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CSI Takes On Grand Theft Auto
Tycoon Guy was one of many to write "Looks like another 20 million viewers will be fed the 'video games promote violence' story tonight. Today's CSI: Miami episode will feature a group of kids who are inspired to go on a city-wide crime spree by a game that looks suspiciously like Grand Theft Auto. From the description: 'Delko witnesses a bank robbery and the CSIs soon discover that the culprits are playing out the action from the videogame 'Urban Hellraisers' on the streets of Miami. As they score points for each crime committed, the CSIs must discover what consists of getting to the next level in the game in order to stop the culprits before they strike again.'"
As long as they portray it as bad parenting and idiotic kids acting out bits from a video game. Or a book. Or a movie.
It's not that video games don't inspire mentally unstable people to do stupid things. That's a given. Mentally unstable people could find inspirations for their actions from a box of rice crispies.
It's how you portray it.
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It's actually 'exonerates'. The word is derived not from the root "honor", but rather from "onus/onera", the Latin word for "burden". So to 'exonerate' is to 'remove the burden' from someone.
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- You have multiple frames to work with. You can do inter-frame interpolation to pull more information out of stills. Ever wondered why a lower resolution is acceptable for moving pictures than stills? It's because your brain does this.
- You know what people, cars, etc look like. If you have n images that could have been degraded to look like a pixelated face, you can discard the m that don't look like a face at all. The n-m is then a much smaller search space, and you can make guesses within this.
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I wish that I still had the reference, but I recall reading an article describing how chemistry classes are seeing an influx of students who all want to be like the cool cats they see on CSI, and have no real appreciation of the work that's actually done by real forensic pathologists. Once they find out what's really entailed, the immediately seek to drop the class.
Yes, but the old saying holds true - repeat a phrase often enough, enough people believe it true, then it becomes true.
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I work in video production, and I've actually assisted the cops in trying to get usable information off of security tapes. Even DV at 720x486 is pretty worthless when you blow it up. If the information isn't there, the information isn't there. I like CSI and its ilk, but that always drives me crazy... The same way Hackers drives all of you CS guys crazy. There's some "enhancement" that you can do, but you are limited by the number of pixels in the original.
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Its all supported, its just you have to do lots of wierd stuff such as registering your HL1 CD with Steam. I think you might then need to download steams version of the HL files, I know not. And yes, HalfLife1 and Counter Strike are still fully supported. Anyway, to register your original HL game, log in, go to the "Games" tab and click "Activate a product on Steam". After that its all pretty obvious. Go check an FAQ or something if you need more details.
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Here you go. Next time, find it yourself.