This has absolutely NOTHING to do with children seeing boobies. It's the fact that Rockstar didn't DECLARE there were boobies to the ESRB.
Scarlett Johannson has boobies, under her clothes. It's a biological fact.
But you don't see anyone going around complaining that all the movies she is in should be rated R or above due to the presence of boobies. They're not accessible in the content as released, thus they are not relevant, and the studio doesn't need to mention her boobies specifically when they submit a film to the MPAA ratings board.
My guess is that he nor any of his users ever got any chance to vote on any copyright law. Can't say I have. Have you? Have you ever gotten to vote on any copyright issue?
I vote for representatives, who vote on copyright issues on my behalf. It's a pretty popular form of government these days, from what I hear. Every civilized country in the world uses some form of it.
Hell, I never even agreed to be any citizen of any country. Show me a signature where I did.
If you're over 18 years of age, you can renounce your American citizenship. If you are and you haven't, you have implicitly agreed to the terms of being a citizen. So quit your bitchin'.
Tell me the US version of representational democracy / republic isn't a total crock of ****....
It isn't. Your selfish, antisocial conceptions about one's duty to his fellow man, on the other hand, are indeed a huge crock of shit.
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Basically, the MSX to Japan what the Commodore 64 (and Atari 800, and Tandy CoCo, and all the other 8-bit home computers) were in the United States and Europe.
I think 1up is a little naive in thinking that a Microsoft-backed platform could have become the gaming standard in that era; back then, MS was a much smaller company, best known for selling BASIC interpreters and licensing their disk OS to IBM. Not the monopo-lithic giant we think of today.
I came in after weekend with a nice teenage beard going and one of the brothers pulled me aside and handed me a BIC razor. I spent the next hour and a half stuck in the lavatory trying to stop the bleeding.
With a five-bladed disposable, you could have spent only 18 minutes trying to stop the bleeding! Technology is grand!
When widespread customer outcry is "chatter," you're losing sight of what your role is as a company.
What "widespread customer outcry"? Doesn't the console need to, y'know, be RELEASED before there can be any "widespread customer outcry"?
A lot of the people who write about the PS3 on the Internet consider the lack of rumble to me a big minus, this is true. But a lot of the people who wrote about the movie "Snakes on a Plane" prior to its release were really positive, and that didn't seem to matter much.
We are not Representative, and should not be considered as such.
Has anyone reminded Sony that the source of this "chatter" is also where they get their income?
Sony shipped what, 100 million PS2s last time around? How many influential gaming magazines and weblogs do you think there are, worldwide, total? Maybe 100?
The people complaining about rumble-less-ness are literally one in a million. Remember that.
developers are spending more time than ever learning third party components, and spending time on their care and feeding. (How much time did you spend last week futzing with Log4j configuration files?)
Was it more or less time than I would have spent designing and developing my own Log4j work-alike?
"Begs the question. You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Look, language changes over time. "Begs the question" now means "Leads one naturally to ask the question". "Moot" means "NOT worthy of discussion or debate". "Inflammable" means "flammable". Accept it.
From my understanding, the tallness and slenderness of a person can have as much to do with environment as genetics.
Well, somewhat. There seem to be genetic factors at play in height and weight POTENTIAL; if neither you or your partner carry the "tall" genes, then your children will not be taller.
However, if you and/or your partner has the "tall" gene but have not been able to cultivate its full expression due to environmental factors such as diet, your children (if better fed) could end up with more tallness.
Or maybe that's backwards, and there's a genetic cause for fatness that gets better expressed when healthy, skinny parents feed their children McFood.
A good engine can work for every game you make not just the first one. Company at which I works uses the same engine and tweaks it every game, that works wonders especially when you consider we work on similar systems every time.
And the result of re-using that engine is that every game you guys put out feels pretty much the same. This can be a good thing; familiarity equals comfort, after all. Or, it can be a bad thing; there's no sense of progress, of growth, of innovation.
Let's not pretend this is a recent development in the game industry, either. I mean, Capcom used mostly the same code for six consecutive NES Mega Man games, from 1987 to 1993.
Didn't you ever wonder why there's high fructose corn syrup in everything?
Because the government found economic utility in persuading food scientists to use a sweetener that can be grown in large quantities within the US over one that cannot?
If sugarcane grew as easily in the flyover states as corn does, we'd be sucking down sucrose.
