"Dr. Orzack: This isn't about willpower or restraint."
Oh yes, another Harvard professor espouses why peoples' personal problems "aren't their fault." BTW, more grant money pls??
Bullshit.
Good god man, a government job where I just play games and apply ratings? A job where I have great benefits and retirement and basically can't be fired? You sir are a genious.
Idiocy from Harvard, big surprise...
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"Dr. Kimberly Thompson of Harvard University"... There's your problem.
Did some looking up on Dr. Thompson (site). I especially found this press release amusing. Apparently NHL '99 is only 1.5% violent, so hockey is about 43x less violent than a game with dots and classic sheet-over-the-head ghosts. Amazing.
I am so, so sick of the money being pumped into these frivolous shitty studies at ivy league colleges. These best of the best "social researchers" are so out of touch it's just sad. Jesus Christ, put some money into public schools or feeding the homeless or something that might be of some use to society.
"The study was funded by a private gift from Mitchell Dong and Robin LaFoley Dong to the Harvard School of Public Health." Sucker born every minute.
Why can't the government come up with something simple, like a standardized program that, by law, must be added to sexually explicit web sites? The government provides the program, and web browsers implement the interface and parental control settings to interact with that program.
There would be a lot of gray area and of course this would only work for sites in the US. But we do have television, movie, and video game ratings, maybe it's time for explicit web sites to have a standardized warning system too.
Whoa, my bad. Guess I wasn't thinking when I posted that.
Good point about the drivers, tho I don't even try to update mine anymore. Both times I've upgraded video drivers for a GeForce 4 4200Ti recently my machine became unbootable. NVidia's website says their newest driver suite "should" work on all GeForce hardware, but they haven't tested older than GeForce 5 series. Buyer beware.
So yeah... a bootable disk is a bad idea because I might want older drivers too.
Most developers use DirectX, and you can't legally distribute that on a boot disk. You could with OpenGL but most devs are getting better performance and shader support from DX now (so say some of my Digipen graphics programmer friends, who could be wrong).
Kudos to Valve for taking a trip over to Digipen's career day and nabbing the whole Narbacular Drop team;).
I was a DP student when they were working on Narb, my head still hurts when I think of the difficulty level of the puzzles you can create with it. I believe in their demo they had to nerf the difficulty several times for us mere mortals.
Was that a thinly veiled injection attack? Should it be chalked up in the statistics? Should my reply count too?
I don't think I've used a language or DB that doesn't support parameterized queries. Then again I've really only used ASP and ADO.NET. Once I learned that simply "concatenating strings and executing is bad, m'kay?" then I was pretty much fine.
Good insights. I remember my jaw hitting the floor when I picked up an actual book on C++ and not learning from Joe Script Kiddie website #90210. Funny how sites never tell you about important stuff like implicit copy constructor invocation which, by the way, seriously tears up jack if you're dynamically allocating memory.
The difference in books vs. websites is night-and-day, most sites assume a certain level of proficiency. Books teach things, well, by the book. From the beginning.
Also, it's not hard to find PDF versions of very good SQL books online.
That actually happened to me once. I was *just* learning SQL and walked away from my computer for a few minutes and, upon returning, every row for every field in every table simply had the string "poop". A coworker, a veteran SQL programmer, laughed and said "here's a backup of your stuff."
Thankfully I was designing something simple and only for an intranet, but it was a wakeup call. Scary, really. I would never try to program SQL for a commercial website w/o reading up seriouly on injection attacks and binding and parameterizing.
"It's open source. If you want it fixed, fix it."
You're right about one thing -- it is open source, so we don't have a right to complain. But I can always choose not to use it too.
If the open source community for a product takes a "you fix it" stance then that software is doomed to fail.
I haven't bought a "main-label" CD in 3 or 4 years. You don't need the major music labels people, support your local music scene and buy from private music shops.
Oh, and if I can't understand the lyrics to a song, I change the radio station.
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Distant cousin?
Props to MS for giving consumers a choice, definitely would like to see an all-in-one unit too though.
Btw, this announcement slide is decidedly non-xtreme: http://i.n.com.com/i/ne/p/2006/xbox0217_550x413.jp g
"Dr. Orzack: This isn't about willpower or restraint." Oh yes, another Harvard professor espouses why peoples' personal problems "aren't their fault." BTW, more grant money pls?? Bullshit.
Good god man, a government job where I just play games and apply ratings? A job where I have great benefits and retirement and basically can't be fired? You sir are a genious.
Sign me up.
