The people in charge in Boston totally overreacted. But the news outlets are the ones the ran with it and kept bringing it up. If I were the head of the Cartoon Network, I would go over to my my fellow Time Warner employee the head of CNN and give that person a black eye. Boston made the mistake but CNN and company made it news.
Of course if this had happened in someplace besides the East or West coast it probably wouldn't have even made the national news...
Well, when you have a backwards organization like the Writer's Guild, you know things are screwed up. What other organization actively limits how many of its own members gets credit for their work?
I'm not in the industry, but call me crazy because if I worked on something, I'd like to be able to have my name on it.
" I'm mad as hell about this ad campaign because when it comes time to pay for all the police activity today, you can bet your ass Ted Turner won't offer to foot the bill."
especially since he isn't in charge of Aol-Time-Warner...
And what do you think would have happened if these things had been kittens, disguised as creepy little advertisements, and the police detonated them? Never mind the damage and loss of life, people would be bitching to high heaven about police and government incompetence.
which is to say, not at all. 99% of the time if I see a.biz or a.info domain it is just a link to some spam site (yes, there are non-spam sites with those TLDs but they are the exception). I have no reason to beleive that a.xxx TLD would be any different. Do you really think that wal-mart would allow wal-mart.xxx to be owned by anyone but wal-mart?
If you don't want your kids looking at porn, watch them. If you don't want people looking at porn in libraries, turn off images. While there are losts of sites that need images to be navigatable, the irritation of not having images is a lot better than over-aggressive filtering software which have a reputation for blocking sites which are not meant to be explicitly pornographic.
Exactly. If any of my students cited ANY encyclopedia, they would probably not be writing a very good paper in the first place. College students should not be using ANY encyclopedia. Accuracy is not the main issue. The main issue is that college students should be looking at primary sources and more complex sources than an encyclopedia.
Use an encyclopedia if you are curious about a topic but not if you are writing a paper.
While I think that the US should get rid of the dollar bill in favor of the dollar coin, I have to disagree that having the bills all the same size and color is a problem for sighted people. I worked as a cashier in one of the most popular casinos in the USA and I would go through tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars per shift and managed to tell all the bills apart just fine as did the customers. If you've grown up with the currency there isn't any problem telling them apart. It is like saying that "a" "e" and "o" look too much alike so we should change them. I do, however, agree that they should change things for the visually impaired.
I could never get into System Shock, but I miss Thief horribly. I count the first two Thief games as two of the best computer games ever. The third one was fairly good, but the chances we'll see a fourth are slim to none.
Honestly, at H&R Block and places like that, a lot of the taxes aren't done by accountants. THey take classes and all, but one of my friends did it and she said that they basically use the same software that H&R Block sells to consumers. If you get something complicated then you get bumped up to a full time employee, but for the basic tax returns there isn't much difference between using H&R Block's software and having H&R Block do it for you.
All of this emphasis on airplanes and airports is a sham. Let's say we spend all this time and money on making airplanes and airports safe from terrorists. Is that going to stop terrorism? Of course not. It will just move them on to the next target. Let's see them make the Superbowl or CES safe from terrorists.
Oh well, I guess it is good for the economy to spend all this money and hire all these people...
Steam may be highly problematic, but at least with it I can at least play the games I have bought. I've ran into copy protections on at least 3 other games that prevented me from even installing the games legally. I tried them on 3 different drives on two machines and you know how I finally ended up getting the games to work? bittorrent. It seems that the cracking community has no problems with eliminating the copy protection, only the people who actually pay for the games. I'll take Steam over that kind of copy protection any day of the week.
I've said it before, but the fact that they have 3 series set in the same time period (TNG, DS9, and Voyager) means that they have a lot of characters and storylines they could pick up on. I think there could be a lot of mileage out of mashing together the characters from those series. They are established characters but with only a couple minor crossovers we haven't seen them interact.
Rather than make up some stupid new enemy like in Generations or Insurrection or reveal that there's a whole other species that we've never heard of before living on the homeworld of one of the primary Trek adversaries like in Nemesis why not logically build on the situations that were created in the series?
Well, they didn't make them look "very" young, maybe 10-15 years younger. Let's also remember that both of those men are pretty slender, unlike Shatner whose body doesn't look the same as it did during the television show.
I subscribe to the three US computer centric gaming magazines. While it is mainly because I write about videogames, it is also because you can get incredibly cheap subscriptions for them on ebay. I think I got 3 years of PCGamer for $9.99. That's less than 30 cents an issue. At that price, why not get them?
Those of you that are saying that the game is horrible and that it was a good think they kicked it out are missing the point. Slamdance wanted the game in the competition. They encouraged the creator to submit it. They selected it as a finalist. If they thought it was offensive or not in good taste, they simply wouldn't have selected it as a finalist.
What has happened is that at least one of the corporate sponsors threatened to pull out their financial backing if the game was in the competition. So the real issue has NOTHING to do with the content of the game or the game itself. The real issue is corporate sponsorship controlling the outcome of a competition.
