Another thing. TFA was talking about Dopamine surge, etc you get while playing this game = addiction. Great. Then the physical addiction to a game goes away after 24-48 hours. It is the mental addiction that stays (same thing for alcohol, drugs, etc. detox). So, the kid lost his games 2 weeks prior to the shooting. He spent 2 weeks planning this. He was off any physical addiction he had - it was purely a mental aspect. He decided to do it, and then planned on how to do it.
While true.. I would love to see this as a game mode on (well ironically) Halo. When I play with my teenaged son, he will run into a room and die 3 times trying to kill everyone. I will stand back, give cover fire, and not die at all. Usually on any given level, we have the same score, I die once, maybe twice, and he will die 25 times (this is on the legendary, etc. skill levels). He thinks he is a better video gamer than I if he beats my score, however, I don't die often.
While both skill sets are good in various ways, I think being able to teach those, would benefit someone greater than just one style of play. I cannot get him to play anything like Splinter Cell because he thinks it is too boring (you know - gun with 20 bullets in it, sneak around all level, usually don't have to kill).
But yes.. everyone is different. They are looking for different challenges for their entertainment. This is why video game design is so hard. Other wise we all would be doing it:)
Really? While I disagree with having to give my fingerprints, or other personal info out (why does another country need my SSN?) I will do it to visit a country. I have given my fingerprints to China, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal, and Hong Kong. Most of these in the 80's when I was not even a teenager. As a US citizen, I have not given my fingerprints to them yet (while I bet they already have them) from my visa applications to travel abroad.
I have spent my hard earned monies overseas, with no issues. I disagree with several governments I have visited. I have been poked an prodded several times by security guards. It is part of understanding the culture of a certain place. You might have gotten a better reception in Dallas or LA, and not the nation's capitol. You might have caught a guard on a bad day when there was an IT outage and they had to do a shit ton of extra work. Who knows.
Most sane people don't want to give up pieces of their information for no reason, and all governments have shown a propensity for abusing information gathered. However, it is also their rules you have to follow wherever you are.
Wow.. I did not even read (the WOW) as World of Warcraft. I know lots of people who say... on a daily basis... "Fucking wow, idiots"... I guess I need my geek card returned for not catching that allusion:(
The only reason I read the local paper is to get the Fry's ad:). My parents live with my and get the daily paper. My mother does the suduku, crossword, and all the other games in it. My dad reads the articles. I could not agree with you more. They need to spend more on the local stuff. That is why they get a paper. The national news they get from the 11:00 news.
Not necessarily true.
Lets say that a CD hits $10 MSRP (which is what they are charged to Best Buy, anything else is profit to them). And a digital download costs $1 a piece. So what they are saying is their profits in 2003 were $6.56 Billion dollars. Their profits in 2007 were $5.844 Billion dollars. That is less. Yes their over head might go down, however, that is less revenue coming in which any company in their right mind would be concerned with.
Really? Piracy? I download Chuck via p2p every Monday night because my cable provider provides me a DVR than can handle recording only 2 shows at a time (Sarah Connor Chronicles on FOX and Big Bang Theory on CBS)... I can get it from CBS - but it does not work with my browser most the time (I am running Linux with Firefox - 64 bit). So I just get it from p2p. I don't consider that stealing since the show is free on the internet, I am just getting it in a different form. How am I competing with my ISP/Cable Provider?
While I agree with the sentiment, have you EVER known of a government take away a tax? I mean there are toll roads which have been in place around here, and they have been paid off, and the next 50 years of maintenance have been paid off, but they will not remove the tolls. Why? That money goes into the coffers of the government.
What about when a government proposes a higher sales tax to pay for a stadium or some such? They have paid it off after a few decades, but won't drop the sales tax, as they can do so much with that "revenue" stream.
Kewl. I always wondered why. I graduated from college (in Indiana) and got my first job in St. Louis and when they asked if I was a Hoosier, I always said yes. It took several times for me to turn off that reflex.
True, but in St. Louis, Hoosier is a bad term for some reason, and it the equivalent of calling someone a hick or using the N word for an African American.
