in the Ars article they said
Yahoo claims that it is simply following local law and that it has no choice but to comply with legal requests from the Chinese government if it wants to keep doing business in that country.
If Yahoo had existed during WWII would they have ratted out Jews to Hitler? But I guess it's okay as long as they can turn a dime.
from TFA
mobile broadband is only allowed for very limited applications (no video, no streaming, no downloads, no VoIP, etc.) What else does that leave? Http? I mean, when you get rid of all the stuff in that statementm, and account for a few more with the '.etc', there isn't much else you can do. I suppose maybe telnet? That is of course ignoring the fact that simply saying "no downloads" completely eliminates most everything.
Congratulations. You managed to completely miss both the question and the issue. In regards to your first point, this lawsuit is not about the kid breaking the law. It's entirely possible he did, but he is not the defendant in this case, he is the son of the defendant. Second, the question was not what the case was, but merely whether the kid actually had to go to the deposition, as it is currently well after the time it was supposed to occur.
Are you saying that because it is not economically feasible for humans to farm bees that the bees are abandoning hives and dying?
If only all our crops and livestock were this clever, our farmers would be in much better shape.
I was confused by the fact a large part of the/. debunking of this has been about possible thermal effect. Reading the article the first thing came to my mind was not thermal. It was as a sensory effect. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other on whether this is the culprit. It seems as plausible as many other theories.
Man, first that banana blight. Now bees. A whole segment of our alphabet is under assault.
There's probably other ways to interpret this, but I would imagine he means types faster than he can form his own words, or consciously think. When I'm writing a paper or something, it takes longer to phrase my sentences than to type them out. But if I am say, quoting text from a book, since the words are already there and I only have to move them, they go very quickly.
I attempted to RTFA, but for some reason it didn't exist. Perhaps the reason many/.ers don't read it, is because the rest do and crash it.
Besides, most of the time you can at least a few posts in the discussion that explain what's going on far better than the actual article did. At least insofar as distilled scientific reports go.
If they did do it Oblivion FPS style, imagine how awesome it would look the first time you were ambushed by a Deathclaw. Or come around the corner to find a supermutant wielding a flamethrower.
/me misses him some Krrldraav.
I liked Oblivion, but other than the fact that it barely ran on my computer, I didn't play it long enough to hate it or find all those bugs people complain about.
The latest I heard on the T. Rex (granted this was a few years ago) was that it was not a slow,ungainly hunter, but a slow, ungainly scavenger. Something about scarring on the bones or somesuch indicating that T Rexs may have taken quite a bit of abuse. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me's leadin into that was if Jurassic Park were recast today, the T. Rex would be a Woody Allen type character. Don't know if this has been proven or debunked yet, but it was interesting.
The products can't cost all that much to create or the 'pirates' wouldn't bother making it and selling it for 1/4 or less of it's value, unless there was a nice fat profit involved.
Of course there's plenty of profit involved. They don't have to have to pay for big teams of marketing/executives/legal staff. Not to mention programmers/engineers/artists. All they need is 1 or 2 clever guys who can reverse engineer a cart, or crack a little code. Then its just the cost of pressing/burning CDs, or packaging up some cheap chips. They make money because all they do is copy or repackage an end product. They don't create it.
It really depends on what your definition of 'hardcore' gamer is.
1) Spends hours playing Halo 2, Gears of War, GTA, and This Year's Football Game.
2) Spends hours playing the above as well as various RPGs, board games, puzzle games, etc. and scours the web for new/interesting or old/nostalgic games.
the Final Fantasy Japanese movies (not the American one... that sucked pretty badly, but the CGI one with Cloud and Sephiroth)
Hate to break it to you, but the first Final Fantasy movie was as "American" as the one based on FFVII. It was also done in CGI so that can't be used to qualify. I'd say that perhaps the only reason the FFVII isn't considered to suck as much, is because it because it came directly out of a game instead of merely incorporating some of the same themes. They could throw in magic and wierdass storylines and no one thought it was weird because the only people watching were FF fanboys, or people who were at least familiar with the game. The writing and dialogue were just as weird and clumsy as in the first one.
That being said, I am a big fan of the series and had a great time watching both movies. I just have lost faith in their ability to write a movie that would appeal to anything like mainstream American tastes.
