are interacting with something that isn't real. They realise that when they blew off that guys head it wasn't real. Yet when they see it on the news, that scares them; because they know it is real.
In fact there have been studies about what scares kids more, a violent video game or the nightly news. The news wins hands down
If you want to blame video games for the ills of the world, then fine. But a more opened minded point of view would try and look for the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that we have made a pretty crappy world for our kids to grow up in and we won't do anything to fix it. Are games a part of that crappy world? Maybe, but only because they reflect the world we live in.
What could possibly be the benefit of OS X as a desktop computer?
Compared to what? If you are talking about linux I would simply state that OSX is more user friendly to every day users than linux is. If you talking about Windows for a business customer; I don't know if there is any real advantage over Windows (I'm such someone will tell me;p), but there isn't any real disadvantage.
1. I'm an adult. My serious computer game playing days should be behind me.
I used to play sports and watching action movies when I was a kid. Now that I am an Adult should I now stop these kinds of activities?
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended. Especially if it gave me a poor facsimile of social interaction by being able to communicate with real people inside the game.
I want to know how you define an end. Do you mean the credits role, and you get a thunderous applause from all of the game developers who are admiring your greatness? If so, do you re-play any of your games? If you do, do you count re-playability as a never ending game? Because a MMOG is basically a game that has hundreds of re-playable games within another game.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
This makes about as much sense as asking "How can people with a job compete with Olympic athletes. Generally they can't.
Seeing the source code to an application that serves a tax-filing purpose makes sense because there is, or at least should be, no inherent risk in releasing it. Hacking the protocols would be pointless because the client program, if hacked, could not achieve more access to the service than someone could do using a homebrew client program.
I'm no expert when it comes to iptables, but couldn't you (shouldn't you) set the internal web proxy to only accept packets from computers on the internal network anyway?
I don't understand how the UKs tax site effects the parents post.
Also, I am pretty sure that this isn't a new thing. I remember e-tax being windows only for quite some time now. I am sure that the next time they decide to spend money developing something, it will probably be multi-platorm.
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apple didn't invent the GUI either. Xerox did.
Sure, if you invented something on the same scale as a havesting machine that should be patentable
Should tining the windows on that haverster also be a patent?
for the record I program, and although I have both windows and linux running at home my preference is windows. If you care why, it is because of the generally unfinished nature of many of the programes I use on a daily bases, compared to the windows market.
Hmm... I wonder why everyone who knows programming wants to his Windows with a virus? Is it because people who program prefer other platforms?
That's right, every other programer in the world prefers to use linux.
Linxus can be nice to develop on, but it would be the height of stupdity to assume that all programmers prefer linux. Just like I wouldn't suggest that all programmers prefer windows or macs based from my biased point of view
as a non American, my impression is that Moore was attacking the American Media, not America. Well, eventually that is how he attempts to roll it up.
In fact, some of my lecturers have mentioned that they need to re-write their classes because they don't have as much time.
Clickers fucking rock!
If you look at the demographics of PC gamers it shows that the average gamer is 26-28 years old. Heck, if you look at MMOGs you find that the age demographic is actually higher again!.
All in all people evaluate their entertainment needs in different ways. I don't like watching TV, it isn't as engaging as most MMOGs, so I choose not to watch it.
maybe public media had better taste than talk about it for one hundred days. (or however long it was)
I don't even associate Lennons songs to Lennon anymore. I'd associate Paul to any beetles song I heard on the radio.
Lennon might have been an icon for a generation, but it isn't this one
please, art isn't just the picassos. Anybody who suggests otherwise doesn't understand art.
How many music artists will "never, ever" be regarded the same way John Lennon is?
Besides, if John Romeo ran up and shot John Carmack in the chest five times, who knows what would happen
except most game stick to a standard layout, and interface. Corporate software doesn't. when was the last time someone was given a hand controller as an interface to there corporate software? Need perpetual reuse of the WASD keys?
This would be true, if you are only acknowledging games to be an interface and not the game play. Game play can be very complex, look at anybody learning group dynamics in a MMOG for the first time. The ability to learn new things in changing new environments is a powerful skill. It doesn't matter if you learn it on the virtual plains of Kalimdor it can still be a beneficial skill.
