I've been seeing this rumor for a couple of days, and as far as I can tell any talk of it being banned in Japan is bollocks. Can anybody post a single source which provides proof of this?
The Japanese rating associations can't ban a game, as their role is advisory only, so it's not them. The government normally only takes an interest in uncensored porn, and even then it's usually the police in an after-the-fact kind of thing where the distributor gets arrested and charged.
This isn't China - there is no central authority that has final say on what may or may not be sold. Customs could possibly block it at import, but even then there would normally be a court case first.
A ban for a game which hasn't even been released yet? I don't think so.
Not quite 100%, though. It still has the same problem as almost all previous attempts - the eyeblinks don't look right. I don't know quite what it is - too slow? The eyelids always meet in the same place? - but it's the one thing that screams "fake" to me.
Before you get on your high horse, you might note that most of Japan would still be stuck with ISDN at 64kbps if the government hadn't given NTT a kick in the ass to get them moving on ADSL/fibre rollout.
It has been assumed here for a long time that people would make the effort to avoid being overly intrusive. Since daily life gives you many more opportunities to invade others' privacy here than other less crowded places, knowing what is and is not acceptable behavior - without explicitly spelling it out in law - is a big part of the social mores.
Unfortunately, it seems that some people never realize that, no matter how long they stay here...
A win is a win. Since we don't really know how a human player evaluates a position, it's not really fair to criticise the computer player just because we do know how it's doing it.
The beta pretty much sucked, but the game's been in good shape since the Stonehenge expansion came out. A lot of people were looking forward to the 2.0 patch release, so I hope whatever deal Flagship works out covers it...
1) Find a promising unreleased property 2) Get your fingers in the pie via the back door by working a deal with one of the existing publishers 3) Force an early release to get the cash from package sales 4) PROFIT! 5) Refuse to bail out the developers when they're swamped with bug reports 6) Walk away laughing with money in your pocket
They did actually produce a more powerful model, using the Crusoe CPU. Unfortunately, the company tanked just as they sent out sample units for review...
I don't know where you got the impression I was lumping them together, especially since I said that other than the form factor, they "were otherwise quite different in architecture"...
...the article says that what China lacks is senior people with managerial experience, and yet it's making a fuss over a 25-year-old ex-English teacher?
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Perhaps you should seek clarification of that point from the incumbent President of the United States of America, as I doubt he'd agree...
Works better if you sort it by CPU time used:
top - 22:02:17 up 5 days, 23:13, 19 users, load average: 0.28, 0.26, 0.27
Tasks: 223 total, 1 running, 221 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.3%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3630100k total, 3473968k used, 156132k free, 145480k buffers
Swap: 3903672k total, 39840k used, 3863832k free, 2296584k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
6813 bjh 20 0 557m 347m 36m S 3 9.8 1222:12 firefox
6458 root 20 0 131m 94m 16m S 1 2.7 330:21.98 Xorg
1 root 20 0 2844 1692 544 S 0 0.0 228:03.78 init
2668 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 191:17.06 usb-storage
3146 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 178:38.71 md5_raid1
2978 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 115:47.71 md4_raid1
7421 bjh 20 0 5724 3464 1508 S 0 0.1 61:05.06 bash
6944 bjh 20 0 21212 8680 7304 S 1 0.2 59:21.30 multiload-apple
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4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 12:23.80 ksoftirqd/0
7297 bjh 20 0 73296 38m 14m S 0 1.1 10:09.28 sylpheed
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7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 5:51.00 ksoftirqd/1
6774 bjh 20 0 47280 16m 10m S 0 0.5 5:23.66 metacity
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7739 bjh 20 0 82144 23m 11m S 0 0.6 5:02.84 gnome-terminal
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2394 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 4:39.19 scsi_eh_6
6773 bjh 20 0 15900 5424 3940 S 0 0.1 4:13.73 gnome-screensav
7217 bjh 20 0 60880 21m 11m S 0 0.6 3:51.93 gnome-terminal
2956 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:40.95 md1_raid1
6809 bjh 20 0 38404 2012 1592 S 0 0.1 3:24.97 gvfs-fuse-daemo
7848 bjh 20 0 146m
Yes, I know, I did actually RTFA.
