like it or not, laws require all content with that nature be on a certified textbook or under an age verification checkpoint.
No. Firstly, nudity isn't necessarily pornographic nor illegal. Even underage nudity isn't. Secondly, I don't believe there is any special legal status given to 'certified textbooks'. You can walk down to Barnes & Nobel and buy a textbook with images of graphic nakedness, even copulation, that is neither 'certified' nor contains the age verification. It's simply not necessary because those subjects aren't necessarily pornographic.
IGN: I know you're probably sick of Apple questions, but here we go. The company is positioning its hardware more and more as gaming devices -- iPod Touch, iPhone, and now iPad, which became available for pre-order today.
Reggie Fils-Aime: What are you going to do with your iPad?
IGN: Honestly, I don't know yet, but I'm buying one.
[Reggie laughs]
IGN: In your recent Forbes interview, you said Apple's products hadn't resulted in any sales impact on DS yet. But it's just a matter of time before Touch drops to $149 or maybe even $99. Then you've got a real competitor in the handheld space. What're your thoughts on that?
Reggie Fils-Aime: All of our competitors need to be worried about what we're going to do. I don't worry about what they're going to do. We're going to continue to innovate. If things get to a point where their pricing comes down, my pricing probably has come down as well. Chances are I've innovated in a whole new way that they haven't thought of before because that's what we do at Nintendo. And so, the fact of the matter is, in the here and now they're having no impact on our business.
IGN: You're not seeing any impact on current sales then.
Reggie Fils-Aime We sold 600,000 DSs in the month of February. Best ever handheld month on record. I don't think they're having an impact.
I agree with you. Why aren't any self-important analysts writing about how Apple has something to fear from Nintendo? It wouldn't be hard for them to add a music/media store, their DSi and WiiWare stores are proof... and soon, their handhelds are going to be so networked, they could flip a switch and create their own international communication network, with pretty deep penetration.
Also, that's more innovation in the last four years than Sony or MS have done since the beginning of LAST gen and the launch of the PS2/360. Their consoles this gen brought nothing new to the table, just bumps in processing power and graphics. The PS3 and 360 are both nice units, but not in the slightest innovative.
Wait, are you saying you wouldn't be scared if you were Nintendo? Millions of people are buying smartphones, and oh, by the way, they have more gaming horsepower and screen real-estate than a DS.
Not really. Sure, Nintendo is paying attention... but a smartphone could have the processing power of a modern desktop, and it wouldn't be real competition for a DS. A device made specifically for gaming is better for gaming than a vastly more powerful device that isn't. Hell, iPhone ergonomics make it inferior to a Gameboy Advance, for most types of games.
Don't be an ass, Halo is a perfectly acceptable FPS. Dissing on the Halo series is a good clue that you're more concerned with being cool than gaming.
That said, none of those FPS are particularly great or memorable. Just decent games that are rehashes of decent games from ten years ago. There's no compelling reason to pick one over the other.
The games are amazing, but seem to be consolidating into a very few popular genres. If you don't like FPS, today's gaming options look a lot more like a wasteland. They're remaking X-Com as a first person shooter with 'some strategic elements', for God's sake.
My gut feeling is that 30ms of lag would be fine for many players even on relatively fast paced games like most FPSs..
I don't think it will be. That's a hard cap of 30 frames per second at a maximum; I think it will be much lower, since in the middle of that the server needs to render and compress a frame, and can't do it in advance. I also think that most people will see more than a 30ms lag.
The point of the service (at least initially) was too allow consumers access to graphically demanding games without high-end hardware; that's exactly the type of games it will be worst at. I'm highly skeptical of the service. Hell, even if it worked great, which I don't think it will, it will still be as terrible as all those old 'music subscription services' like rhapsody.
This has been the way the Mozilla foundation has been going. It's been pretty clear since the introduction of the "awesomebar" that they are more concerned with hype and marketing than with usability, performance, and choice. This is just proceeding further down the path.
I'm still a Firefox user, but I'm no longer evangelical about it. It's lost it's purpose.
