That doesn't disprove my point, that was 40 years ago. Show me a recent case. Show me something since 2000. Better yet, show me something that isn't an anomaly (which I believe any recent case in the US would be).
They get to censor because of public mandate. It's less true now (although there are plenty of use who don't mind and wish they would do more). But back when they were founded in '34, the general public would have had a heart attack if they heard someone saying "fuck" on the radio. Same thing for TV when it came along. People liked the FCC doing this (and they still to, for the most part, or at least don't mind).
Then again, a great many more people had a sense of decency back then. Just because you can say something doesn't mean you need to.
Why do they get to regulate signals sent along copper? Two reasons. First of all (and most obviously)... it's public. It's not a private channel it is broadcast. Second, just because you receive something over Cable doesn't mean it isn't on the open airwaves for others. That's why NBC still has to follow those rules. FCC is more lax on cable for this exact reason, especially on pay channels like HBO (where they can do whatever they want with a few exceptions, like child pornography).
Why the police arrest you for saying "fuck"? I doubt they can. Unless you've been belligerent and harassing someone else doing it. In that case, you've already committed a crime. But if you just stand on a corner, yell "fuck", then get on with life as if nothing happened, they can't arrest you.
For the last part... yell at the supreme court. Vote your congressman out. Or understand that that was designed to protect political speech and most people are more worried about that and other important uses (like freedom of the press) than giving you the "right" to say "fuck" whenever you want. It's called priorities.
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Ruby gives you easy scripting without having to use something like Janino to compile and import classes on the fly. Using Java also provides access to all the Java libraries from Ruby (which can be nice) and fixes some of Ruby's issues (I understand that the ruby interpreter is single threaded, for example). There are some good reasons why one might want to do it.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
I hate that quote. I don't think I've ever heard someone use it correctly in real life. It's a warning against being a hypocrite. It does not mean that if you have ever messed up you don't have the right to criticize someone else. It means don't tell people stealing is wrong when you just took a five finger discount on a stereo.
I'd also like to point out, it is only about hypocrisy. If you used to steal, served your time, repented, are sorry, etc.. it's OK to tell other people stealing is wrong if you have learned not to and are not doing it now. You are not condemned forever for your one sin.
So is this a replacement for an X-Ray machine, or for an MRI machine? It seems to give MRI like results, but the article mentions that it uses X-Rays to do it's job (where MRI's use magnets).
Is this a fancy X-Ray machine, an X-Ray machine hoping to take on some of the duties of an MRI, or an X-Ray machine that should completely replace MRIs?
I know there are some things one can find that the other can't (ignoring the obvious importance of you can't look at shrapnel in an MRI because it would be pulled out by the magnets).
That was my point. There is no need to malloc the whole 2MB, just what you need. Pad whatever comes after with 0s or 1s, and any checksumming (unlikely on a GB cart) could be done trivially. You didn't need to allocate that extra space at all.
What I'd like to know is how this e-ink compares to what Sony is using in their latest generation reader. Is it faster at changing the display? Do they still have to flash the whole display to update one little part?
And why have they ever needed to flash the whole display anyway? Is there some reason they can't erase just one area, working with a dirty rectangle algorithm so things are faster? Surely they can put enough memory in to keep two copies of the display (old and new) then use XOR to figure out which bits need to be updated, speeding things up some.
My understanding is that it was a technical challenge (as you mention). Due to hardware advances, it's no longer a problem. When the game was ported to the 360 they developed a way to stream the levels, avoiding that problem. They have not released that as an update to HL2, but I thought they used it somewhere (HL2:E2?). Maybe they didn't. Now that systems have enough RAM to hold both level bits, they can do this. They didn't think they could when HL2 came out.
Agreed. My only debt is my credit card, which I pay off every month. I've had it for about 2 years, spent plenty of money (bought a HDTV, and a Laptop, along with all my gas) and yet I've never paid them a cent of interest.
The thing about credit cards is that they are a double edged sword. One edge is blunt, the other is sharp as hell. If you do what I (and the parent poster) do, it's a blunt sword. You use it to make life a little easier, you get a small benefit (1% cash back or whatever, depends on card and whatnot). If you screw up, they bleed you. Chances are you don't get 10% interest rates. Most people don't. But even 8-10% can be quite a bit of money.
But that requires you to be responsible. To pay your bill on time. To only spend money you already have.
