She claims that she is part of a new generation that has grown up with mixing and sampling in all media, including music and art, and this is legitimate in modern culture
If she said that upfront - before all this blew up... then perhaps she might have a legitimate point. But after the fact is smacks of ignorance, laziness and a protozoan intellect pretending to be great.
I really do not want a constant flow of inane jibberings from every person in my gmail contact list day after day. This would drive me totally mad. Presumably there will be an opt out?
I'm missing the part where this study has produced anything of value.
"What is clear is that for a small subset of people, excessive use of the internet could be a warning signal for depressive tendencies."
You could just as easily say with just as much truth, "What is clear is that for a small subset of people, excessive *anything* could be a warning signal for depressive tendencies." But of course, that wouldn't produce anywhere near as much alarm and fear of the Internet.
Well, actually, no. The next logical step from this study would be to conduct a randomised controlled trial such that, in the experimental groups, internet users who are depressed are asked to reduce their use of the internet and go do ther activities. If a robust effect is discovered then the advice that reducing internet use in depressed internet users can help reduce depression is validated to some extent. Which is a whole load better than simply saying to depressed internet users that they go off and take some pills.
So there is some merit in this study and the researchers are going about some potentially valuable research. The media have blown it up out of proportion, as usual.
I'd rather keep my phone/sms/chat separate from my game play. To play on the go needs something a bit larger and more tactile than an iPhone... the PSP is nice but I'd never stick it in my pocket on a night out. Plus, and particularly with the iPhone, a couple of hours playing games and your battery would be dust. Not only putting an end to game play but taking down your comms as well. Personally - when travelling the PSP is great (especially for the kids), if its a long time away from the PS3/Wii then I'll take a laptop.
Economically, it might be more expensive keeping the invasion fleet at home - better to have them wander the galaxy picking fights under the aegis of securing inter-galactic democracy - nothing worse than having trained killers hanging out in the 'burbs. Or they might even be space nomads looking for suitable planets to stop off at to eat, get sexy and reproduce before carrying on through space. Or, Earth might be home to a resource that is exceptionally valuable, such as haemoglobin(?!) or raw brains, to their sprawling empire making the journey potentially profitable for inter-galactic venture capitalists. So there are plenty of reasons why we can expect aliens to come calling - in fact is is surprising it hasn't happened already.
The summary isn't even close to correct. What the hell is going on with Slashdot these days?
Hormonal adolescence. To the new youth Google is the old guard. You mark my words, before long we'll be having deep and meaningful conversations about anarchy and the meaning of existance.
I'd never heard of ixquick before but initial impressions are very positive. So thankyou. I've set it as my default search engine for additional scrutiny. Also interested to note that they are launching a proxy service. A breath of fresh air.
"... China is tapping the expertise of its extensive scientific diaspora in North America and Europe, tempting back mid-career scientists with deals that allow them to spend part of the year working in the West and part in China."
Translation: Chinese academics and scientists working in the West are, for all intents and purposes, spys.
Troll. It is not so much between countries where spying occurs but between scientific groups. But that is only inso far research concerned with who gets the publication first. Once published, in general, everyone benefits. The only exception is commercially sensitive research - and, frankly, the chinese have the muscle to buy their way into that market.
Why are inmates playing games anyway? They have lots of time - shouldn't they spend that time learning pottery/cooking/raising kids/social skills/programming so that they are fun people by the time they get out of jail?
That's the ideal - at least in the UK. The reality is overcharging consultants providing mediocre services to a system that is fundamentally unable to cope. Strangely - it is only the offenders who seem to care anymore...
Monopoly banned for associations with bling, checkers banned due to confrontational game play, scrabble because it can be used to pass encrypted messages...
99% of all murderers ate bread in the 12 months leading up to their crime, so lets ban bread while we are here. oh, and lets ban judges because they are clearly hangovers from a rather medieval system also associated with chopping peoples heads off.
This is the deal - it is about responsibility, about being a part of a community. Behaving in a way that harms other users, whether it is the road, the internet or anything else for that matter, is frankly wrong. The internet wouldn't be here if it wasn't for other people participating in this network. We therefore have a right to expect, in return for our participation, acceptable behaviour. If you don't like it - go build your own internet.
If you've ever complained to the BBC, I think you'll find that complaining to them is like writing a complaint and sending it to/dev/null.
They don't listen, they don't care, they are completely unaccountable, due to the unique way they are funded - by a compulsory tax.
