Crashing Computers and Internet Addiction
March 13th 2007 18:37
The International Herald Tribune reports "The Internet Addiction Treatment Center in Daxing County uses a blend of therapy and military drills to treat the children of China's nouveau riche addicted to online games, Internet pornography, cybersex and chats.
The article ends with an official stating that the main cause for internet addiction, at least among the young, is parental expectations in a highly competitive society of 1.3 billion people. "... [s]ome lock their children up to study and ask teachers to assign extra homework. The pressure can be too much for some children, Xu said, especially if they fail.
"Then they escape to the virtual world to seek achievements, importance and satisfaction, or a sense of belonging." ...
This dovetails with a report from tech dirt yesterday, about a curfew imposed by a school in India, on the internet..."[a]dministrators at a top Indian engineering school are blaming this internet isolation for having depressed anti-social students even if there's no real evidence that it's the internet that's at fault. Still, the school has decided as a solution that it will be turning off internet access in dorm rooms from 11pm to 12:30pm each day, hoping that this will (a) cause students to get more sleep and (b) force them to socialize with each other.
Meanwhile, the IHTalso reports that a "...[s]tudy was done by a year-old research organization, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, whose work is supported by companies like IBM, Cisco Systems and eBay, as well as by the Communications Workers of America and foundation grants. It will be available at www.itif.org. "
The report confirms that we are all much more efficient because we use computers.
There is no reference in the article about Mac vs. PC. I'm looking into that issue myself, being about ready to trade my old Dell for, possibly, a Mac....
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I can't resist, as one student said (paraphrased), "Does this make anyone a WII bit jealous?"
Slashdot has a nice blurb about an intereting article from Computerworld on surfing anonymously...Given how many constitutional rights guaranteeing some level of privacy have been, allegedly, violated lately, it makes for interesting reading. Why care if you aren't doing anything wrong. Because it's no one else's business what you do....
And, ecommerce timeshas a about open platforms (including Microsoft, opening up the X-box for game developers) which starts with:
As for me, since both Wordperfect and Word are freezing my computer when I try to copy and paste my articles and links to my blog, I've written this on googles document program. if this doesn't work I'll be looking further into other freeware, like zoho.com, which looks pretty interesting, and the price is right
"I gradually became obsessed," said Li Yanlin, a university student whose grades plunged after he became addicted to Internet games. But after several weeks at the Daxing facility, the 18- year-old said he "recognized the falseness of online gaming."
"Then they escape to the virtual world to seek achievements, importance and satisfaction, or a sense of belonging." ...
This dovetails with a report from tech dirt yesterday, about a curfew imposed by a school in India, on the internet..."[a]dministrators at a top Indian engineering school are blaming this internet isolation for having depressed anti-social students even if there's no real evidence that it's the internet that's at fault. Still, the school has decided as a solution that it will be turning off internet access in dorm rooms from 11pm to 12:30pm each day, hoping that this will (a) cause students to get more sleep and (b) force them to socialize with each other.
Meanwhile, the IHTalso reports that a "...[s]tudy was done by a year-old research organization, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, whose work is supported by companies like IBM, Cisco Systems and eBay, as well as by the Communications Workers of America and foundation grants. It will be available at www.itif.org. "
The report confirms that we are all much more efficient because we use computers.
There is no reference in the article about Mac vs. PC. I'm looking into that issue myself, being about ready to trade my old Dell for, possibly, a Mac....
In North Carolina
"Using eight Sony Playstation 3 units, Dr. Frank Mueller built a supercomputing cluster capable of high-performance computing and running the latest in computer gaming.
The Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At North Carolina State University, Dr. Frank Mueller imagined using the power of the new PS3 to create a high-powered computing environment for a fraction of the cost of the supercomputers on the market."
The Sony Playstation 3 (PS3), Xbox and Nintendo Wii have captivated a generation of computer gamers with bold graphics and rapid-fire animation. But these high-tech toys can do a lot more than just play games. At North Carolina State University, Dr. Frank Mueller imagined using the power of the new PS3 to create a high-powered computing environment for a fraction of the cost of the supercomputers on the market."
I can't resist, as one student said (paraphrased), "Does this make anyone a WII bit jealous?"
Slashdot has a nice blurb about an intereting article from Computerworld on surfing anonymously...Given how many constitutional rights guaranteeing some level of privacy have been, allegedly, violated lately, it makes for interesting reading. Why care if you aren't doing anything wrong. Because it's no one else's business what you do....
And, ecommerce timeshas a about open platforms (including Microsoft, opening up the X-box for game developers) which starts with:
"Amazon's cloud is one of many new low-cost collaborative infrastructures -- such as free Internet telephony, open source software and global outsourcing -- that allow individuals and small producers to harness world-class capabilities, access markets, and serve customers in ways that only large corporations could in the past. "
As for me, since both Wordperfect and Word are freezing my computer when I try to copy and paste my articles and links to my blog, I've written this on googles document program. if this doesn't work I'll be looking further into other freeware, like zoho.com, which looks pretty interesting, and the price is right
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