The movie ratings (PG, R, etc.) are legally enforceable. The store owner can be fined or imprisoned for allowing the sale or rental of an R-rated product to a minor. Video game ratings are voluntarily provided suggestions to the consumer about the content of the game.
So the reason video game ratings are so big is because the consumer has to see them or they mean nothing.
Movie ratings can be small, because the consumer doesn't have to see them; the onus is on the storeowner to enfore them.
Oh, and I'm an Ontarian, and I've never heard the anthem played at a movie theatre. And I'm pretty sure I've been to a "first showing of the day" (specifically, the midnight premiere of Star Wars Episode I).
It seems a great many people feel the need to remind comic book fans that the characters aren't real; we know.
This case has nothing to do with such delusions. Fictional characters can still be classified as depictions of humans or non-humans. Winnie the Pooh - non-human. Sherlock Holmes - human. Neither real. Clear enough?
Having gotten that out of the way, I think it is a genuinely interesting case; silly on the face of it, but it does say interesting things about how narrowly concepts of humanity can be defined.
I agree with the poster who suggested that if Kraven isn't human because of his exaggerated muscle tone and leopard-vest, then Barbie is DEFINITELY not human.:)
Please. I'm a little shocked that reading at level 5, I see lots of messages claiming that P2P systems are "pirating software" and none refuting that statement.
P2P does NOT equal theft. Intercepting somebody else's money and keeping it, DOES equal theft!
P2P allows people to share software. Yes, a lot of illegal stuff gets shared, and it's a legal gray area.
On the other hand, sending false information to a company to get them to pay you for something you never did, is FRAUD! It's a lot like intercepting a financial transaction and diverting it to your own account. Theft, pure and simple.
>Different question: Are you telling me that you >need a color-based mnemonic to remember a >numeric-based mnemonic as to the representation >of the value of the currency? IOW, Red=5 is >easier to remember than 5=5?
It's not like you're being asked to retrain yourself to recognize money SOLELY on colour; they're not taking the numbers away. It's just an additional visual aid.
Glance inside your wallet and try to ballpark how much money you have. I find it infuriatingly difficult to do that with American money. Sure I have a thick wad of bills in there, but until I pull them out and look at each one, I don't realize that half of them are 1 dollar bills.
With Canadian money (for example), I ripple through the bills in my wallet, and almost without consciously looking, I have an idea of how much money I've got.
Plus, it's much harder to accidentally miss a 50 in a stack of 20s when the 20s are green and the 50 is bright red.
Just wanted to point out that, in addition to the 19 screens in the US, there's at least one digitally-equipped theatre in Canada. Here in Toronto, the Paramount (Queen and John) has shown a number of films on DLP, and it really is awesome.
For me, the biggest difference was the lack of image noise; the "hairs" on screen from flaws in the film that are blessedly absent in a digital system.
And this is probably a coincidence, but the theatre happens to be across the street from TI's Toronto office. The Toronto office is completely unrelated to DLP though.
>I was with the author all the way up until the >point that he mentioned a legal framework for >enforcement.
Really?
Why are viruses (which I've never had ANY trouble with because they're frankly pretty easy to avoid) illegal, but virus-like behaviour in commercial software (which affects me much more frequently) is acceptable?
Slashdot Mirror
The movie ratings (PG, R, etc.) are legally enforceable. The store owner can be fined or imprisoned for allowing the sale or rental of an R-rated product to a minor. Video game ratings are voluntarily provided suggestions to the consumer about the content of the game.
So the reason video game ratings are so big is because the consumer has to see them or they mean nothing.
Movie ratings can be small, because the consumer doesn't have to see them; the onus is on the storeowner to enfore them.
Oh, and I'm an Ontarian, and I've never heard the anthem played at a movie theatre. And I'm pretty sure I've been to a "first showing of the day" (specifically, the midnight premiere of Star Wars Episode I).
It seems a great many people feel the need to remind comic book fans that the characters aren't real; we know.
This case has nothing to do with such delusions. Fictional characters can still be classified as depictions of humans or non-humans. Winnie the Pooh - non-human. Sherlock Holmes - human. Neither real. Clear enough?
Having gotten that out of the way, I think it is a genuinely interesting case; silly on the face of it, but it does say interesting things about how narrowly concepts of humanity can be defined.
I agree with the poster who suggested that if Kraven isn't human because of his exaggerated muscle tone and leopard-vest, then Barbie is DEFINITELY not human.
Please.
I'm a little shocked that reading at level 5, I see lots of messages claiming that P2P systems are "pirating software" and none refuting that statement.
P2P does NOT equal theft.
Intercepting somebody else's money and keeping it, DOES equal theft!
P2P allows people to share software. Yes, a lot of illegal stuff gets shared, and it's a legal gray area.
On the other hand, sending false information to a company to get them to pay you for something you never did, is FRAUD! It's a lot like intercepting a financial transaction and diverting it to your own account. Theft, pure and simple.
>Different question: Are you telling me that you
>need a color-based mnemonic to remember a
>numeric-based mnemonic as to the representation
>of the value of the currency? IOW, Red=5 is
>easier to remember than 5=5?
It's not like you're being asked to retrain yourself to recognize money SOLELY on colour; they're not taking the numbers away. It's just an additional visual aid.
Glance inside your wallet and try to ballpark how much money you have. I find it infuriatingly difficult to do that with American money. Sure I have a thick wad of bills in there, but until I pull them out and look at each one, I don't realize that half of them are 1 dollar bills.
With Canadian money (for example), I ripple through the bills in my wallet, and almost without consciously looking, I have an idea of how much money I've got.
Plus, it's much harder to accidentally miss a 50 in a stack of 20s when the 20s are green and the 50 is bright red.
---
Kern Lewin
Just wanted to point out that, in addition to the 19 screens in the US, there's at least one digitally-equipped theatre in Canada. Here in Toronto, the Paramount (Queen and John) has shown a number of films on DLP, and it really is awesome.
For me, the biggest difference was the lack of image noise; the "hairs" on screen from flaws in the film that are blessedly absent in a digital system.
And this is probably a coincidence, but the theatre happens to be across the street from TI's Toronto office. The Toronto office is completely unrelated to DLP though.
---
Kern
>I was with the author all the way up until the
>point that he mentioned a legal framework for
>enforcement.
Really?
Why are viruses (which I've never had ANY trouble with because they're frankly pretty easy to avoid) illegal, but virus-like behaviour in commercial software (which affects me much more frequently) is acceptable?
---
Kern Lewin