id couldn't do an original game if they were the only company in the world that made video games, and everybody had extremely low standards for what they thought qualified as an original game, and everybody that played the game was previously blind for their entire lives but somehow got their sight back and the first thing they saw was the game that id software made. That is how impotant id software is. The games they release are effectivley demos for whatever new 3D engine they made, which is all the damned company is good for!!
Believe it or not video games are actually teaching people some firearms usage. People who play shooters generally have a better understanding on things like leading a target as opposed to people who don't play shooters. Makes sense when you think about it.
I'm not saying that video games are causing people to go out and murder eachother, but in the claim that they're teaching people how to shoot guns, then yes. That actually has some basis.
This is just standard media garbage meant to angry up the blood. What the hell slashdot? What the hell? I thought this was a tech news site, not a venue for sensationalist crap like this.
The UK school boards have no intention of stopping teaching the holocaust or the crusades.
Since this is the internet I'm not actually supposed to concede to you, but I am. It is an issue of privacy. So there you totally one upped me. In the fact that it is a privacy issue.
However I'd like to point out that you are incorrect in saying that you immediatley become disenfranchised the minute you leave your house. You still have a right to privacy despite the fact you're in public. That's why you can't take pictures of up ladies skirts while they're sitting on the bus. It's what they call privacy, which remarkibly they still have despite being in public.
First this isn't an issue of privacy, it's an issue of your personal rights to not have people take pictures and videos of you and do whatever they want with them.
It also doesn't have anything to do with licensing. Say if I were to take a picture of some random person walking down the street, and then put the caption 'pedophile?' on it then just stuck it on the internet for free. If they found out about that they'd want to break every tooth in my head. It's not licensed, I'm not making any money from it, but I went and used somebodys image without their permission.
Most people don't know about the protocol for this sort of thing. Generally it's only professional photographers and the media pay attention to this stuff because they can easily be sued for showing somebody on TV. It's not so easy to wrap your hands around the neck of some asshole on the internet.
Like with everything there is some flexibility. Generally because nobody knows about it.
You're not even allowed to take pictures in schools without express permission.
The thing that really gets me about this sort of case is this idiot goes and films a bunch of other people without their permission and posts it online then says it's his right to freedom of expression. Somehow that right is violated if the people in the video or in this case the school have an objetion to the video being posted for public display. When you deal with the media or photographers, you have to sign a model release form stating that you give express permission to the person taking the video to use you in whatever they're going to use the video for. The same thing applies if some random jackass with a video camera decides to film you. They have absolutely no right whatsoever to put that video on the internet without your permission. Let alone film you.
Things like Xbox live and Warcraft at least have ignore functions. It's not difficult to block out the assholes on those systems. Have you ever played Ultima Online? Now THERE'S a game for assholes. There was no limit. If you felt like it you could go through the wilderness naming all the animals 'so and so is a faggot'. Or if you went to Buccanears Den you were 100% likely to be killed by some roaming asshole. They used to crowd around the portal casting firewall spells so people would be killed as soon as they came through. Or if you were just standing around minding your own business somebody'd pick your pockets, then when you tried to complain some other asshole would come along and throw a fireball at you. I think that was probably the most organised group of assholes there ever was.
These days though nobody plays that game any more so Buccanears Den is quite safe. I imagine it'll take some time for Warcraft to make that sort of change.
No kidding. People somehow think GMs in games are some kind of magic genie that'll solve all their problems. The trouble is these lunatics who're willing to wait in line for 6 hours just to complain to a GM about how somebody called them a bad name are the sort of people who hope beyond all hopes that the name caller will get their account banned. They get a sort of pathetic satisfaction in trying to get peoples accounts banned.
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Microsoft is one of those companies that thinks in great loping lopes. The thing is when you think in terms of lopes you just can't release one thing. That's what Apple does for christ's sake. It has to be horrendously broad to cover as much ground as possible. Now you're probably thinking 'well Halo's only coming out for Vista! What the hell sort of lope is that?'. You have to bear in mind you can only lope forward. Releasing it for XP would be the opposite of loping which is trudging, and frankly that doesn't sound like very dynamic thinking.
