I'm not saying playing those types of games will make you violent. I'm saying that quite possibly, those who ALREADY have that predisposition to violence will find it just that much more easy to enact thier fantacies after they have seen it done numerous times before. Any mental safeguard there may have been before, has been eroded over time by violent images.
Ok, I can agree with that, however, it is an entirely different thing to point that gun at a human being and pull the trigger. I'm sure you are familiar with the anecdote regarding the percentage of soldiers in WWI that couldn't bring themselves to shoot another human being. Target practice at that time was a simple bullseye. When the target was changed to the sillouitte of a human, the percentage of those able to fire a gun at another human increased greatly.
Now, instead of a sillouitte, we have a highly graphic representation of what killing someone is really like. You see them moan, hold thier abdomen, and cry out in agony. If you see that in a video game continously, what happens when those with the predisposition to violence finally snap? Now, instead of feeling remorse at the first dead victim, they feel like they can keep going because their brain is used the hearing the painfull pleas of a dying person.
I don't think that violent video games are the only cause of all violence, and I don't think that everyone playing them will cause violence just because, and I certainly don't think that $600M will make any difference either way. But don't say that violent video games can't and don't cause ANY harm, because I will just right you off as biased, unreasoning, and ignorant.
Just went to halowars.com, and was hoping to see it for PC. I remember the metric tons of fun AOE2 was, and adding halo to the mix I'm sure would make for an amazing LAN party. Has anyone seen/heard of bringing HALO the RTS to PC? I'm still not keen on getting a 360... IE, my wife won't let me get one...
Breakthrough:
any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase, as in scientific knowledge or diplomacy, that removes a barrier to progress.
As long as there are barriers to progress (and they never seem to run out) we will have breakthroughs. As the saying goes: "If the Shoe Fits..."
How adaptable nature really is. Other than things that really destroy an environment, all human interaction and structure isn't harmful. Who knows what type of new eco system could be in the works!
However, last time I checked, you don't get paid to LEARN how to do things (unless you are an intern =) ).
Do you actually think people should be copywriting these "fashions"? Do you think money should be changing hands for virtual clothes?
You have pointed out that the skills used to make these clothes might be useful... however, prove to me that culmination of these skills into making FAKE clothing is worth REAL money.
Ok, if you want to make money, try putting some effort into something that is actually USEFUL! Virtual fashion design is not useful, its not even SANE!
Greed seems to have no limits, and no IQ requirments either...
GoldVish just began selling a phone for $1.26 million that features diamonds and a secret compartment.
So that compartment must be where Paris keeps her morning after pill.
Other than that, what use does it have? If you keep anything important in it, you're insane! They will most likely not sell more than 100 of these, and everyone and their grandmother will know what they look like, and exactly where the compartment is!
Even if someone doesn't know about the compartment, what good will it do you when the first time you get a call, some pick-pocket swipes it.
Hmmm... What if you are standing close by some fellow planning on blowing the plane out of the sky, and you are first in line at the Mass-Spectrometer? In all the brew-haha of you getting tackled/cuffed/cavity-searched, the terror monger walks right in...
Maybe we will see it in 2100!!! Micro$oft is the SUXOR!
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I don't see any need to upgrade for the near future.
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Something about Linux.
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Balmer throws chairs and stuff.
There is something about the gaze of an intelligent person that can't be replicated. I'm wondering if this might have some subconscious effect on the students. I'm sure it would be alot harder to keep eye contact with a creation like this. And from there who knows what the complications would be.
Does anyone else think they would have a hard time learning from and listening to an object that didn't exude intelligence, even if in the background it was being controlled by a highly intelligent individual?
When you think about this for just a few moments, what harm is this really going to cause? So, you see a white lady holding a black ladies face. The way that people interpret that depends on how thier mind is already wired. If they think about the context, then, "Oh yeah, a white PSP is going to give the black one a run for its money!"
People need to get past the idea that "Racism isn't racism as long as you are being nice".
If you treat people Differently depending on thier color or race, that is racism. Why not stop making people prescribe to your oversensitive, and ultimately self-defeating philisophy and GET OVER IT!
Yeah, I hear that google has been buying up "Dark Tubes" as they are called, by the handful! With all that power, you could sent 2 or 3 internets an hour!
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replace a button with a trigger.
As was mentioned before: Its not hard to use a gun.
You're missing my point...
I'm not saying playing those types of games will make you violent. I'm saying that quite possibly, those who ALREADY have that predisposition to violence will find it just that much more easy to enact thier fantacies after they have seen it done numerous times before. Any mental safeguard there may have been before, has been eroded over time by violent images.
Ok, here's the deal. Now sony is going to have millions of highly explosive batteries. Who thinks this might not be a good thing...
Today: Rootkits, and DRM
Tomorrow: Holding the world hostage with boiling lithium..
eeek...
