It also might be the most dramatic contrast I've yet seen in terms of the duration of the experience. I mean... Braid is at least twenty times shorter than Dragon Age, and even a kid will drop the stale mediocrity of Overlord II like a hot potato long before anyone would get sick of Left 4 Dead 2's infinitely-replayable co-op zombie action.
Even supposing this plan works, the kid will be asking for DA:O and L4D2 again within a week at the most.
And what genius of child-safety decided clubbing baby seals was better than shooting zombies anyways?
So I assume they're not able to get outside the Chinese Internet to use overseas P2P trackers, etc.?
Poor guys.
Not that it'll hurt them all that much... aren't the copyright holders selling their work at much lower prices in China, in an attempt to make legitimate purchase more attractive than piracy?
Seems like they could just go across the road and pay a couple of Yuan for the real thing. Or even less for a bootleg. (Except porn, I suppose.)
More locally, however, cutting down piracy in China could be bad for all of us. Their ridiculously high piracy rates were forcing content creators to build more effective and convenient distribution systems and reduce prices significantly, just to make a profit in that market. Without that incentive, and with the rest of the world working hard to censor their own Internet and prevent the need for the entertainment, music and publishing industries to adapt to new technologies, we may never have a legal download methodology comparable to the convenience, breadth and scope of illegal downloading.
Then play on an "RP" server... or anywhere else that encourages good diction.
Nothing teenagers hate more than having every word they type immediately greeted by a chorus of pedantic 30+ jerks shrilly demanding that they "Learn to spell!" or use proper grammar.
Come to think of it, what with all the political agendas taking over their curriculum, it's probably not their fault they don't know much about grammar.
Ironically, the words in your post might've just blocked most minors from reading this page, if their NetNanny software is working.
You're going to have to learn to deal with the fact that even though you appear to have common sense, most of your contemporaries do not - and they're the ones who make the rules.
Clearly Slashdot needs some "specially trained" moderators as well. After all, who knows how many of the horrible un-child-safe links in this discussion this 15-year-old might've clicked?
Never mind that as a teenager he ought to be learning to function in adult society: somebody corral this kid back in Toontown, stat!
Oh, and I can't believe how much/. has dropped the ball on child-safety. Minors using Slashdot should obviously be choosing their messages from a menu of 'safe' phrases: we've already failed to protect this kid from words like 'dumbasses'. If we're not careful, he might learn and/or use other words! Adult words!
There's a lot of games that are banned from sale and distribution in America.
Luckily, they're also the kind of games very few people in their right minds would actually want to play, such as stomach-turningly bad Japanese porn games.
Forgive me if I missed something, since the GP's link won't open for me, but isn't this unrelated to Augmented Reality?
Augmented Reality refers to systems that are able to extract or generate metadata by interpreting a live image of one's surroundings, hence 'augmenting' that reality with additional information in the manner of a futuristic heads-up display.
Unless your phone, or whatever is doing the augmenting of your reality, is transmitting that data to a social networking service or somesuch, there is no actual disclosure going on: usually, the system is just reacting to glyphs or other visual elements within its field of view.
He's talking about Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam.
There was a great deal of controversy about images of him recently because political cartoons lampooned the prophet, and slandered his followers as violent terrorists, resulting in massive backlash from the Islamic community (and, ironically, various violent attacks on embassies which might be considered terrorism). These cartoons were, and remain, easily found on Google.
Also, just like Jesus in old-school movies, I am reasonably certain that Muhammad is not meant to have his face depicted in images/movies. Instead, he is depicted with his head on fire. The fire represents enlightenment, I believe.
And when the social workers start taking people's kids away 'cause they've left them alone and the kids stumbled on something illegal online... won't that be a treat?
Heck, an ill-tempered child might just press the dolphin repeatedly and start saying horrible things about their parents just to get back at them for some imagined slight. Cue the social workers lining up to handcuff dad and take junior into foster care.
I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to physically discipline your kids in Australia. If that's true, and kids who get their bottoms smacked start crying to the friendly dolphins about it, a whole lot of people are going to be facing some stiff government fines, or even jail time. Guess what your average spoilt youngster would do with that sort of power?
Mr. Speaker, I would like to propose that the Australian Government hire on a consultant for the sole purpose of pointing out the obvious flaws in sweeping, technology-related legislation, particularly when it purports to protect our children.
Ideally, said consultant would themselves be a child, as the ability of the average small child to use technology effectively, and to imagine the consequences of poorly-thought-out plans, appears to significantly outstrip that of the average Australian politician.
PhDs teaching High School?
I should think there aren't a lot of people with PhDs who are willing to teach Creationism in a science class, or put children in danger with ridiculous abstinence-only sex-ed.
Chances are, the first few PhDs who tried teaching in American schools would get thrown out on their asses for doing their job responsibly.
Why the heck would anyone have to go looking for anything?
This virus is visiting 40 sites a second... that's a lot of bloody URLs. Pull apart the virus, get its list of URLs, start cleanin' up the net.
Easy.:P
Slashdot Mirror
I was just thinking that!
It also might be the most dramatic contrast I've yet seen in terms of the duration of the experience. I mean... Braid is at least twenty times shorter than Dragon Age, and even a kid will drop the stale mediocrity of Overlord II like a hot potato long before anyone would get sick of Left 4 Dead 2's infinitely-replayable co-op zombie action.
Even supposing this plan works, the kid will be asking for DA:O and L4D2 again within a week at the most.
And what genius of child-safety decided clubbing baby seals was better than shooting zombies anyways?
So I assume they're not able to get outside the Chinese Internet to use overseas P2P trackers, etc.?
Poor guys.
Not that it'll hurt them all that much... aren't the copyright holders selling their work at much lower prices in China, in an attempt to make legitimate purchase more attractive than piracy?
