He wasn't threatened when he broke it or because he broke it. He was threatened because he was going to do the un-American (un-Corporate?) thing and turn down the money instead to publish a paper on the subject [which he subsequently did present].
Disclosure of procedure is different than just doing something.
First off, I'm not an addiction specialist, but I don't have first hand knowledge of how it works, and I can probably input some valid commentary on how games can be addicting.
How it Works...
From my understanding, mental / psychological addiction occurs when someone's coping skills become atrophied (for lack of a better word) due to lack of use. Usually, this happens when something else replaces those skills, such as drugs, sex, alcohol, etc. These things allow the person to not have to cope with whatever stresses they would normally have by allowing them to artificially not have to deal with (i.e., cover-up) the problem. For example:
Meet Jon. Jon works in the IT feild. One day, one of his (l)users decides that he's going to "FIX" the Oracle machine in the server room. The user "FIXES" the machine and Jon walks in 15 minutes later and discovers this.
This is where the stress occurs. For purposes of this example, Jon can only choose one of two responses:
A- Go confront the guy and discuss it.
B- Go smoke a doobie.
Consequences of those actions.
A> Jon gets to get frustrated, angry, etc. He puts his coping skills to use!
B> Jon gets fried. Ignoring the fact that he's fried at work, he hasn't had to deal with those feelings and that stress. He thinks to himself "Ah.. that wasn't that bad. THis pot thing's neat! I'll try it next time I need to feel good."
Cycle B is pretty viscious, and hard to escape from.
Now applying this to videogames is pretty simple:
Video games allow people to vent stress by killing things, or otherwise focusing their attention AWAY from the problem and somewhere else, very similar to the effect of drugs.
Jon goes into the server room, finds things broken, goes and unleashes some of his hellfire on the electrons that exist in Q3A or whatever, feels better, goes and does some work.
Granted, his reaction was TONS better than going and toking up, but there comes a point where you can't go into your room and play 10 rounds of UT to get that stress to go away. If that happens and you end up a quivering ball of strife, you have a problem.
It's an interesting social commentary that you (and most Americans, methinks) assign "don't want" to things concerning your physical wellbeing, but your monetary wellbeing has "especially not" priority.
Just my thought.
Business class service (Read as: Higher Commitment to service uptime) is probably what you pay the premium for, as well as increased technical support. I know that with some Big Iron OEM stuff, if you pay them enough money, they'll "flag" your trouble-ticket with the highest priority and bump everyone else down to get you fixed first. I think that's ethically crap, but hey.
Upon thinking "Why won't they support XP?", I had to wonder to myself:
Is it because the RAW SOCKETS fiasco?
Think about it. The best way to keep something out of the hands of the public (where it is most likely to be a problem) is to say "Oh, you can get it, but we won't help you 'un-break' it [It is MS, afterall] if you need help."
I recently got a set of Harmon-kardon speakers and was wondering if maybe someone could tell me HOW to set them up instead of what to buy? Like... speaker placement, subwoofer placement for the best sound in my carpeted, wood-paneled room?
I think that's completely unethical. My bills don't ALWAYS get payed on time, and my money is just as good as yours. What makes you better than me, the fact that your credit card has more buying power? WHat if I'm paying in cash and their ISN'T a bill?
How about one of those 2-d barcode things like fedex uses that contains like a PGP signature or something to ensure consistancy with the system. Have the code programmed into the machine right before the election booth opens up, then when someone goes to vote, it processes the voteing info accordingly. Not only is this secret (do YOU know how to read a UPS 2-d BarCode?) but it's a little more secure, eh? (No, I'm not Canadian.)
You could probably re-use it if you REALLY wanted to. I don't know if the effort would be worth it though. How much would you have to pay someone to go through your poo?
You have to remember, these people knew WHERE to look to attack this thing. Comparing the attack to your fire dept or something similar isn't fair, just because they don't know where exactly the emergency is going to break out. I guess in the same vein, they are pretty sure they are not going to get called for a fire on the opposite coast or something.
Food for thought.
Facist Country in the Middle Of Europe? Who unfroze Stalin?
The Cold War is Over. Hot-headed, irration thought like what you displayed will not only re-kindle the sentiment (flames?) of the last cold war, but could possibly make it boil over into something worse.
The absolute LAST thing that Russia needs is something else like a Nuclear Stockpile (to get through missle sheilds) to drain it's economy further. You think it's bad over there now, wait until The Kremlin decides that it's better to dump money into arms manufacture than feed it's populace. Think before you post.