Discussions about the game are a good thing, but let's not overlook the real issue here.
Unfortunately, the truth is they didn't kick it out because they didn't like it. If that were the case it wouldn't have made it to the finals. The truth is they kicked it out because sponsors were threatening to pull out their financial support if they didn't kick it out.
So the real issue has nothing to do with the game. The real issue is corporate control over a film festival/game competition.
IU http://iuware.iu.edu/ I'm sure that in some way our fees pay for it. We can also buy XP Pro for $15 (Or is it $10? I can't remember).
While it is nice, it is also a nice way for Microsoft to get lots of undergrads brainwashed into using their products without thinking about alternatives.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but yours is by your own admission an uninformed opinion. You haven't played the game and you say that the article didn't give a very good overview of it and yet you can feel justified in opposing it?
This reminds me of the people who protested against Kevin Smith's film Dogma before it was even screened. I'm not comparing Dogma to this game, but in both cases people were against it without even knowing the details about it. Jack Thompson the anti-videogame lawyer filed a public nusance complaint against the game Bully and denounced it to anyone who would listen that the game was glorifying bullying and he hadn't played it either. There is certainly a big difference between saying that the game is bad and lobying for it to be outlawed, but the both situations start with an uninformed opinion.
I downloaded a beta and my university has had the final version available for download for a couple weeks. I like that you can set the ribbon to autohide. I also like that instead of putting stupid addins in another toolbar which reduces the room to work in they exile it to "addins." The placement of the commands seem fairly arbitrary to me, however. It was like they filled out 75% of the ribbons and said, "ok, let's just throw the rest of this stuff on there." They seemed to make the little windows button at the top the default for all the functions that they couldn't fit in anywhere else. They say that they completely redesigned it, but as soon as you get into any of the options that aren't in the ribbon the box it pops up looks exactly like the older versions of Office which really shows that they just put a skin on the old application. The instant preview of the fonts and formatting is really nice and the little formatting menu that pops up when you highlight a section is nice, although I wish it would pop up instantly instead of fading in. I forget it is there and move the mouse half way up to the ribbon before I remember that the formatting thing will fade in and by that time it is too late to use it.
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The people in charge in Boston totally overreacted. But the news outlets are the ones the ran with it and kept bringing it up. If I were the head of the Cartoon Network, I would go over to my my fellow Time Warner employee the head of CNN and give that person a black eye. Boston made the mistake but CNN and company made it news.
Of course if this had happened in someplace besides the East or West coast it probably wouldn't have even made the national news...
"STILL has compatibility problems with many websites. Ergo the IE Tab extension which is an absolute necessity."
Really? THe only website I go to the requires IE is Windows Update. What other common websites aren't compatible with Firefox?
If I recall, he already is. I think Gamepolitics said he is.
OK, tell us where there is FUD in this article. Then submit some articles of your own and hope they get selected.
Well, when you have a backwards organization like the Writer's Guild, you know things are screwed up. What other organization actively limits how many of its own members gets credit for their work?
I'm not in the industry, but call me crazy because if I worked on something, I'd like to be able to have my name on it.
" I'm mad as hell about this ad campaign because when it comes time to pay for all the police activity today, you can bet your ass Ted Turner won't offer to foot the bill."
especially since he isn't in charge of Aol-Time-Warner...
And what do you think would have happened if these things had been kittens, disguised as creepy little advertisements, and the police detonated them? Never mind the damage and loss of life, people would be bitching to high heaven about police and government incompetence.
which is to say, not at all. 99% of the time if I see a .biz or a .info domain it is just a link to some spam site (yes, there are non-spam sites with those TLDs but they are the exception). I have no reason to beleive that a .xxx TLD would be any different. Do you really think that wal-mart would allow wal-mart.xxx to be owned by anyone but wal-mart?
If you don't want your kids looking at porn, watch them.
If you don't want people looking at porn in libraries, turn off images. While there are losts of sites that need images to be navigatable, the irritation of not having images is a lot better than over-aggressive filtering software which have a reputation for blocking sites which are not meant to be explicitly pornographic.
Exactly. If any of my students cited ANY encyclopedia, they would probably not be writing a very good paper in the first place.
College students should not be using ANY encyclopedia. Accuracy is not the main issue. The main issue is that college students should be looking at primary sources and more complex sources than an encyclopedia.
Use an encyclopedia if you are curious about a topic but not if you are writing a paper.
While I think that the US should get rid of the dollar bill in favor of the dollar coin, I have to disagree that having the bills all the same size and color is a problem for sighted people. I worked as a cashier in one of the most popular casinos in the USA and I would go through tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars per shift and managed to tell all the bills apart just fine as did the customers. If you've grown up with the currency there isn't any problem telling them apart. It is like saying that "a" "e" and "o" look too much alike so we should change them.
I do, however, agree that they should change things for the visually impaired.
I could never get into System Shock, but I miss Thief horribly. I count the first two Thief games as two of the best computer games ever. The third one was fairly good, but the chances we'll see a fourth are slim to none.