If you don't do that, a credit card is a really sharp sword. Playing with credit cards (especially the "I'll move my balances to this new 0% card" game) is russian roulette. You know how sharp things like Ginsu Knives are (in the ads, not in real life)? Multiply that by 100, coat the sword in motor oil, and that's what a card is.
If you can't control you spending, you will get yourself into big debt. There is a decent chance that the debt will become normal to you. Once you get one card, it is easy for you to get another if "run out of money" (a.k.a. your up to your limit). You will dig yourself in DEEP.
My best summary would be this: if you don't need a credit card, if you don't spend money... they are safe. If you "need" a credit card, if you like to spend money... they are very VERY dangerous.
There are things that could be done. Overturning that stupid ruling that let banks export usury rates. Ban advertising cards on college campuses (as well as promotions involving cards... no more "Buy one pizza, get one free when you sign up for a Visa card"). Make it illegal to give cards to people who are near their credit limit on most/all their cards already. No "loyalty" cards that have credit attached (i.e. what you see at Best Buy, Circuit City, Nordstrooms, Gap... just about everywhere. Mandatory financial counseling in school (Ohio is moving to something like this I hear) so that kids have a chance to learn this stuff the easy way.
And of course, credit card companies tend to be on the evil side of shady. But I think that of most banks at this point, cable companies, cell phone companies, and quite a few others. What can I say... I'm not a big fan of how many large companies are run.
That's what I got from this review. It actually sounds kind of fun (I only play FPSes once in a while) and sounds like an improvement of the "purer" FPSs that I've played (never played a CoD). But is really doesn't sound like too much more than an incremental improvement.
Yet I've seen reviews placing it at 90-100%. Super Mario Galaxy (a game that is quite a bit of a leap compared to other platformers) is in the same territory.
This game got a very fair score here at/. I'd have even called a 4/5 fair. But it annoys me to read so many reviews that say the graphics are great, the gameplay is mostly the same as last year, new element X is fun, Y is annoying, and the camera makes the game very hard to play. 99%.
Thanks for that, I hadn't caught it. But people could only be used to the iPhone for 2-3 months at this point. You could have been using a QWERTY or numeric phone keypad for text entry for years. So it's still possible that it's not a fair comparison. I'd just like to know more before I believe it better. If this was done a year from now I'd be more apt to believe it... but the iPhone is just so new compared to the other solutions.
You've used a QWERTY keyboard. You've used a calculator. Combine the two and you get a Blackberry keyboard. Handheld organizers for years and years and years have used little keyboards like that. Spell checkers too.
As for the numeric option, many people here have been using that system (to a small degree) for years to dial phone numbers like 1-800-BUY-STUF. That's not quite new either. Again, the key layout is like a calculator.
But the iPhone doesn't have analogs that have existed before to any degree, at least not that the majority of people have used.
A month seems like quite a bit of time... but their sample size wasn't very big either.
I'm just not sure I trust this with what I know about it.
Does it look real? Does it seem real enough and not fake?
If it does, then you start asking around. Maybe you could get someone who used to work there to confirm it (possibly anonymously). You can find ways to get it confirmed. And once you have a very good basis to believe it (insert Dan Rather joke here)... then you ask for a statement on it from the Pentagon.
If they confirm it, it's real. If they deny it you ask for some kind of proof. They can either provide it proving it's false, or they can't. If they can't prove it's false but you can good sources that agree it was real... then you have something you can write about.
That's how I see it at least. There are enough people you could find something like this out. Everything from asking former generals and analysts on if the formatting and style and such are correct, to asking people to confirm the document it's self.
Two reasons I can think of. One is the challenge. I like to code but I'm not great with coming up with projects to do myself. This kind of thing would be nice for that.
The other is the experience. If you get second in this, no, you won't win the prize. But you can bet that having that on your resume would make getting many jobs much easier. Amazon would like your skills. So would many other retailers.
Also, as a side note, it's not a lottery. There is a three prong legal test in the US to determine if something is a lottery. I think the three parts are you have to pay to get it, everyone has an equal chance of winning, and there is no skill involved. I'm not positive about the second part. This is free to enter and is based quite a bit on skill, so it's not like a lottery.
Don't exaggerate.
This isn't a way to get free work. It's a way to get very smart job candidates to find you. It's a recruiting tool. You don't honestly think that they will take the winning idea, pay the $1m, and then just say "bye" do you? They will offer that person a job if at all reasonable (if it's a team of 500 students, obviously they couldn't).
