Well, no one knows there children better than parents... in most cases. Like I said, there is a threshold. Hopefully you are correct in your particular instance. The way you phrased your original post did not make it sound as if there was a healthy program going on (though I'm aware that my post made it sound as if I'm a Troll). I also hope that she'll stay on the path your setting once she goes to school and is exposed to other children. I think that the concept of virtual "killing" can be difficult to grasp, and sometimes bothersome, just as some children have problems when they connect the pig in the movies with the bacon on their plate.
Are you training her in firearms as well? I think it would be a good idea, to help reinforce the messages you're teaching concurrent to Quake, especially if there are firearms in the home.
Maybe, maybe not. I'd like to think so, but there's too much evidence to the contrary. To some extent our reproductive instincts dominate us all.
I doubt that anyone would argue that attractive women get better treatment than unattractive. And neither do I doubt that, barring conflicts in sexual predilictions, that most of these "kind, chivalrous gentlemen" would turn down a piece if it were offered.;)
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The good thing about Google Labs is that the innovations are done voluntarily, on the engineer's own time.
But yes, the tendency to expand into new (and unrelated) realms is annoying. When Google starts supporting e-mail, as jwz's law predicts it will, we'll know we're in trouble. Oh, wait...
Exactly. I may have missed it, but has anyone mentioned the infamous GoogleBomb? When people can trick a search engine that easily, and that publicly and have it still work, then it's time to change something.
I love Google. Google has saved my sorry ass more times than I'd care to admit, but it's going to be a close one. They'll have my search, but the market share is still up in the air.
I'm also against the increasing masulinization of women in society, but I think that video games aren't going to change a girl's (woman's, chick's) natural attributes very much. My gf will hack and slash through Diablo II with the best of them, but she still shies away from "gross" things in real life. She may try to anally rape me with a Zergling in StarCraft, but she still sometimes needs (and, I sometimes suspect, wants) me to open jars for her. There's a balance in the world, and it is good.:)
And people wonder why they say the ratings on games aren't working.
I'm all for getting kids into games, but there's a point at which a child can differentiate betweeen when it's okay to "kill" in a game, and to hurt someone in real life, but I don't think that 4 is it.
That is 1,000% true. Women (or percieved women) always get special treatment in gaming situations, be it on a MUD, FPS, MMORPG, doesn't matter. People used to send my girlfriend RL Purchaseable items for her MUD, especially if they asked to see her picture. It's the same tendency that causes most men to do "chivalrous" things for women: somewhere deep down they think this is getting them one step closer to getting laid.
To quote the great Chris Rock, "Can I help you with that? Can I help you with some dick?"
And as to getting schooled, I'm sure most gamers wouldn't mind Stevie Case (AKA KillCreek) walking all over them in a game of Quake III. Hell, if she can take John Romero to the cleaners...
If only it were always this easy.:) I work the worst form of tech support possible: one where you interact personally with the users.
We have Student ITS at our school, where we have to fix every little thing wrong with every crappy computer any student on campus sees fit to drop off. If I never see another stick of EDO RAM it'll be too soon... but I digress.
As disgusted as I am dealing with users, I'm more disgusted with this company and their "Mantra." I actually like to fix people's problems, and while formatting a computer can be so much fun, and relieve a lot of stress, dealing with the fallout wouldn't be worth "tricking" a user into it to get something done faster. Besides, I'm the one who has to sit through re-installing XP...
MUDs are alive and well. They say development is lagging, but there are a lot of MUDs that have playerbases rivaling some of the smaller MMORPGs.
I'm an Imm. I won't shamelessly plug the tiny MUD I work on, but there is a lot that goes into running a MUD. Mostly the people that keep it working do so out of pure love for their particular little slice of the Telnet Protocol. I don't see MUDs dying, but I also don't see them increasing exponentially, either. The developers of MUDs are nowhere near as sophisticated or organized as open source developers, nor will they ever seek such a union, for dozens of reasons that have already been belabored to death.
The point about the licenses is a good one. There's not a single MUD out there that isn't heavily derived from one of the original ones. Every single one of those codebases specified all sorts of restrictions, including not making money off the product. If there's never a (legal) chance that you'll actually get anything out of your product, then your fervor kind of dies.
