Elementary school students learn words and phrases like "tight competition" and "concurrence"? News to me.
And um... "The Penguin gets more and more support from the two biggest rivals that Microsoft have ever had." is not a fragment, although it should be "Microsoft has".
"This block has caused problems before, and is only "trained" out of the person by allowing them to become accustomed to firing at humanoid shaped targets. I believe that video games can provide just as much of a mental stimulation as the actual act of holding the weapon, in this regard."
I'd like to argue against this. I've been playing violent games for ages, and as a young teenager, I saw the video of when Kennedy was shot (first time seeing a person actually shot) and I felt physically sick. Stopped playing Counterstrike: Source for a few days, then eventually shook it off and came back.
It's not real, and you always, ALWAYS know that it's not real (assuming no mental disorders). You just can't trick yourself into thinking it is when you're aiming with a mouse and moving with a keyboard.
I seem to remember a murderer who claimed that a dog told him to do it... from wikipedia, on David Berkowitz: 'According to Berkowitz, Sam Carr was a "high demon" who sent his "evil" Labrador Retriever to command Berkowitz to kill.'
I think we should ban the sale and ownership of dogs, if they can encourage a person to go on a murder spree. Nevermind any crimes inspired by a twisted interpretation of a religion...
Well, if it's such a "phone mental health problem" then you've obviously never met someone with Autism or Asperger's. (Which suggests a possible social problem in your case...)
This isn't for regular people who just suck. This is for people who have an actual problem with determining emotions from cues, which is about as phony of a problem as a broken bone.
It's like myspace (social networking internet site, if you've lived under a rock at the bottom of a cave in the middle of Siberia for the past couple years), only themed more towards/integrated with college (and, more recently, high school, but not so much and separated from the college portion).
Mice don't compute whether the user just single-clicked or double-clicked. They just pass it along.
Anyway, looks like there's FUD from all sides... from Microsoft, from whoever keeps claiming Microsoft has a patent on double-clicking (with no qualifiers...).
The MMO I've spent the most time on isn't Guild Wars with 600 hours logged, no, it's... the Discworld MUD (http://discworld.atuin.net./ Full text, been playing it since 1998 with a few short breaks. Even only my most recent character alone has a logged-in time of almost two months.
So, yeah, old-style, imagination rules. Of course, new games with shiny graphics are cool too...
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Same reason you're not supposed to log into Windows as an administrator all the time; if something goes wrong (security hole in a user-run program), or if you accidentally use the wrong command, your system isn't totally screwed (hopefully).
Windows actually has a similar feature, sort of- right-click on something and choose "run as...", then log in as an administrator.
Most comfortable? WTF? Practically every review of this set says they're not very comfortable, and I can't wear my pair for more than two hours without my ears feeling like they're going to fall off. Great sound quality, though, and rather nice bass. They let in exterior sound (which may or may not be good for you...), but unless you're seriously blasting them, then other people can't hear much.
"beautiful customization of the desktop and themes (that Windows XP is definitively lacking), out-of-the-box support for their hardware (like when you plug in your camera and get pictures with gphoto2, without having to install the camera's CD)"
Goddamn it, I hate it when I find out here at Slashdot that I'm doing things that it's not possible to do. Sigh, now I have to stop using my XP themes and my camera that automatically installed and mounted as a drive when I plugged it in... (but really, you used device support as a reason to switch to linux? what the hell?)
"PDF export in OpenOffice, tab navigation in firefox, and so on..."
Yeah, definitely have to switch to linux to use those programs, and those are definitely features open source software has a monopoly on.
Eh, I don't know, I get a lot of emails from friendly people concerned about raising the power of my root, and they never mention anything about it getting square.
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"entire discussion on the dangers of DRM"
You mean a story about fighting vacuum cleaners and the possible leap to nonmobile DVD players.
I don't really know if that's much of a descent...
Heh, I like how, after this, now there are a bunch of "!gay" and "!straight" tags on some stories... good work, team.
Generic as in calling an event or object or something 'gay'. You (probably) don't mean to offend random people who happen to be nearby when you do it.
No, I think dupes are already covered... unless exactly one person and only one person sends only one email to him...
Elementary school students learn words and phrases like "tight competition" and "concurrence"? News to me.
And um... "The Penguin gets more and more support from the two biggest rivals that Microsoft have ever had." is not a fragment, although it should be "Microsoft has".
