Alienware isn't for computer enthusiasts, it's for spoiled kids that think they know something about computers because they can recite technical specifications off of a website. Truth is, Alienware doesn't put anything in their systems that you can't buy and install yourself for half the price.
That doesn't mean to say there is or isn't a connection, and there are no conclusive studies that some people who are a little socially eclipsed that are affected by continuous and sporting presentation of killing.
except of course albert bandura's respected research and conclusion of the Social Learning Theory which CLEARLY shows a correlated trend between kids who watch violence and kids who become violent.
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/bandur a. htm
gamers that play violent video games are pretty quick to jump up against the idea that watching violence correlates to making violence, only because they see themselves as nonviolent people. of course, we must ask the question--do crazy people know theyre crazy? do schizophrenics know the things they audibly and visually hallucinate arent real? do serial killers think that killing is wrong? of course not, if they had apathy they wouldnt do it. its a fact, social environments mold people. they influence how people run through the events in their daily lives. a person that grows up in poverty does not act the same way a president's son would in any given situation. the same way a person that has played violent video games for 10 years doesnt act the same way someone else does who hasnt.
of course there are other variables that factor into these kinds of killings, otherwise every gamer on the street would run around with steak knives stabbing people (or guns, shooting people, if they could get ahold of them), but to say the two dont correlate after the countless studies that have proved it is just igorance.
i think the riaa has it all wrong, at least in my case.
i rarely buy CDs. Why? is it because i have p2p apps and broadband? nope. i d/l lots of music (and trash most of it). its not that i dont buy the music because i have the option to get it for free--its because i dont have the personal spending money to buy the music!
the RIAA says its LOSING money? how about, its NOT MAKING money. whether im d/ling music for free or not, that doesnt put money into my pocket so i can go and buy a cd i like. im a poor ass, minimum wage college student--d/ling music for free doesnt mean im stealing money or profit from anyone. music isnt a necessity, its a form of entertainment that i could easily live without. i figure there is no external harm from me d/ling it because i wasnt going to buy it in the first place. there was no money lost--BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER MONEY TO BE MADE!
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Alienware isn't for computer enthusiasts, it's for spoiled kids that think they know something about computers because they can recite technical specifications off of a website. Truth is, Alienware doesn't put anything in their systems that you can't buy and install yourself for half the price.
I attend and work at DeVry University in Illinois and we deployed campus wide 802.11N AP's months ago.
That doesn't mean to say there is or isn't a connection, and there are no conclusive studies that some people who are a little socially eclipsed that are affected by continuous and sporting presentation of killing.
r a. htm
except of course albert bandura's respected research and conclusion of the Social Learning Theory which CLEARLY shows a correlated trend between kids who watch violence and kids who become violent.
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/bandu
gamers that play violent video games are pretty quick to jump up against the idea that watching violence correlates to making violence, only because they see themselves as nonviolent people. of course, we must ask the question--do crazy people know theyre crazy? do schizophrenics know the things they audibly and visually hallucinate arent real? do serial killers think that killing is wrong? of course not, if they had apathy they wouldnt do it. its a fact, social environments mold people. they influence how people run through the events in their daily lives. a person that grows up in poverty does not act the same way a president's son would in any given situation. the same way a person that has played violent video games for 10 years doesnt act the same way someone else does who hasnt.
of course there are other variables that factor into these kinds of killings, otherwise every gamer on the street would run around with steak knives stabbing people (or guns, shooting people, if they could get ahold of them), but to say the two dont correlate after the countless studies that have proved it is just igorance.
now all we need is a technology like this that will block wifi signals. ;)
i think the riaa has it all wrong, at least in my case. i rarely buy CDs. Why? is it because i have p2p apps and broadband? nope. i d/l lots of music (and trash most of it). its not that i dont buy the music because i have the option to get it for free--its because i dont have the personal spending money to buy the music! the RIAA says its LOSING money? how about, its NOT MAKING money. whether im d/ling music for free or not, that doesnt put money into my pocket so i can go and buy a cd i like. im a poor ass, minimum wage college student--d/ling music for free doesnt mean im stealing money or profit from anyone. music isnt a necessity, its a form of entertainment that i could easily live without. i figure there is no external harm from me d/ling it because i wasnt going to buy it in the first place. there was no money lost--BECAUSE THERE WAS NEVER MONEY TO BE MADE!