I pestered my Parents for lots of things, that I never got, I think I learned that lesson from my parents and can successfully resist. I also learned to educate as well as restrict, I know I can do that. I know she will be exposed to influences I can't control. I was exposed to them myself, but I had parents that informed me of why they was bad and I knew enough to resist them, not absorb them, Ignore them, and walk away from them.
I know that I cannot keep her entirely from them, but when she is my view I will, When she is not she will know why she isn't allowed them when she is.
"Retailers must return to the level of compliance in previous years" - Ok, lets see when I was a Babbages(Now Gamestop) Manager we didn't enforce anything. You have $59.99 to buy this game here is your copy. You know what - thats the way it should be. Your the parent pay attention to what your kid is buying and playing.
Then:
The list of games to avoid, thats a joke too, at least without context. My Daughter is 10 weeks old, but lets scale this up and say she was 10 Years Old instead. I'll go an record as saying several of those games I would let her play when she is a 10yo I don't see a problem. The Half-Life franchise, Gears of War, Call Of Duty and several others I'll let her play those from the moment she can point the mouse in the right direction. She will know the difference between shooting someone on a computer and really shooting someone. Thats my job as a parent to teach her that. Its not some out side random organization's job to dictate that to my child. Now its also important to note that she will not have a computer/game system (or TV for that matter) in her own room until she is 14 at least. Therefore the only systems she will have access too will be in shared and/or public spaces in our house. We will know what she is doing.
"Mediawise Recommend Games for Children and Teens"
Not a shooter among them interesting...guess what shooters are fun, and they always have been Atari 2600 when I was kid had a shooter came with the system it was called "Combat" funny that...all those games of combat and I'm not twisted warped or on death row.
How about we just end the copyright on a song or album the moment its no longer on the charts, lets say the Billboard top 200 for example. If its not on the top 200 popular or within its category then its really no longer deriving meaningful value.
A step further it you can't buy it anywhere because its no longer in print same thing, end of copyright. I have long felt that same rule should apply to books and computer software. If I can't buy it at any price because you longer make it available, then someone else should be able too.
The patent system is now and always has been corrupt. Bell deserves the credit in my mind because at least he built something and demonstrated making it work. This is the long existing problem with the patent system. Simply put make a real product, make it work, show it working and make it available OR : NO PATENT FOR YOU!
The system needs to be reformed, any patent help by someone not actually using that patent to make available an actual product based on that patent needs to loose the patent. DONE. Going forward NO patents for anything that doesn't actually exist, and work. You have oh say 5 years from the filing of the patent to put the damn thing on the market, or it becomes invalid. If it goes off the market the patent also becomes invalid.
No more of these patent IP holding companies that come out of no place when someone works up a brilliant concept to which they can then under some insanely broad banner claim rights to the idea.
Beyond dead trees, neither of these both use DRM. First company with large publisher support, no DRM, excellent readability, low power use, extreme durability (drop the sucker in the ocean, or down the side of a mountain and it lives) will win this field. Like that'll happen!:^>
Most the code I write is written ad-hoc, under the gun with no time for refinement, little testing, never get a chance to loop back and do it better, never gets re-factored, only gets improved if it happens to needs to be patched for a bug.
So not a line of it! I could do better but the circumstances under which it is written don't allow for it.
Put a human at the controls as it heads to Mars and in orbit and it will be much more successful. The Robotic Missions are basically flying blind for most of the trip, and even if we realize something isn't right it takes a great deal of time to send updated commands to solve the problem. Often too late.
The US still leads the world in Space exploration. There are some very interesting robotic missions going on right now. And Humans have been dicking around in orbit for nearly 30 years.
Forget I asked, the answer to that question is already known!
Why would they put language like that in place, why do they think they need too?
Country is going to hell in a hand basket.
No wonder we as a country are getting plowed under by the rest of the world on the innovation front. No wonder math and science grads are dropping, no wonder there are more foreign students than Americans in the College science programs, there is no place left to go to do interesting things in America. We are legislating them out of existence with stupid funding policies.
