Absolutely. You have the ability to set subtitles on at least the PC version of HL2 and it's fantastic. There's some sections where there's just too much noise to hear what someone is saying and it's nice to know that I can glance down and review the last bit of dialogue.
But it would be nice to have a story scene replay option of some sort...
And I couldn't disagree with you more. I understand wanting to skip the cut-scenes because you want to be lazy. That's all I see out of it. Your comment about playing a game a second time through and not wanting to see the cut-scenes again is akin to saying you don't want to watch the whole movie again, just the fight scenes. Or reading a book again and skipping to the end because you don't want to work for it.
Our society is creating a slew of people who want instant gratification. The problem is that the gratification they want isn't constant play, it's constant lack of thought. Story in a game is usually decent, much of it actually being quite good. Take Halo 3 for example: a FPS that panders to people who just want to shoot guns and blow stuff up. But the story scenes (that's what they are folks) are well thought out, scripted and built. I enjoyed watching them.
I ask you to consider again just exactly what the story scenes really mean to the game. I say they need to start placing your objectives in the story scenes just to force you to fully experience the game, even in replay.
I do agree that he is right. However there are valid arguments on both sides.
SELinux's integration with the kernel is a fantastic feature. I haven't seen any overhead as far as system performance, but it makes it difficult to simply work on the system, either directly or in the sense of remote access to resources (files, ssh, etc...).
I don't know much about LSM, to be honest, but there are some advantages that I can see off the line. Configuration is much easier and there's less interop problems (again, from the little I've seen). However removing the kernel integration to such a degree may slow system performance. No security implementation should cause a great deal of overhead.
Linus made a fantastic point:
You security people are insane. I'm tired of this "only my version is
correct" crap. The whole and only point of LSM was to get away from that.
And anybody who claims that there is "consensus" on SELinux is just in
denial.
Fights, arguments and disagreements in the security world will never end. Security people would like nothing more than to close and/or disconnect everything. The question, in my experience, most often voiced by security 'gurus' is "do you really need that?". I'm tired of hearing it. Yes, we do need it. SELinux was developed by the government entities with RedHat. Leave it there. I think we do need something else.
I don't think the issue here is whether or not material is simply sexual/adult oriented in nature. It's everything that many people consider inappropriate for persons under the age of xx. Violence, sex, explicit content, etc... is what bills like this are aimed at. If legislators had their choice we would only look at their party's pages.
Focusing on sex is the way many of these issues get escalated to unecessary extremes. The issue is all 'objectionable' material. The bill is bunk and it's authors are control freaks with more money than they know what to do with or need.
And can we please leave sexual persuasions out of this?
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Absolutely. You have the ability to set subtitles on at least the PC version of HL2 and it's fantastic. There's some sections where there's just too much noise to hear what someone is saying and it's nice to know that I can glance down and review the last bit of dialogue. But it would be nice to have a story scene replay option of some sort...
And I couldn't disagree with you more. I understand wanting to skip the cut-scenes because you want to be lazy. That's all I see out of it. Your comment about playing a game a second time through and not wanting to see the cut-scenes again is akin to saying you don't want to watch the whole movie again, just the fight scenes. Or reading a book again and skipping to the end because you don't want to work for it. Our society is creating a slew of people who want instant gratification. The problem is that the gratification they want isn't constant play, it's constant lack of thought. Story in a game is usually decent, much of it actually being quite good. Take Halo 3 for example: a FPS that panders to people who just want to shoot guns and blow stuff up. But the story scenes (that's what they are folks) are well thought out, scripted and built. I enjoyed watching them. I ask you to consider again just exactly what the story scenes really mean to the game. I say they need to start placing your objectives in the story scenes just to force you to fully experience the game, even in replay.
I don't think the issue here is whether or not material is simply sexual/adult oriented in nature. It's everything that many people consider inappropriate for persons under the age of xx. Violence, sex, explicit content, etc... is what bills like this are aimed at. If legislators had their choice we would only look at their party's pages. Focusing on sex is the way many of these issues get escalated to unecessary extremes. The issue is all 'objectionable' material. The bill is bunk and it's authors are control freaks with more money than they know what to do with or need. And can we please leave sexual persuasions out of this?