Perhaps you should go back to elementary school?
"This block has caused problems before, and is only "trained" out of the person by allowing them to become accustomed to firing at humanoid shaped targets. I believe that video games can provide just as much of a mental stimulation as the actual act of holding the weapon, in this regard."
I'd like to argue against this. I've been playing violent games for ages, and as a young teenager, I saw the video of when Kennedy was shot (first time seeing a person actually shot) and I felt physically sick. Stopped playing Counterstrike: Source for a few days, then eventually shook it off and came back.
It's not real, and you always, ALWAYS know that it's not real (assuming no mental disorders). You just can't trick yourself into thinking it is when you're aiming with a mouse and moving with a keyboard.
I seem to remember a murderer who claimed that a dog told him to do it... from wikipedia, on David Berkowitz: 'According to Berkowitz, Sam Carr was a "high demon" who sent his "evil" Labrador Retriever to command Berkowitz to kill.'
I think we should ban the sale and ownership of dogs, if they can encourage a person to go on a murder spree. Nevermind any crimes inspired by a twisted interpretation of a religion...
Well, if it's such a "phone mental health problem" then you've obviously never met someone with Autism or Asperger's. (Which suggests a possible social problem in your case...)
This isn't for regular people who just suck. This is for people who have an actual problem with determining emotions from cues, which is about as phony of a problem as a broken bone.
It's like myspace (social networking internet site, if you've lived under a rock at the bottom of a cave in the middle of Siberia for the past couple years), only themed more towards/integrated with college (and, more recently, high school, but not so much and separated from the college portion).
http://facebook.com/
Even easier: I run a Windows ME system.
And, more important, how do you "partially" take care of a shortage problem? Either you have enough units, or you don't, I thought...
Mice don't compute whether the user just single-clicked or double-clicked. They just pass it along.
Anyway, looks like there's FUD from all sides... from Microsoft, from whoever keeps claiming Microsoft has a patent on double-clicking (with no qualifiers...).
Nobody cares if something causes cancer, or some disease in 20 years.
Know any smokers?
I can see it now- an epidemic of ascii goatse sweeps the internet!
The MMO I've spent the most time on isn't Guild Wars with 600 hours logged, no, it's... the Discworld MUD (http://discworld.atuin.net./ Full text, been playing it since 1998 with a few short breaks. Even only my most recent character alone has a logged-in time of almost two months.
So, yeah, old-style, imagination rules. Of course, new games with shiny graphics are cool too...
Slimmer than a stick insect with the runs...
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That's all I have to say.
Same reason you're not supposed to log into Windows as an administrator all the time; if something goes wrong (security hole in a user-run program), or if you accidentally use the wrong command, your system isn't totally screwed (hopefully).
Windows actually has a similar feature, sort of- right-click on something and choose "run as...", then log in as an administrator.
Still doesn't match a disc case I got for Christmas ages ago... "Compact CD Disc Case"
It doesn't, according to the article.
"What is this server running on?"
Well, I dunno what it used to be running on, but right now I'm going to guess it's running on a mixture of molten plastic, metal, and smoke.
Yes, because publicity has never helped anything, and is terribly easy to get without doing anything at all except whine.
Most comfortable? WTF? Practically every review of this set says they're not very comfortable, and I can't wear my pair for more than two hours without my ears feeling like they're going to fall off. Great sound quality, though, and rather nice bass. They let in exterior sound (which may or may not be good for you...), but unless you're seriously blasting them, then other people can't hear much.
The DMCA always means something, even if it's just "Haha, boy am I glad we don't have a law like that here"
"beautiful customization of the desktop and themes (that Windows XP is definitively lacking), out-of-the-box support for their hardware (like when you plug in your camera and get pictures with gphoto2, without having to install the camera's CD)"
Goddamn it, I hate it when I find out here at Slashdot that I'm doing things that it's not possible to do. Sigh, now I have to stop using my XP themes and my camera that automatically installed and mounted as a drive when I plugged it in... (but really, you used device support as a reason to switch to linux? what the hell?)
"PDF export in OpenOffice, tab navigation in firefox, and so on..."
Yeah, definitely have to switch to linux to use those programs, and those are definitely features open source software has a monopoly on.
Eh, I don't know, I get a lot of emails from friendly people concerned about raising the power of my root, and they never mention anything about it getting square.