Wow judging by the amount of intolerance and pedantic annoyance in this and you previous replies I'm guessing you must be really smart and the fact that you must interact with us mere mortals must just eat you up.[/vent]
I for one thing would have liked to see whether the results observed in the group that received the games console were seen also in the control group after they received their consoles. That would certainly seem to have been completely feasible. Also it would be interesting to see if the test scores improved over time because as we all know when you have an awesome new toy you want to play with it all the time but interest wanes as time passes.
Something tells me that a few decades ago the introduction of a baseball kit or a new bicycle would have produced much the same effect.
ps: Mister Dvorkin, please don't eviscerate me again with your clever, clever wit.
I wonder if the researchers thought to look for correlations between parents who were willing to let their children get away with not doing their homework before doing leisure activities, computer game related or not?
So Italy has basically painted a great big target on every single operator of social media. Apparently if an Italian moderator or admin ticks me off I can simply upload some offending bit of data and call the cops...
Actually I'm thinking this might be part of a policy to make PC gaming in general a big enough pain in the neck to cause the majority of PC gamers to migrate to consoles which are far more robust when it comes to content control. The gradual shift towards "Games-on-Demand" for the consoles will then achieve the goal of killing second hand selling.
People paying for content is not the issue here. Execs thinking that a for-pay service in a world of for-free services will be viable is. There will always be a free alternative and that is where people will go. People like Mr. Diller believe that if everybody gets together and starts charging for content then consumers will have no choice but to pay up. The fact is there will always be a free alternative. I'm not saying there isn't or won't be a market for premium content. Just that there will always be free. Free-as-in-beer and hopefully free-as-in-speech.
Shoutcast to the rescue, yes you have no control over the track selection but it's free, the actual streaming providers are completely decentralised and I've found that recently I'm not really using the next and ban features of Last.fm. Yes Last.fm will be missed but it was by no means indispensible.
I just can't believe slashdot actually linked to some OSS zealot's (the kind of idiot who makes the rest of us look bad) blag and presented it as credible news.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud any opportunity to push OSS in favor of proprietary software but the kind of obscenity laden ranting this person was spouting gets dismissed as such and hurts our case for OSS.
Oh an Iceland's economy has not collapsed, it is seriously ailing, but not dead yet.
I may be misunterstanding the tone of the quote but it seems to me that the 'consumer protection' being discussed here is the actual regulation of EULAs.
To put it more clearly: It seems to me that the FTC would regulate EULAs to protect consumers from being screwed over by software makers' overly complicated EULAs
So is it just me or does this bear a striking resemblance to Nvidia's recent demo of shutter glasses combined with a 120Hz HDTV. To me the black glasses are a dead giveaway.
As far as the "any source" part is concerned, let's not be silly here, you need concrete depth information. Sure our brains can infer this information but the sheer processing grunt required for a computer to do this means it will not be done any time soon at least not in realtime on full motion video.
I am embarrassed for Ars Technica and more than a little disappointed.
So, why must it necessarily be that violent games -> aggression.
Why not aggression -> violent games. You know; feeling aggressive -> go pummel/kill something in a computer game rather than pummeling/killing in a game -> go pummel/kill something in real life.
Okay, so if they implement this opt-out stuff via cookies I wonder how hard it would be to figure out how the cookies are generated and make a little proggy or FF addon to auto-generate those cookies.
Seems to me that since they require you to re-opt out every time you clear your cookies there is no info being stored on their servers, otherwise they could just tie the opt out to your user account.
Whats more, if lots of people start making their own cookies maybe they would start to tie the opt out to user accounts which would translate to increased user friendliness.
I have. Several. I've known some very bright programmers who could cut code just fine, but whose lack of formal education really limited the nature of the problems they could solve. There are a bunch of classes you get in a decent CS curriculum that seem very pointless and abstract -- things like Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Algorithms and Data Structures -- but not having that foundational knowledge really hurts. There's also lots of benefit to learning a significant amount of mathematics (especially discrete math, but all of it is good).
I totally agree, I am currently attending University in meatspace and am currently finishing my requirement in things like discrete mathematics, computer organization and UML. I never would have studied these subjects on my own because I find them massively boring, however the more I study these subjects the more I realize how important they are to a successful programmer.
I also have a choice of whether I attend classes in meatspace or on-line (how great is that right? not having to show up when you dont feel like it?). I haven't missed a meatspace lecture yet.
If you are at all able, attend in meatspace. You simply take your studies more seriously and therefore have a higher likelyhood of actually finishing you degree.