Heh.
I wonder what the safe search filters for their engines look like... or do they just use Google, like sensible people? Maybe Google Labs has an arda.top.secret.google.com for them...
That's the government for you. Did you expect anything less?
On a lighter note, I find it endlessly humerous that this psuedo-top secret department, causing all this controversy, that "sponsors high risk, high payoff research designed to produce new technology to address some of the most important and challenging IT problems faced by the intelligence community" has an Upcoming ARDA Calendar of Events!! that it so gleefully links to on its target="_blank">home page.:)
Showdown at the GCC Corral. Sheriff Torvalds and his old buddy Doc Stroustrup up against the nasty SCO Gang... and the SCO gang don't never play fair...:)
So if you obtain the source and compile it yourself, are you then required to purchase a license? Or are they saying that you can only legally use the binaries, and that compiling the source is not even supposed to happen?
I've always found Venus to be an interesting planet, but I agree with the focus on Mars. I think one of the first major step to interstellar travel will be establishing a base on another planet, and Mars is our (closest) best shot. Europa and Titan would be good supply stops on the way out of the solar system.
Actually, Posse Comitatus would allow for jamming, I would think, as a type of "logistical support." And, of course, defense of military installations/secrets is legal, too.
James Earl Jones would be good, though a more British accent would probably fit better.
Maybe Sean Connery? Picure James Bond saying, "Oddly enough, the only thought that went through the bowl of petunia's mind was, 'Oh no, not again.'"
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Maybe it was supposed to be "Arousing lullaby?"
I can see it now, too: USA: We're pushing left! China, Korean, Iran, et al: Sorry, we already sold ours to terrorists ... :)
Well, no one knows there children better than parents ... in most cases. Like I said, there is a threshold. Hopefully you are correct in your particular instance. The way you phrased your original post did not make it sound as if there was a healthy program going on (though I'm aware that my post made it sound as if I'm a Troll). I also hope that she'll stay on the path your setting once she goes to school and is exposed to other children. I think that the concept of virtual "killing" can be difficult to grasp, and sometimes bothersome, just as some children have problems when they connect the pig in the movies with the bacon on their plate.
Are you training her in firearms as well? I think it would be a good idea, to help reinforce the messages you're teaching concurrent to Quake, especially if there are firearms in the home.
Maybe, maybe not. I'd like to think so, but there's too much evidence to the contrary. To some extent our reproductive instincts dominate us all.
;)
I doubt that anyone would argue that attractive women get better treatment than unattractive. And neither do I doubt that, barring conflicts in sexual predilictions, that most of these "kind, chivalrous gentlemen" would turn down a piece if it were offered.
The good thing about Google Labs is that the innovations are done voluntarily, on the engineer's own time.
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But yes, the tendency to expand into new (and unrelated) realms is annoying. When Google starts supporting e-mail, as jwz's law predicts it will, we'll know we're in trouble. Oh, wait
Exactly. I may have missed it, but has anyone mentioned the infamous GoogleBomb? When people can trick a search engine that easily, and that publicly and have it still work, then it's time to change something.
I love Google. Google has saved my sorry ass more times than I'd care to admit, but it's going to be a close one. They'll have my search, but the market share is still up in the air.
I'm also against the increasing masulinization of women in society, but I think that video games aren't going to change a girl's (woman's, chick's) natural attributes very much. My gf will hack and slash through Diablo II with the best of them, but she still shies away from "gross" things in real life. She may try to anally rape me with a Zergling in StarCraft, but she still sometimes needs (and, I sometimes suspect, wants) me to open jars for her. There's a balance in the world, and it is good. :)
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And people wonder why they say the ratings on games aren't working.
I'm all for getting kids into games, but there's a point at which a child can differentiate betweeen when it's okay to "kill" in a game, and to hurt someone in real life, but I don't think that 4 is it.
That is 1,000% true. Women (or percieved women) always get special treatment in gaming situations, be it on a MUD, FPS, MMORPG, doesn't matter. People used to send my girlfriend RL Purchaseable items for her MUD, especially if they asked to see her picture. It's the same tendency that causes most men to do "chivalrous" things for women: somewhere deep down they think this is getting them one step closer to getting laid.