Who says I have not done that. Ubuntu 8.10 runs the base OS which runs Vista in a VM. It is a quad core with 4GB RAM. I run the OS for everything, but use Vista to get back to work via VPN (required to have an MS OS). Since work pays me, and my Cable Modem costs for support, I figure I can have a VM running which will support this:)
No clue.. got the disk and the license code off my work PC on the sticker. The company said we can do that as we will not go to Vista until we get an EA and site license from MS. How can you tell? Old MS licenses used to have xxxx-OEM-xxx-xxxxx as the license keys;)
I will bite. Read lifehacker and learn to speed up your vista system. It will tell you what to turn off and what not. While MS is to blame for some of it, they are not to blame for all of it. Remember - people on this site, were bitching for years (a decade ago) that MS could configure their OS for optimal settings, and then manufacturers could not change them. They sued and won the right to configure their own base images. Now they give you crapware laden pieces of shit which are horribly misconfigured, it is pathetic.
Secondly, MS does not purposely hamstring a version of the OS. They can leave off features which are available in the upper tiered OS versions. I don't think any of it has to do with performance from reading the list. They are all applications.
Third, if you want to get your system running well, do a fresh install, uninstall all the crapware, turn off the extra services, etc. Then you will get a good system. My work PC came with a disk of vista, it was re-imaged with XP so I took the license home and installed it. It flew on my system. Same basic specs you had. It was comparable to XP. Now it won't benchmark the same, but I am talking user experience. Double click on excel, and it loaded in 3 seconds, just like it does on my XP box. All I did was turn off some of the crap that goes on behind the scenes, and just wastes memory and processing.
I don't think this is a troll. I agree whole heartedly with the pagers being used for on call with a cell phone call back. I think it is freaking stupid to use a cell phone for SMS messages. A pager is loud and you can turn it off when you are in the theater. Using SMS does not work when forwarding phones, so it makes things a lot harder when you want one number to page people (unless you carry two phones). If you were going to call someone, call their cell. So the only reason to have text received on a phone - which a pager can do infinitely better than any phone out there. I don't think the 911 calls things is valid - as you would have to be re-broadcasting the cell phone calls, after decrypting. Nope, most theaters wont install that technology.
While I do not condone sexual harassment, I do think there is another side to this. Naturally, men gravitate toward women. Until they are married, men are biologically trying to find a mate. When you are in a major that has a limited number of female candidates, and you spend a majority of your days doing your studies, you attempt to have human contact with as many possible mates as possible. Yes once there is a ring, and once someone is taken, you respect that.
However, there is a large, deep line between sexual harassment, and flirting. Most of my friends are female. I don't know why that is, but it always was that way. I don't ogle, make someone feel uncomfortable, I do make them feel respected and an equal in the friendship. I go out almost every night with friends, married or single and most of them are female. Lots of them are fellow CS majors from college with me.
While I can sympathize with your plight about being chatted up constantly, I can definitely empathize with the same situation for being chatted up for being a straight single father with a home and a good paying job. I cannot count the number of times I have been bought drinks by ladies who see a single successful person and try to hit on me. I have the typical CS body (pasty and round, think Dilbert) so I am not chiseled in marble or anything, so this is not attraction, it is for what I am, not who I am.
Oh.. this is the nature vs. nurture argument. How do you explain that the male and female brains are made up differently? They accentuate separate parts of communication, comprehension, logic, etc. Now this is not to say from person to person there are not variances (as the article pointed out below states) but it is an average. Stating that the whole nurture thing is the key is to not acknowledge that there are challenges to each gender's physiological and chemical makeups.
P.S. I am not saying there is any right answer, nor have a preference. Anyone who can do the job regardless of chromosome makeup has my full support in any job.
What? You mean there are people like Ned Flanders who reported Kent Brachman for swearing on the news when Homer Simpson spilled coffee on his crotch. I thought that was made up !!!!
Great.. we have a younger candidate. However moderate views? Moderate means more toward the middle. He is as far left as FDR. If he gets the Senate w/ 60 or more, we are in for New Deal 2.0. He want the government to tax everything and redistribute the wealth so everyone is the same.
