I know the whole story thanks. What I was staying is that the story sparked another outcry over video games.My post was accurate on this fact.
The whole story does not detract from the fact that the inital one cause retailers to withdraw the game. Which supported my original point.
You obviously haven't been watching Uk news this year. The recent rise in abductions and murders by children and yes I mean kids of 7-17 years old, has seen a resurgence of the 'video nasty' crusade particularly after 'Manhunt' appeared on the shelves. 17 year old Warren LeBlanc was said to have been obsessed by the game when he murdered 14 year old Stefan Pakeerah on 27/02/04 in a copy cat style murder. This caused an outcry and the subsequent withdrawal of the game by many retailers. just because something was a crusade years ago doesn't mean it can't become one again.
Finally a country prepared to back up their words with solid actions. Most of the countries of the world have big voiced groups proclaiming that playing 'video nasties' breeds a generation of violent criminals. There are cases to back this up as well I'm sure. It would be interseting to see if crimes committed by young people reduce if this were enforced all the time without prejudice. May just settle the argument for once and for all.
Careful, soon you'll begin to believe in the Matrix!
On a serious note you can easily see when you make points like this where stories like The Matrix get their ideas from. Every government in every country be they dictator of elected officials would find it so much easier to manage their country if they could do away with freedom of choice and run everything to a prescribed formula. Hence the occurences of so many dictators, and 'tin foil hat' paranoia's. We are controlled by one force or another on a daily basis we just don't notice most of the time because we are too busy getting on with what we belive is our life. How much of it is influenced do we really ever know? Maybe just maybe dictators aren't clever or powerful they're just lazy. Its far easier to control a nation if you take away their choices.
and he said, " Mummy will the pictures look as old as you cos Star Wars is REALLY old?"
Geeeez kiddo thanks I'm not even 30 yet. Maybe his time perception is as warped as Lucas will need to be to fit everything thats missing into Episode 3!
Speaking of kids school walls being plasterd with ads you remind me of Max Barry's book "Jennifer Government" truly the most humorous and insightful book written about the future of corporatism in the future.
If you fancy a look at the online rpg based on the book it can be found here at http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/
Thanks! Oh how I tried to not be a geek but you know thanks to slashdot I've come to realise that geeks exist in all walks of life and yeah I even out geek the hubby on some subjects!
Uh huh I'm British. You seem to be a lot like the hubby in that he picks on American spelling saying things along the lines of "Its English for goodness sake spell it in ENGLISH"
You could always tell the wife that we women are usually good at being nice about things until we've tried them and found them lacking. Imagine what Eve would have missed out on (and where would the human race be) if she had looked at Adam in the nude and said "You want me to try doing what with that? It's easier if I please myself"
So interesting that this sceptical wife of an uber geek bought it for the hubby as a christmas present, read it herself and now only uses open source software. I even find open office to be far more practical than Microsoft. Oh and not to mention Ive had no spyware problems since switching. So this may all be old news to the confirmed geeks out there but if the wife is saying "yeah yeah" when you bang on about how good Linux etc is pass her the book. Humour and intelligence, the two things GUARANTEED to work on a woman!
I actively dont go to the ads on the right. If they need to get my attention that much then their content cant be that impressive on its own! Like you Im happy with the straight links.
Thanks! After drooling over his friend's smart phone that runs the 'evil' mircrosoft my husband now has an excuse to have a lovely linux smartphone top of his (insert occasion here) present list. Like he needed an excuse to bend my ears about how great Linux is!
Thanks for the advice. Im just a geek in training at the mo so any help I can get I'll accept!!! I know lots about too many subjects and not enough about any one thing. Perl appeals to me though so Ill let you know how Im doing next year!!!!
Thats the first thing a consulting engineer would have told them. I work in the rail division of such a firm and I have to ask, If theyre engineers get paid anything like ours (35+per hour), why did it take 9 years of feasibility studies to decide the tracks didnt match when one track inspection could have told them that?