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To quote the great Chris Rock, "Can I help you with that? Can I help you with some dick?"
And as to getting schooled, I'm sure most gamers wouldn't mind Stevie Case (AKA KillCreek) walking all over them in a game of Quake III. Hell, if she can take John Romero to the cleaners
If only it were always this easy. :) I work the worst form of tech support possible: one where you interact personally with the users.
... but I digress.
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We have Student ITS at our school, where we have to fix every little thing wrong with every crappy computer any student on campus sees fit to drop off. If I never see another stick of EDO RAM it'll be too soon
As disgusted as I am dealing with users, I'm more disgusted with this company and their "Mantra." I actually like to fix people's problems, and while formatting a computer can be so much fun, and relieve a lot of stress, dealing with the fallout wouldn't be worth "tricking" a user into it to get something done faster. Besides, I'm the one who has to sit through re-installing XP
Good point. I suppose you accept as almost a given the ubiquitous "Moon Base Alpha" as a jump point for further exploration. :)
That'd be cool. But what do you figure the percentage of viruses/trojans/worms that would be handed around, instead of cool homegrown apps?
MUDs are alive and well. They say development is lagging, but there are a lot of MUDs that have playerbases rivaling some of the smaller MMORPGs.
I'm an Imm. I won't shamelessly plug the tiny MUD I work on, but there is a lot that goes into running a MUD. Mostly the people that keep it working do so out of pure love for their particular little slice of the Telnet Protocol. I don't see MUDs dying, but I also don't see them increasing exponentially, either. The developers of MUDs are nowhere near as sophisticated or organized as open source developers, nor will they ever seek such a union, for dozens of reasons that have already been belabored to death.
The point about the licenses is a good one. There's not a single MUD out there that isn't heavily derived from one of the original ones. Every single one of those codebases specified all sorts of restrictions, including not making money off the product. If there's never a (legal) chance that you'll actually get anything out of your product, then your fervor kind of dies.
Porn is huge in repressed countries like that. And you thought www.oral-anal-spandex-lovin-grandmas.de wasn't a tool for freedom ...
Heh. I wonder what the safe search filters for their engines look like ... or do they just use Google, like sensible people? Maybe Google Labs has an arda.top.secret.google.com for them ...
That's the government for you. Did you expect anything less?
:)
On a lighter note, I find it endlessly humerous that this psuedo-top secret department, causing all this controversy, that "sponsors high risk, high payoff research designed to produce new technology to address some of the most important and challenging IT problems faced by the intelligence community" has an Upcoming ARDA Calendar of Events!! that it so gleefully links to on its target="_blank">home page.
Showdown at the GCC Corral. Sheriff Torvalds and his old buddy Doc Stroustrup up against the nasty SCO Gang ... and the SCO gang don't never play fair ... :)
So if you obtain the source and compile it yourself, are you then required to purchase a license? Or are they saying that you can only legally use the binaries, and that compiling the source is not even supposed to happen?
I've always found Venus to be an interesting planet, but I agree with the focus on Mars. I think one of the first major step to interstellar travel will be establishing a base on another planet, and Mars is our (closest) best shot. Europa and Titan would be good supply stops on the way out of the solar system.
That's why I said a "more" British accent. :) It's vaguely in the realm of that group of islands over there.
Actually, Posse Comitatus would allow for jamming, I would think, as a type of "logistical support." And, of course, defense of military installations/secrets is legal, too.
James Earl Jones would be good, though a more British accent would probably fit better. Maybe Sean Connery? Picure James Bond saying, "Oddly enough, the only thought that went through the bowl of petunia's mind was, 'Oh no, not again.'"
Please let this one be better than the last one. well, the little video game battle section was pretty good, I guess.
"I'm sorry Dave, a can't do that. Would you like to download a naked picture of Anna Kournikova?"
Yep. Because it's just not a robot until it can wave floppy arms around and drone, "Danger rholliday! Danger!" :)
Seriously though, it does seem like an odd oversite. None of these strikes me as particularly useful.