Did you ever play the DOS game Pong Kombat? Can't find a link to it but it was basically pong with fireballs and blood. And the paddles could do fatalities.
Among all the interestingly named cheat codes in Warcraft 2, was UCLA. when typed it would just say "Go Bruins"
Also, after scrolling through the tips of the day, you would occasionally come across some like "Never pet a burning dog" or "Don't spit into the wind".
And let us never forget all the stuff you could get units to say in all the blizzard games by just clicking on them a bunch a of times.
Whoops! Hadn't gotten to the one about FlightSim having done this for ages.
so edited version "Sometimes the Revolution is not in implementing an idea,
but in having it in the second place and putting into a game about a flying
androgenous jester in a dream world"
Wouldn't that be the answer right there? It seems to me if you don't have a JVM installed, then Java would be disabled by default. That being said, OO opens in under 10 seconds for me, and I have Java, and have never tweaked settings on it. Nor is my computer particularly high end.
I do believe I read somewhere (most likely/.) that they had come up with a paint for blocking cellphone signals. Something along the lines of carbon nanotubes with copper inside suspended in the paint.
I'm fairly certain that neither the Tycho/Gabe nor the Mike/Jerry duos live together or have for a quite a while. All four people are married. Besides, we wouldn't be playing gamer dorks. We'd be playing someone else. They would be film noir style characters anyway. Not actual Tycho and Gabe.
moustachioed villains tie women to railroad tracks while our stalwart hero struggle to rescue her
I was in that play 2 years ago.... no joke.
A side-thought I had is that while most video games rely on making the player feel gratification for their actions ("Hooray, I won!"), an "artistic" video game would be one that didn't rely on this as its primary reward mechanism ("I just finished playing The Illiad, and I detested every minute of it. It was great!"). But I'm just talking out of my rump there, and may be way off.
I don't like to play Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Playing it is not "fun" to me, but I can and have watched people play for hours. The whole time we have discussions about what a great game it is and why.
In the Gamasutra article, there was mention of the fact that many people who dismiss video games as an artistic medium do so on the basis they are interactive. Tim Schafer countered with the argument that plays with audience participation are then not art by the same argument. However, it the counter could be even more broad than that.
Anyone who has taken a public speaking or communication class, not to mention a literature class would be taught that in any communication, there is no message unless there is both a transmitter and a receiver. Not to mention that there are a whole slew of literary criticism techniques based on who the reader is, in what context they are reading, and their interpretation of the work. Without anyone to see it and be affected by it, the Mona Lisa would just be some paint on a board that happens to look like a woman. And if someone can play Duck Hunt and be deeply moved by the tragedy of the duck's futile attempt at freedom and hurt by the dog's belittlement, well then by golly, that's art. (At least to them)
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in the Ars article they said Yahoo claims that it is simply following local law and that it has no choice but to comply with legal requests from the Chinese government if it wants to keep doing business in that country. If Yahoo had existed during WWII would they have ratted out Jews to Hitler? But I guess it's okay as long as they can turn a dime.
Congratulations. You managed to completely miss both the question and the issue.
In regards to your first point, this lawsuit is not about the kid breaking the law. It's entirely possible he did, but he is not the defendant in this case, he is the son of the defendant.
Second, the question was not what the case was, but merely whether the kid actually had to go to the deposition, as it is currently well after the time it was supposed to occur.
As a person with the name Andrew Samuel Schmidt I resent that remark.
Are you saying that because it is not economically feasible for humans to farm bees that the bees are abandoning hives and dying?
If only all our crops and livestock were this clever, our farmers would be in much better shape.
I was confused by the fact a large part of the /. debunking of this has been about possible thermal effect. Reading the article the first thing came to my mind was not thermal. It was as a sensory effect. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other on whether this is the culprit. It seems as plausible as many other theories.
Man, first that banana blight. Now bees. A whole segment of our alphabet is under assault.
Wait... Sean P Puffy Diddy Daddy Combs released a cover of Every Breath You Take? Man, if there is a loop, I'm so far out of it I can't see it.
There's probably other ways to interpret this, but I would imagine he means types faster than he can form his own words, or consciously think. When I'm writing a paper or something, it takes longer to phrase my sentences than to type them out. But if I am say, quoting text from a book, since the words are already there and I only have to move them, they go very quickly.