The little article I saw about this said they measured people for a month with three keyboards: QWERTY (i.e. blackberry), numeric (i.e. RAZR), and iPhone. They said the iPhone people typed faster, but had more errors.
I wonder if this was fair. The people they found had no experience with the iPhone I'm guessing. But had they used the other two before? Or were these people who never did any kind of text messaging before on the other kinds of phones, or had they used them just a little? That could make a difference.
Does anyone know? This article doesn't seem to mention this either.
I don't own an iPhone, I've only touched one a handful of times.
I understand backing this up. My question is: why in the world does this belong in the OS? Shouldn't it be a little program that I run once in a while (perhaps in a cron job type thing)? Or a service that does the same thing? How about a service that responds to requests from the 360 and backs the files up?
Why isn't this out now?
And are we sure the 360 will still be used when Windows Whatever comes out?
I'd support that. This is what surprises me. I think it's kind of strange we don't do this for more things... is this kind of "absentee balloting" common in other countries?
This seems to make the most sense to me. Our current system seems like it would clearly work better in the early 1800s when there were not nearly as many people. We wouldn't have to worry about poling places, getting people to them, turning away minorities, not having enough time to vote, etc.
I saw this yesterday and chuckled a little, but it just raised a bunch of questions for me.
How good a journalist can you be if you trust Babelfish to translate stuff for you?
How could you rely on the answers you got since you'd have to run them through Babelfish also?
Could the interviewees not tell that it was a terrible machine translation? Are you telling me it was all perfect up until that sentence?
The first two are the ones that really puzzle me. Even if it were just a journalist at a high school paper, I would expect them to do better. Go ask for help from the local university or something. Babelfish? Really?
Yep. I opened up an old transistor radio a year or two ago. It came from Radio Shack in the late 70s or early 80s. I was floored to see, stuck to the inside of the back case, a full schematic of how the radio worked. That kind of thing (even if it only showed the ICs and not their functions) is basically unthinkable today.
I'm so glad they are going to release the source to this, I hope/. has a link to it when it happens. I've always wondered how the internal simulation of the game was programmed, as I've never seen one like that and I'd love to go see that source.
I really wish the source to more old games and programs were available. There would be so much to see. While some games don't really have source that would be easy to look at (Super Mario Brothers and many others are surely assembly)... some games like SimCity must have source considering how many platforms they were ported to (by the time it made it to Windows, they must have had a C version, or in some other high language).
For SimFarm (a game I sunk way too many hours into) the secret was: oranges.
They fetched a high price, were pretty disease resistant, didn't need too much care, didn't have to be flooded, etc. You had to import them (there was a menu item for changing the possible crops) but once you did... moolahville.
Without changing the default crops I went for strawberries. They loved to get diseased and needed watching, but they were worth a bunch.
Right. That's the point they made. In the DK series there were some minor differences in the later games (like Dixie being able to float), but the other character was essentially an "extra life", so you could take a hit and not lose instantly.
In BK, the two characters were linked all the time. They did have different abilities and helped each other. You could jump off a platform as Banjo (who you controlled) but press a button to use Kazooie to glide. You could press a button to have Kazooie's legs pop out and use them to run fast. It was a well done mechanic that used both characters. It was different, and necessary. You didn't need to use the one little team ability in the Sonic games. I don't even remember any in Donkey Kong Country.
This doesn't surprise me too much (although it's higher than I would have expected). The real question is how many of those people who didn't pay went out and bought another of their albums after finding they liked the band?
They gave up around the SNES days. The event most people point to is Mortal Kombat. The Genesis version had blood, the SNES didn't (or it was green). The Genesis version sold much better because it was more faithful. They started to relax things.
It's quite clean Nintendo doesn't do that (for the most part) any more. Resident Evil 0/1/4 (Cube, Wii), Conquer's Bad Fur Day (N64), Red Steel (Wii), Manhunt 2 (Wii) and others show that they are willing to put up with violence and such.
Things were a little different back then. Stamping a DVD is much cheaper than burning ROMs. Nintendo doesn't produce the games for you like they used to, so even if they wanted to censor things they would have a harder time today since they aren't the gatekeeper.
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That doesn't disprove my point, that was 40 years ago. Show me a recent case. Show me something since 2000. Better yet, show me something that isn't an anomaly (which I believe any recent case in the US would be).