Pardon my insanity, but I like my walls, and at that currently it drives me crazy that the fixed and standard cube config allows people to walk up behind you. I can barely keep my sanity in that situation. I was much calmer and more productive when I had an office.
My point is that you shouldn't need anything to browser specific. Thats like saying that I need to add code to a.jpeg so that Photoshop, the gimp, and MS Paint can all open it.
Seriously, I'm not sure I even care about HTML 5 in anycase. Currently browser makers still do not fully and equally support what we already have what is the point of adding even more complexity by adding new stuff.
When I can code once ((x)html/javascript-ecma if you like/CSS2) and get exactly the same result in IE 7, FF 2/3, Opera, and Safari then if might be time to talk about adding and changing things.
The entire party has a policy of wanting to get up in everyones affairs. They also bend over and grab their ankles for any company or organization that comes calling wanting to screw with US citizen's rights. They SUCK the at the RIAA and MPAA tit for campaign contributions, thats a bad sign right here.
If they would sell me the eBook with my physical book purchase. I love to read, but I also collect books, I like having that chunk of dead tree sitting on a shelf in my house...SO...if I was able to purchase the eBook as part of buying the book...say it was a CD attached to the back inside cover...or at the very most a minimal additional cost, say $1.99 to $2.99 with purchase of a physical copy, and normal price for the eBook otherwise, then yeah I might bite.
The only way they know that we as a population are opposed is to let them know. So drop them a line to let them know how stupid it is that things have gotten this far, and to oppose it going any further.
Of course they wont listen to you, all they care about is the Money that the RIAA, and MPAA is slipping them under the table.
As a reader of PC Gamer from issue #1 I can understand the falling sub rates. The Magazine in the last two years or so has been in SHARP decline. I am questioning if the next re-up is going to happen for me.
The Mag was originally a VERY good source of news, information and previews in the PC games world. Now its become a big old pile of fluff for the most part. It doesn't really tell you anything anymore. I no longer seem to even be able to get the disc with it when I subscribe, that was always nice.
The articles no longer seem to go in the depth they used to in the past. I think the difference is in the past the articles were written by journalists, now they are written by fan boys. The columns have all but dried up, I can't remember the last time I read an actual interesting one that contained any good information.
Its all flash over substance now. Perhaps its a change in target audience,I think it used to be written for adults. Now its the PC equivalent of EGM or GamePro.
The funnier (actually sadder) part of it all, which my wife reminded me of is the fact that there are a large number of Teachers that cannot pass the Teacher certification tests. English/Lit teachers that cannot pass the Communication and Literacy Exam!
There are a number of them that she has met and worked with that have been teaching for many years that when faced with these certification exams have had to get exemptions from them because after several retakes they still have not passed. its gotten so bad that on the last test (the Science teachers cert exam I think it was) that my wife took (on a whim with little prep) hey appear to have stopped even telling you what your score was Just a Pass/Fail now presumabily because too many teachers were trying to argue the one or two points they missed by after failing serveral times.
The Schools even have a policy for allowing uncertified, and appearently uncertifiable (after failing the cert exams serveral times) teachers to continue teaching.
Even more disgusting in my opinion is that the general policy in every school system she has encountered seems to be that the most expirenced teachers get the best behaved, highest achiving students in their classes. While the least expirenced newest teachers are assigned the classes of poorest behaved and worst achiving students, with the worst emotional behavioral problems.
The schools don't even want talent, they don't want teachers who think, or who deviate from the prepared way they (the existing teachers and administration) have decided things should be done. My wife made a job change from high tech that was burning her out to being a teacher. What she has found is that despite her clear success in two different school systems now (State of MA, the famous MCAS tests) they are not interested in her brand of teaching.
She got kids who had previously failed the MCAS tests to pass and not just pass, but pass by a wide margin...but she taught to a each child's needs and learning style. She stood up for the laws for the national laws and state laws for the special needs for the children she taught. A host of other things that the schools systems just plain didn't like.