As for the size of the government, people need to put their money where their mouth is. If you don't like social programs, then don't use them. If you are laid off, don't claim unemployment. If you are poor, don't claim food stamps. If you have a disabled child, don't claim FICA.
Oh wait. Everyone wants a handout. (full disclosure, I did take unemployment when I was laid off, and why not? To quote TLC - I ain't too proud to beg).
Funny - I read an article on a website (I think the Root on MSN) and they said that if Obama wins, he will have all the minorities cheering and saying how the country has changed. I agree. Funny part was the next sentence was the same author saying that if Obama lost, America is the most racist country on the planet (due to the polls and etc.) Talk about extremes.
Funny - you would think political views would come into it some place, not necessarily race.
I think in this day and age, most (majority, > 50%) people look beyond gender and race to who will be President, and look at their history and political views. If Obama had different views, I would vote for him in a heart beat. I don't give a crap about parties, I give a crap about the platforms.
So.. to answer your post. Am I annoying enough for ya;)
That is not the way I took that to mean - but can capitulate that you are correct in that interpretation. I took it as that you have a base install vs. base install and windows is useless in the base install. Not that the performance is any worse after you install all the stuff. Which - depends on what you install with it.
To each their own. I guess that is why interpretation is always an essential part of communication:)
No offense (and preparing to negative karma as speaking the truth around here gets you that) but DUH !!!. MS was sued by every government around the world for embedding their software that was considered "extra" to the OS. IE, Office, at one point people were going so far as saying the zero config wireless service was a bad thing as "linksys could write a better one for their card than MS."
So yeah.. Windows comes as a pretty useless hunk of crap for anything but using MS services, email and web.
I use Unbutu and Win XP and Win 2k3 server and Red Hat at home. So I am not partial, but I hate when people cannot remember when particular public sentiment was one way a decade ago, then it goes back to the polar opposite a decade later.
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Another thing. TFA was talking about Dopamine surge, etc you get while playing this game = addiction. Great. Then the physical addiction to a game goes away after 24-48 hours. It is the mental addiction that stays (same thing for alcohol, drugs, etc. detox). So, the kid lost his games 2 weeks prior to the shooting. He spent 2 weeks planning this. He was off any physical addiction he had - it was purely a mental aspect. He decided to do it, and then planned on how to do it.
While true .. I would love to see this as a game mode on (well ironically) Halo. When I play with my teenaged son, he will run into a room and die 3 times trying to kill everyone. I will stand back, give cover fire, and not die at all. Usually on any given level, we have the same score, I die once, maybe twice, and he will die 25 times (this is on the legendary, etc. skill levels). He thinks he is a better video gamer than I if he beats my score, however, I don't die often.
.. everyone is different. They are looking for different challenges for their entertainment. This is why video game design is so hard. Other wise we all would be doing it :)
While both skill sets are good in various ways, I think being able to teach those, would benefit someone greater than just one style of play. I cannot get him to play anything like Splinter Cell because he thinks it is too boring (you know - gun with 20 bullets in it, sneak around all level, usually don't have to kill).
But yes
Really? While I disagree with having to give my fingerprints, or other personal info out (why does another country need my SSN?) I will do it to visit a country. I have given my fingerprints to China, Singapore, Thailand, Nepal, and Hong Kong. Most of these in the 80's when I was not even a teenager. As a US citizen, I have not given my fingerprints to them yet (while I bet they already have them) from my visa applications to travel abroad.
I have spent my hard earned monies overseas, with no issues. I disagree with several governments I have visited. I have been poked an prodded several times by security guards. It is part of understanding the culture of a certain place. You might have gotten a better reception in Dallas or LA, and not the nation's capitol. You might have caught a guard on a bad day when there was an IT outage and they had to do a shit ton of extra work. Who knows.
Most sane people don't want to give up pieces of their information for no reason, and all governments have shown a propensity for abusing information gathered. However, it is also their rules you have to follow wherever you are.
Louisville, Kentucky. RCA makes TVs there.
