Certainly Seti, and I _think_ Folding are using Boinc now, so you might have an account through them. But I may well just be wrong.
I gave up on it ages ago, anyway - unlike Seti and Einstein, the Climate one has work units that go on for months, and if you box isn't on 24 hours a day then you may well fail to get all the work done before the deadline. I think they made a huge mistake with the setup, so I abandoned it.
Either China is a wonderful country that everyone should relish doing business with, and worthy of being given "Most Favored Nation" status, or it's Evil, Bad & Wrong, and there should be a trade embargo.
It shouldn't do the former, and then shout at Google for not realising that the latter should really be the case. I just couldn't believe the sheer two-faced idiocy of the congressmen slinging that mud.
Sorry, I probably explained myself poorly. By saying that the issue was their lack of an R18+ for videogames, I meant to imply that I saw this lack as the problem. So I suggest we all calm down and agree to agree.
1) Within their laws, it's the right thing to do - I do think that the game's content is unsuitable for the M15+ rating, and given a choice between handing it to children and banning it, I'm inclined to the latter for now.
2) The fact that you're banning the game, and have previously forced other games to get seriously edited to get the M15+ rating is a pretty clear indication that pretending that games shouldn't be considered for the R18+ rating is no longer tenable. So the law should be re-examined.
I'd imagine it's not so much the "aim can at wall, spray paint" that they were concerned about as much as the "aim can at face, spray paint, ignite aerosol with lighter".
The real issue, once again, is that Australia don't have the equivalent of the UK's "18" or US "M" for games, so the highest possible rating is the aforementioned MA15+. So games like the GTA series are already banned there.
Since the game involves just as much violence against policemen as GTA does, and the only non-violent aspect to the game is the vandalism, my only surprise is that they considered it possible for an MA15+ in the first place.
They may well be fixed in current ones, then. A quick check shows that, sure enough, my paperback is from 2000 (which I now remember buying it in) and is the first UK PB release. It's also pretty dog-eared from use, so I might treat myself to a new one at some point.
In everyone else's opinion, Shaun Of The Dead is an absolutely hilarious tribute to the work of George A. Romero, while at the same time not willing to treat its romantic elements in a half-arsed manner.
I've no idea where you're finding these "hundred other far superior indy British comedies made in recent years".
I know that the UK Paperback release that I'm currently re-reading has a whole pile of typos in the non-code sections, so I'm not surprised there are typos in the code as well.
The (far superior, I agree) cut of Alien 3 in the current DVD release isn't a Director's Cut, as Fincher refused to have anything to do with the disc after having such a soul-crushingly horrid time making the film. It's basically a cleaned-up and properly edited recut and restoration of the original workprint. There is still a fair bit missing from what Fincher wanted to release, because he was never allowed to shoot it in the first place.
Coincidentally enough, I'm re-reading Cryptonomicon (again, post-Baroque Cycle for all the cool links) at the moment.
And it's not even 3 major characters - there seems to be a common theme among readers of ignoring just how vital the sequences with Goto Dengo are, and would frankly cover a good 90 minutes on their own.
But then I'm also finding it mildly amusing to read a big discussion about how Londoners Nick and Garth supposedly didn't understand "British Humor", complete with American spelling, so what do I know?
Um, no. It's trying to put all thieves under the class "thieves". The fact that you don't like calling people terrorists because they only commit acts of violence against people you don't like doesn't change that.
E.g., radio stations get copies of songs weeks before the CDs actually hit stores -- and suspiciously, the songs tend to show up on P2P networks soon after they go out to radio stations.
Now, I admittedly don't download pre-release mp3 files terribly often. But I know exactly which radio station owned the original files for the last two I got. You can hear the relevant DJs at the end of the file.
People still record music off the radio. What good does knowing which radio station broadcast the original song do?
The only 'suspicious' thing about that list of movies, is how poor Sony are at finding any other decent films in their back catalogue. They keep milking the same 20-odd films through special-edition after SuperBit, BluRay after UMD, in the probably mistaken idea that they are all-time classics that everyone wants to buy over and over again.
Meanwhile, bigger studios with a long heritage, like Warners and Paramount just go back and get some more movies they haven't released before out of the vaults, because there are still tonnes of the things back there.
Ah. Since my little rant has been modded "+1, Informative", I suppose I really ought to give, well, information. So, the service undertheigloo used to get themselves on iTMS UK is Artists Without A Label, or AWAL. They take a 15% commission of the money Apple pay them for each sale, which isn't too bad really.
It's Prince Of Persia with added breasts and all the style surgically removed along with the decent platforming controls in order to make way for more fighting.
Whether or not that's a bad thing is up to you, but I didn't like it very much.