She was actually told to do what it ever it took pass kids, and by this I mean fudging test grades and class grades, pass them at all costs even if they don't deserve to pass...I'm not talking about the 64-65 one point bubble here...more like 23! Shock when kids acted like assholes, didn't do their work, and didn't make an effort she gave them failing grades, suggested they stay back...Oh My God! Think of Child! Last year, one parent WANTED the kid to stay back because of failing grades, the school system overrode the parent's opinion on the matter. Despite the parent's opinion and failing grades in 4 classes the kid was passed on to the next grade. Not even summer school required!
Chainfire is slow, slow, slow at the start, it doesn't really pick up until the end of the middle part of the book. Phantom suffers from a similar situation. Both are good in the end and you can feel that its all definately building toward the third and final book. It certainly shows that all three were conceptualized as a single whole however.
Sword of Truth is done this November. At least the Story Arc that started with "Wizards First Rule". If Goodkind moves on from there I'll probably take a wait and see tone, pulling this arc out over something like 15 years was sorta painful. I enjoyed the books, but I think he could have cut to the chase here or there!
Your dead on with your comment, but actually stating the real meaning leaves no room for anyone to pick on the Court. I agree with you. The court said, fine you have not been logging the IPs of systems connecting to your servers. Well now you have too! Please make these changes to your policies ASAP! We know its technically feasible to log the IPs of each connection attempt and once connected what the asked for while connected, so start doing it.
...an actual explanation of what the judges order actually is and actually means. I only had to scroll through most of the comments before I found it.
People this is what the judge is actually ordering. That since they at some point know the IP of the machine that made a request to the server, they have to log that IP. END of Story, there actually is no story here!
TorrentSPY is no longer accepting requests from US IPs because they knew this was coming.
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I pestered my Parents for lots of things, that I never got, I think I learned that lesson from my parents and can successfully resist. I also learned to educate as well as restrict, I know I can do that. I know she will be exposed to influences I can't control. I was exposed to them myself, but I had parents that informed me of why they was bad and I knew enough to resist them, not absorb them, Ignore them, and walk away from them.
I know that I cannot keep her entirely from them, but when she is my view I will, When she is not she will know why she isn't allowed them when she is.
First Off:
"Retailers must return to the level of compliance in previous years" - Ok, lets see when I was a Babbages(Now Gamestop) Manager we didn't enforce anything. You have $59.99 to buy this game here is your copy. You know what - thats the way it should be. Your the parent pay attention to what your kid is buying and playing.
Then:
The list of games to avoid, thats a joke too, at least without context. My Daughter is 10 weeks old, but lets scale this up and say she was 10 Years Old instead. I'll go an record as saying several of those games I would let her play when she is a 10yo I don't see a problem. The Half-Life franchise, Gears of War, Call Of Duty and several others I'll let her play those from the moment she can point the mouse in the right direction. She will know the difference between shooting someone on a computer and really shooting someone. Thats my job as a parent to teach her that. Its not some out side random organization's job to dictate that to my child. Now its also important to note that she will not have a computer/game system (or TV for that matter) in her own room until she is 14 at least. Therefore the only systems she will have access too will be in shared and/or public spaces in our house. We will know what she is doing.
"Mediawise Recommend Games for Children and Teens"
Not a shooter among them interesting...guess what shooters are fun, and they always have been Atari 2600 when I was kid had a shooter came with the system it was called "Combat" funny that...all those games of combat and I'm not twisted warped or on death row.
How about we just end the copyright on a song or album the moment its no longer on the charts, lets say the Billboard top 200 for example. If its not on the top 200 popular or within its category then its really no longer deriving meaningful value.
A step further it you can't buy it anywhere because its no longer in print same thing, end of copyright. I have long felt that same rule should apply to books and computer software. If I can't buy it at any price because you longer make it available, then someone else should be able too.
The patent system is now and always has been corrupt. Bell deserves the credit in my mind because at least he built something and demonstrated making it work. This is the long existing problem with the patent system. Simply put make a real product, make it work, show it working and make it available OR : NO PATENT FOR YOU!
