Problem is there are a lot of idiots (with children, in politics, and elsewhere) Sure TV and radio are different than the internet. That doesn't mean you can't make it illegal for minors to watch TV or listen to the radio. Then maybe the kids will grow up a little smarter than their parents (not because of the lack of TV or radio, but because they don't like the repressive laws) Problem solved. Naturally this is not a serious suggestion and is completely unpractical, but this is the kind of ridiculous discussion any "think of the children" nonsense leads to.
Its ok to spend millions saving stupid people because thats somehow better than other stupid people spending billions on crazy war/pyramid schemes? What we spend on rescuing people lost in the woods, in the oceans, or elsewhere every year is such a tiny fraction of budget it's barely worth debating. How would you like to be in need of rescue knowing you would be working for the rest of your life to pay for it, or worse yet, no one was coming to get you because you have $10 in the bank and no rescue insurance?
The ones that really jerk my chain are the people who have zero competence and zero experience who are constantly getting stuck on mountains, lost in national parks, stranded in the ocean, etc, etc, etc. They need to be held accountable for their lack of planning.
Capitalism being what it is, a lot of these people who manage to get themselves lost because they have zero competence don't have any money to pay for their rescue and would have to work their entire lives to pay back what was spent finding them.
That being said, I still think we should still spend the millions we do to look for people who get lost. It's money far better spent than the billions we spend on some things.
The great thing about the age of carts is just what the article touches on...here's a game that never made it to the store shelves but clearly a copy or two was made on actual hardware that somehow made it to this flea market.
But what happens to games today when they're cancelled? I read about games being put on "indefinite hiatus", or just being cancelled with the company essentially throwing their hands up in the air and saying "ain't gonna happen." What becomes of all that code? Since it just sits on the developer's machines, does it just get wiped when they start on a new project?
Maybe someday someone will find a hd in a flea market labeled "Shenmue 3 SVN Repo", but it doesn't seem likely, sadly.
So while we revel in the curios of the past, we ourselves have none to give to future generations. It's a lot easier to leak some files on the internet today, then it was to leak a cart back then, and a lot harder to stop.
Otherwise...is this a slashvertisement? That depends on where you want to draw the line on news and advertisements. For example, if Intel launches a new CPU architecture, wouldn't that be very much like this news item?
Having said that, this news looks like pure spam on a page like Slashdot. None of its featured games are new or spectacular in any way and the concept is dated back to at least 2001. 2001 is being too kind. I'd say this idea was barely original pre 1995.
It should be stressed that this leak is not, in fact, revealling illegal activity. I even doubt that Wikileaks made it public; I mean, they must have some kind of advertisment or at least a publicly available description of this service, no?
If it was already public, then it's interesting for the process of defining the role of Wikileaks: here, it's role would be to raise awareness rather than reveal, which means acting like a news site.
Personaly, I think that Wikileak should not stride from it's original goal: when you're run anonymously, you must keep close to your original description; it's the only kind of accountability you offer.
Not a leak? Maybe, but I still don't see why they would want this getting out.
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Problem is there are a lot of idiots (with children, in politics, and elsewhere) Sure TV and radio are different than the internet. That doesn't mean you can't make it illegal for minors to watch TV or listen to the radio. Then maybe the kids will grow up a little smarter than their parents (not because of the lack of TV or radio, but because they don't like the repressive laws) Problem solved. Naturally this is not a serious suggestion and is completely unpractical, but this is the kind of ridiculous discussion any "think of the children" nonsense leads to.
Capitalism being what it is, a lot of these people who manage to get themselves lost because they have zero competence don't have any money to pay for their rescue and would have to work their entire lives to pay back what was spent finding them.
That being said, I still think we should still spend the millions we do to look for people who get lost. It's money far better spent than the billions we spend on some things.
But what happens to games today when they're cancelled? I read about games being put on "indefinite hiatus", or just being cancelled with the company essentially throwing their hands up in the air and saying "ain't gonna happen." What becomes of all that code? Since it just sits on the developer's machines, does it just get wiped when they start on a new project?
Maybe someday someone will find a hd in a flea market labeled "Shenmue 3 SVN Repo", but it doesn't seem likely, sadly.
So while we revel in the curios of the past, we ourselves have none to give to future generations.
It's a lot easier to leak some files on the internet today, then it was to leak a cart back then, and a lot harder to stop.
Having said that, this news looks like pure spam on a page like Slashdot. None of its featured games are new or spectacular in any way and the concept is dated back to at least 2001. 2001 is being too kind. I'd say this idea was barely original pre 1995.
It should be stressed that this leak is not, in fact, revealling illegal activity. I even doubt that Wikileaks made it public; I mean, they must have some kind of advertisment or at least a publicly available description of this service, no?
If it was already public, then it's interesting for the process of defining the role of Wikileaks: here, it's role would be to raise awareness rather than reveal, which means acting like a news site.
Personaly, I think that Wikileak should not stride from it's original goal: when you're run anonymously, you must keep close to your original description; it's the only kind of accountability you offer.
Not a leak? Maybe, but I still don't see why they would want this getting out.