Guns aren't difficult to use
Ok, I can agree with that, however, it is an entirely different thing to point that gun at a human being and pull the trigger. I'm sure you are familiar with the anecdote regarding the percentage of soldiers in WWI that couldn't bring themselves to shoot another human being. Target practice at that time was a simple bullseye. When the target was changed to the sillouitte of a human, the percentage of those able to fire a gun at another human increased greatly.
Now, instead of a sillouitte, we have a highly graphic representation of what killing someone is really like. You see them moan, hold thier abdomen, and cry out in agony. If you see that in a video game continously, what happens when those with the predisposition to violence finally snap? Now, instead of feeling remorse at the first dead victim, they feel like they can keep going because their brain is used the hearing the painfull pleas of a dying person.
I don't think that violent video games are the only cause of all violence, and I don't think that everyone playing them will cause violence just because, and I certainly don't think that $600M will make any difference either way. But don't say that violent video games can't and don't cause ANY harm, because I will just right you off as biased, unreasoning, and ignorant.
Just went to halowars.com, and was hoping to see it for PC. I remember the metric tons of fun AOE2 was, and adding halo to the mix I'm sure would make for an amazing LAN party. Has anyone seen/heard of bringing HALO the RTS to PC? I'm still not keen on getting a 360... IE, my wife won't let me get one...
You are just the type of person I left that saying open for! It's like madlibs on /.!
Breakthrough: any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase, as in scientific knowledge or diplomacy, that removes a barrier to progress.
As long as there are barriers to progress (and they never seem to run out) we will have breakthroughs. As the saying goes: "If the Shoe Fits..."
How adaptable nature really is. Other than things that really destroy an environment, all human interaction and structure isn't harmful. Who knows what type of new eco system could be in the works!
I read this as I eat my breakfast. time for more napkins methinks...
You have a point.
However, last time I checked, you don't get paid to LEARN how to do things (unless you are an intern =) ).
Do you actually think people should be copywriting these "fashions"? Do you think money should be changing hands for virtual clothes?
You have pointed out that the skills used to make these clothes might be useful... however, prove to me that culmination of these skills into making FAKE clothing is worth REAL money.
Ok, if you want to make money, try putting some effort into something that is actually USEFUL! Virtual fashion design is not useful, its not even SANE!
Greed seems to have no limits, and no IQ requirments either...
GoldVish just began selling a phone for $1.26 million that features diamonds and a secret compartment.
So that compartment must be where Paris keeps her morning after pill.
Other than that, what use does it have? If you keep anything important in it, you're insane! They will most likely not sell more than 100 of these, and everyone and their grandmother will know what they look like, and exactly where the compartment is!
Even if someone doesn't know about the compartment, what good will it do you when the first time you get a call, some pick-pocket swipes it.
Hmmm... What if you are standing close by some fellow planning on blowing the plane out of the sky, and you are first in line at the Mass-Spectrometer? In all the brew-haha of you getting tackled/cuffed/cavity-searched, the terror monger walks right in...
D'oh!
Acually, we don't care what you call yourselves, we just call you TREKKIES!
I think you forgot a couple:
--Breast Bridge
--CowBoyNeals Bridge to eternal fun poking
I'll just preface this comment by saying I'm no Micro$oft fanboy...
Windows XP even has a powertoy that allows you to have vitual desktops, and has had such for quite some time, at least two years I think...
That makes the "photocopying" comment seem downright embarassing...
Maybe we will see it in 2100!!! Micro$oft is the SUXOR!
*****
I don't see any need to upgrade for the near future.
*****
Something about Linux.
*****
Balmer throws chairs and stuff.
*Come on -1 Redundant!*
"Its dead Jim"
There is something about the gaze of an intelligent person that can't be replicated. I'm wondering if this might have some subconscious effect on the students. I'm sure it would be alot harder to keep eye contact with a creation like this. And from there who knows what the complications would be.
Does anyone else think they would have a hard time learning from and listening to an object that didn't exude intelligence, even if in the background it was being controlled by a highly intelligent individual?
If thats the reason they ran that ad, then they have no excuse. Basically the equivent of a flaimbait post.
Is that a boycott I hear in the distance?
I agree.
When you think about this for just a few moments, what harm is this really going to cause? So, you see a white lady holding a black ladies face. The way that people interpret that depends on how thier mind is already wired. If they think about the context, then, "Oh yeah, a white PSP is going to give the black one a run for its money!"
People need to get past the idea that "Racism isn't racism as long as you are being nice".
If you treat people Differently depending on thier color or race, that is racism. Why not stop making people prescribe to your oversensitive, and ultimately self-defeating philisophy and GET OVER IT!
Or is this like bring manure to a fly farm?
"Interesting, the flies seem to be eating it!"
After the flies are done, however, its still just a pile of crap!!
Thats Big-n'-Tasty to you!
This speaks nothing to the possiblity that Athenians are getting smaller, slower, and smellier.
Yeah, I hear that google has been buying up "Dark Tubes" as they are called, by the handful! With all that power, you could sent 2 or 3 internets an hour!