Wow .. I did not even read (the WOW) as World of Warcraft. I know lots of people who say ... on a daily basis ... "Fucking wow, idiots" ... I guess I need my geek card returned for not catching that allusion :(
The only reason I read the local paper is to get the Fry's ad :). My parents live with my and get the daily paper. My mother does the suduku, crossword, and all the other games in it. My dad reads the articles. I could not agree with you more. They need to spend more on the local stuff. That is why they get a paper. The national news they get from the 11:00 news.
Not necessarily true. Lets say that a CD hits $10 MSRP (which is what they are charged to Best Buy, anything else is profit to them). And a digital download costs $1 a piece. So what they are saying is their profits in 2003 were $6.56 Billion dollars. Their profits in 2007 were $5.844 Billion dollars. That is less. Yes their over head might go down, however, that is less revenue coming in which any company in their right mind would be concerned with.
Really? Piracy? I download Chuck via p2p every Monday night because my cable provider provides me a DVR than can handle recording only 2 shows at a time (Sarah Connor Chronicles on FOX and Big Bang Theory on CBS) ... I can get it from CBS - but it does not work with my browser most the time (I am running Linux with Firefox - 64 bit). So I just get it from p2p. I don't consider that stealing since the show is free on the internet, I am just getting it in a different form. How am I competing with my ISP/Cable Provider?
While I agree with the sentiment, have you EVER known of a government take away a tax? I mean there are toll roads which have been in place around here, and they have been paid off, and the next 50 years of maintenance have been paid off, but they will not remove the tolls. Why? That money goes into the coffers of the government. What about when a government proposes a higher sales tax to pay for a stadium or some such? They have paid it off after a few decades, but won't drop the sales tax, as they can do so much with that "revenue" stream.
Kewl. I always wondered why. I graduated from college (in Indiana) and got my first job in St. Louis and when they asked if I was a Hoosier, I always said yes. It took several times for me to turn off that reflex.
True, but in St. Louis, Hoosier is a bad term for some reason, and it the equivalent of calling someone a hick or using the N word for an African American.
Who says I have not done that. Ubuntu 8.10 runs the base OS which runs Vista in a VM. It is a quad core with 4GB RAM. I run the OS for everything, but use Vista to get back to work via VPN (required to have an MS OS). Since work pays me, and my Cable Modem costs for support, I figure I can have a VM running which will support this :)
No clue .. got the disk and the license code off my work PC on the sticker. The company said we can do that as we will not go to Vista until we get an EA and site license from MS. How can you tell? Old MS licenses used to have xxxx-OEM-xxx-xxxxx as the license keys ;)
I will bite. Read lifehacker and learn to speed up your vista system. It will tell you what to turn off and what not. While MS is to blame for some of it, they are not to blame for all of it. Remember - people on this site, were bitching for years (a decade ago) that MS could configure their OS for optimal settings, and then manufacturers could not change them. They sued and won the right to configure their own base images. Now they give you crapware laden pieces of shit which are horribly misconfigured, it is pathetic.
Secondly, MS does not purposely hamstring a version of the OS. They can leave off features which are available in the upper tiered OS versions. I don't think any of it has to do with performance from reading the list. They are all applications.
Third, if you want to get your system running well, do a fresh install, uninstall all the crapware, turn off the extra services, etc. Then you will get a good system. My work PC came with a disk of vista, it was re-imaged with XP so I took the license home and installed it. It flew on my system. Same basic specs you had. It was comparable to XP. Now it won't benchmark the same, but I am talking user experience. Double click on excel, and it loaded in 3 seconds, just like it does on my XP box. All I did was turn off some of the crap that goes on behind the scenes, and just wastes memory and processing.
I don't think this is a troll. I agree whole heartedly with the pagers being used for on call with a cell phone call back. I think it is freaking stupid to use a cell phone for SMS messages. A pager is loud and you can turn it off when you are in the theater. Using SMS does not work when forwarding phones, so it makes things a lot harder when you want one number to page people (unless you carry two phones). If you were going to call someone, call their cell. So the only reason to have text received on a phone - which a pager can do infinitely better than any phone out there. I don't think the 911 calls things is valid - as you would have to be re-broadcasting the cell phone calls, after decrypting. Nope, most theaters wont install that technology.