I'm a bit leery of Kagan, specifically... but I'm actually glad to see a nominee pulled from outside the bench. It's not a requirement, and I think variety will help guard against a systemic bias in the court.
Good example of a comment that is mostly correct, but delivered in such a piss-poor manner that it'll always stay at -1, and few people will ever read it.
When you mature, and finally realize that you're making yourself sound like an idiot when you post like that, you might end up a decent slashdot poster.
I love societies where you're allowed to publicly insight violence by repeatedly loudly shouting shit like: "Blacks are are lazy bums that cause all our problems"
It reminds me a lot of Flash, too... it's bypassing the central HTML paradigm in an attempt to allow the designer to force rendering style on the user. I get the feeling that these are people that would just as soon design web pages in PDF format, if they could get away with it.
"...our development investments are driven by our customer requirements and not necessarily by standards,"
And that's not TOTALLY a bad thing. Sometimes standards aren't drawn up with consumer desires at the forefront (BluRay, for instance). We need the best of both worlds.
First off, that you've been modded 'troll' is ludicrous. Secondly, I generally agree with your point. It's a fair point to always substitute "government" with "taxpayers" whenever you're talking budget. I think there's a little more subtlety to this, though... the question really is:
"Given that the government IS paying, what rules should they follow..."
Since we have worker's comp for the foreseeable future, for better or for worse, we benefit by at the minimum making sure they follow a sensible and reasonably objective set of rules. I don't know whether a Wii fits into that, but the decision should be made following the same guidelines that determine whether ANY treatment is.
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Seriously, self-censorship is a good thing, often under-practiced.
like it or not, laws require all content with that nature be on a certified textbook or under an age verification checkpoint.
No. Firstly, nudity isn't necessarily pornographic nor illegal. Even underage nudity isn't. Secondly, I don't believe there is any special legal status given to 'certified textbooks'. You can walk down to Barnes & Nobel and buy a textbook with images of graphic nakedness, even copulation, that is neither 'certified' nor contains the age verification. It's simply not necessary because those subjects aren't necessarily pornographic.
He said there was child porn; there's not. It's hard to think of anything more defaming.
"Free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy."
That's completely true. Capitalism is intrinsically tied to liberty.
IGN: I know you're probably sick of Apple questions, but here we go. The company is positioning its hardware more and more as gaming devices -- iPod Touch, iPhone, and now iPad, which became available for pre-order today.
Reggie Fils-Aime: What are you going to do with your iPad?
IGN: Honestly, I don't know yet, but I'm buying one.
[Reggie laughs]
IGN: In your recent Forbes interview, you said Apple's products hadn't resulted in any sales impact on DS yet. But it's just a matter of time before Touch drops to $149 or maybe even $99. Then you've got a real competitor in the handheld space. What're your thoughts on that?
Reggie Fils-Aime: All of our competitors need to be worried about what we're going to do. I don't worry about what they're going to do. We're going to continue to innovate. If things get to a point where their pricing comes down, my pricing probably has come down as well. Chances are I've innovated in a whole new way that they haven't thought of before because that's what we do at Nintendo. And so, the fact of the matter is, in the here and now they're having no impact on our business.
IGN: You're not seeing any impact on current sales then.
Reggie Fils-Aime We sold 600,000 DSs in the month of February. Best ever handheld month on record. I don't think they're having an impact.
I agree with you. Why aren't any self-important analysts writing about how Apple has something to fear from Nintendo? It wouldn't be hard for them to add a music/media store, their DSi and WiiWare stores are proof... and soon, their handhelds are going to be so networked, they could flip a switch and create their own international communication network, with pretty deep penetration.
Also, that's more innovation in the last four years than Sony or MS have done since the beginning of LAST gen and the launch of the PS2/360. Their consoles this gen brought nothing new to the table, just bumps in processing power and graphics. The PS3 and 360 are both nice units, but not in the slightest innovative.
I don't think app store games compete with DS games any more than PC games compete with console games. They're different markets, different customers.
