Naturally, Wired spins it into the context of bunkers and nuclear weapons, like we do with everything that comes out of Iran. How long until this thin-film motor gets portrayed as something nefarious?
Naturally? I think sensibly. Scientific research in a slightly insane and violent theocracy should probably always be looked at with a bit of cynicism. There's not a lot of scientific research that is independent of the government going on in Iran; therefore, the Iranian government's motives come into play. Just as when you see a study about Alcohol funded by a major brewery, and so on.
And they seem very sympathetic to Childs. I'm not, and I'm not.
The servers, any batch files, init configuration, passwords, were all property of the city, either physically or as work done for hire. I don't see any problem with Childs being penalized for his (seemingly quite arrogant) withholding of that information. It doesn't matter if his employer would promptly crash the system permanently with that info; it's theirs, not his. His boss says to hand over the passwords, he needs to hand over the passwords.
If I hired a guy to work on my machine, and he locked something important down with a password and then wouldn't tell me, damn right he's getting sued.
That said, childs shouldn't be getting serious, long-term jailtime. I would think it should just be contempt of court: Sit in jail until you are willing to talk. He wasn't "hacking".
Resident Evil 4 for the Wii was great, and you're right about it spoiling Resident Evil 5. Anybody that has played 4 on the Wii is going to feel like they took a step backwards when they play RE5. Better graphics? Sure. But who cares, because that's layered over a game that is just not as much fun to play.
I know you can get gun peripherals for the other consoles, but I think their presence will be a rarity.
Too bad it's not coming out for the Wii. The RE:4 control scheme for that was nearly perfection... and that's amazing for the notoriously clunky RE series.
I can understand that the developers didn't want to mimic a FPS control scheme, because turning Resident Evil into a generic shooter like Dead Space would really degrade the franchise. That's no excuse for poor controls, though.
There are choices in between 128k mp3s, and uncompressed audio. Uncompressed audio makes absolutely no sense, except as an archival medium to make compressed audio from. A well compressed piece of music, at a moderately high bit rate, can't be distinguished from the original.
I think the uncompressed 7.1 sound is marketing fluff... there needs to be SOMETHING filling up a BluRay disk, so why not raw audio? It's not actually any better, but we can claim it is.
That is correct. The Wii version (the BEST version) used the pre-rendered scenes as well. They looked nice, but I would have preferred using the engine. They sacrificed function for form when they switched to the pre-rendered movies.
And still look worse. I think at this point, we're optimizing the wrong parameter.
I'd love to play a game in 720x480 resolution (DVD), if it had proper motion blurring, models that animated realistically, and so on. Instead, most work seems to be on displaying edges of polygons in incredibly crisp detail as they move through stock animations over and over.
This may be a bit harsh, but the effects would be worst in the countries least economically important, and vice-versa. The Spanish Flu, today, would not have nearly the effect in the advanced countries as it did in 1918. Even without a vaccine, our public health, sanitation, and communication is so much better now that it would greatly mitigate the results.
Plus, pretty much everybody with Flash Block does have flash installed, and most will occasionally run something in Flash. They should count as a flash-enabled platform.
I've been writing some stuff in Actionscript 3, and it is a pretty nice language. It's only appropriate for certain tasks, however, because it doesn't have nearly the speed or tightness of something like C. It has a bit of the same rapid-prototyping feel as something like Visual Basic, but is much better and more sensible than VB.
I think Flash can be a perfectly good development platform, but a lot of people have a problem distinguishing between Flash and the typical uses of Flash. It should _always_ have required user intervention to run. Having flash menubars, cursors, and so forth that load (or at least attempt to) automatically make everybody hate it.
I'm writing games in Flash, and I think that's an appropriate usage; it is embedded in a standard HTML page, degrades gracefully, and the user will know exactly what they are getting.
In this case, it would be like requiring a newspaper to keep information for several years on everybody that has placed a classified ad. The magazine is just a conduit. If the person placing the ad uses an under-18 model, they should be liable, not the publication.
That's not a simple solution. It's faster and easier to laboriously go through directories, removing addins, fixing problems that might result... much easier to do that than to read in full every EULA you are presented with.
Actually, I don't think your trademark comment was dumb. I was objecting to the "Try another argument. This one has failed." That seemed unnecessarily rude, or at least overly combative. A bit like posting "FAIL".
If you're a comic fan, you'll probably have encountered another entertainment medium that has been singled out for special censorship. Not so much anymore, but during the 50's and 60's, comics were. Due, of course, to congressional grandstanding about the threat comics provided to our youth. That's a major part of why comics as an adult art form in America are so far behind those in Europe and Asia.
I don't know... you'll need to find four other instances of adult stupidity to match that list. Do you think there exists four more stupid adults? Start scouring the newspapers...
Correct. Highly off-topic, but still absolutely correct. Two spaces is better with nearly every font. Unfortunately, HTML tends to strip out the second space.
I don't believe we do, at least not by any legal measure. The game ratings you see are purely voluntary on the publisher's part, and purely voluntary on the retailer's part. Just like movie ratings.
I think that the majority of them would have been delighted that a black man could become president. Most of them didn't want slavery; it was a necessary compromise.
You know, a trademark doesn't allow a company to make you stop using a word... only to stop representing your product as the trademark. You can talk about "Windows" all day long, and Microsoft can't stop you. They would only be able to stop you from distributing something (in their fields of commerce) called Windows, or a close derivative.
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Yeah, because feds will kidnap and mutilate your children to get you to confess your password. Geez.
Naturally, Wired spins it into the context of bunkers and nuclear weapons, like we do with everything that comes out of Iran. How long until this thin-film motor gets portrayed as something nefarious?