They get to censor because of public mandate. It's less true now (although there are plenty of use who don't mind and wish they would do more). But back when they were founded in '34, the general public would have had a heart attack if they heard someone saying "fuck" on the radio. Same thing for TV when it came along. People liked the FCC doing this (and they still to, for the most part, or at least don't mind).
Then again, a great many more people had a sense of decency back then. Just because you can say something doesn't mean you need to.
Why do they get to regulate signals sent along copper? Two reasons. First of all (and most obviously)... it's public. It's not a private channel it is broadcast. Second, just because you receive something over Cable doesn't mean it isn't on the open airwaves for others. That's why NBC still has to follow those rules. FCC is more lax on cable for this exact reason, especially on pay channels like HBO (where they can do whatever they want with a few exceptions, like child pornography).
Why the police arrest you for saying "fuck"? I doubt they can. Unless you've been belligerent and harassing someone else doing it. In that case, you've already committed a crime. But if you just stand on a corner, yell "fuck", then get on with life as if nothing happened, they can't arrest you.
For the last part... yell at the supreme court. Vote your congressman out. Or understand that that was designed to protect political speech and most people are more worried about that and other important uses (like freedom of the press) than giving you the "right" to say "fuck" whenever you want. It's called priorities.
This message has been a public service (something else the FCC gets to do) by MBCook. Mod as you wish.
Ruby gives you easy scripting without having to use something like Janino to compile and import classes on the fly. Using Java also provides access to all the Java libraries from Ruby (which can be nice) and fixes some of Ruby's issues (I understand that the ruby interpreter is single threaded, for example). There are some good reasons why one might want to do it.
I hate that quote. I don't think I've ever heard someone use it correctly in real life. It's a warning against being a hypocrite. It does not mean that if you have ever messed up you don't have the right to criticize someone else. It means don't tell people stealing is wrong when you just took a five finger discount on a stereo.
I'd also like to point out, it is only about hypocrisy. If you used to steal, served your time, repented, are sorry, etc.. it's OK to tell other people stealing is wrong if you have learned not to and are not doing it now. You are not condemned forever for your one sin.
So is this a replacement for an X-Ray machine, or for an MRI machine? It seems to give MRI like results, but the article mentions that it uses X-Rays to do it's job (where MRI's use magnets).
Is this a fancy X-Ray machine, an X-Ray machine hoping to take on some of the duties of an MRI, or an X-Ray machine that should completely replace MRIs?
I know there are some things one can find that the other can't (ignoring the obvious importance of you can't look at shrapnel in an MRI because it would be pulled out by the magnets).
That was my point. There is no need to malloc the whole 2MB, just what you need. Pad whatever comes after with 0s or 1s, and any checksumming (unlikely on a GB cart) could be done trivially. You didn't need to allocate that extra space at all.
Am I missing some reason that you can't just pad with 0s or 1s? Why bother with random data?
What I'd like to know is how this e-ink compares to what Sony is using in their latest generation reader. Is it faster at changing the display? Do they still have to flash the whole display to update one little part?
And why have they ever needed to flash the whole display anyway? Is there some reason they can't erase just one area, working with a dirty rectangle algorithm so things are faster? Surely they can put enough memory in to keep two copies of the display (old and new) then use XOR to figure out which bits need to be updated, speeding things up some.
My understanding is that it was a technical challenge (as you mention). Due to hardware advances, it's no longer a problem. When the game was ported to the 360 they developed a way to stream the levels, avoiding that problem. They have not released that as an update to HL2, but I thought they used it somewhere (HL2:E2?). Maybe they didn't. Now that systems have enough RAM to hold both level bits, they can do this. They didn't think they could when HL2 came out.
Agreed. My only debt is my credit card, which I pay off every month. I've had it for about 2 years, spent plenty of money (bought a HDTV, and a Laptop, along with all my gas) and yet I've never paid them a cent of interest.
The thing about credit cards is that they are a double edged sword. One edge is blunt, the other is sharp as hell. If you do what I (and the parent poster) do, it's a blunt sword. You use it to make life a little easier, you get a small benefit (1% cash back or whatever, depends on card and whatnot). If you screw up, they bleed you. Chances are you don't get 10% interest rates. Most people don't. But even 8-10% can be quite a bit of money.
But that requires you to be responsible. To pay your bill on time. To only spend money you already have.
