Copy/pasting the same answer over and over... Makes me feel senile running into those. "I could have sworn I just read that comment a minute ago... Did I really?"
Do you have any evidence that less rape is committed as a result of the availability of rape simulation? Until such evidence is provided, this argument is on a par with the idea that rape games cause people to rape.
It does not work like that. One claim has inherently negative connotations, while the other has neutral or positive connotations. Let me demonstrate.
A: There is no evidence that Coca-Cola causes absence of cancer. B: There is no evidence that Coca-Cola doesn't cause absence of cancer.
Now, one of these two claims would correctly be labeled as FUD (B), while the other might be labeled as an excuse at worst and being cautious with serious accusations at best (A).
Also...
A =/= -C and B =/= D {while D == -(-C)} doesn't mean that A==B, nor are -C and -(-C) equal.
Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom (games that made John D. Carmack into "John Carmack") were all shareware games. Without file sharing the success of those games and his career would have been questionable at best.
Also... Do you have any fucking idea who you are talking about?
As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, "when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers, was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation (the report mentions "no empathy for other human beings"). Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
Carmack is a well-known advocate of open source software, and has repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, which he equates to "mugging someone".
Carmack released the source code for Wolfenstein 3D in 1995 and the Doom source code in 1997. When the source code to Quake was leaked and circulated among the Quake community underground in 1996, a programmer unaffiliated with id Software used it to port Quake to Linux, and subsequently sent the patches to Carmack. Instead of pursuing legal action, id Software, at Carmack's behest, used the patches as the foundation for a company-sanctioned Linux port. id Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake, Quake 2 and most recently Quake 3, all under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Doom source code was also re-released under the GPL in 1999.
The id Tech 4 ( Doom 3 Engine ) will also be open source. At QuakeCon 2007, Carmack said to LinuxGames: "I mean I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open source."
Universe is big enough that there can not be only one race capable of such or similar attack. So again... Asshat species A decides to bomb to oblivion species B - someone somewhere WILL find out about it.
Asshat species A spends the rest of it short existence in its species equivalent of being buggered with AIDS infected porcupines while being forced to watch "Nanny" marathons as they are listening to German and Turkish folk remixes of Britney Spears - while they are having their root canal drilled with drill bits made out of rusty forks dipped in elephant shit. While being hung upside down by their balls. Over an ant mine of very nervous ants.
Use of relativistic missiles is idiotic unless you plan and are absolutely capable of killing off the entire universe at once without absolutely any survivors or information left over about your act.
Xenocidal psychos are a threat to any species out there. They are also fair game. ANYTHING you do to them is fine and dandy. Including killing off 99% of the species and colonizing the remaining 1% on a planet with harshest possible survivable conditions for the said species and keeping them there for purposes of hunting and torture.
The best part? Any evidence of use of such weapons is a good enough cause for any species to use it on you too.
You know... feigning utter and complete ignorance for comedic effect. Adding a level or two of broken logic for good measure. Like that shit the clowns do when they dress up in baggy clothes and huge shoes and then try to do stuff like trying to jump over their own shadow?
No one can possibly be that retarded and still manage to post on Slashdot.
Ah don' kno'... I've seen some pretty retarded AC posts in my time...
... as long as there are people living without access to electricity of telephone. Or cars, while people without legs are forced to use wheelchairs. Or refined sugar and flour because you waste energy and pollute the environment just so richer people could have better tasting but less healthy food. Heck... having two perfectly working kidneys is immoral as long as there is at least one person in the world strapped to a dialysis machine somewhere. Blood is immoral too... people bleed to death constantly. CON-STAN-TLY!!! Like, right now! Breathing? Fucking hell yeah it is immoral! And rude to all those people that drowned on the Titanic. When you breathe - you embellish their memory and all that they have ever achieved. Existing? Well, naturally! By your very existence you are preventing other humans to take up that space. Immoral as a 3-tit whore! And let us not even start with smaller creatures, like cats. Have you any idea how many cats could exist in the space you presently occupy? A lot!
The no-build distance from historical landmarks is lesser on Earth because of the lack of free space here. There is just less of it on Earth to go around, so we have to work with what we have. On the Moon, it being bigger than the Earth, there is a shitload more free space to go around and it is only logical to have more of it protected. I mean come on... What's a couple of hundred kilometers on the Moon? That fucker is huge! Bigger than the Sun, only it is really far away so it seems small.
