This is another example of some meathead in the press "reporting" his ideas, even if he has to ask preloaded questions to get his (or her) idea across in the story.
Dr. Newman has written a book "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings" which points out one of the principle facts in this case: advance warning signs get ignored.
She doesn't seem to blame games, but the "reportor" sure seems bent on linking blame to games.
It is the ignoring of the warnings that leads to the violence. Well that and the fact that there are people. I say eliminate all the people it is the only way to prevent such violence.
Here's an except from the review of her book:
Rampage challenges the "loner theory" of school violence, and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it.
Drawing on more than 200 interviews with town residents, distinguished sociologist Katherine Newman and her co-authors take the reader inside two of the most notorious school shootings of the 1990s, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Paducah, Kentucky. In a powerful and original analysis, she demonstrates that the organizational structure of schools "loses" information about troubled kids, and the very closeness of these small rural towns restrained neighbors and friends from communicating what they knew about their problems.
In my day we didn't have *three* things to make a startup, we only one thing, would do it with just that one thing...in the snow..while walking bare-foot...uphill...both ways. So there you young punks.
In fact, we didn't call em "start-ups", we called them just "starts".
I think his concern should be addressed a serious concern about an on-going problem. As France continuous to become less and less influencial in world affairs and culture, we all lose.
If the culture that once France is lost because of whatever reasons, we all lose a great deal. Voltare, Descartes, Napolean (a tryant but still a mover and shaker), The French Revolution, Lafeyette...it's a big list!
His attitude deserves a great big wake up call, or a spanking. One or the other.
Sillie Americon with yourre littlee boooks. Nowa go away ora I willa taunta yoou a seconda timea!
When Joe Average gets a Windows app.. actually, screw Joe: when even _I_ get a Windows app, I expect it to look and behave exactly like every other Windows app.
I think he means the ported off of Windows app should crash and send his confidential data to Microsoft in an "Error Report".
1. You've got Cancer. Not sick, but dead and don't know it yet.
************* OR **********************
2. Get the HIV shot, cures the Cancer but you maybe get AIDS in 10 years.
What would you do? Doh! It's a no brainer. Especially if you are in your 50's or later in life.
Having the cure named HIV whatever won't matter. Most chemo drugs are poisons - the hope is the blood infused cancer tumor will absorb more poison the than rest of your body and the cancer dies but you don't. That's why chemo is so horribly debilitating, it's *almost* killing you.
I counted about 70ish Gnomes. That seems like a whole lot less than MASSIVE. So how does 70ish characters crash a server? Even if they are in their underwear and not naked as promised.
Also, it sure seems to me that WOW blew a really great opportunity to for (good) free publicity and a great way to enhance customer satisfaction, instead of all this (I assume) bad press and unhappy Gnome customers.
How do they know these Gnomes aren't going to roam off to a competitor?
Great! At least maybe someone will tell us what the HELL the 3 sea shells are! I really gotta go!
Seriously though, what good does it do to complain about the kids - they are no longer taught about the Constitution anymore - it's too hard to learn. Tom Jefferson is a slave owner, someone writing poetry about being a freed slave is held in higher esteem in the American History textbox than Mr. Jefferson. Not that poetry isn't good, fun and thought provoking - but American History is not about poetry.
So the public education system teaches less real facts, and worries about the kids not killing each other. So we have dumb kids.
Let's see if I understand you.
You're saying that they make the AI really, really stupid because the players (like me) wouldn't be able to beat it otherwise?
HEY!!!
How about some facts. It's new, I know I know, don't be afraid.
This site: http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi/ mi_seri es_results.asp?rowID=576&fID=r15&cgID=
which documents the about in thousands of metric tons, the amount of CO2 each county has produced from 1990 to 2000. The maximum amount for any year during this 10 year period is 25,298,310 thousand metric tons. That's a lot of human activities!
Now according to this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_atmosp here
The total weight of the atmosphere of the Earth is 5.1 × 1018 kg.
