It seems to me that poverty and easy access to firearms is much more of a cause of violence than videogames.
The vast majority of multiple murderers are middle class white males, not poor folk. And in places like I grew up in Alaska, where lterraly every 10-year old has a rifle and several knives, we had zero problems with violence, because we were taught to have respect for damage that weapons can do. Anyway, your applying the same "Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc" fallacy to all three "causes".
In a recent study, 100% of teenagers that went on killing rampages were found to have significant levels of testosterone in their bloodstreams, irrefutable proof that testosterone causes violent behavior! I think we should demand that testosterone be immediately banned in all highschools!
Any computer data can be quickly and easily changed. The best solution I can think of is to print out two paper receipts for each vote, one to go to the election commission (for manual recounts) and one to go to the voter. Each receipt would contain a random code which the voter could then type in on a web site to verify their choices have not been changed. Of course, most people wouldn't bother to verify, but it only takes one person to catch vote fraud.
I've examined defect #1, and it obviously isn't a bug (the code checks the variables and breaks out of the loop if it is NULL). This casts serious doubts as to the accuracy of their results, doesn't it? Anybody want to examine the other 30 "defects"?
So, if I insert 9 empty lines between each line of code, I've just lowered the defect density by 90%??? Are they counting comments and whitespace in the LOC count?
If I buy something with an LCD screen, I want to see it fired up first with an all black, then an all white screen to make sure none of the pixels are defective (yes, my current laptop has 1 green pixel that is on all the time, and it's annoying as heck!) Don't have this problem with CRTs...
So if a plane was flying with a no-fly-zone to the left, and the pilot started banking left to enter the zone,or to avoid a collision with another aircraft on it's right, the avionics would counter by banking right. Lee's system, called "soft walls", would first gently resist the pilot, and then become increasingly forceful until it prevailedor collided with another aircraft.
Actually, USPS refuses to drive up my driveway to deliver a package, then leaves a postcard in my mail box telling me they attempted delivery. Of course, when I take that postcard down to the post office, they tell me they can't let me have my package because the carrier is still driving around with it... look, if you're not going to bother even checking to see if I'm home, why not just leave the damn package at the post office?
Well, I'd say that the browsers actually adhering to standards instead of doing whatever they feel like seems like an innovation... of course, adhering to standards means you can't implement every bright idea you get, so yes, it slows down the rate of change.
Nice to see you backing up your opinion with facts and references.
If by fast becoming you mean 10 years from now a few people might use it.
I'm working on a product right now that runs Linux. Just because they don't tell you that it's running Linux, doesn't mean that half the products out there aren't already running Linux. Again, why resort to facts, when you can just assert your opinions?
I personally don't use it because of the quality of the OS, specifically the driver support.
Really? That's precisely the reason I use Linux. Mandrake comes bundled with support for every old piece of hardware I own (including my digital camera, at no extra cost). Win2K only supports hardware shipped in the last two years. Hardware manufactures have ZERO incentive to develop a driver for XP for hardware they no longer sell. Unfortunately, M$ manages to change the OS enough that the old drivers no longer work.
Changing the user interface with every major release is considered by most to be innovation, a positive, not a negative.
Changing the user interface was said to cost $2000 per seat in retraining costs for companies upgrading from one M$ OS to the next. Sounds like a pretty big negative to me! And of course, companies are just flocking to replace Win2K with WinXP, aren't they?
Linux is already the OS to beat for the Server, and is fast becoming the OS to beat for embedded work. Yes, it's a niche player on the desktop, but that has more to do with the difficulty of retraining users than with quality fo the OS. However, since Microsoft changes the user interface with every major release, people might get tired of constantly trying to keep up with M$ and switch to something more consistent for their desktop -- I just don't see this happening in the near future.
According to The Microsoft "Hall of Innovation" (Admittedly biased), MS-Bob and Clippy are the only true M$ innovations. Everything else was copied from someone else.
You're forgetting something: SCO will will do a discovery, asking IBM for "all documentation you have on this". Now, if there is one thing that IBM is good at, it's generating documentation! Remember, these are the guys that invented "This page intentionally left blank." IBM will show up at SCO's doorstep with 20 Semis full of files, and causually remark, "Here it is... by the way, you're going to need to lease a 100,000 square foot warehouse to store this in... for about the next 12 years!" IBM dragged out a DoJ case for 12 years... wanna bet it can drag an SCO case on until SCO goes bankrupt?
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The vast majority of multiple murderers are middle class white males, not poor folk. And in places like I grew up in Alaska, where lterraly every 10-year old has a rifle and several knives, we had zero problems with violence, because we were taught to have respect for damage that weapons can do. Anyway, your applying the same "Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc" fallacy to all three "causes".