I'm one of the biggest Nintendo fans going, but this ranks right up there with a "best of Sega CD FMV games" list.
Boxen. *ducks*
Anyone paste the results here?
One problem with electronic voting machines, and I'll quote my beloved uncle here, is that "them things 's got too many part in'em."
After looking at the pictures, I tend to agree... electronics do fail. Nothing wrong with paper ballots IMNSHO.
LOL, seriously laughing here :D. You win, sir.
"Dr. Kimberly Thompson of Harvard University"... There's your problem.
Did some looking up on Dr. Thompson (site). I especially found this press release amusing. Apparently NHL '99 is only 1.5% violent, so hockey is about 43x less violent than a game with dots and classic sheet-over-the-head ghosts. Amazing.
I am so, so sick of the money being pumped into these frivolous shitty studies at ivy league colleges. These best of the best "social researchers" are so out of touch it's just sad. Jesus Christ, put some money into public schools or feeding the homeless or something that might be of some use to society.
"The study was funded by a private gift from Mitchell Dong and Robin LaFoley Dong to the Harvard School of Public Health." Sucker born every minute.
~end rant~I just could not care less.
Why can't the government come up with something simple, like a standardized program that, by law, must be added to sexually explicit web sites? The government provides the program, and web browsers implement the interface and parental control settings to interact with that program.
There would be a lot of gray area and of course this would only work for sites in the US. But we do have television, movie, and video game ratings, maybe it's time for explicit web sites to have a standardized warning system too.
I always read comments like this thusly:
"You obviously ...blah blah blah blah... I'm an elitist prick."
Whoa, my bad. Guess I wasn't thinking when I posted that.
Good point about the drivers, tho I don't even try to update mine anymore. Both times I've upgraded video drivers for a GeForce 4 4200Ti recently my machine became unbootable. NVidia's website says their newest driver suite "should" work on all GeForce hardware, but they haven't tested older than GeForce 5 series. Buyer beware.
So yeah... a bootable disk is a bad idea because I might want older drivers too.
Only slashdotters bluster, compete, and condescend on pedantic points more than research scientists. Amiright?
Scheme? Stab me in the eye with a pointy stick. I can't program in a language where lines end with 5 to 15 closing parentheses ;).
Most developers use DirectX, and you can't legally distribute that on a boot disk. You could with OpenGL but most devs are getting better performance and shader support from DX now (so say some of my Digipen graphics programmer friends, who could be wrong).
Kudos to Valve for taking a trip over to Digipen's career day and nabbing the whole Narbacular Drop team ;).
I was a DP student when they were working on Narb, my head still hurts when I think of the difficulty level of the puzzles you can create with it. I believe in their demo they had to nerf the difficulty several times for us mere mortals.
"DROP TABLE users;"
Was that a thinly veiled injection attack? Should it be chalked up in the statistics? Should my reply count too?
I don't think I've used a language or DB that doesn't support parameterized queries. Then again I've really only used ASP and ADO.NET. Once I learned that simply "concatenating strings and executing is bad, m'kay?" then I was pretty much fine.
Good insights. I remember my jaw hitting the floor when I picked up an actual book on C++ and not learning from Joe Script Kiddie website #90210. Funny how sites never tell you about important stuff like implicit copy constructor invocation which, by the way, seriously tears up jack if you're dynamically allocating memory.
The difference in books vs. websites is night-and-day, most sites assume a certain level of proficiency. Books teach things, well, by the book. From the beginning.
Also, it's not hard to find PDF versions of very good SQL books online.
That actually happened to me once. I was *just* learning SQL and walked away from my computer for a few minutes and, upon returning, every row for every field in every table simply had the string "poop". A coworker, a veteran SQL programmer, laughed and said "here's a backup of your stuff."
Thankfully I was designing something simple and only for an intranet, but it was a wakeup call. Scary, really. I would never try to program SQL for a commercial website w/o reading up seriouly on injection attacks and binding and parameterizing.
"It's open source. If you want it fixed, fix it." You're right about one thing -- it is open source, so we don't have a right to complain. But I can always choose not to use it too. If the open source community for a product takes a "you fix it" stance then that software is doomed to fail.
Me too, that's a great insight. Mod this parent up!
I haven't bought a "main-label" CD in 3 or 4 years. You don't need the major music labels people, support your local music scene and buy from private music shops.
Oh, and if I can't understand the lyrics to a song, I change the radio station.
The Jedi are gonna feel this one.
Well.... yeah. That's their jeorb.