In the USA, NO ratings on media are government enforced. All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed. There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies. Therfore to single out games would take an overwelming ammount of evidence that games were harmful.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
While I'm sure this is a simplified summary of what occurred, there needs to be more investigation into the problem than, "It looks fine to me." What exactly is slow, how slow is it, when is it slow? What is unresponsive, how unresponsive is it, when is it unresponsive? It could very well be that the customer has found some part that is slow and unresponsive, or it could just as easily be that the customer has unrealistic expectations and you need to show them a competitor's product and say, "see, it is just as slow and unresponsive as you think ours is." Ask for more information. Ask for more details. Of course the customer could be unrealistic, and no amount of effort is going to make them happy. In that case tell them not to let the door hit them on the way out. Look at the discussions around here. Every time any software has a story, there are always a number of people complaining about how "slow and unresponsive" that software is. "OMG, I've had it running for three months straight and it is taking up 80mb of my 2gig of ram. What a piece of crap!"
I don't see how retelling Kirk and Spock can seem like a good idea for a movie to anyone. We've been there and done that.
It seems like there could be a lot of life in having a movie that combines cast members from TNG, DS9 and Voyager. That way they could put the characters up against each other. Seeing Picard and Sisco dutt heads would be good with Worf and O'Brien trapped in the middle might be good. Data (ok B4 or whatever the replacement data was called) Odo and 7of9 compare notes on being around humans. Heck, dredge up Dr. Polaski to stir up stuff. You could also kill some of the minor characters that, while important on their own show, aren't that big (heck, kill all of Voyager!). And, unlike these throwback shows, you don't have to worry about being true to the future that we've already seen in other series. I see no advantages to a film about the past where we know that kirk and spock will both live.
The last couple seasons of DS9 sucked? Are you insane man? That's crazy talk! I watched them when they were on and I've just recently started watching the repeats on SpikeTV. Even though I've seen it before, once the two episodes a day are over, I still can't wait untill tomorrow's two episodes. To each his own, I guess...
I wouldn't want to marry a woman that insisted on a diamond even after learning about all the negatives about them. Of course the only thing I would do with a sports car would be to sell it and the closest I ever got to a timeshare was when my family when on one of those free weeks in one where they try to sell it to you (and amazingly once dad told the guy we had no interest in buying they let us go without any strong arm tactics!).
The story of TechTV began with the MSNBC show, The Site which starred Soledad O'Brien and a computer generated character, Dev Null, who was voiced and controlled by Leo Laporte. I never saw the Site, but TVNewser has a good overview of the show.
After the Site was cancelled, came ZDTV which was owned by Ziff Davis. When Ziff Davis sold the channel to Paul Allen, they changed the name to TechTV.
During that time G4 was started. Owned by Comcast, they bought TechTV and merged the channels calling it G4TechTV, closing down TechTV's San Francisco studio and cancelling Call For Help. From the start there were signs that buying TechTV was simply a way for Comcast to get G4 into more houses by canibalizing the audience of TechTV. They did not offer ScreenSavers host Patrick Norton a contract and while they initially were going to have Leo Laporte appear in pretaped segments, they never actually did that. They also cancelled Fresh Gear and all of TechTV's other shows except for the ScreenSavers and X-Play. Then several months later, G4 dropped the "TechTV" and any pretense that they were going to continue having any technology focus.
After a few months, the Canadian version of G4 offered to hire Laport and begin to tape new episodes of Call For Help, informally called Call For Help 2.0. In August of 2005 the US G4 began to air Call For Help 2.0, but early in the morning with little to no advertising. After several months it was taken off the air. It is still airing in Canada and on the How To channel in Australia. Recently, it has been made available for purchase from Google Video in the USA and is easilly found on torrent trackers.
Now G4 has begun airing Star Trek:TNG and the original Star Trek, as well as the Man Show and Fastlane and increasingly decreasing videogame coverage. Many people have begun to call G4 a SpikeTV clone.
In brighter news, many TechTV alumni have gone on to particiapte in online podcasts and vid casts such as This Week In Tech, dl.tv, Cranky Geeks, Hook Me Up and The Chris Pirillo Show which, when combined, probably produce more original weekly content than TechTV ever did.