How about investing more into proper trained cops? How about better education?
Cops receiving official training as computer forensics are no longer simple beat cops - they are computer forensics experts and they should be treated and paid as such. So, besides their police training they would probably require something equivalent to a BA/BS.
And even if there was enough time and money to educate and pay them later - system needs its beat cops too. Not just highly trained computer forensics.
What they would like to have is a "breathalyser-style tool for computers that could instantly flag up illegal activity on any PC it's attached to". Which is delusional, even when you limit it to "a simple tool to preview on site and identify there's that one email [they] are looking for [so they] can then use that and interview the person now, rather then waiting six to 12 months for the evidence to come back" in cases such as "credit card fraud or selling stolen goods online".
It is evil to disown your kids and leave family fortune to cats. But it is not illegal. It is evil to kick a man out into the street with no compensation after 30 years of service to the company - but it is not illegal. On the other hand - in most countries it is illegal to make a backup copy of the CD/DVD you bought legally. Or download one from the internet without buying it again.
So not only must this magical tool be able to recognize any and all illegal media (from downloaded music to drawings depicting sex with minors) - it must also have instant access to, and understanding of every single law in the land. Now, unless they manage somehow to create an actual AI (even a limited one that would only comprehend matters of law) - I don't see this happening.
On a positive(?) side, if they ever do create something like that, most crimes would not need an actual trial. Just have the police officer plug in the connector to the computer, have it read out the sentence, and escort the "criminal" to the jail. If that ever happens I strongly suggest investing into cement factories, lower and medium quality steel and rough textiles cause there will be a serious lack of prison space and uniforms.
Note that the gestures are very crude - because they were trying to eliminate any kind of controller. Now, if they had used multicolored rings (or just duct tape, stickers, whatever...) - we would have the "finger level" capture too. This way though, it is a very limited set of games you can play. Even something like bowling becomes a problem. Sure you can swing the bowling ball, but how do you release it? Wave your other hand in the air? Doesn't seem like bowling to me. You could play golf though. And tennis.
And anything else where the game sends towards you an object with which you can interact in one of the three ways. Catch, hit, pass. Throwing? Sorry... no buttons or switches. Shooting? That won't work either. Gripping and/or holding? Both hands only.
That Microsoft's presentation looks lame in comparison. That is it looks lame if you have Silverlight. Or you look it up on YouTube.
Why does it look lame? Because they are trying to go the controllerless path. Aaaand... it is kinda predetermined to fail unless you can manage to capture the movement of every single unmarked finger. Like when you want to shoot the weapon, change weapon or tool, reload, use inventory/menu or interact with the surrounding without yelling... You know... All that stuff that makes us the cool top of the food chain.
Plus, they come of as trying to hard to just control the "beast. The painting demo looks like something painted using only your left foot while hanging upside down. And the fact that the guy doing it is so out of shape that he is grunting while he does it does not help. Come on! Couldn't they have found another physically active girl to do that while he talks? And the orange guy just looks like a prick you would like to introduce to the bottom of your shoe.
Note also that even in the commercial (featuring yet nonexistent games/entertainment/communication software) all interaction is limited to very crude body gestures for moving a rag-doll on the screen, activation of very specific predetermined switches through very predetermined gestures (hitting the buzzer or changing the tire). And yelling at the screen.
Using the camera for texture and object input is a nice feature though.
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Fotowoosh?
Highly unlikely that it could work in a way acceptable for viewing movies. Cardboard cutouts instead of actual 3D at best...
Is there anything they can't do?
Welcome AT&T and iPhone to the year 2002.
OK, OK... not fair...
I didn't get MMS until 2005 on my K700i. See... it's got an "i" in it, just like the iPhone.
I mean... "Apple execs"... "squeezing their [Palm execs] junk"?
Unless the squeezers and junk holders are of different sex. Doesn't sound like they are to me, though...
Copy/pasting the same answer over and over...
Makes me feel senile running into those. "I could have sworn I just read that comment a minute ago... Did I really?"
