"Many videogames stir up tension and a feeling of fear, and there is concern that this could have an effect on the autonomic nerves," Mori said. "During childhood, playing outside with friends, not videogames, is the best option."
I donno... if you're one of those kids who regularly get the snot beaten out of them by the other kids, video games may lead to less tension and fear than playing outside.
Of course, at that point you develop friendships that don't involve playing outside. And thus the geek is born.
Being OO capable and being an OO language are two very different things. You can do OOP in C -- the GNOME project does it all the time -- but this is a kludge; C was never supposed to support object oriented programming. The same applies to Perl, where OO is a kludge based on hashes. C++, on the other hand, has OOP support built in to the design from the get-go. And then there are truly OO languages like Java, Smalltalk, and Oberon.
It may be possible to take any language that can compile itself and make it do OO; I'm frankly not sure. I'd hate to see what object-oriented FORTRAN looks like.
Many reasons to see Undercover Brother instead.
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Why you should see Undercover Brother instead of Men In Black II:
Undercover Brother is a lot funnier than MIIB.
Undercover Brother has more great "movie moments" than MIIB (e.g. the car spinning out without UB spilling a drop of his orange soda)
Undercover Brother and MIIB both involve secret agencies, but the secret agency of UB is more interesting this time around.
There are just as many 'gross out' scenes in Undercover Brother as there are in MIIB, and they're more believable. (Mayonayse...ick!)
Like MIIB, Undercover Brother is a parody. Unlike MIIB, Undercover Brother isn't a parody of itself.
Since Undercover Brother has been out for a few weeks, a greater percentage of the proceeds go to local movie theatres than go to the studios and the MPAA.
Although many telemarketers are colored, most of them are just like you and me.
Colored what? Pink? Purple? Or is it one of those color-by-number things? Is it like this one act I saw in Chicago, at Charybdis, where a German guy smeared tempera paints all over the naked bodies of volunteers and then took photos? Man, that was something to see; the pictures were fantastic and everyone had a good time. Too bad that place got shut down by the Alderman.
Bill Gates is NOT Microsoft. What he does with his own (pracitcally unlimited) money is one thing; he can use $100 bills as toilet tissue for all I care (although I admit that I'm glad he's spending some of his billions on charity).
What Microsoft does with its money is quite another thing, and is subject to intense scrutiny from investors, analysts, and federal investigators. Investors and analysts want an aggressive, cutthroat control freak, and that's what they're going to get, too.
cool there seems to be GUIs for most platforms going, but are they consistant and easy to use?
NO, and that's a huge honking problem as far as I am concerned. We've got at least three different UI projects for GnuPG, none of them ready for prime time, each one working differently from the other.
I'm horribly tempted just to take the best of the bunch and port it to wxWindows. It would run more slowly, but it would work, damnit, on Win, Gnome/Gtk, KDE and Mac.
Let me second this. (Yes, I'm seconding Bruce Perens. How's that for chutzpah?.)
Most of the Gnu Privacy Guard code base is in place, but we still need a ton of help with GUIs, APIs, Web-based encrypted email, etc. And there is no GnuPGFone as far as I know.
I know PGP is your baby.. I can appreciate that, and I know what it's like to lose control of your baby. I'm not going to pretend that GnuPG is the same thing. Nonetheless, GnuPG is working toward (mostly) the same goals, and that's something worth considering. They could also use your help, as you have years and years of hard-won experience in this field. Yeah, they're young punks, but they mean well and they do good.
I realize that this is quasi-off-topic, but there's a local case that hasn't gotten much national press lately, and they could use some help. Two teenage girls disappeared from their Oregon City, OR area apartment complex earlier this year and haven't been found since. The FBI is investigating this as an abduction. If you have any information on Miranda Gaddis (FBI Site) or Ashley Pond (FBI site), please contact the FBI immediately. If you have seen either of them outside the United States, please contact the US Embassy in your country. There is a reward of $50k+ for information leading to the recovery of these girls.
Just to make it on-topic: there was a flurry of media attention paid to these two girls back in May, but it seems to have died out in the wake of the Smart case. Perhaps no new clues means no new press attention.