How much math do you do in GTA? Writing? composing?
How much math do you learn in English?
name 3
I have a sneaking suspicion that you are being overly pedantic on the posters use of the world 'proving'. There are multiple papers that seem to indicate that digital games can increase things like spatial awareness, reaction time, hand-eye coordination and so forth, but like most research it doesn't definitively prove it.
However, assuming some studies which indicate something means that it is now proved is a common mistake for people outside of research fields.
for the record, if you search ACM you will find more than 3 papers that deal with the topic.
I ahve seen the effect of todays game(meaning the last 5 years) have had on kids. I've seen them become more violent afterwords. Something I did not seet 15 years ago.
And the only thing that could possibly have changed this is computer games? Could games have some impact on the minds of youth today? Sure, I guess so. However, public media and the shitty world we made for ourselves has IMHO more to blame
Preliminary studies have indicated that the brain responds very much the same way to some of the new games as it does reality. SOmething that older games do not.
2 points:
First there is research that shows that kids who play violent video games are more likely to vent their frustrations on said video games.
Secondly, I used to play war games in my back yard. I used to line my friends up with my realistic m16 and squeeze the trigger. The battery powered action would buck my rifle up and produce an electronic BANG! I'd scream "YOU'RE DEAD!!" and my friend would fall to the ground.
I don't know how that is any less effective at training my brain to be a killing machine than playing doom.
I hope games are beneficial, but I refuse to treat the new medium just like comics, and music. Our interaction is a lot higher, and it is a lot more realistic.
Sure, and yet most kids realise that they are playing a computer game. They realise that they are interacting with something that isn't real. They realise that when they blew off that guys head it wasn't real. Yet when they see it on the news, that scares them; because they know it is real.
In fact there have been studies about what scares kids more, a violent video game or the nightly news. The news wins hands down
If you want to blame video games for the ills of the world, then fine. But a more opened minded point of view would try and look for the bigger picture. The bigger picture is that we have made a pretty crappy world for our kids to grow up in and we won't do anything to fix it. Are games a part of that crappy world? Maybe, but only because they reflect the world we live in.
Just because the old can't see the benifits, doesn't mean they arnt any.
I wonder what put them into that depression? That's right ... the French!
You're right, that is what linux is/was all about. Unfortunatly, many people have tried to make Linux a tool that grandpa can use.
In the same universe that linux is ready for the desktop, or the one button mouse was a feature.
haha
Compared to what? If you are talking about linux I would simply state that OSX is more user friendly to every day users than linux is. If you talking about Windows for a business customer; I don't know if there is any real advantage over Windows (I'm such someone will tell me ;p), but there isn't any real disadvantage.
Why wouldn't you get a Mac?
The story about the little boy who put his finger int he dyke takes on a whole new meaning =0
If I want'ed real pvp challenge I'd go play a real mans game, by booting up quake.
I used to play sports and watching action movies when I was a kid. Now that I am an Adult should I now stop these kinds of activities?
2. Is there an end to these things? My only saving grace that let me return to a normal eating/sleeping pattern with games of the past is that they freakin' ended at some point. I don't think I ever would've seen the light of day if I played a game that never ended. Especially if it gave me a poor facsimile of social interaction by being able to communicate with real people inside the game.
I want to know how you define an end. Do you mean the credits role, and you get a thunderous applause from all of the game developers who are admiring your greatness? If so, do you re-play any of your games? If you do, do you count re-playability as a never ending game? Because a MMOG is basically a game that has hundreds of re-playable games within another game.
3. How in the world could anyone with a job compete with the people that play this 24x7?
This makes about as much sense as asking "How can people with a job compete with Olympic athletes. Generally they can't.
Why do you think people should be able to?
Those games are dangerous.
Why?
Don't you answer your own problem space?
I'm no expert when it comes to iptables, but couldn't you (shouldn't you) set the internal web proxy to only accept packets from computers on the internal network anyway?
I don't understand how the UKs tax site effects the parents post.
Also, I am pretty sure that this isn't a new thing. I remember e-tax being windows only for quite some time now. I am sure that the next time they decide to spend money developing something, it will probably be multi-platorm.