Now a metric ton is 1000 kg, so I lucked out.
Summary so far: CO2 per year 2.5 x 10 to the 12th power Atmosphere weight 5.1 x 10 to the 18th power both in kg.
SO...we humans are adding into the atmosphere per year in parts per million (ppm) about.05ppm of CO2.
Let's play. What-if we humans have been doing this for 1,000 years. The steam engine was invented in 1763, so let's play that starting in 1904 we humans were already in stride, bleching out the 2.5 bajillion tons of CO2. I don't know what the 'ramp-up' for co2 production was. I am 'ass-u-me'ing that we are or near some very high value today and it was lower in the past. I picked 1,000 years for easy multiplication, using today's high output - maybe the shorter period (not the full 2,000 years of the Industrial Revolution) times the higher output, covers the ramp up? Don't know.
That's.05 times 1000 or 50 ppm give or take.
Now this site: http://c3c4.utah.edu/snowbirdsymposium/co2t ime2.ht ml
Says CO2 levels NATURALLY varied from 180 to 280 ppm. So our current level of 350ppm seems higher by 70ppm, and humans account for roughly 3/4 of that abnormal high.
Up till this very moment I'll have to say I considered all environmental scientists as wack-o's. Now it's just most of them.
BUT I think that I'll change my mind, and agree that something is going on and we humans are likely the cause.
Quick the rest of you stop driving your cars and freeze to death for me!
They say half the fees go to the Ruby on Rails project and that:
"We have no photographs of our CEO strutting past server racks, or of women in telephone headsets ready to take your call, but we hope you'll consider joining us all the same."
Russian Dolls are hollow. Inside the largest is a smaller doll, open that doll and inside that is a smaller doll. And so it goes.
So when a boss hires lesser people than himself, he fosters an environment where his subordinates hire people lesser than themselves. And so it goes, the company becomes a company of dwaves.
When a boss hires people greater than himself, he fosters an environment where his subordiantes hire people greater than themselves. And so it goes, the company becomes a company of giants.
So if you have a pointy haired boss, it is not always a negative, if phb hears AND listens.
What I assume Google is trying to do it hire really skilled, smart people, but skilled, smart people who listen to others. The grueling interviews are likely just a method of getting the arrogant right skilled, smart people whom can't listen, to exit the interview process voluntarily.
Ok so for Joe Six-pack it goes something like:
1. Google UPC printing
2. Print new UPC
3. Get glue from desk
4. Eat/sniff glue
5.....
6. Sleep for a week!
The ends justify the means? I don't think so!
When the white worm author determines what the ends are, and what correctly is, it is still just a worm.
Anything installed behind my back on my computer is bad, evil, no-good-nick!
Simply label all your food "MEDICAL SAMPLES" or "BIOHAZARD"
That will slow them down!
Seriously I did this at one work place, as someone ate my lunch every day for a week. After so labeling my lunch, hiding waaaaay back in the fridge, as sign was quickly posted on the fridge
"Who is putting MEDICAL SAMPLES in the fridge".
They did quit eating my lunch however.
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This is another example of some meathead in the press "reporting" his ideas, even if he has to ask preloaded questions to get his (or her) idea across in the story.
Dr. Newman has written a book "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings" which points out one of the principle facts in this case: advance warning signs get ignored.
She doesn't seem to blame games, but the "reportor" sure seems bent on linking blame to games.
It is the ignoring of the warnings that leads to the violence. Well that and the fact that there are people. I say eliminate all the people it is the only way to prevent such violence.
Here's an except from the review of her book:
Rampage challenges the "loner theory" of school violence, and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it.
Drawing on more than 200 interviews with town residents, distinguished sociologist Katherine Newman and her co-authors take the reader inside two of the most notorious school shootings of the 1990s, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Paducah, Kentucky. In a powerful and original analysis, she demonstrates that the organizational structure of schools "loses" information about troubled kids, and the very closeness of these small rural towns restrained neighbors and friends from communicating what they knew about their problems.