I have this guy who is "above me" *gag*, and he is a complete idiot when it comes to computers. He uses a Mac, professes to know everything, and is just a general idiot. My question is, how do I get what I need/want for the office to run while not letting him "in the know" which requires at least an hour in each situation describing things to him. I mean, wanting to know is great and all, but it severely impacts the amount of time that I have to do stuff.
Anyways, here's an example:
I go to work, and set up this software called MeetingMaker. It's time-management software for the office, so it's pretty useful. Anyways, it takes me about 4 hours to set up the stuff and the holidays and such, and it will take a couple more to program all the appointments into it that we already have. I'm almost done for the day, so I leave it, thinking I'll get back to it tommorrow. WRONG! He goes into the server room, gets on it and DELETES THE ENTIRE PROGRAM (including my 4 or so hours of work) because he doesn't know the administrative password. When I asked him why he did that, he said because he couldn't get into it, and anything he can't get into doesn't need to be on the computers.
Another example:
I get into the office, get my mail, pick up my messages, and get my "To Do" list for the day (Kindly made out by him) and sit down at my desk. I go to start up a telnet session to check my mail, and the mouse doesn't work. I root around for a while (it's a OSX box, I "root" around, get it??) and find out that he has somehow removed the drivers for the mouse. At this point, I just want to quit. It will take me a good half-hour to track down mouse drivers and install them. I never got a reason from him, but everyone in the office said that he was in there for a good part of the morning, doing what I'll never know.
At this point as of now, I avoid the office whenever he's in, just so I dont' have to deal with him. So in general, my question is, how do I deal with a Prima Donna manager?
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Who says ET doesn't already have a cure? And who even knows if their is a cure?
He wasn't threatened when he broke it or because he broke it. He was threatened because he was going to do the un-American (un-Corporate?) thing and turn down the money instead to publish a paper on the subject [which he subsequently did present].
Disclosure of procedure is different than just doing something.
I, personally, think it's sad when a video game's measure of frames per second becomes a benchmark. At least re-index a database or something ;)
That sensation is the internal bleeding you get when someone tries to ram a national ID card into your rectum. Enjoy!
Just for the record, "fa" means gay in Samoan.
Just take black and whites and have Ted Turner Colorize(TM) it!!
He probably owns the damn sattelite anyways.
First off, I'm not an addiction specialist, but I don't have first hand knowledge of how it works, and I can probably input some valid commentary on how games can be addicting.
How it Works...
From my understanding, mental / psychological addiction occurs when someone's coping skills become atrophied (for lack of a better word) due to lack of use. Usually, this happens when something else replaces those skills, such as drugs, sex, alcohol, etc. These things allow the person to not have to cope with whatever stresses they would normally have by allowing them to artificially not have to deal with (i.e., cover-up) the problem. For example:
Meet Jon. Jon works in the IT feild. One day, one of his (l)users decides that he's going to "FIX" the Oracle machine in the server room. The user "FIXES" the machine and Jon walks in 15 minutes later and discovers this.
This is where the stress occurs. For purposes of this example, Jon can only choose one of two responses:
A- Go confront the guy and discuss it.
B- Go smoke a doobie.
Consequences of those actions.
A> Jon gets to get frustrated, angry, etc. He puts his coping skills to use!
B> Jon gets fried. Ignoring the fact that he's fried at work, he hasn't had to deal with those feelings and that stress. He thinks to himself "Ah.. that wasn't that bad. THis pot thing's neat! I'll try it next time I need to feel good."
Cycle B is pretty viscious, and hard to escape from.
Now applying this to videogames is pretty simple:
Video games allow people to vent stress by killing things, or otherwise focusing their attention AWAY from the problem and somewhere else, very similar to the effect of drugs. Jon goes into the server room, finds things broken, goes and unleashes some of his hellfire on the electrons that exist in Q3A or whatever, feels better, goes and does some work.
Granted, his reaction was TONS better than going and toking up, but there comes a point where you can't go into your room and play 10 rounds of UT to get that stress to go away. If that happens and you end up a quivering ball of strife, you have a problem.
As an aside...
It's an interesting social commentary that you (and most Americans, methinks) assign "don't want" to things concerning your physical wellbeing, but your monetary wellbeing has "especially not" priority.
Just my thought.
Inadvertently receiving something that you didn't pay for is stealing? I think not. Ever heard of free?
Business class service (Read as: Higher Commitment to service uptime) is probably what you pay the premium for, as well as increased technical support. I know that with some Big Iron OEM stuff, if you pay them enough money, they'll "flag" your trouble-ticket with the highest priority and bump everyone else down to get you fixed first. I think that's ethically crap, but hey.