One amazing fact that has yet to permeate the strata of the industry is that most of their employees have the equipment that they need to do their jobs at home. One example is freelance audio engineers, who do most of their work off site and mail the files in. However, for code, design and art there are still large levels of resistance to the idea that you can effectively export work off site and maintain control.
"Hey, we were able to cut costs by not hiring a salaried Audio Designer or building a decent sound studio onsite -- turns out there's a hundred suckers willing to pay for all the equipment themselves in exchange for no job security. I wonder if this system for taking advantage of creative professionals can be used against any of the other seats on the development team...?"
off topic rant but if it is so much like tennis why not actually play tennis?
Because 1) I live in a city of 8 million people, where actual tennis courts are usually unavailable, and 2) Because I suck at actual tennis. I spend more time chasing down and picking up errant balls than playing the game itself.
Free speech works both ways. But that doesn't mean anyone has to take this guy seriously. The judge actually took this guy seriously for a week. That should bother everyone.
Ever hear the saying "Justice is blind"?
A judge is supposed to take EVERYBODY seriously. And because the judge took the complaint seriously and worked methodically in dismantling it, Thompson has very little room now to appeal the decision.
I wouldn't want a judicial system where the guy on the bench could deny me justice just because he thinks I'm a nutbag before I've even argued my case. I should have to PROVE I'm a nutbag before the court can deny me its good graces.
To a thinking person, it is obvious that entertainment involving beating a schoolmate bloody with a bat is more disturbing than entertainment involving a bodybuilder blowing up aliens with a bazooka
Yeah? This "thinking person" takes exception to your statement that one form of fictional entertainment is "obvious"ly more disturbing than another.
Show, don't tell. If you have empirical proof suggesting one is more disturbing, please share it. But don't belittle those of us who draw different conclusions than you do.
Full set of PS3 devtools included with each PS3 for homebrew.
Unlikely. Enabling end-users to do homebrew is anathema to the Sony business plan, Net-Yaroze and PS2 Linux notwithstanding.
The PS3 has full support for USB keyboard and mouse and other standard input devices.
PS3 supports the USB standard. Whether drivers for keyboards and mice will be available is unknown.
You will be able to buy/download PS1/PS2 to your PS3 harddrive and play them.
PS1 possibly, PS2 unlikely. The DVD-based games are too big for most people to consider downloading.
You will be able to buy/download PSP games to your PS3 harddrive and play them on your PSP. There is stuff where you will be able to stream content wirelessly from your PS3 to your PSP.
Technically possible, although the risk of being another Gamecube/Gameboy Advance Link Cable debacle is pretty high. A consumer shouldn't need to own a PS3 to get the most out of his PSP, or vice versa.
1080p games - the list of 1080p native PS3 games seems to keep growing everyday
Apart from tech demos, I'm not aware of more than one or two PS3 titles that will run in native 1080p.
HDMI connector on both versions of the PS3
Only on the $599 model, last I heard. No HDMI on the $499er.
Full backwards compatibility with PS1 games through software emulation.
Hardware, not software. The PS3 contains the PS2 chipset, which in turn contains the PS1 chipset.
You can replace the harddrive with any laptop drive.
Probably no technical barriers to doing that, but I doubt Sony will officially support any drive they haven't sold you themselves.
I would die for a dual or quad Cell based system with a couple gigs of RAM running Linux for my desktop.
You probably would have to die for such a machine, because Sony's not going to subsidize such a beast with hopes of getting it into your living room.
I'm hoping they put something new in the virtual console games, like enhanced graphics, extra levels, secrets, etc so even if you have played them before there is something new about it.
One good example where this could be done: Castlevania III.
The Japanese version of the game had three extra sound channels built into the cartridge, using a custom Konami-designed chip; the result was quite possibly the best-sounding music of any 8-bit Nintendo game.
When Nintendo was designing the US/Euro release of the NES, they removed the audio pins from the cartridge connector, so the game music had to be rewritten to fit into the NES's standard five channels. Compared to the Japanese, the reduced version sounds thin and weak.
I would love it if the US VC relese of the game restored the original soundtrack via emulation of the Konami sound chip. It wouldn't be hard to do.
porn.ie is a poor example, since pornography has been a strict superset of free speech since the 1960's
A strict SUPERet?
Some pornography is free speech. All free speech is pornography. Nothing which is not pornography is free speech.
Is this what you meant?
juden-raus.ie, I suspect, would convert many here into willing censors.