I did read the article and not once did I say In my previous post that I thought it was a government initiative. Private enterprise is just as if not more so guilty of using tempting methods of getting people to use their services only to apply high or hidden charges once their customers enterpises take off. Specially more-so in countries less fortunate than our own. Its the way cpaitalism has been running the world for eons IMO
This a great idea in principle but who's paying for it? Did they suddenly magic down the cost of internet access cos if they made it that low that people in a rural village in India can afford the isp charges then sign me up to their programme!! Is it like many other western inititatives to help foreign countries, give them it all for what appears like a dream but the hidden charges and interest will leave them crippled later? Give them the net to help them make a profit then take that profit from them in payment for all our help? Im really hoping that this isnt the case. The article doesnt seem to make it clear how this project is being funded
One week of the year? Every week of the year? Which chart? Not exactly what Id call a proper survey although the basic idea is a good one. I do have to wonder though, surely with the charts being based on airplay and sales they must get mentioned every time they are played soo I would expect high listed songs to be mentioned more hence increase their mean? Does this survey seem a little biased to anyone else?
Thats cos although its a really interestinmg topic Im in the UK and my chances of actually seeing the exhibit are as high as me winning the lottery in every country. Oh wait thats not right, if I won the lottery in any country I could afford to see the exhibit!
Seriously it sounds great and yes its a shame we dont get pics.
Fact is that yes more and more of us have the internet but Id hardly call a growth of 4% of the worlds population using the net: a basis for saying that all communication will happen via the internet. People just cant afford it.I see the internet as THE means of communication could happen for the moneyed clasees but conditions just arent there for it to be a universal means. After all a stamp at a one time price of 28p in the Uk costs a darn site less than the charges your isp slaps on you every month. While we have massive poverty in the world and inequlaities in socio-economic conditions then the net will not be THE way of communication.
Hardware central have a great review of the year here: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/edi torials/5139/1/
Personally I cant decide what I would class as the worst. There's plenty to praise and plenty to whine about.
Israel isnt the only country with a difficult language that isnt encouraging the use of MS office. Think the notoriously hard to learn languages and the fact that China, Japan and Korea are using Linux?http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200312/29/ eng20031229_131444.shtml
Maybe just maybe Microsoft are going to find it increasingly hard to sell to countries whose language doesnt not follow similar rules to english (american) grammar. It could become a strong point above many others for open source products. We need language to communicate effectively. If our OS does not provide a correct form of our language surely we will use one who does. Especially if its free!
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I know the whole story thanks. What I was staying is that the story sparked another outcry over video games.My post was accurate on this fact. The whole story does not detract from the fact that the inital one cause retailers to withdraw the game. Which supported my original point.
You obviously haven't been watching Uk news this year. The recent rise in abductions and murders by children and yes I mean kids of 7-17 years old, has seen a resurgence of the 'video nasty' crusade particularly after 'Manhunt' appeared on the shelves. 17 year old Warren LeBlanc was said to have been obsessed by the game when he murdered 14 year old Stefan Pakeerah on 27/02/04 in a copy cat style murder. This caused an outcry and the subsequent withdrawal of the game by many retailers.
just because something was a crusade years ago doesn't mean it can't become one again.
Finally a country prepared to back up their words with solid actions. Most of the countries of the world have big voiced groups proclaiming that playing 'video nasties' breeds a generation of violent criminals. There are cases to back this up as well I'm sure. It would be interseting to see if crimes committed by young people reduce if this were enforced all the time without prejudice. May just settle the argument for once and for all.
Does this mean Ubisoft will be editing The Matrix Online to include crumpled Coca Cola cans in the slums?
Careful, soon you'll begin to believe in the Matrix!
On a serious note you can easily see when you make points like this where stories like The Matrix get their ideas from. Every government in every country be they dictator of elected officials would find it so much easier to manage their country if they could do away with freedom of choice and run everything to a prescribed formula. Hence the occurences of so many dictators, and 'tin foil hat' paranoia's. We are controlled by one force or another on a daily basis we just don't notice most of the time because we are too busy getting on with what we belive is our life. How much of it is influenced do we really ever know? Maybe just maybe dictators aren't clever or powerful they're just lazy. Its far easier to control a nation if you take away their choices.
21 is too early? Moron! Im actually 29 still under 30
and he said, " Mummy will the pictures look as old as you cos Star Wars is REALLY old?" Geeeez kiddo thanks I'm not even 30 yet. Maybe his time perception is as warped as Lucas will need to be to fit everything thats missing into Episode 3!
Speaking of kids school walls being plasterd with ads you remind me of Max Barry's book "Jennifer Government" truly the most humorous and insightful book written about the future of corporatism in the future. If you fancy a look at the online rpg based on the book it can be found here at http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/
Thanks! Oh how I tried to not be a geek but you know thanks to slashdot I've come to realise that geeks exist in all walks of life and yeah I even out geek the hubby on some subjects!