BS - I have and they were very responsive. A delight, compared to most other organisations I've had cause to tussle with. In fact, if anything, I was a little concerned that too much license fee money was going on customer service. I am very pelased to pay the "compulsry tax" as you put it. It makes the BBC one of the last places on earth that is ad free. And having kids who like CBBC that is very important to us - easily worth the license fee keeping the latest guns, junk food and general crap away from them.
If volume is increasing then this might mean returns are getting scarce for these parasites. and perhaps it will come to a point where no matter how much spam they deliver they still don't make enough. but then maybe i am dreaming.
This is the problem with the modern world. No one will write books about how important events unfolded, how chance occurrences led great minds to think through problems in new ways, and where and how the great and the good were inspired. Stuff just gets blogged, lost in an electronic ocean of mediocrity and then accidentially deleted. The next generations are just going to be left with incompatible file formats.
Even now, we will probably not know the big picture until the medical data is carefully analyzed.
If we don't have systems in place that can rapidly analyse such data with sufficient accuracy to make firm judgements on the potential scale of the problem, systems that stand up to scrutiny, then someone has got their priorities seriously wrong. True, a false alarm is better than a miss in this case - but there was too much noise (including hysteria) when those decisions were made. Hopefully we can learn from all this and put appropriate systems in place and not stack the CDC deck so pessimistically.
This is very true - however our eye gaze is also attracted to things we find interesting. An interface that had that information could easily rearrange itself based upon where we were looking. For example, you could imagine a 4 by 4 grid, each cell linked to some app or document. the size of each cell would be in proportion to the time spent gazing at it... and as cell size increases different components/layers of information for each cell becomes visible. I'm sure the people of Apple could come up with something a little more tasty than that example, it's just an idea.
Ok - so that's minesweeper and hearts... what's the third? Seriously though - I don't even have those games on my work computers. I'm more interested to know if they work well with my software, or matlab and so forth. There are other uses for computers.
It sounds like one of those dreadful golf clubs - surely there is a better way of recognising significant contributions without the potential for "membership commiittees" screwing things up?
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They'll only be excepting pieces of eight and dubloons... aghghghrrr me hearties
She claims that she is part of a new generation that has grown up with mixing and sampling in all media, including music and art, and this is legitimate in modern culture
If she said that upfront - before all this blew up... then perhaps she might have a legitimate point. But after the fact is smacks of ignorance, laziness and a protozoan intellect pretending to be great.
I really do not want a constant flow of inane jibberings from every person in my gmail contact list day after day. This would drive me totally mad. Presumably there will be an opt out?
But if we pipe the internet directly into the brain will this make us even more depressed?
I'm missing the part where this study has produced anything of value.
"What is clear is that for a small subset of people, excessive use of the internet could be a warning signal for depressive tendencies."
You could just as easily say with just as much truth, "What is clear is that for a small subset of people, excessive *anything* could be a warning signal for depressive tendencies." But of course, that wouldn't produce anywhere near as much alarm and fear of the Internet.
Well, actually, no. The next logical step from this study would be to conduct a randomised controlled trial such that, in the experimental groups, internet users who are depressed are asked to reduce their use of the internet and go do ther activities. If a robust effect is discovered then the advice that reducing internet use in depressed internet users can help reduce depression is validated to some extent. Which is a whole load better than simply saying to depressed internet users that they go off and take some pills.
So there is some merit in this study and the researchers are going about some potentially valuable research. The media have blown it up out of proportion, as usual.
I'd rather keep my phone/sms/chat separate from my game play. To play on the go needs something a bit larger and more tactile than an iPhone... the PSP is nice but I'd never stick it in my pocket on a night out. Plus, and particularly with the iPhone, a couple of hours playing games and your battery would be dust. Not only putting an end to game play but taking down your comms as well. Personally - when travelling the PSP is great (especially for the kids), if its a long time away from the PS3/Wii then I'll take a laptop.
Economically, it might be more expensive keeping the invasion fleet at home - better to have them wander the galaxy picking fights under the aegis of securing inter-galactic democracy - nothing worse than having trained killers hanging out in the 'burbs. Or they might even be space nomads looking for suitable planets to stop off at to eat, get sexy and reproduce before carrying on through space. Or, Earth might be home to a resource that is exceptionally valuable, such as haemoglobin(?!) or raw brains, to their sprawling empire making the journey potentially profitable for inter-galactic venture capitalists. So there are plenty of reasons why we can expect aliens to come calling - in fact is is surprising it hasn't happened already.
The summary isn't even close to correct. What the hell is going on with Slashdot these days?