In my day we didn't have *three* things to make a startup, we only one thing, would do it with just that one thing...in the snow..while walking bare-foot...uphill...both ways. So there you young punks.
In fact, we didn't call em "start-ups", we called them just "starts".
The bottom line has already been taken care of by canning their IT Development Department.
Now they have to figure out some way to get the coding done. Now let's see...
1. Outsource overseas.
2. Contractor in US.
3. Open source.
4. Profit!
Finally we see that Step #3 is.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the Cheshire radio telescope found something that cannot be seen?
I think his concern should be addressed a serious concern about an on-going problem. As France continuous to become less and less influencial in world affairs and culture, we all lose. If the culture that once France is lost because of whatever reasons, we all lose a great deal. Voltare, Descartes, Napolean (a tryant but still a mover and shaker), The French Revolution, Lafeyette...it's a big list! His attitude deserves a great big wake up call, or a spanking. One or the other. Sillie Americon with yourre littlee boooks. Nowa go away ora I willa taunta yoou a seconda timea!
Not TURING machine, TOURING machince.
Just another dog-gone Slashdot typo.
When Joe Average gets a Windows app.. actually, screw Joe: when even _I_ get a Windows app, I expect it to look and behave exactly like every other Windows app.
I think he means the ported off of Windows app should crash and send his confidential data to Microsoft in an "Error Report".
And how would it matter? It wouldn't.
1. You've got Cancer. Not sick, but dead and don't know it yet.
************* OR **********************
2. Get the HIV shot, cures the Cancer but you maybe get AIDS in 10 years.
What would you do? Doh! It's a no brainer. Especially if you are in your 50's or later in life.
Having the cure named HIV whatever won't matter. Most chemo drugs are poisons - the hope is the blood infused cancer tumor will absorb more poison the than rest of your body and the cancer dies but you don't. That's why chemo is so horribly debilitating, it's *almost* killing you.
$50 per hour
$100 per hour if they watch me.
$200 per hour if they help.
I am not a MMORPG player, so help me out here.
Isn't the first 'M' in MMORPG for MASSIVE.
I counted about 70ish Gnomes. That seems like a whole lot less than MASSIVE. So how does 70ish characters crash a server? Even if they are in their underwear and not naked as promised.
Also, it sure seems to me that WOW blew a really great opportunity to for (good) free publicity and a great way to enhance customer satisfaction, instead of all this (I assume) bad press and unhappy Gnome customers.
How do they know these Gnomes aren't going to roam off to a competitor?
Great! At least maybe someone will tell us what the HELL the 3 sea shells are! I really gotta go!
Seriously though, what good does it do to complain about the kids - they are no longer taught about the Constitution anymore - it's too hard to learn. Tom Jefferson is a slave owner, someone writing poetry about being a freed slave is held in higher esteem in the American History textbox than Mr. Jefferson. Not that poetry isn't good, fun and thought provoking - but American History is not about poetry.
So the public education system teaches less real facts, and worries about the kids not killing each other. So we have dumb kids.
Sigh....
Let's see if I understand you. You're saying that they make the AI really, really stupid because the players (like me) wouldn't be able to beat it otherwise? HEY!!!
How about some facts. It's new, I know I know, don't be afraid.
/ mi_seri es_results.asp?rowID=576&fID=r15&cgID=
p here
.05ppm of CO2.
.05 times 1000 or 50 ppm give or take.
t ime2.ht ml
This site:
http://millenniumindicators.un.org/unsd/mi
which documents the about in thousands of metric tons, the amount of CO2 each county has produced from 1990 to 2000. The maximum amount for any year during this 10 year period is 25,298,310 thousand metric tons. That's a lot of human activities!
Now according to this site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_atmos
The total weight of the atmosphere of the Earth is 5.1 × 1018 kg.