If you don't do that, a credit card is a really sharp sword. Playing with credit cards (especially the "I'll move my balances to this new 0% card" game) is russian roulette. You know how sharp things like Ginsu Knives are (in the ads, not in real life)? Multiply that by 100, coat the sword in motor oil, and that's what a card is.
If you can't control you spending, you will get yourself into big debt. There is a decent chance that the debt will become normal to you. Once you get one card, it is easy for you to get another if "run out of money" (a.k.a. your up to your limit). You will dig yourself in DEEP.
My best summary would be this: if you don't need a credit card, if you don't spend money... they are safe. If you "need" a credit card, if you like to spend money... they are very VERY dangerous.
There are things that could be done. Overturning that stupid ruling that let banks export usury rates. Ban advertising cards on college campuses (as well as promotions involving cards... no more "Buy one pizza, get one free when you sign up for a Visa card"). Make it illegal to give cards to people who are near their credit limit on most/all their cards already. No "loyalty" cards that have credit attached (i.e. what you see at Best Buy, Circuit City, Nordstrooms, Gap... just about everywhere. Mandatory financial counseling in school (Ohio is moving to something like this I hear) so that kids have a chance to learn this stuff the easy way.
And of course, credit card companies tend to be on the evil side of shady. But I think that of most banks at this point, cable companies, cell phone companies, and quite a few others. What can I say... I'm not a big fan of how many large companies are run.
That's what I got from this review. It actually sounds kind of fun (I only play FPSes once in a while) and sounds like an improvement of the "purer" FPSs that I've played (never played a CoD). But is really doesn't sound like too much more than an incremental improvement.
Yet I've seen reviews placing it at 90-100%. Super Mario Galaxy (a game that is quite a bit of a leap compared to other platformers) is in the same territory.
This game got a very fair score here at /. I'd have even called a 4/5 fair. But it annoys me to read so many reviews that say the graphics are great, the gameplay is mostly the same as last year, new element X is fun, Y is annoying, and the camera makes the game very hard to play. 99%.
Thanks for that, I hadn't caught it. But people could only be used to the iPhone for 2-3 months at this point. You could have been using a QWERTY or numeric phone keypad for text entry for years. So it's still possible that it's not a fair comparison. I'd just like to know more before I believe it better. If this was done a year from now I'd be more apt to believe it... but the iPhone is just so new compared to the other solutions.
You've used a QWERTY keyboard. You've used a calculator. Combine the two and you get a Blackberry keyboard. Handheld organizers for years and years and years have used little keyboards like that. Spell checkers too.
As for the numeric option, many people here have been using that system (to a small degree) for years to dial phone numbers like 1-800-BUY-STUF. That's not quite new either. Again, the key layout is like a calculator.
But the iPhone doesn't have analogs that have existed before to any degree, at least not that the majority of people have used.
A month seems like quite a bit of time... but their sample size wasn't very big either.
I'm just not sure I trust this with what I know about it.
Does it look real? Does it seem real enough and not fake?
If it does, then you start asking around. Maybe you could get someone who used to work there to confirm it (possibly anonymously). You can find ways to get it confirmed. And once you have a very good basis to believe it (insert Dan Rather joke here)... then you ask for a statement on it from the Pentagon.
If they confirm it, it's real. If they deny it you ask for some kind of proof. They can either provide it proving it's false, or they can't. If they can't prove it's false but you can good sources that agree it was real... then you have something you can write about.
That's how I see it at least. There are enough people you could find something like this out. Everything from asking former generals and analysts on if the formatting and style and such are correct, to asking people to confirm the document it's self.
Two reasons I can think of. One is the challenge. I like to code but I'm not great with coming up with projects to do myself. This kind of thing would be nice for that.
The other is the experience. If you get second in this, no, you won't win the prize. But you can bet that having that on your resume would make getting many jobs much easier. Amazon would like your skills. So would many other retailers.
Also, as a side note, it's not a lottery. There is a three prong legal test in the US to determine if something is a lottery. I think the three parts are you have to pay to get it, everyone has an equal chance of winning, and there is no skill involved. I'm not positive about the second part. This is free to enter and is based quite a bit on skill, so it's not like a lottery.
Don't exaggerate.
This isn't a way to get free work. It's a way to get very smart job candidates to find you. It's a recruiting tool. You don't honestly think that they will take the winning idea, pay the $1m, and then just say "bye" do you? They will offer that person a job if at all reasonable (if it's a team of 500 students, obviously they couldn't).
