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Comment Not so sure (Score 1) 250

I am a gamer and an adult and mostly secular. I am not sure there is no impact. I recently had a 16 year old friend commit suicide. There was a discussion, that perhaps, he suffered; mild post-traumatic stress, because he would spend, daily, hours a day, in battle simulation games on his game console. (I'm using no product names on purpose.) Considering, he was the most kind, generous, polite, emotionally stable young person, you could meet, questions remain about his death. I did not read the study, so I don't know if they gathered facts regarding suicide.

Comment Hypercard Could Replace the GUI (Score 1) 299

In computer timelines, I know that Hypercard is ancient. The software wasn't much bigger that 800K bytes and ran from a floppy disk on Mac OS System 6. Hypercard was essentially cancelled by Apple Computer because, when Mac OS System 7 came out, Apple wanted extreme tight control over the graphical user interface of the computer. Apple wrote the "Human Interface Guidelines" and Hypercard broke all the rules. A neat trick with Hypercard of 1987 was, if it was auto booted, it could replace your graphical user interface (GUI) on your computer, and because it was full screen, the menu bars and icons would disappear. Image being able to draw the GUI of the computer with a paint program, which was included in Hypercard, and create hyperlinks to files, applications, and basic interface functions. If one created text fields, a basic database form is created. This is why Hypercard was so cool and ahead of its time, way before the invention of the commercial Internet. As a computer person, listening to computer users, the big complaint over and over again is the GUI forced on them. If the original Hypercard were available today, and you didn't like the "Start Menu" missing or the font change from iOS7 to iOS8, imagine being empowered to change those features, on your own. I have no disrespect for current versions of Supercard and Livecode. I am not familiar with the 2014 versions of those products.
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Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? 333

Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that computer science students with the entrepreneurial spirit may want to look for a different major, because if Thomas M. Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems, is right, IT is a mature industry that will grow no faster than the larger economy, its glory days having ended in 2000. Addressing Stanford students in February as a guest of the engineering school, Siebel called attention to 20 sweet years from 1980 to 2000, when worldwide IT spending grew at a compounded annual growth rate of 17 percent. 'All you had to do was show up and not goof it up,' Siebel says. 'All ships were rising.' Since 2000, however, that rate has averaged only 3 percent. His explanation for the sharp decline is that 'the promise of the post-industrial society has been realized.' In Siebel's view, far larger opportunities are to be found in businesses that address needs in food, water, health care and energy. Though Silicon Valley was 'where the action was' when he finished graduate school, he says, 'if I were graduating today, I would get on a boat and I would get off in Shanghai.'"

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