The system needs to be reformed, any patent help by someone not actually using that patent to make available an actual product based on that patent needs to loose the patent. DONE. Going forward NO patents for anything that doesn't actually exist, and work. You have oh say 5 years from the filing of the patent to put the damn thing on the market, or it becomes invalid. If it goes off the market the patent also becomes invalid.
No more of these patent IP holding companies that come out of no place when someone works up a brilliant concept to which they can then under some insanely broad banner claim rights to the idea.
No DRM, No batteries, best prices!
:^>
Beyond dead trees, neither of these both use DRM. First company with large publisher support, no DRM, excellent readability, low power use, extreme durability (drop the sucker in the ocean, or down the side of a mountain and it lives) will win this field. Like that'll happen!
Most the code I write is written ad-hoc, under the gun with no time for refinement, little testing, never get a chance to loop back and do it better, never gets re-factored, only gets improved if it happens to needs to be patched for a bug.
So not a line of it! I could do better but the circumstances under which it is written don't allow for it.
Put a human at the controls as it heads to Mars and in orbit and it will be much more successful. The Robotic Missions are basically flying blind for most of the trip, and even if we realize something isn't right it takes a great deal of time to send updated commands to solve the problem. Often too late.
The US still leads the world in Space exploration. There are some very interesting robotic missions going on right now.
And Humans have been dicking around in orbit for nearly 30 years.
Forget I asked, the answer to that question is already known!
Why would they put language like that in place, why do they think they need too?
Country is going to hell in a hand basket.
No wonder we as a country are getting plowed under by the rest of the world on the innovation front. No wonder math and science grads are dropping, no wonder there are more foreign students than Americans in the College science programs, there is no place left to go to do interesting things in America. We are legislating them out of existence with stupid funding policies.
Pardon my insanity, but I like my walls, and at that currently it drives me crazy that the fixed and standard cube config allows people to walk up behind you. I can barely keep my sanity in that situation. I was much calmer and more productive when I had an office.
My point is that you shouldn't need anything to browser specific. Thats like saying that I need to add code to a .jpeg so that Photoshop, the gimp, and MS Paint can all open it.
Seriously, I'm not sure I even care about HTML 5 in anycase. Currently browser makers still do not fully and equally support what we already have what is the point of adding even more complexity by adding new stuff.
When I can code once ((x)html/javascript-ecma if you like/CSS2) and get exactly the same result in IE 7, FF 2/3, Opera, and Safari then if might be time to talk about adding and changing things.
The entire party has a policy of wanting to get up in everyones affairs. They also bend over and grab their ankles for any company or organization that comes calling wanting to screw with US citizen's rights. They SUCK the at the RIAA and MPAA tit for campaign contributions, thats a bad sign right here.
If they would sell me the eBook with my physical book purchase. I love to read, but I also collect books, I like having that chunk of dead tree sitting on a shelf in my house...SO...if I was able to purchase the eBook as part of buying the book...say it was a CD attached to the back inside cover...or at the very most a minimal additional cost, say $1.99 to $2.99 with purchase of a physical copy, and normal price for the eBook otherwise, then yeah I might bite.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
The only way they know that we as a population are opposed is to let them know. So drop them a line to let them know how stupid it is that things have gotten this far, and to oppose it going any further.
Of course they wont listen to you, all they care about is the Money that the RIAA, and MPAA is slipping them under the table.
As a reader of PC Gamer from issue #1 I can understand the falling sub rates. The Magazine in the last two years or so has been in SHARP decline. I am questioning if the next re-up is going to happen for me.
The Mag was originally a VERY good source of news, information and previews in the PC games world. Now its become a big old pile of fluff for the most part. It doesn't really tell you anything anymore. I no longer seem to even be able to get the disc with it when I subscribe, that was always nice.
The articles no longer seem to go in the depth they used to in the past. I think the difference is in the past the articles were written by journalists, now they are written by fan boys. The columns have all but dried up, I can't remember the last time I read an actual interesting one that contained any good information.
