Also, after playing it, did he watch a slough of CSI episodes and R-rated films to compare? After all, the M-rating is equivalent to R rating in terms of requirements, isn't it? And any kid with cable can watch CSI.
But wait, the movie and TV industries have better lobbyists, and the "think-of-the-children" nanny-voters this panders to aren't gamers (but they do watch CSI and movies).
The Gamestop trade-in business is based on on key tenet; we hardly turn down ANYTHING. For all the rage and screaming we take from people getting one dollar for years-old Madden games, you need to remember one key fact; we are taking in games that are often unlikely to EVER resell.
17) Outdated consoles are traded in every day. Almost every gamestop literally has fifty or more used Xboxes and Gamecubes in stock at any time. They do not sell and we get one at least every day, so they are worth very little. The new slim PSP is in much higher demand than the original, and so the trade-in value on the old model has since dropped. If you want the hot new version of anything, trade in as far before its release as you can stand so you can get the peak value.
in other words: we pointlessly hoard crap that we're not planning to ever resell, because we'd rather it go into a landfill than to actually sell it to people for what it's actually worth. I mean seriously - every game store I've ever seen has a huge stack of games they wouldn't give two bucks for if you brought them in, sitting in a bin, unsorted... and still priced at $30 each. I think they need to learn the meaning of the word "clearance".
Also, Don't lose your receipt and expect us to find records for you, it is quite difficult.
Meh, it was too exploitable as an online game. As an offline/friends game, though, I have to agree. Nintendo has to realize that, when taking games online, there is a new standard of play-balance that they have to live up to.
Because it's the DS. Nintendo is a Japanese word meaning "wasted potential". Consider that, with a pointing device, internet support, and a seperate screen per player, the DS is ideal for almost every smash PC hit for the past decade or so. It's why I bought one - I saw Metroid Hunters demo and thought "PC gaming on handheld!".
But instead, we get more micro-game collections, and confused platformers bewildered how to handle a stylus.
I want Civ. I want Starcraft. Diablo. Master of Magic. Battlefield. X-Com. Populous. Battlezone.
Well, logically they would have better prices and don't care about DRM, since they don't have to pay the artists or promotion costs of the music. Shocker.
I can understand buying music from a store - you get the real kosher copy, and you support the artist.
I can understand getting your music for free, through a P2P setup. It's free. Duh.
I can't understand paying for someone to pirate stuff for you. It seems like the worst of both worlds - you lose money AND you don't get that clean feeling from paying legitimately.
I disagree. The problem with the sequels is that they didn't even use the same techniques that made the first movies cool - instead of bullet-time morphed cameras, they switched to CG puppetry. The fact is that 3d puppets can't hold up to real people in a fight scene. The car chase scene would've been good had the surrounding movie not ruined it. Look in Hellboy: good fight scene = subway brawl (real actors in costumes) bad fight scenes = everything afterwards (3D puppets). Plus, they completely ditched the bullet-time gunfights in the sequels, which were one of the neatest parts.
Reloaded was bad because it was utterly bereft of a plot. It was like a bad japanese RPG - they kept going to the Oracle to get quests.
That makes sense. Obviously, they want to be able to reference the changes that were made in the movie since the movie version is what's stuck in the public consciousness. I remember when I saw Wicked, she was confused about the crystal shoes, wondering why they weren't the "ruby slippers" of of the movie - I had to explain that the "ruby slippers" were a feature exclusive to the film version, which the creators of Wicked likely didn't have the rights to. They probably want to be able to avoid that problem, so they're getting the movie rights too.
In the cases of megalithic, powerhouse products like the Linux kernel, that kind of thing is better handled by a fork, just to make it crystal clear that "yes, we're breaking all backwards-compatibility".
Considering the relative ages and sizes of the Church, I'd say that the $400 million vs. $15 billion is an impressive showing for Scientology. Consider how many centuries the papacy has existed, and how absolute their power historically was. Consider how many countries are, as nations, Catholic. Now compare that to the fledgeling CoS and you can see how terrifyingly fast the CoS is growing.
GPL also includes BSD-esque disclaimer about no-warrantee. It's meaningless and probably not legally binding, but I can see why you'd use it as a click-through for that clause.