Corresponding to the data in the link above:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/12/16/japan-lags-in-loli-ban-unicef-lies-exposed/
Do you have any evidence that less rape is committed as a result of the availability of rape simulation? Until such evidence is provided, this argument is on a par with the idea that rape games cause people to rape.
It does not work like that.
One claim has inherently negative connotations, while the other has neutral or positive connotations. Let me demonstrate.
A: There is no evidence that Coca-Cola causes absence of cancer.
B: There is no evidence that Coca-Cola doesn't cause absence of cancer.
Now, one of these two claims would correctly be labeled as FUD (B), while the other might be labeled as an excuse at worst and being cautious with serious accusations at best (A).
Also...
A =/= -C and B =/= D {while D == -(-C)} doesn't mean that A==B, nor are -C and -(-C) equal.
Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and Doom (games that made John D. Carmack into "John Carmack") were all shareware games.
Without file sharing the success of those games and his career would have been questionable at best.
Also... Do you have any fucking idea who you are talking about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, "when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers, was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation (the report mentions "no empathy for other human beings"). Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
Carmack is a well-known advocate of open source software, and has repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, which he equates to "mugging someone".
Carmack released the source code for Wolfenstein 3D in 1995 and the Doom source code in 1997. When the source code to Quake was leaked and circulated among the Quake community underground in 1996, a programmer unaffiliated with id Software used it to port Quake to Linux, and subsequently sent the patches to Carmack. Instead of pursuing legal action, id Software, at Carmack's behest, used the patches as the foundation for a company-sanctioned Linux port. id Software has since publicly released the source code to Quake, Quake 2 and most recently Quake 3, all under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Doom source code was also re-released under the GPL in 1999.
The id Tech 4 ( Doom 3 Engine ) will also be open source. At QuakeCon 2007, Carmack said to LinuxGames: "I mean I won't commit to a date, but the Doom 3 stuff will be open source."
Universe is big enough that there can not be only one race capable of such or similar attack.
So again... Asshat species A decides to bomb to oblivion species B - someone somewhere WILL find out about it.
Asshat species A spends the rest of it short existence in its species equivalent of being buggered with AIDS infected porcupines while being forced to watch "Nanny" marathons as they are listening to German and Turkish folk remixes of Britney Spears - while they are having their root canal drilled with drill bits made out of rusty forks dipped in elephant shit.
While being hung upside down by their balls. Over an ant mine of very nervous ants.
Huh?
?
That one planet would be a space equivalent of a death camp. Only the primary purpose would be torture.
Torture first, extermination later.
What?
They would be a species that considers xenocide a valid strategy for first contacts with other civilizations.
No penal colonies for them.
Use of relativistic missiles is idiotic unless you plan and are absolutely capable of killing off the entire universe at once without absolutely any survivors or information left over about your act.
Xenocidal psychos are a threat to any species out there. They are also fair game. ANYTHING you do to them is fine and dandy.
Including killing off 99% of the species and colonizing the remaining 1% on a planet with harshest possible survivable conditions for the said species and keeping them there for purposes of hunting and torture.
The best part?
Any evidence of use of such weapons is a good enough cause for any species to use it on you too.
Looking for ways to make money for its greedy, greedy shareholders.
You know... feigning utter and complete ignorance for comedic effect. Adding a level or two of broken logic for good measure.
Like that shit the clowns do when they dress up in baggy clothes and huge shoes and then try to do stuff like trying to jump over their own shadow?
No one can possibly be that retarded and still manage to post on Slashdot.
Ah don' kno'... I've seen some pretty retarded AC posts in my time...
... It was a giant shark (no lasers attached).
Somebody better call Lorenzo Lamas.
... as long as there are people living without access to electricity of telephone.
Or cars, while people without legs are forced to use wheelchairs.
Or refined sugar and flour because you waste energy and pollute the environment just so richer people could have better tasting but less healthy food.
Heck... having two perfectly working kidneys is immoral as long as there is at least one person in the world strapped to a dialysis machine somewhere.
Blood is immoral too... people bleed to death constantly. CON-STAN-TLY!!! Like, right now!
Breathing? Fucking hell yeah it is immoral! And rude to all those people that drowned on the Titanic. When you breathe - you embellish their memory and all that they have ever achieved.