Hormonal adolescence. To the new youth Google is the old guard. You mark my words, before long we'll be having deep and meaningful conversations about anarchy and the meaning of existance.
I'd never heard of ixquick before but initial impressions are very positive. So thankyou. I've set it as my default search engine for additional scrutiny. Also interested to note that they are launching a proxy service. A breath of fresh air.
"... China is tapping the expertise of its extensive scientific diaspora in North America and Europe, tempting back mid-career scientists with deals that allow them to spend part of the year working in the West and part in China."
Translation: Chinese academics and scientists working in the West are, for all intents and purposes, spys.
Troll. It is not so much between countries where spying occurs but between scientific groups. But that is only inso far research concerned with who gets the publication first. Once published, in general, everyone benefits. The only exception is commercially sensitive research - and, frankly, the chinese have the muscle to buy their way into that market.
Why are inmates playing games anyway? They have lots of time - shouldn't they spend that time learning pottery/cooking/raising kids/social skills/programming so that they are fun people by the time they get out of jail?
That's the ideal - at least in the UK. The reality is overcharging consultants providing mediocre services to a system that is fundamentally unable to cope. Strangely - it is only the offenders who seem to care anymore...
99% of all murderers ate bread in the 12 months leading up to their crime, so lets ban bread while we are here. oh, and lets ban judges because they are clearly hangovers from a rather medieval system also associated with chopping peoples heads off.
This is the deal - it is about responsibility, about being a part of a community. Behaving in a way that harms other users, whether it is the road, the internet or anything else for that matter, is frankly wrong. The internet wouldn't be here if it wasn't for other people participating in this network. We therefore have a right to expect, in return for our participation, acceptable behaviour. If you don't like it - go build your own internet.
He gave a sermon on iptables in linux and simple object access protocols. It was call "Pope on a SOAP on a ROPE"... I'll get my coat
If you've ever complained to the BBC, I think you'll find that complaining to them is like writing a complaint and sending it to /dev/null.
They don't listen, they don't care, they are completely unaccountable, due to the unique way they are funded - by a compulsory tax.
BS - I have and they were very responsive. A delight, compared to most other organisations I've had cause to tussle with. In fact, if anything, I was a little concerned that too much license fee money was going on customer service. I am very pelased to pay the "compulsry tax" as you put it. It makes the BBC one of the last places on earth that is ad free. And having kids who like CBBC that is very important to us - easily worth the license fee keeping the latest guns, junk food and general crap away from them.
If volume is increasing then this might mean returns are getting scarce for these parasites. and perhaps it will come to a point where no matter how much spam they deliver they still don't make enough. but then maybe i am dreaming.
This is the problem with the modern world. No one will write books about how important events unfolded, how chance occurrences led great minds to think through problems in new ways, and where and how the great and the good were inspired. Stuff just gets blogged, lost in an electronic ocean of mediocrity and then accidentially deleted. The next generations are just going to be left with incompatible file formats.
This is a rerun of the classic Gorillas in our Midst experiment - look here for an abstract and more info from here and here
Even now, we will probably not know the big picture until the medical data is carefully analyzed.
If we don't have systems in place that can rapidly analyse such data with sufficient accuracy to make firm judgements on the potential scale of the problem, systems that stand up to scrutiny, then someone has got their priorities seriously wrong. True, a false alarm is better than a miss in this case - but there was too much noise (including hysteria) when those decisions were made. Hopefully we can learn from all this and put appropriate systems in place and not stack the CDC deck so pessimistically.
This is very true - however our eye gaze is also attracted to things we find interesting. An interface that had that information could easily rearrange itself based upon where we were looking. For example, you could imagine a 4 by 4 grid, each cell linked to some app or document. the size of each cell would be in proportion to the time spent gazing at it... and as cell size increases different components/layers of information for each cell becomes visible. I'm sure the people of Apple could come up with something a little more tasty than that example, it's just an idea.
..my ADHD stops from getting even close to the end of a
Then you will probably like to see a reboot of Dark Star easily the greatest sci-fi film of all time.
Ok - so that's minesweeper and hearts... what's the third? Seriously though - I don't even have those games on my work computers. I'm more interested to know if they work well with my software, or matlab and so forth. There are other uses for computers.
What about money contribution?
Sorry but no - protestantism allows you to buy your way to heaven, not FOSS
It sounds like one of those dreadful golf clubs - surely there is a better way of recognising significant contributions without the potential for "membership commiittees" screwing things up?