Sonic Team has, according to some reports, redeemed themselves a little recently. Their Wii and DS offerings are actually quite popular. Still, I don't have high hopes for this. Looks like my Wii shopping will be Mario Galaxy and Smash. No interest in single-player Metroid, and no interest in more minigames (even Olympic-themed ones).
Not true. For a game to be successful, it has to hit the shelves. Since NOBODY carries AO games (the rating reserved for porno and GTA:SA), you have to be careful to avoid that scarlet letter.
The problem, of course, is any comparison against movies/TV makes this look moronic. If a game was flaunting naked breasts, it would get an AO rating (fundamentally an NC-17 rating for a movie). Meanwhile, movies with topless shots can squeeze in an AA rating if they're careful. Not to mention violence - your average episode of CSI is nastier than what we see in most videogames. Headcrabs are creepy, but they're nothing on that episode of Miami where a guy was wanking off and a giant lampful of maggots fell on him... maggots that were later revealed, graphically, to be coming from the head of a live-but-dying woman on the floor above.
Which, of course, is why I laugh my ass off about political panderers who talk about "tightening up" the ESRB.
So the british actually treat games like any other media, instead of having special classifications for games that don't apply to movies or other competing forms of entertainment?
Don't be silly. The scene began on the Dreamcast, and at the time, Homebrew specifically referred to home-made *games* not emulators. There are lots of good home-made games that are 100% legit for consoles.
Well, the state open-document laws could require that all state software applications be able to use those open-document formats by default. At that point MS has to provide a configuration switch for the admins to be able to set MS Word into ODF-defaulting-mode before rolling it out to their users.
At that point the ODF format would achieve good penetration within the government organization.
Yeah. I was starting to realize that too, as people were mentioning that above. This essentially means that the "NO WARRANTY" clause of the GPL is totally useless, since a GPL-licensed app is unable to force the user to accept the terms of the GPL, and thus the "NO WARRANTY" clause.
RMS blew it.
Then again, technically the user isn't _required_ to accept the GPL to install the software. Because the software is opensource, they're perfectly capable of using the source to modify the code such that it does not show the GPL when installing - and the GPL is not required to modify a program for personal use.
Thus, the user can circumvent a "you must agree to X to install the app", and so the GPL is not broken by the developer since they did not really *force* the user to agree to the GPL.
So circumventing the NO WARRANTY clause is possible, although it could be technically difficult if the source was hard to modify/compile... but the fact that this NO WARRANTY clause is circumventable makes it possible to use it by making the acceptance of the GPL the default action for 99% of users.
Actually, most opensource licenses do include one EULA-esque step, that's the NO WARRANTY clause. I think the click-through EULA for opensource software is important because of that clause... you don't want some disgruntled user coming back and suing you because your free email program had a security hole that ended up getting their network toasted, do you?
The law doesn't matter in that case - it just means he can't get sued. His sponsors can still pull their funding, and cost him a lot of money. Stuff like this is why other online communities are so wary of sponsorship (Wikipedia is a good example).
Probably growing up under zero-G would cause bizarre and potentially lethal deformities. Astronauts already have to work out incessently when in space to try and slow the onset of osteoparosis that afflicts them.
And plus, my biggest concern with a baby wouldn't be the noise, but the fluids. Babies are veritable fountains of goo that you wouldn't want aerosolled into the breathing air.
That was my reaction too. Energy-innefficient solar collectors aren't really a huge concern so much as the dollar-per-watt efficiency. I mean really, the reason people aren't solar-panelling their rooftops isn't that they don't have enough roof, but that they don't have enough coin.
Yep. I was extatic when C# got generics... for a while - but pretty quickly you start runnign into their limitations (or at least the limitations of the standard ones).
For example, you want a class that contains a list - you get to look forward to either (a) reams of boilerplate code as you forward all the methods of the list that an outside user might need, or (b) publicizing the list and completely mucking up your class invariants.
Plus, no typedef, so get, nested> class, declarations> - twice if you need a constructor. And Using statements are not a substitute unless you write your whole project in a single.cs file.
A lot of coders use subclassing instead of typedef, but that opens a new can of worms - forwarding constructors, destroying the substitutability of the class, etc.
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You're kind of a funny person to be posting that, considering your work on Spring.
I mean, it's true, but you're a funny person to hear that from.
Also, after playing it, did he watch a slough of CSI episodes and R-rated films to compare? After all, the M-rating is equivalent to R rating in terms of requirements, isn't it? And any kid with cable can watch CSI.