I understand Ford getting pissed about this. I understand them not wanting gmsucks.com to point to the Ford web site. The way they went about asking was a breach of ettiquette... they could have asked, politely, but instead they sent a bark letter.
If nothing else, this defeat will demonstrate that bark letters don't work with geeks. That lesson in and of itself might save Ford a lot of PR trouble in the next few decades.
If people cant read release notes they should just pull down ximian RPMs
Funny, I tried to find them myself (on RPMFind, and I don't think they've been released yet. If they have been released, then they're not on RPMFind or, as of this morning, Red Carpet.
If your friend wanted to get the FBI involved, he should have called in a consultant to do a security audit ("find out how that script kiddie did that and tell me how to prevent it from now on") and paid that consultant $5000. Then he could have turned to the FBI, presented him with a legitimate $5000 expense related to the crime, and hauled the kiddie off to jail.
Yes, five grand is a lot of money. But the look on the script kiddie's face when s/he's hauled in by the FBI is priceless. (I smell a commercial.)
Keep in mind that the quarter million dollar figure may have nothing to do with the actual actual damages incurred. Companies often make up figures like this in order to get the FBI's attention, since nothing under $5000 worth of damage is worth investigating. It also makes for better headlines, especially with a politically ambitious prosecutor.
Sure, this would be lying to Federal agents, which is a felony; but several companies got away with it in the Mitnick case, too.
Respectfully, neocon, you don't know that. Part of the role of the hearing is to determine what juristiction the court has on Mr. Al Muhajir's case. The Bush Administration maintains that there is none, which would imply that the DOD has sole juristiction in this matter.
Even if the court does have juristiction -- which is highly questionable -- all the Bush administration has to do is show evidence that Mr. Al Muhajir was in the country to "harm US interests." There is no requirement to demonstrate that he is a part of any military, paramilitary, or terrorist group.
I call Lieberman a "so-called Liberal" because that's what the GOP have been calling him for years. I basically agree with your analysis of the DNC, by the way.
Those were fun discussions! Arguments about our multicultural society, and separation of state and church, were all swept aside with counterarguments about cultural heritage and such. But those in favour of those four words would look quite shocked when one would suggest to replace the word God with Allah. Funny how such things work two ways...
I can kinda understand the conservatives' point of view there, since "Gott Mit Uns!" (sp?) was a Dutch battle-cry for so long during the Middle Ages. It would be like suggesting that the Romans alter "SPQR" to mean something else.
"In God We Trust" was never an American battle cry, but it does harken in some ways to America's Masonic roots. It may be worth preserving for that reason.
Before the "liberation" you talk about, women couldn't vote, own things, have an education, go out after dark, have a career, say no to their husbands, or generally live how they wanted. Before the "good old days" minorities couldn't buy things, get an education, be taught to read, choose their own religion, vote, co-exisit with whites, marry or date whites, walk down the street without fear of being killed for no reason. Sexual minorities were as a matter of policy imprisoned, beaten, labotimized, institutionalized, killed, executed, and generally treated like subhumans.
Watch your step.. you might get the Family Values folks sexually aroused.
I suspect that if the Pledge were changed to remove "under God," this whole issue would go away, at least as far as the courts are concerned.
Odds of that happening are within epsilon of zero. I guarantee you that the Family Values crowd is going to use this to hammer massive invasions of religious liberties down our throats, with Joe Lieberman (yes, the so-called Liberal) leading the way. Rationality and common sense can barely stand up for themselves against either nationalism or religious belief. Against both combined, they're practically criminal offenses.
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I donno ... if you're one of those kids who regularly get the snot beaten out of them by the other kids, video games may lead to less tension and fear than playing outside.
Of course, at that point you develop friendships that don't involve playing outside. And thus the geek is born.
It may be possible to take any language that can compile itself and make it do OO; I'm frankly not sure. I'd hate to see what object-oriented FORTRAN looks like.
Colored what? Pink? Purple? Or is it one of those color-by-number things? Is it like this one act I saw in Chicago, at Charybdis, where a German guy smeared tempera paints all over the naked bodies of volunteers and then took photos? Man, that was something to see; the pictures were fantastic and everyone had a good time. Too bad that place got shut down by the Alderman.