While I certainly wouldn't be likely to frequent such a site, I also would be very cautious about taking any action to suppress such speech. For one, the Martyr Effect can be very powerful; for another, it would force hate groups deeper into seclusion, where it's more difficult for right-thinking people to keep track of what they're thinking of.
In Super Mario World, how would the player spin-jump (Super NES A button) or use the camera panning controls (Super NES L/R buttons)?
If Nintendo really wanted to blow our minds, they'd make the Wiimote's motion-sensitivity mappable to Virtual Console keys.
Pressing the right shoulder button (or was it left?) to look above you was never exactly intuitive. What if you could raise the controller up in 3D space and affect the on-screen view that way? What if you could play Super Mario 64 all over again, but with controls similar to those in Super Mario Galaxy?
Why could I pre-order a Gamecube in July in 2001 at Futureshop, and a month before the system launches I still can't pre-order at Futureshop or Best Buy?
Back in July 2001, Futureshop hadn't yet been screwed by the demand for the Xbox 360 far outstripping the available supply. The more preorders the store takes and is unable to fulfill, the more disgruntled customers there are. Better to avoid taking preorders, and thus disappointing many people.
Well, except for the "Apple I personal computer kit". And every Apple and Macintosh model in the 30 years since.
Even if you're using more recent, more restrictive definitions of "PC" such as "compatible with code written for the IBM PC model 5150" or "capable of running Microsoft Windows", the newest Macintosh models certainly qualify.
Slashdot is now entering the field of discriminating against conservative news sources by tagging them as such.
So your argument is that lesser disclosure is better than greater disclosure?
I would think it would be common sense that the more extreme a viewpoint a media outlet holds, in EITHER direction, the larger a grain of salt one should take its content with. Perhaps it is not.
After all, we know that liberalism is 99% of time correct, while conservatism is 99% of the time wrong.
Who said that? Certainly no one here. Put your straw man to bed, he's getting tired.
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"A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy."
It's not a browser quirk, it's specified behavior.
It may be considered a quirk that browsers use hostname to determine whether two servers are the same, rather than IP address.
Unless you're arguing that the Hot Coffee mod actually influences kids to go out and get teen-pregnant, I fail to see the relevance of your argument.
This has absolutely NOTHING to do with children seeing boobies. It's the fact that Rockstar didn't DECLARE there were boobies to the ESRB.
Scarlett Johannson has boobies, under her clothes. It's a biological fact.
But you don't see anyone going around complaining that all the movies she is in should be rated R or above due to the presence of boobies. They're not accessible in the content as released, thus they are not relevant, and the studio doesn't need to mention her boobies specifically when they submit a film to the MPAA ratings board.
And what do these thinner materials and more closely-spaced heads do for the MTBF and error rate in such drives?
I have that information stored here on an Iomega Zip disk. Let me just pop it in so I can look it up...
*click*
*click*
*click*
Aw fuck.
My guess is that he nor any of his users ever got any chance to vote on any copyright law. Can't say I have. Have you? Have you ever gotten to vote on any copyright issue?
I vote for representatives, who vote on copyright issues on my behalf. It's a pretty popular form of government these days, from what I hear. Every civilized country in the world uses some form of it.
Hell, I never even agreed to be any citizen of any country. Show me a signature where I did.
If you're over 18 years of age, you can renounce your American citizenship. If you are and you haven't, you have implicitly agreed to the terms of being a citizen. So quit your bitchin'.
Tell me the US version of representational democracy / republic isn't a total crock of ****....
It isn't. Your selfish, antisocial conceptions about one's duty to his fellow man, on the other hand, are indeed a huge crock of shit.
Basically, the MSX to Japan what the Commodore 64 (and Atari 800, and Tandy CoCo, and all the other 8-bit home computers) were in the United States and Europe.
I think 1up is a little naive in thinking that a Microsoft-backed platform could have become the gaming standard in that era; back then, MS was a much smaller company, best known for selling BASIC interpreters and licensing their disk OS to IBM. Not the monopo-lithic giant we think of today.
I came in after weekend with a nice teenage beard going and one of the brothers pulled me aside and handed me a BIC razor. I spent the next hour and a half stuck in the lavatory trying to stop the bleeding.
With a five-bladed disposable, you could have spent only 18 minutes trying to stop the bleeding! Technology is grand!
When widespread customer outcry is "chatter," you're losing sight of what your role is as a company.
What "widespread customer outcry"? Doesn't the console need to, y'know, be RELEASED before there can be any "widespread customer outcry"?