Wait, are you saying you wouldn't be scared if you were Nintendo? Millions of people are buying smartphones, and oh, by the way, they have more gaming horsepower and screen real-estate than a DS.
Not really. Sure, Nintendo is paying attention... but a smartphone could have the processing power of a modern desktop, and it wouldn't be real competition for a DS. A device made specifically for gaming is better for gaming than a vastly more powerful device that isn't. Hell, iPhone ergonomics make it inferior to a Gameboy Advance, for most types of games.
Quicktime is far worse than Flash. Since Realvideo died, Quicktime is the worst and most bloated video format in common use.
Don't be an ass, Halo is a perfectly acceptable FPS. Dissing on the Halo series is a good clue that you're more concerned with being cool than gaming.
That said, none of those FPS are particularly great or memorable. Just decent games that are rehashes of decent games from ten years ago. There's no compelling reason to pick one over the other.
The games are amazing, but seem to be consolidating into a very few popular genres. If you don't like FPS, today's gaming options look a lot more like a wasteland. They're remaking X-Com as a first person shooter with 'some strategic elements', for God's sake.
My gut feeling is that 30ms of lag would be fine for many players even on relatively fast paced games like most FPSs..
I don't think it will be. That's a hard cap of 30 frames per second at a maximum; I think it will be much lower, since in the middle of that the server needs to render and compress a frame, and can't do it in advance. I also think that most people will see more than a 30ms lag.
The point of the service (at least initially) was too allow consumers access to graphically demanding games without high-end hardware; that's exactly the type of games it will be worst at. I'm highly skeptical of the service. Hell, even if it worked great, which I don't think it will, it will still be as terrible as all those old 'music subscription services' like rhapsody.
This has been the way the Mozilla foundation has been going. It's been pretty clear since the introduction of the "awesomebar" that they are more concerned with hype and marketing than with usability, performance, and choice. This is just proceeding further down the path.
I'm still a Firefox user, but I'm no longer evangelical about it. It's lost it's purpose.
I'm a bit leery of Kagan, specifically... but I'm actually glad to see a nominee pulled from outside the bench. It's not a requirement, and I think variety will help guard against a systemic bias in the court.
Yes, we got Bush instead of Kerry and Gore. System works, evidently.
Good example of a comment that is mostly correct, but delivered in such a piss-poor manner that it'll always stay at -1, and few people will ever read it.
When you mature, and finally realize that you're making yourself sound like an idiot when you post like that, you might end up a decent slashdot poster.
It does. Ugly just makes it harder to get.
Doesn't seem like you're getting any karma soon. Slashdot moderation works. Being an asshole generally doesn't.
I love societies where you're allowed to publicly insight violence by repeatedly loudly shouting shit like: "Blacks are are lazy bums that cause all our problems"
So do I.
It reminds me a lot of Flash, too... it's bypassing the central HTML paradigm in an attempt to allow the designer to force rendering style on the user. I get the feeling that these are people that would just as soon design web pages in PDF format, if they could get away with it.
"...our development investments are driven by our customer requirements and not necessarily by standards,"
And that's not TOTALLY a bad thing. Sometimes standards aren't drawn up with consumer desires at the forefront (BluRay, for instance). We need the best of both worlds.
Because ActiveX is such a widely-supported standard. Go defend and make excuses for some other abusive monopolist mmmkay?
Christ. Since this is about "sides" for you, you would be best advised to stop posting, because you're making your side look bad.
If the question starts with:
"Should the Gov't Pay..."
The answer is no.
First off, that you've been modded 'troll' is ludicrous. Secondly, I generally agree with your point. It's a fair point to always substitute "government" with "taxpayers" whenever you're talking budget. I think there's a little more subtlety to this, though... the question really is:
"Given that the government IS paying, what rules should they follow..."
Since we have worker's comp for the foreseeable future, for better or for worse, we benefit by at the minimum making sure they follow a sensible and reasonably objective set of rules. I don't know whether a Wii fits into that, but the decision should be made following the same guidelines that determine whether ANY treatment is.
murder is murder.
And killing isn't always murder.