Seems like they could just go across the road and pay a couple of Yuan for the real thing. Or even less for a bootleg. (Except porn, I suppose.)
More locally, however, cutting down piracy in China could be bad for all of us. Their ridiculously high piracy rates were forcing content creators to build more effective and convenient distribution systems and reduce prices significantly, just to make a profit in that market. Without that incentive, and with the rest of the world working hard to censor their own Internet and prevent the need for the entertainment, music and publishing industries to adapt to new technologies, we may never have a legal download methodology comparable to the convenience, breadth and scope of illegal downloading.
Then play on an "RP" server... or anywhere else that encourages good diction.
Nothing teenagers hate more than having every word they type immediately greeted by a chorus of pedantic 30+ jerks shrilly demanding that they "Learn to spell!" or use proper grammar.
Come to think of it, what with all the political agendas taking over their curriculum, it's probably not their fault they don't know much about grammar.
Well... you could beat their child?
Forbid the two being friends?
Carefully explain your stance on the topic to your own child, so that he or she is prepared to deal with said 'teaching'?
Or you could re-evaluate your narrow-minded opinion?
I'll let you guess which two of those will be the most helpful.
Ironically, the words in your post might've just blocked most minors from reading this page, if their NetNanny software is working.
You're going to have to learn to deal with the fact that even though you appear to have common sense, most of your contemporaries do not - and they're the ones who make the rules.
Clearly Slashdot needs some "specially trained" moderators as well. After all, who knows how many of the horrible un-child-safe links in this discussion this 15-year-old might've clicked?
Never mind that as a teenager he ought to be learning to function in adult society: somebody corral this kid back in Toontown, stat!
Oh, and I can't believe how much /. has dropped the ball on child-safety. Minors using Slashdot should obviously be choosing their messages from a menu of 'safe' phrases: we've already failed to protect this kid from words like 'dumbasses'. If we're not careful, he might learn and/or use other words! Adult words!
That would be terrible.
A worldwide shift back to the "Seen, but not heard," philosophy ruins childhood for everyone.
Come to think of it, depending on what they're wearing or how they are posed, that 'seeing' part might be illegal too.
Not true.
There's a lot of games that are banned from sale and distribution in America.
Luckily, they're also the kind of games very few people in their right minds would actually want to play, such as stomach-turningly bad Japanese porn games.
That's right.
And if I see you anywhere NEAR that courthouse, those photoes of you are going straight onto Facebook, capiché?
... but what kind of a maniac gives his ex-wife an RPG in alimony?
He's just lucky she decided to 'invest' it, rather than go all Blues Brothers on him.
Probably, if you have kids, all that info is already up on MySpace anyway.
True, but the whole point of augmented reality - surely - is that it's happening live, so as to give you additional information on-the-fly.
Just taking a geotagged photo doesn't augment your experience of reality, any more than writing "Paris" on the back of a polaroid does.
Forgive me if I missed something, since the GP's link won't open for me, but isn't this unrelated to Augmented Reality?
Augmented Reality refers to systems that are able to extract or generate metadata by interpreting a live image of one's surroundings, hence 'augmenting' that reality with additional information in the manner of a futuristic heads-up display.
Unless your phone, or whatever is doing the augmenting of your reality, is transmitting that data to a social networking service or somesuch, there is no actual disclosure going on: usually, the system is just reacting to glyphs or other visual elements within its field of view.
Is there anything they can't do?
No, no, it seems they've actually started printing the book.
Amazon's selling the newly published copies, not auctioning the original.
He's talking about Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam.
There was a great deal of controversy about images of him recently because political cartoons lampooned the prophet, and slandered his followers as violent terrorists, resulting in massive backlash from the Islamic community (and, ironically, various violent attacks on embassies which might be considered terrorism). These cartoons were, and remain, easily found on Google.
Also, just like Jesus in old-school movies, I am reasonably certain that Muhammad is not meant to have his face depicted in images/movies. Instead, he is depicted with his head on fire. The fire represents enlightenment, I believe.
... if you've ever read Danny Choo. ( example )
And when the social workers start taking people's kids away 'cause they've left them alone and the kids stumbled on something illegal online... won't that be a treat?
Heck, an ill-tempered child might just press the dolphin repeatedly and start saying horrible things about their parents just to get back at them for some imagined slight. Cue the social workers lining up to handcuff dad and take junior into foster care.
I'm pretty sure it's already illegal to physically discipline your kids in Australia. If that's true, and kids who get their bottoms smacked start crying to the friendly dolphins about it, a whole lot of people are going to be facing some stiff government fines, or even jail time. Guess what your average spoilt youngster would do with that sort of power?
The worm would just redirect the panic button here.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to propose that the Australian Government hire on a consultant for the sole purpose of pointing out the obvious flaws in sweeping, technology-related legislation, particularly when it purports to protect our children.
Ideally, said consultant would themselves be a child, as the ability of the average small child to use technology effectively, and to imagine the consequences of poorly-thought-out plans, appears to significantly outstrip that of the average Australian politician.
This gets modded +1 Insightful, but all my snarky comments get -1 Flamebait? I hate you, mods!
:D
Well... if politicians aren't going to be politically correct, then who is? One might say that's their job.
PhDs teaching High School? I should think there aren't a lot of people with PhDs who are willing to teach Creationism in a science class, or put children in danger with ridiculous abstinence-only sex-ed. Chances are, the first few PhDs who tried teaching in American schools would get thrown out on their asses for doing their job responsibly.
Why the heck would anyone have to go looking for anything? This virus is visiting 40 sites a second... that's a lot of bloody URLs. Pull apart the virus, get its list of URLs, start cleanin' up the net. Easy. :P