Which is why I said nearly all. Other videogame laws have been proposed on local, state or national levels by Joe Baca, Leland Yee, Rod Blagojevich, and Roy Burrell just to name the few laws I can remember.
Then there are people like Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton who have both threatened to propose videogame violence laws.
In the USA, NO ratings are government enforced. All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed. There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
In the USA, NO ratings are government enforced. ] All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed. There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
In the USA, NO ratings are government enforced. All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed. There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies. Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
In media reports people constantly say that ESRB ratings aren't given by the government. Well, in the USA, neither are film ratings or television ratings. ALL ratings on entertainment are voluntary. The MPAA is not a government agency any more than the RIAA is.
While it might be simpler to have government regulation of the media, that simply isn't the way it is in the USA. Until the government regulates film, music, and tv, then to single out videogames is illegal. All of this is simply grandstanding by politicians because they can say that they are looking out for the children.
The man behind this, Attorney General Mike Hatch, is running for governor. I"m sure his sudden concern for the children is just a coincidence...
The problem is that nearly all of the politicians who are behind these are Democrats. So we vote against the people who want to ban gay marriage or against the ones who want to ban certain kinds of media. Some choice we have in the USA...
To invoke the old saying, stop giving them fish. Removing spyware isn't rocket science in most cases. Tell them you are busy and give them detailed isntructions on how to run antispyware. Tell them to try that and if it doesn't work to get back with you.
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In media reports people constantly say that ESRB ratings aren't given by the government. Well, in the USA, neither are film ratings or television ratings. ALL ratings on entertainment are voluntary. The MPAA is not a government agency any more than the RIAA is.
I just had a similar situation where I have money in the back now but come the start of the school year, I will probably need it. I found a blog called, strangely enough, Bank Deals that keeps track of all the best rates in money markets and CDs. Many of the CD specials are from local credit unions that most people don't have access to, but many of the internet-only banks have some pretty good interest rates on money markets right now. I put most of my money in one that was running a 5% and $50 bonus special (since expired). I'm thinking about some short term CD's but from following the blog I notice the rates ahve been inching up so I'm biding my time.
I am a bit confused as to what you are complaining about. Except for the absence of the time lords, there have been tons of daleks. There was an entire invasion fleet in the series 1 series finale (I'm not going to get into the "proper" designation of the series number). There were thousands if not millions of them taking on the cybermen in the season 2 finale. What more could you want? The constant mention of that there are no more time lords almost guarantees that they will show up at some point.
I see this illistrated every time I listen to the podcast of Leo Laporte's KFI radio show. Every show he has at least one call about spyware where he tells people the exact same things: Get a router, run spybot, adaware, windows defender. The people seem so clueless when he tells them that. I can understand that people aren't experts on things, but it is litterally the same advice every week. Weren't these people listening last week? If they've never listened before, then how did they know about the show in the first place? It just baffles me. Whether or not you think that is the best advice, I just don't understand how these people haven't heard it before.
OK, every time this word comes up, I want to know what people mean by it (in fact it is the current post on my blog. plug... plug...).
The 1up story has the phrase, "cinematic games," but Jaffe's post doesn't mention the word cinematic at all (commenters have, but not Jaffe).
So, what is so "cinematic" about games? I can understand when people are talking about cut scenes, but other than that, what is so specifically like cinema about some videogames? (Unfortunatly, I don't have a PS2 so I haven't played God of War, so I don't know if there is anything specially "cinematic" about that game.)
On one hand, as someone who does research on media and is really interested in media coverage of certain events, this is really a nice service. On the other hand, up until now, if I can't find something online, I've had good luck just contacting the networks with my university email and telling them I want a copy of a program for research. They usually fax me a form to sign saying I won't air it and they fedex it to me for free. I wonder if they would begin to be less willing to do that from now on...
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You're under NDA about software that is out as a beta that supposedly 2 million people have downlaoded? That must be some NDA...
In the USA, NO ratings on media are government enforced.
All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed.
There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies.
Therfore to single out games would take an overwelming ammount of evidence that games were harmful.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
throwaway culture? you can recycle batteries, can't you?
Is it a boycott when you don't have the option to use IE as is the case for users of anything but Windows??
While I'm sure this is a simplified summary of what occurred, there needs to be more investigation into the problem than, "It looks fine to me." What exactly is slow, how slow is it, when is it slow? What is unresponsive, how unresponsive is it, when is it unresponsive?