Let me know, because I'm dying of curiosity.
What Microsoft does with its money is quite another thing, and is subject to intense scrutiny from investors, analysts, and federal investigators. Investors and analysts want an aggressive, cutthroat control freak, and that's what they're going to get, too.
Imagine a beowulf ... never mind.
NO, and that's a huge honking problem as far as I am concerned. We've got at least three different UI projects for GnuPG, none of them ready for prime time, each one working differently from the other.
I'm horribly tempted just to take the best of the bunch and port it to wxWindows. It would run more slowly, but it would work, damnit, on Win, Gnome/Gtk, KDE and Mac.
crack for checking passwords.
Let me second this. (Yes, I'm seconding Bruce Perens. How's that for chutzpah?.)
Most of the Gnu Privacy Guard code base is in place, but we still need a ton of help with GUIs, APIs, Web-based encrypted email, etc. And there is no GnuPGFone as far as I know.
I know PGP is your baby .. I can appreciate that, and I know what it's like to lose control of your baby. I'm not going to pretend that GnuPG is the same thing. Nonetheless, GnuPG is working toward (mostly) the same goals, and that's something worth considering. They could also use your help, as you have years and years of hard-won experience in this field. Yeah, they're young punks, but they mean well and they do good.
Just my two cents.
Just to make it on-topic: there was a flurry of media attention paid to these two girls back in May, but it seems to have died out in the wake of the Smart case. Perhaps no new clues means no new press attention.
With a guest appearance by Tommy Bombadil, the blind creature of the forest who can play a mean game of pinball...
The whold discussion is moot; all the government has to do is declare the lucite ball to be an enemy combatant, and then it has no rights at all.
What, you mean software? Why would I want to use a Microsoft software product?
If nothing else, this defeat will demonstrate that bark letters don't work with geeks. That lesson in and of itself might save Ford a lot of PR trouble in the next few decades.
AMEN brother!
Funny, I tried to find them myself (on RPMFind, and I don't think they've been released yet. If they have been released, then they're not on RPMFind or, as of this morning, Red Carpet.
Does anyone know what's up with Ximian GNOME 2?
Hope I truly live before I die...
And yeah, if you've seen it, it really is a strong candidate for the worst photo ever taken.
Yes, five grand is a lot of money. But the look on the script kiddie's face when s/he's hauled in by the FBI is priceless. (I smell a commercial.)
Keep in mind that the quarter million dollar figure may have nothing to do with the actual actual damages incurred. Companies often make up figures like this in order to get the FBI's attention, since nothing under $5000 worth of damage is worth investigating. It also makes for better headlines, especially with a politically ambitious prosecutor.
Sure, this would be lying to Federal agents, which is a felony; but several companies got away with it in the Mitnick case, too.
Even if the court does have juristiction -- which is highly questionable -- all the Bush administration has to do is show evidence that Mr. Al Muhajir was in the country to "harm US interests." There is no requirement to demonstrate that he is a part of any military, paramilitary, or terrorist group.
I call Lieberman a "so-called Liberal" because that's what the GOP have been calling him for years. I basically agree with your analysis of the DNC, by the way.
I can kinda understand the conservatives' point of view there, since "Gott Mit Uns!" (sp?) was a Dutch battle-cry for so long during the Middle Ages. It would be like suggesting that the Romans alter "SPQR" to mean something else.
"In God We Trust" was never an American battle cry, but it does harken in some ways to America's Masonic roots. It may be worth preserving for that reason.
Watch your step .. you might get the Family Values folks sexually aroused.
I suspect that if the Pledge were changed to remove "under God," this whole issue would go away, at least as far as the courts are concerned.
Odds of that happening are within epsilon of zero. I guarantee you that the Family Values crowd is going to use this to hammer massive invasions of religious liberties down our throats, with Joe Lieberman (yes, the so-called Liberal) leading the way. Rationality and common sense can barely stand up for themselves against either nationalism or religious belief. Against both combined, they're practically criminal offenses.