While I do not condone sexual harassment, I do think there is another side to this. Naturally, men gravitate toward women. Until they are married, men are biologically trying to find a mate. When you are in a major that has a limited number of female candidates, and you spend a majority of your days doing your studies, you attempt to have human contact with as many possible mates as possible. Yes once there is a ring, and once someone is taken, you respect that.
However, there is a large, deep line between sexual harassment, and flirting. Most of my friends are female. I don't know why that is, but it always was that way. I don't ogle, make someone feel uncomfortable, I do make them feel respected and an equal in the friendship. I go out almost every night with friends, married or single and most of them are female. Lots of them are fellow CS majors from college with me.
While I can sympathize with your plight about being chatted up constantly, I can definitely empathize with the same situation for being chatted up for being a straight single father with a home and a good paying job. I cannot count the number of times I have been bought drinks by ladies who see a single successful person and try to hit on me. I have the typical CS body (pasty and round, think Dilbert) so I am not chiseled in marble or anything, so this is not attraction, it is for what I am, not who I am.
Oh .. this is the nature vs. nurture argument. How do you explain that the male and female brains are made up differently? They accentuate separate parts of communication, comprehension, logic, etc. Now this is not to say from person to person there are not variances (as the article pointed out below states) but it is an average. Stating that the whole nurture thing is the key is to not acknowledge that there are challenges to each gender's physiological and chemical makeups.
Male: http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/articlematch.aspx?cp-documentid=8860750>1=32023
Female: http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/articleglamourmatch.aspx?cp-documentid=8860752
P.S. I am not saying there is any right answer, nor have a preference. Anyone who can do the job regardless of chromosome makeup has my full support in any job.
I take every syllable that comes out of Eugene Spafford's mouth with a pound of salt. I speak as a Purdue Graduate and Security Professional.
What? You mean there are people like Ned Flanders who reported Kent Brachman for swearing on the news when Homer Simpson spilled coffee on his crotch. I thought that was made up !!!!
Great .. we have a younger candidate. However moderate views? Moderate means more toward the middle. He is as far left as FDR. If he gets the Senate w/ 60 or more, we are in for New Deal 2.0. He want the government to tax everything and redistribute the wealth so everyone is the same.
As for the size of the government, people need to put their money where their mouth is. If you don't like social programs, then don't use them. If you are laid off, don't claim unemployment. If you are poor, don't claim food stamps. If you have a disabled child, don't claim FICA.
Oh wait. Everyone wants a handout. (full disclosure, I did take unemployment when I was laid off, and why not? To quote TLC - I ain't too proud to beg).
Funny - I read an article on a website (I think the Root on MSN) and they said that if Obama wins, he will have all the minorities cheering and saying how the country has changed. I agree. Funny part was the next sentence was the same author saying that if Obama lost, America is the most racist country on the planet (due to the polls and etc.) Talk about extremes.
.. to answer your post. Am I annoying enough for ya ;)
Funny - you would think political views would come into it some place, not necessarily race.
I think in this day and age, most (majority, > 50%) people look beyond gender and race to who will be President, and look at their history and political views. If Obama had different views, I would vote for him in a heart beat. I don't give a crap about parties, I give a crap about the platforms.
So
I don't have aggression issues. However if my 360 RRoDs .. all bets are off :)
That is not the way I took that to mean - but can capitulate that you are correct in that interpretation. I took it as that you have a base install vs. base install and windows is useless in the base install. Not that the performance is any worse after you install all the stuff. Which - depends on what you install with it.
:)
To each their own. I guess that is why interpretation is always an essential part of communication
No offense (and preparing to negative karma as speaking the truth around here gets you that) but DUH !!!. MS was sued by every government around the world for embedding their software that was considered "extra" to the OS. IE, Office, at one point people were going so far as saying the zero config wireless service was a bad thing as "linksys could write a better one for their card than MS." So yeah .. Windows comes as a pretty useless hunk of crap for anything but using MS services, email and web.
I use Unbutu and Win XP and Win 2k3 server and Red Hat at home. So I am not partial, but I hate when people cannot remember when particular public sentiment was one way a decade ago, then it goes back to the polar opposite a decade later.
Nope .. but another manufacturing firm (thus the PLCs).