Now a metric ton is 1000 kg, so I lucked out.
Summary so far:
CO2 per year 2.5 x 10 to the 12th power
Atmosphere weight 5.1 x 10 to the 18th power
both in kg.
SO...we humans are adding into the atmosphere per year in parts per million (ppm) about
Let's play. What-if we humans have been doing this for 1,000 years. The steam engine was invented in 1763, so let's play that starting in 1904 we humans were already in stride, bleching out the 2.5 bajillion tons of CO2. I don't know what the 'ramp-up' for co2 production was. I am 'ass-u-me'ing that we are or near some very high value today and it was lower in the past. I picked 1,000 years for easy multiplication, using today's high output - maybe the shorter period (not the full 2,000 years of the Industrial Revolution) times the higher output, covers the ramp up? Don't know.
That's
Now this site:
http://c3c4.utah.edu/snowbirdsymposium/co2
Says CO2 levels NATURALLY varied from 180 to 280 ppm. So our current level of 350ppm seems higher by 70ppm, and humans account for roughly 3/4 of that abnormal high.
Up till this very moment I'll have to say I considered all environmental scientists as wack-o's. Now it's just most of them.
BUT I think that I'll change my mind, and agree that something is going on and we humans are likely the cause.
Quick the rest of you stop driving your cars and freeze to death for me!
Here: http://www.textdrive.com/
They say half the fees go to the Ruby on Rails project and that:
"We have no photographs of our CEO strutting past server racks, or of women in telephone headsets ready to take your call, but we hope you'll consider joining us all the same."
Dang no women.
Someone remind us to not this guy post after the first landing on Uranus.
So now the chip implements DRM.
Why does hardware DRM have to mean that the MAN can control me and you, but DRM cannot mean it can be used to control the MAN?
I for one reject our new overlord master, via MY new DRM Chip!
Please be gentle!
What?
I'm calling you on my new Samsung phone powered by Windowstm.
What?
Canyouhearmenow!!! Bzz...click...silence
I can hardly wait.
Russian Dolls are hollow. Inside the largest is a smaller doll, open that doll and inside that is a smaller doll. And so it goes.
So when a boss hires lesser people than himself, he fosters an environment where his subordinates hire people lesser than themselves. And so it goes, the company becomes a company of dwaves.
When a boss hires people greater than himself, he fosters an environment where his subordiantes hire people greater than themselves. And so it goes, the company becomes a company of giants.
So if you have a pointy haired boss, it is not always a negative, if phb hears AND listens.
What I assume Google is trying to do it hire really skilled, smart people, but skilled, smart people who listen to others. The grueling interviews are likely just a method of getting the arrogant right skilled, smart people whom can't listen, to exit the interview process voluntarily.
Come on, NO ONE, I mean NO ONE has that much gum!
It must be a female. If it's a female then... ...it's a 50 Foot Women!!!!
If they name it Jennifer, Bill Clinton will have to restrained.
Ok so for Joe Six-pack it goes something like: 1. Google UPC printing 2. Print new UPC 3. Get glue from desk 4. Eat/sniff glue 5. ....
6. Sleep for a week!
The ends justify the means? I don't think so! When the white worm author determines what the ends are, and what correctly is, it is still just a worm. Anything installed behind my back on my computer is bad, evil, no-good-nick!
Simply label all your food "MEDICAL SAMPLES" or "BIOHAZARD" That will slow them down! Seriously I did this at one work place, as someone ate my lunch every day for a week. After so labeling my lunch, hiding waaaaay back in the fridge, as sign was quickly posted on the fridge "Who is putting MEDICAL SAMPLES in the fridge". They did quit eating my lunch however.
Christ was born in 4 BC, he was crucified and Rose at age 33. When he was 33, it was 29 AD, or 2000 years before this 1 in 233 impact date!
My cell phone. Next upgrade I'm gonna get one to match the tumor growing on the other side.