-Sean
I think that might be the EXACT problem. BUSINESS. Not GOVERNMENT. The Nation is *NOT* a corporation, don't treat it like one!
Upon thinking "Why won't they support XP?", I had to wonder to myself:
Is it because the RAW SOCKETS fiasco?
Think about it. The best way to keep something out of the hands of the public (where it is most likely to be a problem) is to say "Oh, you can get it, but we won't help you 'un-break' it [It is MS, afterall] if you need help."
Just a thought.
Try hooking up larger batteries to the IR port? Infra-red is the radiant form of heat, after all.
-Sean
I recently got a set of Harmon-kardon speakers and was wondering if maybe someone could tell me HOW to set them up instead of what to buy? Like ... speaker placement, subwoofer placement for the best sound in my carpeted, wood-paneled room?
Any thoughts?
Just a teaspoon of garlic? You must not be a student of Emeril, huh? :)
Alfred State, I believe, has a completely wireless enabled campus.
I think that's completely unethical. My bills don't ALWAYS get payed on time, and my money is just as good as yours. What makes you better than me, the fact that your credit card has more buying power? WHat if I'm paying in cash and their ISN'T a bill?
How about one of those 2-d barcode things like fedex uses that contains like a PGP signature or something to ensure consistancy with the system. Have the code programmed into the machine right before the election booth opens up, then when someone goes to vote, it processes the voteing info accordingly. Not only is this secret (do YOU know how to read a UPS 2-d BarCode?) but it's a little more secure, eh? (No, I'm not Canadian.)
Hmm...
You could probably re-use it if you REALLY wanted to. I don't know if the effort would be worth it though. How much would you have to pay someone to go through your poo?
-SeanYou don't need to pay/enslave the wind...
You have to remember, these people knew WHERE to look to attack this thing. Comparing the attack to your fire dept or something similar isn't fair, just because they don't know where exactly the emergency is going to break out. I guess in the same vein, they are pretty sure they are not going to get called for a fire on the opposite coast or something.
Food for thought.
Should it be mentioned that Microsoft has little part in manufacturing it's own hardware, save sticking their logo and drivers all over it?
Testing, Testing, Is This Thing on?
Facist Country in the Middle Of Europe? Who unfroze Stalin?
The Cold War is Over. Hot-headed, irration thought like what you displayed will not only re-kindle the sentiment (flames?) of the last cold war, but could possibly make it boil over into something worse.
The absolute LAST thing that Russia needs is something else like a Nuclear Stockpile (to get through missle sheilds) to drain it's economy further. You think it's bad over there now, wait until The Kremlin decides that it's better to dump money into arms manufacture than feed it's populace. Think before you post.
If I *EVER* get a kernel panic when I turn my TV on, I'm holding you personally responsible. *grumble, grumble*
I have this guy who is "above me" *gag*, and he is a complete idiot when it comes to computers. He uses a Mac, professes to know everything, and is just a general idiot. My question is, how do I get what I need/want for the office to run while not letting him "in the know" which requires at least an hour in each situation describing things to him. I mean, wanting to know is great and all, but it severely impacts the amount of time that I have to do stuff.
Anyways, here's an example:
I go to work, and set up this software called MeetingMaker. It's time-management software for the office, so it's pretty useful. Anyways, it takes me about 4 hours to set up the stuff and the holidays and such, and it will take a couple more to program all the appointments into it that we already have. I'm almost done for the day, so I leave it, thinking I'll get back to it tommorrow. WRONG! He goes into the server room, gets on it and DELETES THE ENTIRE PROGRAM (including my 4 or so hours of work) because he doesn't know the administrative password. When I asked him why he did that, he said because he couldn't get into it, and anything he can't get into doesn't need to be on the computers.
Another example:
I get into the office, get my mail, pick up my messages, and get my "To Do" list for the day (Kindly made out by him) and sit down at my desk. I go to start up a telnet session to check my mail, and the mouse doesn't work. I root around for a while (it's a OSX box, I "root" around, get it??) and find out that he has somehow removed the drivers for the mouse. At this point, I just want to quit. It will take me a good half-hour to track down mouse drivers and install them. I never got a reason from him, but everyone in the office said that he was in there for a good part of the morning, doing what I'll never know.
At this point as of now, I avoid the office whenever he's in, just so I dont' have to deal with him. So in general, my question is, how do I deal with a Prima Donna manager?