I personally applaud Microsofts vision. It's unfortunate I'm a mac user...
I don't believe a bill of this nature would actually be passed. Considering nearly most of the computer using population pirates software in some way shape or form. The prison system would be so overwhelmed with lifers that they'd have to force the non software pirating members of society to pay ludicrously high taxes just to afford the prisons. Then the quality of life for the free members of society would become so nighmarish that they'd pirate software just to get into the prisons. Then the United States would effectivley become one big prison colony, and since people in prison in the States are disenfranchised there won't be anybody left to vote in a new government. This would ultimatley lead to factions and in-fighting by the Wardens in the penal system. Eventually one enormous prison riot will break out, the Warden of the victorious prison will be appointed supreme Warden for life. However without taxes to pay his salary he/she would most likely quit along with all the other prison guards leaving the entire population of the United States to escape from prison and live out the rest of their lives as fugitives. No new government would be formed from the fear they might establish a police force and hunt down the fugitives and put them back in jail. So the entire population would just lay low for years and years. Eventually all the fugitives would flee the country to start new lives leaving the United States completely empty.
I'm not so sure it's so much of a bias towards Microsoft so much as it is that German word that everybody learned from the Simpsons.
I'm a XP user but I take a bit of German word from Microsoft having to put security patches on an OS they touted as a security power house. In a more reasonable world I'd like to be able to track a series of articles that go from 'Vista security flaws patched' to 'Vista officially abandoned, Microsoft releases service pack 3 for XP'
That's just me though.
For the most part pre rendered cinematics are subcontracted to other studios so none of the animators working on in-game content need to worry about cinematics. They also budget these things. I imagine Bungee has enough money to get some decent cutscenes put together.
I think the people doing this test should really have a look at the vista manual. If they did they'd know the OS was designed to block suspicious looking frames from the games we play to keep your computer secure. This generally means a slight performance hit. But hey, if you're willing to shell out hundreds of dollars on upgrades for an OS, what's a few more hundred to buy an even new video card that'll allow you to play games with performance comparable to those on a machine running XP with less powerful hardware?
I heard about this project when it was first introduced a few years back. I actually know one of the fellas working on the project. I remember the biggest problem with the project was getting the tunnel actually invisible. Since they were working under a government grant they had a specific mandate to make the tunnel energy efficiant and environmentally friendly. So they brought in a team of chemists who insisted the tunnel would work better if it was painted black and filled with solar energy collectors. The tunnel wound up being extremely energy efficiant but they couldn't actually get through the damned thing without struggling over all the equipment jammed in there. It's good to see the mathematicians managed to bring some reason back to the project. My friend there complained every day about those solar collectors.
It's a well known fact that 98% of all crimes are planned outside in broad daylight. It's also well known by authorities that criminals all refer to eachother by the various unsolved crimes they've committed. It's ALSO a well known fact that when committing crimes criminals like to yell their name and address.
These lip reading cameras are the best things to come along in law enforcement since beating a confession out of a suspect!
I think the reason Canada and the UK aren't on the list is because we're close neighbors with the US. In Canada's case we actually touch them. I'm not a political type person but I have an idea it would be bad for relations if the US went out and said 'Canada! you're on our list!' then we'd say 'Which list is that? The one for the terrorists, the beef, the lumber, the drugs or the flying squirrels?' then the US would say 'This is a new list! For not protecting our copyrights!' then we'd say 'Copyrights.. That's a new one is it?' then the US would say 'YES! We just made it! And you're on it! Right there below Venezuela!' then we'd say 'Wait what? We're still talking about copyrights here right? This list looks an awful lot like it has something to do with soccer. I think your list is wrong, we're more of a hockey country' then the US would say 'That's not true, your woman's team is quite good'. Then we'd say 'Well I suppose, but the fact of the matter remains we're really not known for our soccer' then the US would say 'You do have a valid point, we'll take you off the list.. '
Maybe, though this is fairly far fetched and borderline insane talk. The development team looked at what they did and looked at World of Warcraft and said 'You know, these things are really similar. I mean I know Warhammer has been around a lot longer than Warcraft, and technically they're ripping us off, but the majority of the population doesn't know that. You know.. Maybe we should just do something different. Why not Warhammer 40k? That'd be interesting'
I should point out the chemical makeup of a tree is significantly different than that of asphalt. See, when the asphalt sets, it goes through a process called 'curing' which causes it to absorb carbon dioxide for up to 10 years. Different chemical makeups cause different things. I thought that was fairly basic chemisty.