A lot of the people who write about the PS3 on the Internet consider the lack of rumble to me a big minus, this is true. But a lot of the people who wrote about the movie "Snakes on a Plane" prior to its release were really positive, and that didn't seem to matter much.
We are not Representative, and should not be considered as such.
Has anyone reminded Sony that the source of this "chatter" is also where they get their income?
Sony shipped what, 100 million PS2s last time around? How many influential gaming magazines and weblogs do you think there are, worldwide, total? Maybe 100?
The people complaining about rumble-less-ness are literally one in a million. Remember that.
developers are spending more time than ever learning third party components, and spending time on their care and feeding. (How much time did you spend last week futzing with Log4j configuration files?)
Was it more or less time than I would have spent designing and developing my own Log4j work-alike?
"Begs the question. You keep using that term. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Look, language changes over time. "Begs the question" now means "Leads one naturally to ask the question". "Moot" means "NOT worthy of discussion or debate". "Inflammable" means "flammable". Accept it.
Over US$3,000 for this thing? I could buy SIX Playstation 3's for that price!
I wonder if that's why this thing exists in the first place: to make the PS3 look like an absolute bargain in comparison.
From my understanding, the tallness and slenderness of a person can have as much to do with environment as genetics.
Well, somewhat. There seem to be genetic factors at play in height and weight POTENTIAL; if neither you or your partner carry the "tall" genes, then your children will not be taller.
However, if you and/or your partner has the "tall" gene but have not been able to cultivate its full expression due to environmental factors such as diet, your children (if better fed) could end up with more tallness.
Or maybe that's backwards, and there's a genetic cause for fatness that gets better expressed when healthy, skinny parents feed their children McFood.
A good engine can work for every game you make not just the first one. Company at which I works uses the same engine and tweaks it every game, that works wonders especially when you consider we work on similar systems every time.
And the result of re-using that engine is that every game you guys put out feels pretty much the same. This can be a good thing; familiarity equals comfort, after all. Or, it can be a bad thing; there's no sense of progress, of growth, of innovation.
Let's not pretend this is a recent development in the game industry, either. I mean, Capcom used mostly the same code for six consecutive NES Mega Man games, from 1987 to 1993.
Didn't you ever wonder why there's high fructose corn syrup in everything?
Because the government found economic utility in persuading food scientists to use a sweetener that can be grown in large quantities within the US over one that cannot?
If sugarcane grew as easily in the flyover states as corn does, we'd be sucking down sucrose.
One amazing fact that has yet to permeate the strata of the industry is that most of their employees have the equipment that they need to do their jobs at home. One example is freelance audio engineers, who do most of their work off site and mail the files in. However, for code, design and art there are still large levels of resistance to the idea that you can effectively export work off site and maintain control.
"Hey, we were able to cut costs by not hiring a salaried Audio Designer or building a decent sound studio onsite -- turns out there's a hundred suckers willing to pay for all the equipment themselves in exchange for no job security. I wonder if this system for taking advantage of creative professionals can be used against any of the other seats on the development team...?"
off topic rant but if it is so much like tennis why not actually play tennis?
Because
1) I live in a city of 8 million people, where actual tennis courts are usually unavailable, and
2) Because I suck at actual tennis. I spend more time chasing down and picking up errant balls than playing the game itself.
Free speech works both ways. But that doesn't mean anyone has to take this guy seriously. The judge actually took this guy seriously for a week. That should bother everyone.
Ever hear the saying "Justice is blind"?
A judge is supposed to take EVERYBODY seriously. And because the judge took the complaint seriously and worked methodically in dismantling it, Thompson has very little room now to appeal the decision.
I wouldn't want a judicial system where the guy on the bench could deny me justice just because he thinks I'm a nutbag before I've even argued my case. I should have to PROVE I'm a nutbag before the court can deny me its good graces.
To a thinking person, it is obvious that entertainment involving beating a schoolmate bloody with a bat is more disturbing than entertainment involving a bodybuilder blowing up aliens with a bazooka
Yeah? This "thinking person" takes exception to your statement that one form of fictional entertainment is "obvious"ly more disturbing than another.
Show, don't tell. If you have empirical proof suggesting one is more disturbing, please share it. But don't belittle those of us who draw different conclusions than you do.
Correct me in turn if any of this is wrong...
Full set of PS3 devtools included with each PS3 for homebrew.
Unlikely. Enabling end-users to do homebrew is anathema to the Sony business plan, Net-Yaroze and PS2 Linux notwithstanding.