It could very well be that the customer has found some part that is slow and unresponsive, or it could just as easily be that the customer has unrealistic expectations and you need to show them a competitor's product and say, "see, it is just as slow and unresponsive as you think ours is."
Ask for more information. Ask for more details.
Of course the customer could be unrealistic, and no amount of effort is going to make them happy. In that case tell them not to let the door hit them on the way out.
Look at the discussions around here. Every time any software has a story, there are always a number of people complaining about how "slow and unresponsive" that software is. "OMG, I've had it running for three months straight and it is taking up 80mb of my 2gig of ram. What a piece of crap!"
I don't see how retelling Kirk and Spock can seem like a good idea for a movie to anyone. We've been there and done that.
It seems like there could be a lot of life in having a movie that combines cast members from TNG, DS9 and Voyager. That way they could put the characters up against each other. Seeing Picard and Sisco dutt heads would be good with Worf and O'Brien trapped in the middle might be good. Data (ok B4 or whatever the replacement data was called) Odo and 7of9 compare notes on being around humans. Heck, dredge up Dr. Polaski to stir up stuff. You could also kill some of the minor characters that, while important on their own show, aren't that big (heck, kill all of Voyager!).
And, unlike these throwback shows, you don't have to worry about being true to the future that we've already seen in other series.
I see no advantages to a film about the past where we know that kirk and spock will both live.
The last couple seasons of DS9 sucked? Are you insane man? That's crazy talk! I watched them when they were on and I've just recently started watching the repeats on SpikeTV. Even though I've seen it before, once the two episodes a day are over, I still can't wait untill tomorrow's two episodes.
To each his own, I guess...
I wouldn't want to marry a woman that insisted on a diamond even after learning about all the negatives about them.
Of course the only thing I would do with a sports car would be to sell it and the closest I ever got to a timeshare was when my family when on one of those free weeks in one where they try to sell it to you (and amazingly once dad told the guy we had no interest in buying they let us go without any strong arm tactics!).
The story of TechTV began with the MSNBC show, The Site which starred Soledad O'Brien and a computer generated character, Dev Null, who was voiced and controlled by Leo Laporte. I never saw the Site, but TVNewser has a good overview of the show.
After the Site was cancelled, came ZDTV which was owned by Ziff Davis. When Ziff Davis sold the channel to Paul Allen, they changed the name to TechTV.
During that time G4 was started. Owned by Comcast, they bought TechTV and merged the channels calling it G4TechTV, closing down TechTV's San Francisco studio and cancelling Call For Help. From the start there were signs that buying TechTV was simply a way for Comcast to get G4 into more houses by canibalizing the audience of TechTV. They did not offer ScreenSavers host Patrick Norton a contract and while they initially were going to have Leo Laporte appear in pretaped segments, they never actually did that. They also cancelled Fresh Gear and all of TechTV's other shows except for the ScreenSavers and X-Play. Then several months later, G4 dropped the "TechTV" and any pretense that they were going to continue having any technology focus.
After a few months, the Canadian version of G4 offered to hire Laport and begin to tape new episodes of Call For Help, informally called Call For Help 2.0. In August of 2005 the US G4 began to air Call For Help 2.0, but early in the morning with little to no advertising. After several months it was taken off the air. It is still airing in Canada and on the How To channel in Australia. Recently, it has been made available for purchase from Google Video in the USA and is easilly found on torrent trackers.
Now G4 has begun airing Star Trek:TNG and the original Star Trek, as well as the Man Show and Fastlane and increasingly decreasing videogame coverage. Many people have begun to call G4 a SpikeTV clone.
In brighter news, many TechTV alumni have gone on to particiapte in online podcasts and vid casts such as This Week In Tech, dl.tv, Cranky Geeks, Hook Me Up and The Chris Pirillo Show which, when combined, probably produce more original weekly content than TechTV ever did.
Which is why I said nearly all. Other videogame laws have been proposed on local, state or national levels by Joe Baca, Leland Yee, Rod Blagojevich, and Roy Burrell just to name the few laws I can remember. Then there are people like Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton who have both threatened to propose videogame violence laws.
In the USA, NO ratings are government enforced.
All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed.