Naturally? I think sensibly. Scientific research in a slightly insane and violent theocracy should probably always be looked at with a bit of cynicism. There's not a lot of scientific research that is independent of the government going on in Iran; therefore, the Iranian government's motives come into play. Just as when you see a study about Alcohol funded by a major brewery, and so on.
And they seem very sympathetic to Childs. I'm not, and I'm not.
The servers, any batch files, init configuration, passwords, were all property of the city, either physically or as work done for hire. I don't see any problem with Childs being penalized for his (seemingly quite arrogant) withholding of that information. It doesn't matter if his employer would promptly crash the system permanently with that info; it's theirs, not his. His boss says to hand over the passwords, he needs to hand over the passwords.
If I hired a guy to work on my machine, and he locked something important down with a password and then wouldn't tell me, damn right he's getting sued.
That said, childs shouldn't be getting serious, long-term jailtime. I would think it should just be contempt of court: Sit in jail until you are willing to talk. He wasn't "hacking".
Resident Evil 4 for the Wii was great, and you're right about it spoiling Resident Evil 5. Anybody that has played 4 on the Wii is going to feel like they took a step backwards when they play RE5. Better graphics? Sure. But who cares, because that's layered over a game that is just not as much fun to play.
I know you can get gun peripherals for the other consoles, but I think their presence will be a rarity.
Despite the fact that Resident Evil 4 for the Wii was very popular, and highly acclaimed?
Too bad it's not coming out for the Wii. The RE:4 control scheme for that was nearly perfection... and that's amazing for the notoriously clunky RE series.
I can understand that the developers didn't want to mimic a FPS control scheme, because turning Resident Evil into a generic shooter like Dead Space would really degrade the franchise. That's no excuse for poor controls, though.
There are choices in between 128k mp3s, and uncompressed audio. Uncompressed audio makes absolutely no sense, except as an archival medium to make compressed audio from. A well compressed piece of music, at a moderately high bit rate, can't be distinguished from the original.
I think the uncompressed 7.1 sound is marketing fluff... there needs to be SOMETHING filling up a BluRay disk, so why not raw audio? It's not actually any better, but we can claim it is.
That is correct. The Wii version (the BEST version) used the pre-rendered scenes as well. They looked nice, but I would have preferred using the engine. They sacrificed function for form when they switched to the pre-rendered movies.
And still look worse. I think at this point, we're optimizing the wrong parameter.
I'd love to play a game in 720x480 resolution (DVD), if it had proper motion blurring, models that animated realistically, and so on. Instead, most work seems to be on displaying edges of polygons in incredibly crisp detail as they move through stock animations over and over.
This may be a bit harsh, but the effects would be worst in the countries least economically important, and vice-versa. The Spanish Flu, today, would not have nearly the effect in the advanced countries as it did in 1918. Even without a vaccine, our public health, sanitation, and communication is so much better now that it would greatly mitigate the results.
Well educated lawyers seem to lead the pack in willfully wrong interpretations of the constitution.
Plus, pretty much everybody with Flash Block does have flash installed, and most will occasionally run something in Flash. They should count as a flash-enabled platform.
I've been writing some stuff in Actionscript 3, and it is a pretty nice language. It's only appropriate for certain tasks, however, because it doesn't have nearly the speed or tightness of something like C. It has a bit of the same rapid-prototyping feel as something like Visual Basic, but is much better and more sensible than VB. I think Flash can be a perfectly good development platform, but a lot of people have a problem distinguishing between Flash and the typical uses of Flash. It should _always_ have required user intervention to run. Having flash menubars, cursors, and so forth that load (or at least attempt to) automatically make everybody hate it.
I'm writing games in Flash, and I think that's an appropriate usage; it is embedded in a standard HTML page, degrades gracefully, and the user will know exactly what they are getting.
Ok, you just prompted me to look up what Wikipedia has as an entry for C**T. It's actually pretty interesting.
In this case, it would be like requiring a newspaper to keep information for several years on everybody that has placed a classified ad. The magazine is just a conduit. If the person placing the ad uses an under-18 model, they should be liable, not the publication.
That's not a simple solution. It's faster and easier to laboriously go through directories, removing addins, fixing problems that might result... much easier to do that than to read in full every EULA you are presented with.
Actually, I don't think your trademark comment was dumb. I was objecting to the "Try another argument. This one has failed." That seemed unnecessarily rude, or at least overly combative. A bit like posting "FAIL".
If you're a comic fan, you'll probably have encountered another entertainment medium that has been singled out for special censorship. Not so much anymore, but during the 50's and 60's, comics were. Due, of course, to congressional grandstanding about the threat comics provided to our youth. That's a major part of why comics as an adult art form in America are so far behind those in Europe and Asia.
I don't know... you'll need to find four other instances of adult stupidity to match that list. Do you think there exists four more stupid adults? Start scouring the newspapers...
Correct. Highly off-topic, but still absolutely correct. Two spaces is better with nearly every font. Unfortunately, HTML tends to strip out the second space.
I don't believe we do, at least not by any legal measure. The game ratings you see are purely voluntary on the publisher's part, and purely voluntary on the retailer's part. Just like movie ratings.
I think that the majority of them would have been delighted that a black man could become president. Most of them didn't want slavery; it was a necessary compromise.
Yes, it is a double standard. We should scrutinize laws banning all forms of speech, not just video games.
You know, a trademark doesn't allow a company to make you stop using a word... only to stop representing your product as the trademark. You can talk about "Windows" all day long, and Microsoft can't stop you. They would only be able to stop you from distributing something (in their fields of commerce) called Windows, or a close derivative.
Or netbOOks.