Here's the thing. Carbon absorbs carbon, it's pretty straight forward, there's lots of carbon in the road. Therefore the road absorbs carbon dioxide. I don't know where you got the idea that I was implying that trees sponaniously combusted when they die. All the carbon dioxide the tree was holding is released because it doesn't have the processes to use it any longer.
The way I look at it, human innovation is going to save the environment, not planting trees and donating money.
There's a reasonable misconception about the CO2 absorbing qualities of trees. It's not that good, and when a tree dies it releases all the CO2 it absorbed. Ironically the asphalt in roads is a lot better at absorbing CO2 than trees could ever hope to be.
Maybe Sony's using this as a sort 'pay as you go' system. They've realised most people can't afford the console so they're letting people slowly pay them off by donating a portion of their time to scientific research...
'Woo hoo! Only 700 more hours of calorich pragmastiscism indexing and I can totally play some Fight Night! But only for 10 minutes.. The University of Leakston's reserved my processor for some research on abscract non-contuitive phasing for the next 2 months'
Here's Microsoft making a concerted effort to try and keep spyware off peoples computers, and the government turns around and makes it legal. I hear their first official service pack has been put on hold for a couple months and the name's been changed to 'Vista Loosey Goosey'. All those durn security issues have finally been fixed...
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go fuck yourself you asswipe fanboy.
id couldn't do an original game if they were the only company in the world that made video games, and everybody had extremely low standards for what they thought qualified as an original game, and everybody that played the game was previously blind for their entire lives but somehow got their sight back and the first thing they saw was the game that id software made. That is how impotant id software is. The games they release are effectivley demos for whatever new 3D engine they made, which is all the damned company is good for!!
The general idea is people who play shooters are more familiar with firearms than people who don't play them.
Believe it or not video games are actually teaching people some firearms usage. People who play shooters generally have a better understanding on things like leading a target as opposed to people who don't play shooters. Makes sense when you think about it.
I'm not saying that video games are causing people to go out and murder eachother, but in the claim that they're teaching people how to shoot guns, then yes. That actually has some basis.
This is just standard media garbage meant to angry up the blood. What the hell slashdot? What the hell? I thought this was a tech news site, not a venue for sensationalist crap like this.
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The UK school boards have no intention of stopping teaching the holocaust or the crusades.
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/101306.h
Just so you know, this is old news. It was written back on April 2nd. Mind you shit like this is always in season.
Since this is the internet I'm not actually supposed to concede to you, but I am. It is an issue of privacy. So there you totally one upped me. In the fact that it is a privacy issue.
However I'd like to point out that you are incorrect in saying that you immediatley become disenfranchised the minute you leave your house. You still have a right to privacy despite the fact you're in public. That's why you can't take pictures of up ladies skirts while they're sitting on the bus. It's what they call privacy, which remarkibly they still have despite being in public.
First this isn't an issue of privacy, it's an issue of your personal rights to not have people take pictures and videos of you and do whatever they want with them. It also doesn't have anything to do with licensing. Say if I were to take a picture of some random person walking down the street, and then put the caption 'pedophile?' on it then just stuck it on the internet for free. If they found out about that they'd want to break every tooth in my head. It's not licensed, I'm not making any money from it, but I went and used somebodys image without their permission. Most people don't know about the protocol for this sort of thing. Generally it's only professional photographers and the media pay attention to this stuff because they can easily be sued for showing somebody on TV. It's not so easy to wrap your hands around the neck of some asshole on the internet. Like with everything there is some flexibility. Generally because nobody knows about it.