The little article I saw about this said they measured people for a month with three keyboards: QWERTY (i.e. blackberry), numeric (i.e. RAZR), and iPhone. They said the iPhone people typed faster, but had more errors.
I wonder if this was fair. The people they found had no experience with the iPhone I'm guessing. But had they used the other two before? Or were these people who never did any kind of text messaging before on the other kinds of phones, or had they used them just a little? That could make a difference.
Does anyone know? This article doesn't seem to mention this either.
I don't own an iPhone, I've only touched one a handful of times.
Can I just ask: why?
I understand backing this up. My question is: why in the world does this belong in the OS? Shouldn't it be a little program that I run once in a while (perhaps in a cron job type thing)? Or a service that does the same thing? How about a service that responds to requests from the 360 and backs the files up?
Why isn't this out now?
And are we sure the 360 will still be used when Windows Whatever comes out?
Bloat bloat bloat bloat...
I'd support that. This is what surprises me. I think it's kind of strange we don't do this for more things... is this kind of "absentee balloting" common in other countries?
This seems to make the most sense to me. Our current system seems like it would clearly work better in the early 1800s when there were not nearly as many people. We wouldn't have to worry about poling places, getting people to them, turning away minorities, not having enough time to vote, etc.
I saw this yesterday and chuckled a little, but it just raised a bunch of questions for me.
The first two are the ones that really puzzle me. Even if it were just a journalist at a high school paper, I would expect them to do better. Go ask for help from the local university or something. Babelfish? Really?
Ketchup. They're seeing who isn't buying enough.
Ketchup has natural mellowing agents that help to keep you satisfied with our government and able to accept what happens to you.
-- A message from the Ketchup Advisory Board
(This is well documented. See here and here, for example.)
Yep. I opened up an old transistor radio a year or two ago. It came from Radio Shack in the late 70s or early 80s. I was floored to see, stuck to the inside of the back case, a full schematic of how the radio worked. That kind of thing (even if it only showed the ICs and not their functions) is basically unthinkable today.
I'm so glad they are going to release the source to this, I hope /. has a link to it when it happens. I've always wondered how the internal simulation of the game was programmed, as I've never seen one like that and I'd love to go see that source.
I really wish the source to more old games and programs were available. There would be so much to see. While some games don't really have source that would be easy to look at (Super Mario Brothers and many others are surely assembly)... some games like SimCity must have source considering how many platforms they were ported to (by the time it made it to Windows, they must have had a C version, or in some other high language).
The old games were great.
For SimFarm (a game I sunk way too many hours into) the secret was: oranges.
They fetched a high price, were pretty disease resistant, didn't need too much care, didn't have to be flooded, etc. You had to import them (there was a menu item for changing the possible crops) but once you did... moolahville.
Without changing the default crops I went for strawberries. They loved to get diseased and needed watching, but they were worth a bunch.
Right. That's the point they made. In the DK series there were some minor differences in the later games (like Dixie being able to float), but the other character was essentially an "extra life", so you could take a hit and not lose instantly.
In BK, the two characters were linked all the time. They did have different abilities and helped each other. You could jump off a platform as Banjo (who you controlled) but press a button to use Kazooie to glide. You could press a button to have Kazooie's legs pop out and use them to run fast. It was a well done mechanic that used both characters. It was different, and necessary. You didn't need to use the one little team ability in the Sonic games. I don't even remember any in Donkey Kong Country.
This doesn't surprise me too much (although it's higher than I would have expected). The real question is how many of those people who didn't pay went out and bought another of their albums after finding they liked the band?
But that would be really tough to measure.
They gave up around the SNES days. The event most people point to is Mortal Kombat. The Genesis version had blood, the SNES didn't (or it was green). The Genesis version sold much better because it was more faithful. They started to relax things.
It's quite clean Nintendo doesn't do that (for the most part) any more. Resident Evil 0/1/4 (Cube, Wii), Conquer's Bad Fur Day (N64), Red Steel (Wii), Manhunt 2 (Wii) and others show that they are willing to put up with violence and such.
Things were a little different back then. Stamping a DVD is much cheaper than burning ROMs. Nintendo doesn't produce the games for you like they used to, so even if they wanted to censor things they would have a harder time today since they aren't the gatekeeper.