"Because he want to expose himself as a great christian crusader against the evils of this world and shit."
Please, for the love of God, don't classify him as a Christian. I'm offended that he tries to use christianity as a platform to push his agenda. If he wanted to be a good christian, I think he would sympathize with the families of the victims in cases like the VTech shootings and try to help them overcome their grief, instead of lying to build up his podium and attempting to use it to further his misguided causes.
Back to the topic at hand, isn't it the parents responsibility to monitor what their children buy and play? It is rated "M" after all, and if the parents don't care enough to watch over their kids, then aren't there bigger problems then the kid playing Halo?
Can it play regular DVDs as well, or just Blue-Ray and HD-DVD? That would be a really useful feature, and I would buy it for sure.
Can it play Red-ray and HHD-DVVDD-BVD? (RvB ftw)
Sorry, I didn't mean to blame the IT department of my school. They hate it too. It's the school district who chooses to use the filtering program. In my opinion, the head of the district is at fault for requiring the filtering software because they have the ability to make a change without fear of being fired, so they should try to insure that the filtering is not blocking out the wrong content, especially the content that teachers have lessons on and that the teachers feel are important for successfully teaching students in the subject.
My school also blocks all free hosts, along with other useful pages. Many of the technology teachers hate the filtering system, because it stops them from doing certain lesson plans ex: the Web teacher used to have a project where the students would make a site, then upload it to a free host, and maintain it, updating it, etc. Now he can't. The Computer Art teacher used to have her AP Computer Art students look up tutorials and get ideas for projects by going to sites like Tutorialized, which is now blocked. Google images was blocked, putting a halt to many photoshop projects. All e-mail systems were blocked, stopping the students from being able to transfer work to and from home (The USB ports were on the back of the computers, where student's couldn't get to) My school used to use a site called "Turn-it-in.com", but that is now blocked, as an unintended side effect of the filter blocking email. Some of the restrictions have been fixed now, thanks to the Computer Art teacher. She set up a script to attempt to access certain pages she wanted unblocked, and if it got the "Access denied" message, it would send an email to the district administrator, demanding to have the site unblocked. It would check once every minuet. She had it change which address it used to send the message, as well, so he couldn't block her emails easily. It worked a lot better than the older method of submitting complaints.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/PrvtCaboose/Ce nsorship-1.jpg is a little thing I made to show what it's like.
I'm surprised. After reading through all of the articles and links, even with my initial bias against Dr. Thompson, I find myself agreeing with her on many of her points. Some are a bit far out there (such as the arcade game ratings), but for the most part, she is making intelligent, well-structured, and supported points.
I think the main reason for my bias was from the name Thopson, actually. Stupid Jack Thompson.
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Please, for the love of God, don't classify him as a Christian. I'm offended that he tries to use christianity as a platform to push his agenda. If he wanted to be a good christian, I think he would sympathize with the families of the victims in cases like the VTech shootings and try to help them overcome their grief, instead of lying to build up his podium and attempting to use it to further his misguided causes.
Back to the topic at hand, isn't it the parents responsibility to monitor what their children buy and play? It is rated "M" after all, and if the parents don't care enough to watch over their kids, then aren't there bigger problems then the kid playing Halo?
Can it play regular DVDs as well, or just Blue-Ray and HD-DVD? That would be a really useful feature, and I would buy it for sure. Can it play Red-ray and HHD-DVVDD-BVD? (RvB ftw)
Sorry, I didn't mean to blame the IT department of my school. They hate it too. It's the school district who chooses to use the filtering program. In my opinion, the head of the district is at fault for requiring the filtering software because they have the ability to make a change without fear of being fired, so they should try to insure that the filtering is not blocking out the wrong content, especially the content that teachers have lessons on and that the teachers feel are important for successfully teaching students in the subject.
My school also blocks all free hosts, along with other useful pages. Many of the technology teachers hate the filtering system, because it stops them from doing certain lesson plans ex: the Web teacher used to have a project where the students would make a site, then upload it to a free host, and maintain it, updating it, etc. Now he can't. The Computer Art teacher used to have her AP Computer Art students look up tutorials and get ideas for projects by going to sites like Tutorialized, which is now blocked. Google images was blocked, putting a halt to many photoshop projects. All e-mail systems were blocked, stopping the students from being able to transfer work to and from home (The USB ports were on the back of the computers, where student's couldn't get to) My school used to use a site called "Turn-it-in.com", but that is now blocked, as an unintended side effect of the filter blocking email. Some of the restrictions have been fixed now, thanks to the Computer Art teacher. She set up a script to attempt to access certain pages she wanted unblocked, and if it got the "Access denied" message, it would send an email to the district administrator, demanding to have the site unblocked. It would check once every minuet. She had it change which address it used to send the message, as well, so he couldn't block her emails easily. It worked a lot better than the older method of submitting complaints. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/PrvtCaboose/Ce nsorship-1.jpg is a little thing I made to show what it's like.
That guy is my new hero. I just hope he doesn't get sued for his work.
This technology sounds great! I'm just afraid that someone will have an overly-broad patent that ties this technology up with lawsuits.
I'm surprised. After reading through all of the articles and links, even with my initial bias against Dr. Thompson, I find myself agreeing with her on many of her points. Some are a bit far out there (such as the arcade game ratings), but for the most part, she is making intelligent, well-structured, and supported points. I think the main reason for my bias was from the name Thopson, actually. Stupid Jack Thompson.
Finding out that he won three purple hearts, of course.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't a purple heart mean you got shot, and three mean you got shot 3 times? Isn't getting shot a bad thing?