Honestly, at H&R Block and places like that, a lot of the taxes aren't done by accountants. THey take classes and all, but one of my friends did it and she said that they basically use the same software that H&R Block sells to consumers. If you get something complicated then you get bumped up to a full time employee, but for the basic tax returns there isn't much difference between using H&R Block's software and having H&R Block do it for you.
All of this emphasis on airplanes and airports is a sham. Let's say we spend all this time and money on making airplanes and airports safe from terrorists. Is that going to stop terrorism? Of course not. It will just move them on to the next target. Let's see them make the Superbowl or CES safe from terrorists.
Oh well, I guess it is good for the economy to spend all this money and hire all these people...
The first game I ran into I couldn't even get an image made of it, so ever since then I've just bypassed that and went straight to the warez.
Steam may be highly problematic, but at least with it I can at least play the games I have bought. I've ran into copy protections on at least 3 other games that prevented me from even installing the games legally. I tried them on 3 different drives on two machines and you know how I finally ended up getting the games to work? bittorrent. It seems that the cracking community has no problems with eliminating the copy protection, only the people who actually pay for the games.
I'll take Steam over that kind of copy protection any day of the week.
Since it is being adapted by Stephenson, there's a good chance that whatever changes are made they will be true to the spirit of the book.
I've said it before, but the fact that they have 3 series set in the same time period (TNG, DS9, and Voyager) means that they have a lot of characters and storylines they could pick up on. I think there could be a lot of mileage out of mashing together the characters from those series. They are established characters but with only a couple minor crossovers we haven't seen them interact.
Rather than make up some stupid new enemy like in Generations or Insurrection or reveal that there's a whole other species that we've never heard of before living on the homeworld of one of the primary Trek adversaries like in Nemesis why not logically build on the situations that were created in the series?
Well, they didn't make them look "very" young, maybe 10-15 years younger. Let's also remember that both of those men are pretty slender, unlike Shatner whose body doesn't look the same as it did during the television show.
I subscribe to the three US computer centric gaming magazines. While it is mainly because I write about videogames, it is also because you can get incredibly cheap subscriptions for them on ebay. I think I got 3 years of PCGamer for $9.99. That's less than 30 cents an issue. At that price, why not get them?
With the exception of the video and audio production areas, Apple has pretty much given up on the business sector.
As a home user, if you don't play computer games, and aren't interested in open source, a mac is a very very strong altenative.
Those of you that are saying that the game is horrible and that it was a good think they kicked it out are missing the point. Slamdance wanted the game in the competition. They encouraged the creator to submit it. They selected it as a finalist. If they thought it was offensive or not in good taste, they simply wouldn't have selected it as a finalist.
What has happened is that at least one of the corporate sponsors threatened to pull out their financial backing if the game was in the competition. So the real issue has NOTHING to do with the content of the game or the game itself. The real issue is corporate sponsorship controlling the outcome of a competition.
Discussions about the game are a good thing, but let's not overlook the real issue here.
Unfortunately, the truth is they didn't kick it out because they didn't like it. If that were the case it wouldn't have made it to the finals. The truth is they kicked it out because sponsors were threatening to pull out their financial support if they didn't kick it out.
So the real issue has nothing to do with the game. The real issue is corporate control over a film festival/game competition.
IU http://iuware.iu.edu/
I'm sure that in some way our fees pay for it. We can also buy XP Pro for $15 (Or is it $10? I can't remember).
While it is nice, it is also a nice way for Microsoft to get lots of undergrads brainwashed into using their products without thinking about alternatives.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but yours is by your own admission an uninformed opinion. You haven't played the game and you say that the article didn't give a very good overview of it and yet you can feel justified in opposing it?
This reminds me of the people who protested against Kevin Smith's film Dogma before it was even screened. I'm not comparing Dogma to this game, but in both cases people were against it without even knowing the details about it. Jack Thompson the anti-videogame lawyer filed a public nusance complaint against the game Bully and denounced it to anyone who would listen that the game was glorifying bullying and he hadn't played it either. There is certainly a big difference between saying that the game is bad and lobying for it to be outlawed, but the both situations start with an uninformed opinion.
I downloaded a beta and my university has had the final version available for download for a couple weeks. I like that you can set the ribbon to autohide. I also like that instead of putting stupid addins in another toolbar which reduces the room to work in they exile it to "addins."
The placement of the commands seem fairly arbitrary to me, however. It was like they filled out 75% of the ribbons and said, "ok, let's just throw the rest of this stuff on there." They seemed to make the little windows button at the top the default for all the functions that they couldn't fit in anywhere else.
They say that they completely redesigned it, but as soon as you get into any of the options that aren't in the ribbon the box it pops up looks exactly like the older versions of Office which really shows that they just put a skin on the old application.
The instant preview of the fonts and formatting is really nice and the little formatting menu that pops up when you highlight a section is nice, although I wish it would pop up instantly instead of fading in. I forget it is there and move the mouse half way up to the ribbon before I remember that the formatting thing will fade in and by that time it is too late to use it.