I attempted to RTFA, but for some reason it didn't exist. /.ers don't read it, is because the rest do and crash it.
Perhaps the reason many
Besides, most of the time you can at least a few posts in the discussion that explain what's
going on far better than the actual article did. At least insofar as distilled scientific reports go.
If they did do it Oblivion FPS style, imagine how awesome it would look the first time you were ambushed by a Deathclaw. Or come around the corner to find a supermutant wielding a flamethrower.
/me misses him some Krrldraav.
I liked Oblivion, but other than the fact that it barely ran on my computer, I didn't play it long enough to hate it or find all those bugs people complain about.
The latest I heard on the T. Rex (granted this was a few years ago) was that it was not a slow,ungainly hunter, but a slow, ungainly scavenger. Something about scarring on the bones or somesuch indicating that T Rexs may have taken quite a bit of abuse. Wait Wait Don't Tell Me's leadin into that was if Jurassic Park were recast today, the T. Rex would be a Woody Allen type character. Don't know if this has been proven or debunked yet, but it was interesting.
Of course there's plenty of profit involved. They don't have to have to pay for big teams of marketing/executives/legal staff. Not to mention programmers/engineers/artists. All they need is 1 or 2 clever guys who can reverse engineer a cart, or crack a little code. Then its just the cost of pressing/burning CDs, or packaging up some cheap chips. They make money because all they do is copy or repackage an end product. They don't create it.
It really depends on what your definition of 'hardcore' gamer is.
1) Spends hours playing Halo 2, Gears of War, GTA, and This Year's Football Game.
2) Spends hours playing the above as well as various RPGs, board games, puzzle games, etc. and scours the web for new/interesting or old/nostalgic games.
Me and most of my friends fit into category 2.
That being said, I am a big fan of the series and had a great time watching both movies. I just have lost faith in their ability to write a movie that would appeal to anything like mainstream American tastes.
Did you ever play the DOS game Pong Kombat? Can't find a link to it but it was basically pong with fireballs and blood. And the paddles could do fatalities.
Among all the interestingly named cheat codes in Warcraft 2, was UCLA. when typed it would just say "Go Bruins"
Also, after scrolling through the tips of the day, you would occasionally come across some like
"Never pet a burning dog" or "Don't spit into the wind".
And let us never forget all the stuff you could get units to say in all the blizzard games by just clicking on them a bunch a of times.
Whoops! Hadn't gotten to the one about FlightSim having done this for ages. so edited version "Sometimes the Revolution is not in implementing an idea, but in having it in the second place and putting into a game about a flying androgenous jester in a dream world"
Sometimes the Revolution is not in implementing an idea, but in having it in the first place.
Wouldn't that be the answer right there? It seems to me if you don't have a JVM installed, then Java would be disabled by default. That being said, OO opens in under 10 seconds for me, and I have Java, and have never tweaked settings on it. Nor is my computer particularly high end.
I do believe I read somewhere (most likely /.) that they had come up with a paint for blocking cellphone signals. Something along the lines of carbon nanotubes with copper inside suspended in the paint.
I'm fairly certain that neither the Tycho/Gabe nor the Mike/Jerry duos live together or have for a quite a while. All four people are married. Besides, we wouldn't be playing gamer dorks. We'd be playing someone else. They would be film noir style characters anyway. Not actual Tycho and Gabe.
I was in that play 2 years ago.... no joke.
I don't like to play Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Playing it is not "fun" to me, but I can and have watched people play for hours. The whole time we have discussions about what a great game it is and why.
In the Gamasutra article, there was mention of the fact that many people who dismiss video games as an artistic medium do so on the basis they are interactive. Tim Schafer countered with the argument that plays with audience participation are then not art by the same argument. However, it the counter could be even more broad than that. Anyone who has taken a public speaking or communication class, not to mention a literature class would be taught that in any communication, there is no message unless there is both a transmitter and a receiver. Not to mention that there are a whole slew of literary criticism techniques based on who the reader is, in what context they are reading, and their interpretation of the work. Without anyone to see it and be affected by it, the Mona Lisa would just be some paint on a board that happens to look like a woman. And if someone can play Duck Hunt and be deeply moved by the tragedy of the duck's futile attempt at freedom and hurt by the dog's belittlement, well then by golly, that's art. (At least to them)