In a recent study, 100% of teenagers that went on killing rampages were found to have significant levels of testosterone in their bloodstreams, irrefutable proof that testosterone causes violent behavior! I think we should demand that testosterone be immediately banned in all highschools!
Good point, but as sacrilicious has pointed out, you could have the machine generate multiple receipts, only one of which refers to your actual votes.
Any computer data can be quickly and easily changed. The best solution I can think of is to print out two paper receipts for each vote, one to go to the election commission (for manual recounts) and one to go to the voter. Each receipt would contain a random code which the voter could then type in on a web site to verify their choices have not been changed. Of course, most people wouldn't bother to verify, but it only takes one person to catch vote fraud.
Uh, what Unix patents would those be?
I've examined defect #1, and it obviously isn't a bug (the code checks the variables and breaks out of the loop if it is NULL). This casts serious doubts as to the accuracy of their results, doesn't it? Anybody want to examine the other 30 "defects"?
So, if I insert 9 empty lines between each line of code, I've just lowered the defect density by 90%??? Are they counting comments and whitespace in the LOC count?
If I buy something with an LCD screen, I want to see it fired up first with an all black, then an all white screen to make sure none of the pixels are defective (yes, my current laptop has 1 green pixel that is on all the time, and it's annoying as heck!) Don't have this problem with CRTs...
Uh, that only works if they're traveling in opposite directions... if they're both headed east and they both bank right, then they still collide!
I assume that you are deaf?
Why don't people just reverse-engineer the encryption in dongles? Uh, maybe because it's unethical and illegal?
I think I see the flaw in this proposal...
or does anyone else think that the Feds are behind this challenge, as part of a massive sting operation?
Actually, USPS refuses to drive up my driveway to deliver a package, then leaves a postcard in my mail box telling me they attempted delivery. Of course, when I take that postcard down to the post office, they tell me they can't let me have my package because the carrier is still driving around with it... look, if you're not going to bother even checking to see if I'm home, why not just leave the damn package at the post office?
Heck, everybody knows you go to the pet store to buy giraffes, so "mall" is the word that doesn't belong... Is it just me, or is this a poor example?
Stac Electronics, Goldtouch Technologies, Priceline.com, and Eolas have all sued Microsoft for infringing on their IP.
Well, I'd say that the browsers actually adhering to standards instead of doing whatever they feel like seems like an innovation... of course, adhering to standards means you can't implement every bright idea you get, so yes, it slows down the rate of change.
Works for me. For example, whenever the IRS asks me why I didn't pay my taxes, I simply reply "I forgot!"
Nice to see you backing up your opinion with facts and references.
If by fast becoming you mean 10 years from now a few people might use it.
I'm working on a product right now that runs Linux. Just because they don't tell you that it's running Linux, doesn't mean that half the products out there aren't already running Linux. Again, why resort to facts, when you can just assert your opinions?
I personally don't use it because of the quality of the OS, specifically the driver support.
Really? That's precisely the reason I use Linux. Mandrake comes bundled with support for every old piece of hardware I own (including my digital camera, at no extra cost). Win2K only supports hardware shipped in the last two years. Hardware manufactures have ZERO incentive to develop a driver for XP for hardware they no longer sell. Unfortunately, M$ manages to change the OS enough that the old drivers no longer work.
Changing the user interface with every major release is considered by most to be innovation, a positive, not a negative.
Changing the user interface was said to cost $2000 per seat in retraining costs for companies upgrading from one M$ OS to the next. Sounds like a pretty big negative to me! And of course, companies are just flocking to replace Win2K with WinXP, aren't they?
Linux is already the OS to beat for the Server, and is fast becoming the OS to beat for embedded work. Yes, it's a niche player on the desktop, but that has more to do with the difficulty of retraining users than with quality fo the OS. However, since Microsoft changes the user interface with every major release, people might get tired of constantly trying to keep up with M$ and switch to something more consistent for their desktop -- I just don't see this happening in the near future.
Didn't Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, say that "tech stocks, including Microsoft" were seriously overvalued?
According to The Microsoft "Hall of Innovation" (Admittedly biased), MS-Bob and Clippy are the only true M$ innovations. Everything else was copied from someone else.
You're implying Bill Gates actually wrote MS-DOS -- he didn't. He bought the short-sighted OS from someone else.
``The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.''
-Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, pg. 265
You're forgetting something: SCO will will do a discovery, asking IBM for "all documentation you have on this". Now, if there is one thing that IBM is good at, it's generating documentation! Remember, these are the guys that invented "This page intentionally left blank." IBM will show up at SCO's doorstep with 20 Semis full of files, and causually remark, "Here it is... by the way, you're going to need to lease a 100,000 square foot warehouse to store this in... for about the next 12 years!" IBM dragged out a DoJ case for 12 years... wanna bet it can drag an SCO case on until SCO goes bankrupt?