But wait, the movie and TV industries have better lobbyists, and the "think-of-the-children" nanny-voters this panders to aren't gamers (but they do watch CSI and movies).
This is why games with handicaps are good. Crank it way, way up high, so that you don't have to hold back.
The Gamestop trade-in business is based on on key tenet; we hardly turn down ANYTHING. For all the rage and screaming we take from people getting one dollar for years-old Madden games, you need to remember one key fact; we are taking in games that are often unlikely to EVER resell.
17) Outdated consoles are traded in every day. Almost every gamestop literally has fifty or more used Xboxes and Gamecubes in stock at any time. They do not sell and we get one at least every day, so they are worth very little. The new slim PSP is in much higher demand than the original, and so the trade-in value on the old model has since dropped. If you want the hot new version of anything, trade in as far before its release as you can stand so you can get the peak value.
in other words: we pointlessly hoard crap that we're not planning to ever resell, because we'd rather it go into a landfill than to actually sell it to people for what it's actually worth. I mean seriously - every game store I've ever seen has a huge stack of games they wouldn't give two bucks for if you brought them in, sitting in a bin, unsorted... and still priced at $30 each. I think they need to learn the meaning of the word "clearance".
Also, Don't lose your receipt and expect us to find records for you, it is quite difficult.
Our IT Structure Is Still Suck In The '70s.
Meh, it was too exploitable as an online game. As an offline/friends game, though, I have to agree. Nintendo has to realize that, when taking games online, there is a new standard of play-balance that they have to live up to.
Because it's the DS. Nintendo is a Japanese word meaning "wasted potential". Consider that, with a pointing device, internet support, and a seperate screen per player, the DS is ideal for almost every smash PC hit for the past decade or so. It's why I bought one - I saw Metroid Hunters demo and thought "PC gaming on handheld!".
But instead, we get more micro-game collections, and confused platformers bewildered how to handle a stylus.
I want Civ. I want Starcraft. Diablo. Master of Magic. Battlefield. X-Com. Populous. Battlezone.
Instead we get toys.
Well, logically they would have better prices and don't care about DRM, since they don't have to pay the artists or promotion costs of the music. Shocker.
I can understand buying music from a store - you get the real kosher copy, and you support the artist.
I can understand getting your music for free, through a P2P setup. It's free. Duh.
I can't understand paying for someone to pirate stuff for you. It seems like the worst of both worlds - you lose money AND you don't get that clean feeling from paying legitimately.
I don't get it.
I disagree. The problem with the sequels is that they didn't even use the same techniques that made the first movies cool - instead of bullet-time morphed cameras, they switched to CG puppetry. The fact is that 3d puppets can't hold up to real people in a fight scene. The car chase scene would've been good had the surrounding movie not ruined it. Look in Hellboy: good fight scene = subway brawl (real actors in costumes) bad fight scenes = everything afterwards (3D puppets). Plus, they completely ditched the bullet-time gunfights in the sequels, which were one of the neatest parts.
Reloaded was bad because it was utterly bereft of a plot. It was like a bad japanese RPG - they kept going to the Oracle to get quests.
That makes sense. Obviously, they want to be able to reference the changes that were made in the movie since the movie version is what's stuck in the public consciousness. I remember when I saw Wicked, she was confused about the crystal shoes, wondering why they weren't the "ruby slippers" of of the movie - I had to explain that the "ruby slippers" were a feature exclusive to the film version, which the creators of Wicked likely didn't have the rights to. They probably want to be able to avoid that problem, so they're getting the movie rights too.
In the cases of megalithic, powerhouse products like the Linux kernel, that kind of thing is better handled by a fork, just to make it crystal clear that "yes, we're breaking all backwards-compatibility".
Considering the relative ages and sizes of the Church, I'd say that the $400 million vs. $15 billion is an impressive showing for Scientology. Consider how many centuries the papacy has existed, and how absolute their power historically was. Consider how many countries are, as nations, Catholic. Now compare that to the fledgeling CoS and you can see how terrifyingly fast the CoS is growing.
GPL also includes BSD-esque disclaimer about no-warrantee. It's meaningless and probably not legally binding, but I can see why you'd use it as a click-through for that clause.