...Yes, folks. Back then, I could simply hand over $50 and I had full first-sale rights on the game. It came as an actual physical product that looked nice sitting on the shelf, worked even round at my friend's house for co-op play without us having to buy a license each, and when we were bored of it we could make about half that money back by selling it to someone else.
I mean, can you imagine it? It's a wonder the global economy didn't crash earlier, really.
"if you are a band and want to sell your music (with DRM).. you have to do it on the iTunes store"
Well, duh. And how fucking difficult is that? Not, is how difficult. Plus, iTMS is very supportive - my brother's (unsigned) band has been on the front-page of the 'Alternative' section and got themselves a plug as single of the week without too much hassle.
As I type, the number one album on the UK iTMS is by Arctic Monkeys, who until recently were still trying to get themselves noticed on MySpace, and then signed to the independant Domino.
So try harder. Or try not sucking. Because iTMS is doing all it can to help independant bands.
I'm not justifying extremism of any kind. I'm just saying that I'm not justifying your attempts to tar a great many perfectly reasonable people with the brush of what a bunch of nutjobs get up to, either.
The Government-sponsored violence is a BAD THING. I agree. However, there are just as bad things being perpetrated by non-Muslim Governments in the world who have similar cultural problems, so I'm looking beyond the religion itself for causes.
Early 60s sounds worse than late 60s, certainly. Most of those cars I listed are mid-late 60s, and you've got all the hippie stuff, Vietnam protests, the Black Panthers, the Church Of Satan and so on to involve in missions.
The only problem, of course, is that you'd probably want to set it in San Francisco, which is what they did last time.
I'd definitely disagree about doing the 60s again being a bad idea.
Music - there's tonnes of great 60s music, so that's not a problem at all.
Helicopters - Well, maybe. I'm not a huge fan of them as a form of transport in the game anyway, and you could still hide a Huey on an airbase somewhere.
Cell Phones - I still prefer the old method of payphones for mission pickups, myself
Fast cars - Shelby Mustang. TVR Griffith. AC Cobra. The fecking E-Type. I really hope I don't need to say more. Though I can't help mentioning the 911S and the Lambo Miura as well anyway.
You're right that you'd struggle in the 30s, however.
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Certainly Seti, and I _think_ Folding are using Boinc now, so you might have an account through them. But I may well just be wrong.
I gave up on it ages ago, anyway - unlike Seti and Einstein, the Climate one has work units that go on for months, and if you box isn't on 24 hours a day then you may well fail to get all the work done before the deadline. I think they made a huge mistake with the setup, so I abandoned it.
Either China is a wonderful country that everyone should relish doing business with, and worthy of being given "Most Favored Nation" status, or it's Evil, Bad & Wrong, and there should be a trade embargo.
It shouldn't do the former, and then shout at Google for not realising that the latter should really be the case. I just couldn't believe the sheer two-faced idiocy of the congressmen slinging that mud.
Have you used the address to sign up for either the old (two years old) Climateprediction.net client, or anything else that uses BOINC?
Because that would do it.
Actually, the implication seems to be that they are indeed planning to release their own player to go along with the service.
By which description, Australia (along with a great many other democracies) is not "free". Congratulations.
What is your point, however?
Sorry, I probably explained myself poorly. By saying that the issue was their lack of an R18+ for videogames, I meant to imply that I saw this lack as the problem. So I suggest we all calm down and agree to agree.
1) Within their laws, it's the right thing to do - I do think that the game's content is unsuitable for the M15+ rating, and given a choice between handing it to children and banning it, I'm inclined to the latter for now.
2) The fact that you're banning the game, and have previously forced other games to get seriously edited to get the M15+ rating is a pretty clear indication that pretending that games shouldn't be considered for the R18+ rating is no longer tenable. So the law should be re-examined.
I'd imagine it's not so much the "aim can at wall, spray paint" that they were concerned about as much as the "aim can at face, spray paint, ignite aerosol with lighter".
The real issue, once again, is that Australia don't have the equivalent of the UK's "18" or US "M" for games, so the highest possible rating is the aforementioned MA15+. So games like the GTA series are already banned there.
Since the game involves just as much violence against policemen as GTA does, and the only non-violent aspect to the game is the vandalism, my only surprise is that they considered it possible for an MA15+ in the first place.
They may well be fixed in current ones, then. A quick check shows that, sure enough, my paperback is from 2000 (which I now remember buying it in) and is the first UK PB release. It's also pretty dog-eared from use, so I might treat myself to a new one at some point.
In. Your. Opinion.
In everyone else's opinion, Shaun Of The Dead is an absolutely hilarious tribute to the work of George A. Romero, while at the same time not willing to treat its romantic elements in a half-arsed manner.