That's not a source which inspires me with confidence in its accuracy. No official announcement? Nothing in the Japanese media?
Who banned it? Why? Not a word so far.
I've been seeing this rumor for a couple of days, and as far as I can tell any talk of it being banned in Japan is bollocks. Can anybody post a single source which provides proof of this?
The Japanese rating associations can't ban a game, as their role is advisory only, so it's not them. The government normally only takes an interest in uncensored porn, and even then it's usually the police in an after-the-fact kind of thing where the distributor gets arrested and charged.
This isn't China - there is no central authority that has final say on what may or may not be sold. Customs could possibly block it at import, but even then there would normally be a court case first.
A ban for a game which hasn't even been released yet? I don't think so.
Man, I so wish I had moderation points right now...
I don't know if you've noticed, but most rules in sport are arbitrary.
If you think your argument is valid, then why don't you also support:
- 150kg wrestlers competing in the 85kg division
- countries fielding 15-player soccer teams
- judo practitioners not wearing a jacket
Each of those rules is pretty much random, but ignoring them makes the competition completely one-sided.
Not quite 100%, though. It still has the same problem as almost all previous attempts - the eyeblinks don't look right.
I don't know quite what it is - too slow? The eyelids always meet in the same place? - but it's the one thing that screams "fake" to me.
Before you get on your high horse, you might note that most of Japan would still be stuck with ISDN at 64kbps if the government hadn't given NTT a kick in the ass to get them moving on ADSL/fibre rollout.
If the sprint was open to all comers, yes.
Apparently, you don't know Japan very well.
It has been assumed here for a long time that people would make the effort to avoid being overly intrusive.
Since daily life gives you many more opportunities to invade others' privacy here than other less crowded places, knowing what is and is not acceptable behavior - without explicitly spelling it out in law - is a big part of the social mores.
Unfortunately, it seems that some people never realize that, no matter how long they stay here...
If you still traveled, you might find that Tokyo's changed a bit since those days...
A win is a win. Since we don't really know how a human player evaluates a position, it's not really fair to criticise the computer player just because we do know how it's doing it.
Fingerprinting in Japan didn't start until late last year, so I'm not sure how you got biometric data put in your passport a couple of years ago.
But what the guy should try is FrameMaker, which is neither PageMaker nor InDesign.
The beta pretty much sucked, but the game's been in good shape since the Stonehenge expansion came out.
A lot of people were looking forward to the 2.0 patch release, so I hope whatever deal Flagship works out covers it...
1) Find a promising unreleased property
2) Get your fingers in the pie via the back door by working a deal with one of the existing publishers
3) Force an early release to get the cash from package sales
4) PROFIT!
5) Refuse to bail out the developers when they're swamped with bug reports
6) Walk away laughing with money in your pocket
Looks like WAR is their next target...
Well, you could always move to India and then your cost of living will be just as low...
Depends on what language you're using, or even the implementation of the language.
There's plenty that distinguish NULL from a zero value.
Might want to add Hawaiians in there too, as they don't even have the option of driving through Canada...
So the best way to get a weapon through the metal detector is by sticking it in your pocket?
Thanks for the tip...
They did actually produce a more powerful model, using the Crusoe CPU. Unfortunately, the company tanked just as they sent out sample units for review...
I don't know where you got the impression I was lumping them together, especially since I said that other than the form factor, they "were otherwise quite different in architecture"...
Actually, digging around a bit, it appears I misremembered - they were actually around from late 1998-early 1999 :(
You're mixing up two similar (in form factor) machines, that were otherwise quite different in architecture and time of availability.
One is the Alpha-based DEC Multia/UDB, from way back in the mid '90s. LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Slashdot was originally run on one of these.
The other is the StrongARM-based Netwinder, which appeared around the year 2000.
They did have one thing in common other than their size - they both tended to overheat if they weren't stood up vertically.
...the article says that what China lacks is senior people with managerial experience, and yet it's making a fuss over a 25-year-old ex-English teacher?