Sonic Team has, according to some reports, redeemed themselves a little recently. Their Wii and DS offerings are actually quite popular. Still, I don't have high hopes for this. Looks like my Wii shopping will be Mario Galaxy and Smash. No interest in single-player Metroid, and no interest in more minigames (even Olympic-themed ones).
Not true. For a game to be successful, it has to hit the shelves. Since NOBODY carries AO games (the rating reserved for porno and GTA:SA), you have to be careful to avoid that scarlet letter.
The problem, of course, is any comparison against movies/TV makes this look moronic. If a game was flaunting naked breasts, it would get an AO rating (fundamentally an NC-17 rating for a movie). Meanwhile, movies with topless shots can squeeze in an AA rating if they're careful. Not to mention violence - your average episode of CSI is nastier than what we see in most videogames. Headcrabs are creepy, but they're nothing on that episode of Miami where a guy was wanking off and a giant lampful of maggots fell on him... maggots that were later revealed, graphically, to be coming from the head of a live-but-dying woman on the floor above.
Which, of course, is why I laugh my ass off about political panderers who talk about "tightening up" the ESRB.
So the british actually treat games like any other media, instead of having special classifications for games that don't apply to movies or other competing forms of entertainment?
The British film-lobby must suck at their jobs.
Don't be silly. The scene began on the Dreamcast, and at the time, Homebrew specifically referred to home-made *games* not emulators. There are lots of good home-made games that are 100% legit for consoles.
Well, the state open-document laws could require that all state software applications be able to use those open-document formats by default. At that point MS has to provide a configuration switch for the admins to be able to set MS Word into ODF-defaulting-mode before rolling it out to their users.
At that point the ODF format would achieve good penetration within the government organization.
Yeah. I was starting to realize that too, as people were mentioning that above. This essentially means that the "NO WARRANTY" clause of the GPL is totally useless, since a GPL-licensed app is unable to force the user to accept the terms of the GPL, and thus the "NO WARRANTY" clause.
RMS blew it.
Then again, technically the user isn't _required_ to accept the GPL to install the software. Because the software is opensource, they're perfectly capable of using the source to modify the code such that it does not show the GPL when installing - and the GPL is not required to modify a program for personal use.
Thus, the user can circumvent a "you must agree to X to install the app", and so the GPL is not broken by the developer since they did not really *force* the user to agree to the GPL.
So circumventing the NO WARRANTY clause is possible, although it could be technically difficult if the source was hard to modify/compile... but the fact that this NO WARRANTY clause is circumventable makes it possible to use it by making the acceptance of the GPL the default action for 99% of users.
I just hurt my brain.
Actually, most opensource licenses do include one EULA-esque step, that's the NO WARRANTY clause. I think the click-through EULA for opensource software is important because of that clause... you don't want some disgruntled user coming back and suing you because your free email program had a security hole that ended up getting their network toasted, do you?
The law doesn't matter in that case - it just means he can't get sued. His sponsors can still pull their funding, and cost him a lot of money. Stuff like this is why other online communities are so wary of sponsorship (Wikipedia is a good example).
Probably growing up under zero-G would cause bizarre and potentially lethal deformities. Astronauts already have to work out incessently when in space to try and slow the onset of osteoparosis that afflicts them.
And plus, my biggest concern with a baby wouldn't be the noise, but the fluids. Babies are veritable fountains of goo that you wouldn't want aerosolled into the breathing air.
That was my reaction too. Energy-innefficient solar collectors aren't really a huge concern so much as the dollar-per-watt efficiency. I mean really, the reason people aren't solar-panelling their rooftops isn't that they don't have enough roof, but that they don't have enough coin.
Pulling the trigger while the safety's on should set off an ink-pack explosion like the things at the bank.
Ick, pwned by the same mistake as parent poster. I meant some, this>.
Yep. I was extatic when C# got generics... for a while - but pretty quickly you start runnign into their limitations (or at least the limitations of the standard ones).
.cs file.
For example, you want a class that contains a list - you get to look forward to either (a) reams of boilerplate code as you forward all the methods of the list that an outside user might need, or (b) publicizing the list and completely mucking up your class invariants.
Plus, no typedef, so get, nested> class, declarations> - twice if you need a constructor. And Using statements are not a substitute unless you write your whole project in a single
A lot of coders use subclassing instead of typedef, but that opens a new can of worms - forwarding constructors, destroying the substitutability of the class, etc.