'The videogame industry continues to fight meaningful accountability for selling inappropriate material to children.
Can people stop using the word conservative to describe these groups? One of the cornerstones of conservatism is the belief in personal responsibility, and that includes taking responsibility as a parent, not sitting back and blaming the entertainment industry like some junkie approportioning the blame for his actions onto society. If you can't be bothered to make the effort to learn what your children are doing, and enforce whatever rules you consider appropriate for your house, then you have no business complaining. A console/TV/computer is not a surrogate parent, and the games industry is not to blame if you've given your children a TV and Xbox360 in their room to shut them up.
The popularity of gold farming is nothing to do with skill and everything to do with people not wanting to invest x hours per week grinding. What does skill have to do with sitting there clicking on mobs for hours on end?
Thanks to our management, I've got regular downtime due to so many developers quitting that there's often nothing ready to test. I've started spending some time trying to fix the bugs that I really don't want to test myself, as our methdology states that development, testing/release and live confirmation all have to be done by different people. I get a nice change from my normal work, help the department a bit, and with a single line changed in a config file for an existing piece of work can avoid a 5 hour release.
I'd agreee with what you say, but I'd add one more thing - not sure how it is in America, but here in England, we have the same decline in education, and one of the main causes is the death of competition. State schools have non-competitive sports, place all pupils in the same lessons and proceed at the pace of the slowest, treat the male need to compete as some kind of aberration that can be engineered out and act as if any form of selection is an evil on a par with child molestation. Result - children spend their entire lives in some kind of egalitarian fantasy, fail to master by 18 what would have been taught to 13 year olds in the days of grammar schools (and still is in the private sector) and then get a nasty kick up the arse when they enter the real world. Only to then believe that it's unfair that they aren't succeeding and demand even more levelling as a way to compensate for their own failure.
6:00: go to the gym
7:00: start getting dressed
9:00: go to work
17:00: work towards the destruction of western civilization, the seduction of impressionable youth and the downfall of morality
22:00: hot chocolate and bed
For reading the Mail on Sunday. Apple users should go for the Guardian's mixture of smugness, cult like atmosphere and complete indifference to reality.
Lineage II: I played for 6 months, and never met another player, just about 4000 different bots.
I occassionally have a look at the MMO betas on fileplanet; almost without fail*, every Korean or Chinese open beta is cheated to irrelevance within a week of the beta starting - everything from complicated bots to speed hacks to simple memory cheats that shouldn't have been possible on any decent client 20 years ago. While every MMO seems to be afflicted with cheats, Asian (and console) developers don't seem to have learned the simple lesson of "never trust the client".
I'd say there's a fundamental flaw in comparisons between the current situation and the Troubles - the Provisional IRA/INLA/Continuity IRA/I Can't Believe It's Not the IRA had very limited objectives: they wanted to overturn the pro-Union plebiscites by force and later on, get rich off drug dealing and protection rackets. By contrast, at least some Islamists won't be happy until the Common Law(what "new" Labour have left of it, anyway) is replaced by Sharia and the United Kingdom is part of Dar-al-Islam. Comparing the likes of Gerry Adams and Abu Hamza is like comparing the Falklands War with WW2.
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'The videogame industry continues to fight meaningful accountability for selling inappropriate material to children.
Can people stop using the word conservative to describe these groups? One of the cornerstones of conservatism is the belief in personal responsibility, and that includes taking responsibility as a parent, not sitting back and blaming the entertainment industry like some junkie approportioning the blame for his actions onto society.
If you can't be bothered to make the effort to learn what your children are doing, and enforce whatever rules you consider appropriate for your house, then you have no business complaining. A console/TV/computer is not a surrogate parent, and the games industry is not to blame if you've given your children a TV and Xbox360 in their room to shut them up.
The popularity of gold farming is nothing to do with skill and everything to do with people not wanting to invest x hours per week grinding. What does skill have to do with sitting there clicking on mobs for hours on end?
I'm curious - if removing DRM is banned, does that make it illegal to uninstall a game that uses a driver based copy protection?
Is to waterboard developers until they stop helping terrorists and criminals.
Here.
Why don't we have a Pollard..er, poll.
They actually have a decent excuse for lost luggage for once.
Might be a way to get them to join a union.
But you can't right click.
Where's Jack Cade when you need him?
Today, we'll be looking at the letter c
Thanks to our management, I've got regular downtime due to so many developers quitting that there's often nothing ready to test. I've started spending some time trying to fix the bugs that I really don't want to test myself, as our methdology states that development, testing/release and live confirmation all have to be done by different people. I get a nice change from my normal work, help the department a bit, and with a single line changed in a config file for an existing piece of work can avoid a 5 hour release.
Either that or read Slashdot.
I'd agreee with what you say, but I'd add one more thing - not sure how it is in America, but here in England, we have the same decline in education, and one of the main causes is the death of competition. State schools have non-competitive sports, place all pupils in the same lessons and proceed at the pace of the slowest, treat the male need to compete as some kind of aberration that can be engineered out and act as if any form of selection is an evil on a par with child molestation.
Result - children spend their entire lives in some kind of egalitarian fantasy, fail to master by 18 what would have been taught to 13 year olds in the days of grammar schools (and still is in the private sector) and then get a nasty kick up the arse when they enter the real world. Only to then believe that it's unfair that they aren't succeeding and demand even more levelling as a way to compensate for their own failure.
for that model prioritises the interests of a few over the general interest
The general interest being a euphemism for the public sector?
Stupid laws or Gallic protectionism?
6:00: go to the gym
7:00: start getting dressed
9:00: go to work
17:00: work towards the destruction of western civilization, the seduction of impressionable youth and the downfall of morality
22:00: hot chocolate and bed
Since when should the perception of the public decide what research is done and which is not?
Since May 1 1997.
In Europe and Japan, viewers need to grab copies of shows when they can, as it could be some time before the episode is broadcast again
The author must be watching a different BBC to the one I get.
For reading the Mail on Sunday. Apple users should go for the Guardian's mixture of smugness, cult like atmosphere and complete indifference to reality.
I think you just have to submit a press release as a story.
Lineage II: I played for 6 months, and never met another player, just about 4000 different bots.
I occassionally have a look at the MMO betas on fileplanet; almost without fail*, every Korean or Chinese open beta is cheated to irrelevance within a week of the beta starting - everything from complicated bots to speed hacks to simple memory cheats that shouldn't have been possible on any decent client 20 years ago. While every MMO seems to be afflicted with cheats, Asian (and console) developers don't seem to have learned the simple lesson of "never trust the client".
*Navy Field being the exception
For once, I'll be glad to give IT help to our female temps.
Yeth.
I'd say there's a fundamental flaw in comparisons between the current situation and the Troubles - the Provisional IRA/INLA/Continuity IRA/I Can't Believe It's Not the IRA had very limited objectives: they wanted to overturn the pro-Union plebiscites by force and later on, get rich off drug dealing and protection rackets. By contrast, at least some Islamists won't be happy until the Common Law(what "new" Labour have left of it, anyway) is replaced by Sharia and the United Kingdom is part of Dar-al-Islam. Comparing the likes of Gerry Adams and Abu Hamza is like comparing the Falklands War with WW2.
Is this going to affect the Duke Nukem Forever release?