You're not even allowed to take pictures in schools without express permission.
The thing that really gets me about this sort of case is this idiot goes and films a bunch of other people without their permission and posts it online then says it's his right to freedom of expression. Somehow that right is violated if the people in the video or in this case the school have an objetion to the video being posted for public display. When you deal with the media or photographers, you have to sign a model release form stating that you give express permission to the person taking the video to use you in whatever they're going to use the video for. The same thing applies if some random jackass with a video camera decides to film you. They have absolutely no right whatsoever to put that video on the internet without your permission. Let alone film you.
Things like Xbox live and Warcraft at least have ignore functions. It's not difficult to block out the assholes on those systems. Have you ever played Ultima Online? Now THERE'S a game for assholes. There was no limit. If you felt like it you could go through the wilderness naming all the animals 'so and so is a faggot'. Or if you went to Buccanears Den you were 100% likely to be killed by some roaming asshole. They used to crowd around the portal casting firewall spells so people would be killed as soon as they came through. Or if you were just standing around minding your own business somebody'd pick your pockets, then when you tried to complain some other asshole would come along and throw a fireball at you. I think that was probably the most organised group of assholes there ever was.
These days though nobody plays that game any more so Buccanears Den is quite safe. I imagine it'll take some time for Warcraft to make that sort of change.
No kidding. People somehow think GMs in games are some kind of magic genie that'll solve all their problems. The trouble is these lunatics who're willing to wait in line for 6 hours just to complain to a GM about how somebody called them a bad name are the sort of people who hope beyond all hopes that the name caller will get their account banned. They get a sort of pathetic satisfaction in trying to get peoples accounts banned.
Non premium songs are displayed in the form of sheet music, and can be played an unlimited number of times, provided that number is 5. Songs may only be played on RIAA approved Xylophones, which can be leased at $70 a month.
Microsoft is one of those companies that thinks in great loping lopes. The thing is when you think in terms of lopes you just can't release one thing. That's what Apple does for christ's sake. It has to be horrendously broad to cover as much ground as possible. Now you're probably thinking 'well Halo's only coming out for Vista! What the hell sort of lope is that?'. You have to bear in mind you can only lope forward. Releasing it for XP would be the opposite of loping which is trudging, and frankly that doesn't sound like very dynamic thinking.
I personally applaud Microsofts vision. It's unfortunate I'm a mac user...
I don't believe a bill of this nature would actually be passed. Considering nearly most of the computer using population pirates software in some way shape or form. The prison system would be so overwhelmed with lifers that they'd have to force the non software pirating members of society to pay ludicrously high taxes just to afford the prisons. Then the quality of life for the free members of society would become so nighmarish that they'd pirate software just to get into the prisons. Then the United States would effectivley become one big prison colony, and since people in prison in the States are disenfranchised there won't be anybody left to vote in a new government. This would ultimatley lead to factions and in-fighting by the Wardens in the penal system. Eventually one enormous prison riot will break out, the Warden of the victorious prison will be appointed supreme Warden for life. However without taxes to pay his salary he/she would most likely quit along with all the other prison guards leaving the entire population of the United States to escape from prison and live out the rest of their lives as fugitives. No new government would be formed from the fear they might establish a police force and hunt down the fugitives and put them back in jail. So the entire population would just lay low for years and years. Eventually all the fugitives would flee the country to start new lives leaving the United States completely empty.
I'm not so sure it's so much of a bias towards Microsoft so much as it is that German word that everybody learned from the Simpsons. I'm a XP user but I take a bit of German word from Microsoft having to put security patches on an OS they touted as a security power house. In a more reasonable world I'd like to be able to track a series of articles that go from 'Vista security flaws patched' to 'Vista officially abandoned, Microsoft releases service pack 3 for XP' That's just me though.
For the most part pre rendered cinematics are subcontracted to other studios so none of the animators working on in-game content need to worry about cinematics. They also budget these things. I imagine Bungee has enough money to get some decent cutscenes put together.