Uh huh I'm British. You seem to be a lot like the hubby in that he picks on American spelling saying things along the lines of "Its English for goodness sake spell it in ENGLISH" You could always tell the wife that we women are usually good at being nice about things until we've tried them and found them lacking. Imagine what Eve would have missed out on (and where would the human race be) if she had looked at Adam in the nude and said "You want me to try doing what with that? It's easier if I please myself"
So interesting that this sceptical wife of an uber geek bought it for the hubby as a christmas present, read it herself and now only uses open source software. I even find open office to be far more practical than Microsoft. Oh and not to mention Ive had no spyware problems since switching. So this may all be old news to the confirmed geeks out there but if the wife is saying "yeah yeah" when you bang on about how good Linux etc is pass her the book. Humour and intelligence, the two things GUARANTEED to work on a woman!
I actively dont go to the ads on the right. If they need to get my attention that much then their content cant be that impressive on its own! Like you Im happy with the straight links.
Thanks! After drooling over his friend's smart phone that runs the 'evil' mircrosoft my husband now has an excuse to have a lovely linux smartphone top of his (insert occasion here) present list. Like he needed an excuse to bend my ears about how great Linux is!
You mean he isnt? I was beginning to think all those cheesy put downs were a programmer with a sick sense of humour.
that the Pop Idol contestants had been puppets for this technology since the show's inception. Dont tell me they really DO sing that bad?
Thanks for the advice. Im just a geek in training at the mo so any help I can get I'll accept!!! I know lots about too many subjects and not enough about any one thing. Perl appeals to me though so Ill let you know how Im doing next year!!!!
Are they in your opinion worth reading if you haven't learnt perl yet? Its on my list to learn this year
Thats the first thing a consulting engineer would have told them. I work in the rail division of such a firm and I have to ask, If theyre engineers get paid anything like ours (35+per hour), why did it take 9 years of feasibility studies to decide the tracks didnt match when one track inspection could have told them that?
I did read the article and not once did I say In my previous post that I thought it was a government initiative. Private enterprise is just as if not more so guilty of using tempting methods of getting people to use their services only to apply high or hidden charges once their customers enterpises take off. Specially more-so in countries less fortunate than our own. Its the way cpaitalism has been running the world for eons IMO
This a great idea in principle but who's paying for it? Did they suddenly magic down the cost of internet access cos if they made it that low that people in a rural village in India can afford the isp charges then sign me up to their programme!! Is it like many other western inititatives to help foreign countries, give them it all for what appears like a dream but the hidden charges and interest will leave them crippled later? Give them the net to help them make a profit then take that profit from them in payment for all our help? Im really hoping that this isnt the case. The article doesnt seem to make it clear how this project is being funded
One week of the year? Every week of the year? Which chart? Not exactly what Id call a proper survey although the basic idea is a good one.
I do have to wonder though, surely with the charts being based on airplay and sales they must get mentioned every time they are played soo I would expect high listed songs to be mentioned more hence increase their mean? Does this survey seem a little biased to anyone else?
Thats cos although its a really interestinmg topic Im in the UK and my chances of actually seeing the exhibit are as high as me winning the lottery in every country. Oh wait thats not right, if I won the lottery in any country I could afford to see the exhibit! Seriously it sounds great and yes its a shame we dont get pics.
Fact is that yes more and more of us have the internet but Id hardly call a growth of 4% of the worlds population using the net: a basis for saying that all communication will happen via the internet. People just cant afford it.I see the internet as THE means of communication could happen for the moneyed clasees but conditions just arent there for it to be a universal means. After all a stamp at a one time price of 28p in the Uk costs a darn site less than the charges your isp slaps on you every month. While we have massive poverty in the world and inequlaities in socio-economic conditions then the net will not be THE way of communication.
Hardware central have a great review of the year here: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/edi torials/5139/1/
Personally I cant decide what I would class as the worst. There's plenty to praise and plenty to whine about.
Israel isnt the only country with a difficult language that isnt encouraging the use of MS office. Think the notoriously hard to learn languages and the fact that China, Japan and Korea are using Linux?http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200312/29/ eng20031229_131444.shtml
Maybe just maybe Microsoft are going to find it increasingly hard to sell to countries whose language doesnt not follow similar rules to english (american) grammar. It could become a strong point above many others for open source products. We need language to communicate effectively. If our OS does not provide a correct form of our language surely we will use one who does. Especially if its free!