I've no idea where you're finding these "hundred other far superior indy British comedies made in recent years".
I know that the UK Paperback release that I'm currently re-reading has a whole pile of typos in the non-code sections, so I'm not surprised there are typos in the code as well.
Really picky Alien Nazi observation:
The (far superior, I agree) cut of Alien 3 in the current DVD release isn't a Director's Cut, as Fincher refused to have anything to do with the disc after having such a soul-crushingly horrid time making the film. It's basically a cleaned-up and properly edited recut and restoration of the original workprint. There is still a fair bit missing from what Fincher wanted to release, because he was never allowed to shoot it in the first place.
Coincidentally enough, I'm re-reading Cryptonomicon (again, post-Baroque Cycle for all the cool links) at the moment.
And it's not even 3 major characters - there seems to be a common theme among readers of ignoring just how vital the sequences with Goto Dengo are, and would frankly cover a good 90 minutes on their own.
I adored it, myself.
But then I'm also finding it mildly amusing to read a big discussion about how Londoners Nick and Garth supposedly didn't understand "British Humor", complete with American spelling, so what do I know?
The story actually states "Nintendo claims". Did anyone else read this as suggesting they would rather believe their moronic so-called expert?
Um, no. It's trying to put all thieves under the class "thieves". The fact that you don't like calling people terrorists because they only commit acts of violence against people you don't like doesn't change that.
Now, I admittedly don't download pre-release mp3 files terribly often. But I know exactly which radio station owned the original files for the last two I got. You can hear the relevant DJs at the end of the file.
People still record music off the radio. What good does knowing which radio station broadcast the original song do?
The only 'suspicious' thing about that list of movies, is how poor Sony are at finding any other decent films in their back catalogue. They keep milking the same 20-odd films through special-edition after SuperBit, BluRay after UMD, in the probably mistaken idea that they are all-time classics that everyone wants to buy over and over again.
Meanwhile, bigger studios with a long heritage, like Warners and Paramount just go back and get some more movies they haven't released before out of the vaults, because there are still tonnes of the things back there.
Ah. Since my little rant has been modded "+1, Informative", I suppose I really ought to give, well, information. So, the service undertheigloo used to get themselves on iTMS UK is Artists Without A Label, or AWAL. They take a 15% commission of the money Apple pay them for each sale, which isn't too bad really.
It's Prince Of Persia with added breasts and all the style surgically removed along with the decent platforming controls in order to make way for more fighting.
Whether or not that's a bad thing is up to you, but I didn't like it very much.
...Yes, folks. Back then, I could simply hand over $50 and I had full first-sale rights on the game. It came as an actual physical product that looked nice sitting on the shelf, worked even round at my friend's house for co-op play without us having to buy a license each, and when we were bored of it we could make about half that money back by selling it to someone else.
I mean, can you imagine it? It's a wonder the global economy didn't crash earlier, really.
"if you are a band and want to sell your music (with DRM) .. you have to do it on the iTunes store"
Well, duh. And how fucking difficult is that? Not, is how difficult. Plus, iTMS is very supportive - my brother's (unsigned) band has been on the front-page of the 'Alternative' section and got themselves a plug as single of the week without too much hassle.
As I type, the number one album on the UK iTMS is by Arctic Monkeys, who until recently were still trying to get themselves noticed on MySpace, and then signed to the independant Domino.
So try harder. Or try not sucking. Because iTMS is doing all it can to help independant bands.
I'm not justifying extremism of any kind. I'm just saying that I'm not justifying your attempts to tar a great many perfectly reasonable people with the brush of what a bunch of nutjobs get up to, either.
The Government-sponsored violence is a BAD THING. I agree. However, there are just as bad things being perpetrated by non-Muslim Governments in the world who have similar cultural problems, so I'm looking beyond the religion itself for causes.
Early 60s sounds worse than late 60s, certainly. Most of those cars I listed are mid-late 60s, and you've got all the hippie stuff, Vietnam protests, the Black Panthers, the Church Of Satan and so on to involve in missions.
The only problem, of course, is that you'd probably want to set it in San Francisco, which is what they did last time.
I'd definitely disagree about doing the 60s again being a bad idea.
Music - there's tonnes of great 60s music, so that's not a problem at all.
Helicopters - Well, maybe. I'm not a huge fan of them as a form of transport in the game anyway, and you could still hide a Huey on an airbase somewhere.
Cell Phones - I still prefer the old method of payphones for mission pickups, myself
Fast cars - Shelby Mustang. TVR Griffith. AC Cobra. The fecking E-Type. I really hope I don't need to say more. Though I can't help mentioning the 911S and the Lambo Miura as well anyway.
You're right that you'd struggle in the 30s, however.