I think the people doing this test should really have a look at the vista manual. If they did they'd know the OS was designed to block suspicious looking frames from the games we play to keep your computer secure. This generally means a slight performance hit. But hey, if you're willing to shell out hundreds of dollars on upgrades for an OS, what's a few more hundred to buy an even new video card that'll allow you to play games with performance comparable to those on a machine running XP with less powerful hardware?
I heard about this project when it was first introduced a few years back. I actually know one of the fellas working on the project. I remember the biggest problem with the project was getting the tunnel actually invisible. Since they were working under a government grant they had a specific mandate to make the tunnel energy efficiant and environmentally friendly. So they brought in a team of chemists who insisted the tunnel would work better if it was painted black and filled with solar energy collectors. The tunnel wound up being extremely energy efficiant but they couldn't actually get through the damned thing without struggling over all the equipment jammed in there. It's good to see the mathematicians managed to bring some reason back to the project. My friend there complained every day about those solar collectors.
It's a well known fact that 98% of all crimes are planned outside in broad daylight. It's also well known by authorities that criminals all refer to eachother by the various unsolved crimes they've committed. It's ALSO a well known fact that when committing crimes criminals like to yell their name and address.
These lip reading cameras are the best things to come along in law enforcement since beating a confession out of a suspect!
I think the reason Canada and the UK aren't on the list is because we're close neighbors with the US. In Canada's case we actually touch them. I'm not a political type person but I have an idea it would be bad for relations if the US went out and said 'Canada! you're on our list!' then we'd say 'Which list is that? The one for the terrorists, the beef, the lumber, the drugs or the flying squirrels?' then the US would say 'This is a new list! For not protecting our copyrights!' then we'd say 'Copyrights.. That's a new one is it?' then the US would say 'YES! We just made it! And you're on it! Right there below Venezuela!' then we'd say 'Wait what? We're still talking about copyrights here right? This list looks an awful lot like it has something to do with soccer. I think your list is wrong, we're more of a hockey country' then the US would say 'That's not true, your woman's team is quite good'. Then we'd say 'Well I suppose, but the fact of the matter remains we're really not known for our soccer' then the US would say 'You do have a valid point, we'll take you off the list.. '
So, uhh there you go.
Maybe, though this is fairly far fetched and borderline insane talk. The development team looked at what they did and looked at World of Warcraft and said 'You know, these things are really similar. I mean I know Warhammer has been around a lot longer than Warcraft, and technically they're ripping us off, but the majority of the population doesn't know that. You know.. Maybe we should just do something different. Why not Warhammer 40k? That'd be interesting'
I should point out the chemical makeup of a tree is significantly different than that of asphalt. See, when the asphalt sets, it goes through a process called 'curing' which causes it to absorb carbon dioxide for up to 10 years. Different chemical makeups cause different things. I thought that was fairly basic chemisty.
Here's the thing. Carbon absorbs carbon, it's pretty straight forward, there's lots of carbon in the road. Therefore the road absorbs carbon dioxide. I don't know where you got the idea that I was implying that trees sponaniously combusted when they die. All the carbon dioxide the tree was holding is released because it doesn't have the processes to use it any longer.
The way I look at it, human innovation is going to save the environment, not planting trees and donating money.
There's a reasonable misconception about the CO2 absorbing qualities of trees. It's not that good, and when a tree dies it releases all the CO2 it absorbed. Ironically the asphalt in roads is a lot better at absorbing CO2 than trees could ever hope to be.
Maybe Sony's using this as a sort 'pay as you go' system. They've realised most people can't afford the console so they're letting people slowly pay them off by donating a portion of their time to scientific research... 'Woo hoo! Only 700 more hours of calorich pragmastiscism indexing and I can totally play some Fight Night! But only for 10 minutes.. The University of Leakston's reserved my processor for some research on abscract non-contuitive phasing for the next 2 months'
Here's Microsoft making a concerted effort to try and keep spyware off peoples computers, and the government turns around and makes it legal. I hear their first official service pack has been put on hold for a couple months and the name's been changed to 'Vista Loosey Goosey'. All those durn security issues have finally been fixed...