There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
In the USA, NO ratings are government enforced. ]
All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed. There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
In the USA, NO ratings are government enforced. All ratings from videogames to TV shows to movies are self-imposed. There is NO law that prevents minors from enterting R rated movies.
Even things like "XXX" movies are not government rated. If someone is arrested for selling pornography to a minor, they first have to establish that the item in question is indeed pornography (sure in many cases this is trivial, but there have been several cases where comic books containing sexual material have been seized and the court cases have basically revolved around proving they were pornographic).
In media reports people constantly say that ESRB ratings aren't given by the government. Well, in the USA, neither are film ratings or television ratings. ALL ratings on entertainment are voluntary. The MPAA is not a government agency any more than the RIAA is.
While it might be simpler to have government regulation of the media, that simply isn't the way it is in the USA. Until the government regulates film, music, and tv, then to single out videogames is illegal. All of this is simply grandstanding by politicians because they can say that they are looking out for the children.
The man behind this, Attorney General Mike Hatch, is running for governor. I"m sure his sudden concern for the children is just a coincidence...
The problem is that nearly all of the politicians who are behind these are Democrats. So we vote against the people who want to ban gay marriage or against the ones who want to ban certain kinds of media. Some choice we have in the USA...
To invoke the old saying, stop giving them fish. Removing spyware isn't rocket science in most cases. Tell them you are busy and give them detailed isntructions on how to run antispyware. Tell them to try that and if it doesn't work to get back with you.
In media reports people constantly say that ESRB ratings aren't given by the government. Well, in the USA, neither are film ratings or television ratings. ALL ratings on entertainment are voluntary. The MPAA is not a government agency any more than the RIAA is.
I just had a similar situation where I have money in the back now but come the start of the school year, I will probably need it. I found a blog called, strangely enough, Bank Deals that keeps track of all the best rates in money markets and CDs. Many of the CD specials are from local credit unions that most people don't have access to, but many of the internet-only banks have some pretty good interest rates on money markets right now. I put most of my money in one that was running a 5% and $50 bonus special (since expired). I'm thinking about some short term CD's but from following the blog I notice the rates ahve been inching up so I'm biding my time.
I am a bit confused as to what you are complaining about. Except for the absence of the time lords, there have been tons of daleks. There was an entire invasion fleet in the series 1 series finale (I'm not going to get into the "proper" designation of the series number). There were thousands if not millions of them taking on the cybermen in the season 2 finale. What more could you want?
The constant mention of that there are no more time lords almost guarantees that they will show up at some point.
I see this illistrated every time I listen to the podcast of Leo Laporte's KFI radio show. Every show he has at least one call about spyware where he tells people the exact same things: Get a router, run spybot, adaware, windows defender. The people seem so clueless when he tells them that. I can understand that people aren't experts on things, but it is litterally the same advice every week. Weren't these people listening last week? If they've never listened before, then how did they know about the show in the first place? It just baffles me. Whether or not you think that is the best advice, I just don't understand how these people haven't heard it before.
If I recall correctly, beta1 didn't have any changes to the rendering engine, but betas 2 and 3 do. Eric Meyer linked to a post about IE7 changes. The IE7 blog has the details of some of the changes.
Now, that doesn't mean that they are ALL fixed, but there are just enough to make all the expert webpage creators learn all new hacks to make pages work in IE.
OK, every time this word comes up, I want to know what people mean by it (in fact it is the current post on my blog. plug... plug...).
The 1up story has the phrase, "cinematic games," but Jaffe's post doesn't mention the word cinematic at all (commenters have, but not Jaffe).
So, what is so "cinematic" about games? I can understand when people are talking about cut scenes, but other than that, what is so specifically like cinema about some videogames? (Unfortunatly, I don't have a PS2 so I haven't played God of War, so I don't know if there is anything specially "cinematic" about that game.)
Chris Crawford has been trying to do something like this for years and years and hasn't gotten very far with it.
On one hand, as someone who does research on media and is really interested in media coverage of certain events, this is really a nice service. On the other hand, up until now, if I can't find something online, I've had good luck just contacting the networks with my university email and telling them I want a copy of a program for research. They usually fax me a form to sign saying I won't air it and they fedex it to me for free. I wonder if they would begin to be less willing to do that from now on...