Existing? Well, naturally! By your very existence you are preventing other humans to take up that space. Immoral as a 3-tit whore!
And let us not even start with smaller creatures, like cats. Have you any idea how many cats could exist in the space you presently occupy? A lot!
The no-build distance from historical landmarks is lesser on Earth because of the lack of free space here.
There is just less of it on Earth to go around, so we have to work with what we have.
On the Moon, it being bigger than the Earth, there is a shitload more free space to go around and it is only logical to have more of it protected.
I mean come on... What's a couple of hundred kilometers on the Moon? That fucker is huge! Bigger than the Sun, only it is really far away so it seems small.
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How about investing more into proper trained cops? How about better education?
Cops receiving official training as computer forensics are no longer simple beat cops - they are computer forensics experts and they should be treated and paid as such.
So, besides their police training they would probably require something equivalent to a BA/BS.
And even if there was enough time and money to educate and pay them later - system needs its beat cops too. Not just highly trained computer forensics.
What they would like to have is a "breathalyser-style tool for computers that could instantly flag up illegal activity on any PC it's attached to".
Which is delusional, even when you limit it to "a simple tool to preview on site and identify there's that one email [they] are looking for [so they] can then use that and interview the person now, rather then waiting six to 12 months for the evidence to come back" in cases such as "credit card fraud or selling stolen goods online".
It is evil to disown your kids and leave family fortune to cats. But it is not illegal.
It is evil to kick a man out into the street with no compensation after 30 years of service to the company - but it is not illegal.
On the other hand - in most countries it is illegal to make a backup copy of the CD/DVD you bought legally. Or download one from the internet without buying it again.
So not only must this magical tool be able to recognize any and all illegal media (from downloaded music to drawings depicting sex with minors) - it must also have instant access to, and understanding of every single law in the land.
Now, unless they manage somehow to create an actual AI (even a limited one that would only comprehend matters of law) - I don't see this happening.
On a positive(?) side, if they ever do create something like that, most crimes would not need an actual trial.
Just have the police officer plug in the connector to the computer, have it read out the sentence, and escort the "criminal" to the jail.
If that ever happens I strongly suggest investing into cement factories, lower and medium quality steel and rough textiles cause there will be a serious lack of prison space and uniforms.
E3 Tech Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXYSAcXpCnM
360 commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACt9R9z37U
Note that the gestures are very crude - because they were trying to eliminate any kind of controller.
Now, if they had used multicolored rings (or just duct tape, stickers, whatever...) - we would have the "finger level" capture too.
This way though, it is a very limited set of games you can play.
Even something like bowling becomes a problem.
Sure you can swing the bowling ball, but how do you release it? Wave your other hand in the air? Doesn't seem like bowling to me.
You could play golf though. And tennis.
And anything else where the game sends towards you an object with which you can interact in one of the three ways. Catch, hit, pass.
Throwing? Sorry... no buttons or switches.
Shooting? That won't work either.
Gripping and/or holding? Both hands only.
That Microsoft's presentation looks lame in comparison. That is it looks lame if you have Silverlight.
Or you look it up on YouTube.
Why does it look lame?
Because they are trying to go the controllerless path.
Aaaand... it is kinda predetermined to fail unless you can manage to capture the movement of every single unmarked finger.
Like when you want to shoot the weapon, change weapon or tool, reload, use inventory/menu or interact with the surrounding without yelling...
You know... All that stuff that makes us the cool top of the food chain.
Plus, they come of as trying to hard to just control the "beast. The painting demo looks like something painted using only your left foot while hanging upside down.
And the fact that the guy doing it is so out of shape that he is grunting while he does it does not help.
Come on! Couldn't they have found another physically active girl to do that while he talks?
And the orange guy just looks like a prick you would like to introduce to the bottom of your shoe.
Note also that even in the commercial (featuring yet nonexistent games/entertainment/communication software) all interaction is limited to very crude body gestures for moving a rag-doll on the screen, activation of very specific predetermined switches through very predetermined gestures (hitting the buzzer or changing the tire).
And yelling at the screen.
Using the camera for texture and object input is a nice feature though.
...troll someplace else?
Or do I need to go and get a golf club?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maddox_(writer)
It's a game for an Apple platform.
They don't get to see many of those. So, every little bit counts.