The PS3 has full support for USB keyboard and mouse and other standard input devices.
PS3 supports the USB standard. Whether drivers for keyboards and mice will be available is unknown.
You will be able to buy/download PS1/PS2 to your PS3 harddrive and play them.
PS1 possibly, PS2 unlikely. The DVD-based games are too big for most people to consider downloading.
You will be able to buy/download PSP games to your PS3 harddrive and play them on your PSP.
There is stuff where you will be able to stream content wirelessly from your PS3 to your PSP.
Technically possible, although the risk of being another Gamecube/Gameboy Advance Link Cable debacle is pretty high. A consumer shouldn't need to own a PS3 to get the most out of his PSP, or vice versa.
1080p games - the list of 1080p native PS3 games seems to keep growing everyday
Apart from tech demos, I'm not aware of more than one or two PS3 titles that will run in native 1080p.
HDMI connector on both versions of the PS3
Only on the $599 model, last I heard. No HDMI on the $499er.
Full backwards compatibility with PS1 games through software emulation.
Hardware, not software. The PS3 contains the PS2 chipset, which in turn contains the PS1 chipset.
You can replace the harddrive with any laptop drive.
Probably no technical barriers to doing that, but I doubt Sony will officially support any drive they haven't sold you themselves.
I would die for a dual or quad Cell based system with a couple gigs of RAM running Linux for my desktop.
You probably would have to die for such a machine, because Sony's not going to subsidize such a beast with hopes of getting it into your living room.
I'm hoping they put something new in the virtual console games, like enhanced graphics, extra levels, secrets, etc so even if you have played them before there is something new about it.
One good example where this could be done: Castlevania III.
The Japanese version of the game had three extra sound channels built into the cartridge, using a custom Konami-designed chip; the result was quite possibly the best-sounding music of any 8-bit Nintendo game.
When Nintendo was designing the US/Euro release of the NES, they removed the audio pins from the cartridge connector, so the game music had to be rewritten to fit into the NES's standard five channels. Compared to the Japanese, the reduced version sounds thin and weak.
I would love it if the US VC relese of the game restored the original soundtrack via emulation of the Konami sound chip. It wouldn't be hard to do.
porn.ie is a poor example, since pornography has been a strict superset of free speech since the 1960's
A strict SUPERet?
Some pornography is free speech.
All free speech is pornography.
Nothing which is not pornography is free speech.
Is this what you meant?
juden-raus.ie, I suspect, would convert many here into willing censors.
While I certainly wouldn't be likely to frequent such a site, I also would be very cautious about taking any action to suppress such speech. For one, the Martyr Effect can be very powerful; for another, it would force hate groups deeper into seclusion, where it's more difficult for right-thinking people to keep track of what they're thinking of.
In Super Mario World, how would the player spin-jump (Super NES A button) or use the camera panning controls (Super NES L/R buttons)?
If Nintendo really wanted to blow our minds, they'd make the Wiimote's motion-sensitivity mappable to Virtual Console keys.
Pressing the right shoulder button (or was it left?) to look above you was never exactly intuitive. What if you could raise the controller up in 3D space and affect the on-screen view that way? What if you could play Super Mario 64 all over again, but with controls similar to those in Super Mario Galaxy?
Why could I pre-order a Gamecube in July in 2001 at Futureshop, and a month before the system launches I still can't pre-order at Futureshop or Best Buy?
Back in July 2001, Futureshop hadn't yet been screwed by the demand for the Xbox 360 far outstripping the available supply. The more preorders the store takes and is unable to fulfill, the more disgruntled customers there are. Better to avoid taking preorders, and thus disappointing many people.
0% (Apple has yet to market a PC)
Well, except for the "Apple I personal computer kit". And every Apple and Macintosh model in the 30 years since.
Even if you're using more recent, more restrictive definitions of "PC" such as "compatible with code written for the IBM PC model 5150" or "capable of running Microsoft Windows", the newest Macintosh models certainly qualify.
Slashdot is now entering the field of discriminating against conservative news sources by tagging them as such.
So your argument is that lesser disclosure is better than greater disclosure?
I would think it would be common sense that the more extreme a viewpoint a media outlet holds, in EITHER direction, the larger a grain of salt one should take its content with. Perhaps it is not.
After all, we know that liberalism is 99% of time correct, while conservatism is 99% of the time wrong.
Who said that? Certainly no one here. Put your straw man to bed, he's getting tired.