Its all flash over substance now. Perhaps its a change in target audience,I think it used to be written for adults. Now its the PC equivalent of EGM or GamePro.
The funnier (actually sadder) part of it all, which my wife reminded me of is the fact that there are a large number of Teachers that cannot pass the Teacher certification tests. English/Lit teachers that cannot pass the Communication and Literacy Exam!
There are a number of them that she has met and worked with that have been teaching for many years that when faced with these certification exams have had to get exemptions from them because after several retakes they still have not passed. its gotten so bad that on the last test (the Science teachers cert exam I think it was) that my wife took (on a whim with little prep) hey appear to have stopped even telling you what your score was Just a Pass/Fail now presumabily because too many teachers were trying to argue the one or two points they missed by after failing serveral times.
The Schools even have a policy for allowing uncertified, and appearently uncertifiable (after failing the cert exams serveral times) teachers to continue teaching.
Even more disgusting in my opinion is that the general policy in every school system she has encountered seems to be that the most expirenced teachers get the best behaved, highest achiving students in their classes. While the least expirenced newest teachers are assigned the classes of poorest behaved and worst achiving students, with the worst emotional behavioral problems.
The schools don't even want talent, they don't want teachers who think, or who deviate from the prepared way they (the existing teachers and administration) have decided things should be done. My wife made a job change from high tech that was burning her out to being a teacher. What she has found is that despite her clear success in two different school systems now (State of MA, the famous MCAS tests) they are not interested in her brand of teaching.
She got kids who had previously failed the MCAS tests to pass and not just pass, but pass by a wide margin...but she taught to a each child's needs and learning style. She stood up for the laws for the national laws and state laws for the special needs for the children she taught. A host of other things that the schools systems just plain didn't like.
She was actually told to do what it ever it took pass kids, and by this I mean fudging test grades and class grades, pass them at all costs even if they don't deserve to pass...I'm not talking about the 64-65 one point bubble here...more like 23! Shock when kids acted like assholes, didn't do their work, and didn't make an effort she gave them failing grades, suggested they stay back...Oh My God! Think of Child! Last year, one parent WANTED the kid to stay back because of failing grades, the school system overrode the parent's opinion on the matter. Despite the parent's opinion and failing grades in 4 classes the kid was passed on to the next grade. Not even summer school required!
See I never liked that one particularly much because I was an X-Wing Fan, and Rouge Squadron was a basically a rail shooter.
But...to each their own, that's what makes life interesting after all.
Wing Commander 1,2,3...after that it got silly...just the stuff killing the Cats.
X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing vs Tie Fighter, don't mess with a good thing too much just bring the Graphics up to date.
Star Wars Pod Racer, this was a fun distraction game, but it never really worked past Win 98.
Magic Carpet 1,2
Chainfire is slow, slow, slow at the start, it doesn't really pick up until the end of the middle part of the book. Phantom suffers from a similar situation. Both are good in the end and you can feel that its all definately building toward the third and final book. It certainly shows that all three were conceptualized as a single whole however.
They did a pretty good Job picking up Frank Herbet's notes and extending the "Dune" universe. Perhaps they could get this one finished up.
Sword of Truth is done this November. At least the Story Arc that started with "Wizards First Rule". If Goodkind moves on from there I'll probably take a wait and see tone, pulling this arc out over something like 15 years was sorta painful. I enjoyed the books, but I think he could have cut to the chase here or there!
Your dead on with your comment, but actually stating the real meaning leaves no room for anyone to pick on the Court. I agree with you. The court said, fine you have not been logging the IPs of systems connecting to your servers. Well now you have too! Please make these changes to your policies ASAP! We know its technically feasible to log the IPs of each connection attempt and once connected what the asked for while connected, so start doing it.
...an actual explanation of what the judges order actually is and actually means. I only had to scroll through most of the comments before I found it.
People this is what the judge is actually ordering. That since they at some point know the IP of the machine that made a request to the server, they have to log that IP. END of Story, there actually is no story here!
TorrentSPY is no longer accepting requests from US IPs because they knew this was coming.