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Wow judging by the amount of intolerance and pedantic annoyance in this and you previous replies I'm guessing you must be really smart and the fact that you must interact with us mere mortals must just eat you up.[/vent]
I for one thing would have liked to see whether the results observed in the group that received the games console were seen also in the control group after they received their consoles. That would certainly seem to have been completely feasible. Also it would be interesting to see if the test scores improved over time because as we all know when you have an awesome new toy you want to play with it all the time but interest wanes as time passes.
Something tells me that a few decades ago the introduction of a baseball kit or a new bicycle would have produced much the same effect.
ps: Mister Dvorkin, please don't eviscerate me again with your clever, clever wit.
I wonder if the researchers thought to look for correlations between parents who were willing to let their children get away with not doing their homework before doing leisure activities, computer game related or not?
So Italy has basically painted a great big target on every single operator of social media.
Apparently if an Italian moderator or admin ticks me off I can simply upload some offending bit of data and call the cops...
Actually I'm thinking this might be part of a policy to make PC gaming in general a big enough pain in the neck to cause the majority of PC gamers to migrate to consoles which are far more robust when it comes to content control. The gradual shift towards "Games-on-Demand" for the consoles will then achieve the goal of killing second hand selling.
I smell a defamation/libel lawsuit
"Well sir, you have a choice; you can turn blue and maybe regain some function or you can stay paralysed and not look like an alien".
I'd need to be pretty damn convinced before I willingly had myself turned a light blue.
People paying for content is not the issue here. Execs thinking that a for-pay service in a world of for-free services will be viable is. There will always be a free alternative and that is where people will go.
People like Mr. Diller believe that if everybody gets together and starts charging for content then consumers will have no choice but to pay up.
The fact is there will always be a free alternative. I'm not saying there isn't or won't be a market for premium content.
Just that there will always be free. Free-as-in-beer and hopefully free-as-in-speech.
Shoutcast to the rescue, yes you have no control over the track selection but it's free, the actual streaming providers are completely decentralised and I've found that recently I'm not really using the next and ban features of Last.fm. Yes Last.fm will be missed but it was by no means indispensible.
I just can't believe slashdot actually linked to some OSS zealot's (the kind of idiot who makes the rest of us look bad) blag and presented it as credible news.
Don't get me wrong, I applaud any opportunity to push OSS in favor of proprietary software but the kind of obscenity laden ranting this person was spouting gets dismissed as such and hurts our case for OSS.
Oh an Iceland's economy has not collapsed, it is seriously ailing, but not dead yet.
I may be misunterstanding the tone of the quote but it seems to me that the 'consumer protection' being discussed here is the actual regulation of EULAs.
To put it more clearly: It seems to me that the FTC would regulate EULAs to protect consumers from being screwed over by software makers' overly complicated EULAs
So is it just me or does this bear a striking resemblance to Nvidia's recent demo of shutter glasses combined with a 120Hz HDTV. To me the black glasses are a dead giveaway.
As far as the "any source" part is concerned, let's not be silly here, you need concrete depth information. Sure our brains can infer this information but the sheer processing grunt required for a computer to do this means it will not be done any time soon at least not in realtime on full motion video.
I am embarrassed for Ars Technica and more than a little disappointed.
Imagine cracking the encryption (if any) in the wireless feed from the eye to the receiver. Instant Ghost in the Shell
The fact remains that after I posted the comment the typo was fixed, troll mod or not.
Oh look, fixed
From your friendly neighborhood grammar nazi
So, why must it necessarily be that violent games -> aggression. Why not aggression -> violent games. You know; feeling aggressive -> go pummel/kill something in a computer game rather than pummeling/killing in a game -> go pummel/kill something in real life.
Okay, so if they implement this opt-out stuff via cookies I wonder how hard it would be to figure out how the cookies are generated and make a little proggy or FF addon to auto-generate those cookies.
Seems to me that since they require you to re-opt out every time you clear your cookies there is no info being stored on their servers, otherwise they could just tie the opt out to your user account.
Whats more, if lots of people start making their own cookies maybe they would start to tie the opt out to user accounts which would translate to increased user friendliness.
Then again you could just adblock their adserver.
I also have a choice of whether I attend classes in meatspace or on-line (how great is that right? not having to show up when you dont feel like it?). I haven't missed a meatspace lecture yet.
If you are at all able, attend in meatspace. You simply take your studies more seriously and therefore have a higher likelyhood of actually finishing you degree.