I worked at a video game store for a bit as a cashier, and whenever a kid bought up Unreal Tournament or Q3A, I just let the kid buy it. If the kid was with a parent, it'd be just the same.
Why? First off:
- It's not MY job to be enforcing morality on your kid. YOU should take the responsibility to get off your lazy ass and download a demo of the game and determine if it meets your moral criteria.
Second:
- The ESRB's ratings are whacked. CHRONO CROSS was given a "T" for "Mild animated violence" and "Suggestive behavior". I can't find any "suggestive" behavior other than Harle's "Oh la la Serge, you look sexy!" behavior.
In contrast, Lunar 2 (for the SEGA CD, not the PSX, which was corrected) was given a "K-A" rating, despite the fact that it had some nudity, blood, and swearing. In the PSX version, it was given a "Teen" rating, which is all good, but
THIRD:
- I've played Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Unreal, and Wolfenstein 3D since I was 10. Now, does this make me a psychopathic killer? Did it encourage aggressive behavior?
Absolutement pas. I'm a calm individual who tends to shy away from the crowd. Yes, I'm desensitized to violence, but is that necessarily a Bad Thing?(tm)
oh wait, you're talking about the DMCA. It always seems to me that people mix up acronyms when talking about organizations and law. People seemed to have a grudge against the IBM AS/400 community for going on a rampage against emulation and ROM sites when it was actually The Interactive Digital Software Association that was terrorizing the emulation community.
I don't mean to be grammar police, but please get your acronyms straight.
Like the article says, AOL and MSN tried the 'walled garden' approach, and found that it didn't pay off. If Yahoo! is bought out by a megacorporation, what's to stop me from using MetaCrawler or Google for searching the Internet?
Yahoo, in my opinion, has really gone down in quality in recent months, almost to the level of AltaVista. I only use Yahoo when I'm searching for a specific subject, and even then, this is only when Google can't find what I'm looking for. Disney and Go.com just flat out suck, period.
I could say that Pluto is just a 2,500 mile-wide hunk of ice. It won't do anything; it's already been absorbed into the general public that yes, Pluto IS a planet.
It's pretty simple really. Dig through all of those cartridges to find the pr0n games. Yes, pr0n games for the Atari 2600, they did exist, although I can't imagine anyone getting excited over a half-inch peach pixel.
Take these pr0n games to Congress and demand for more restrictive game control, since the ESRB obviously isn't doing their part. If anyone brings up the fact that the ESRB wasn't around back then, point out that Congress didn't do anything about these games when they were released.
If you're lucky, you'll have Congress banning all pr0n atari games dating back to 1985. Bonus points if you get Lieberman in a rage over this.
But how do you find out the site's IP address? Our clueless sysadmin has disabled DOS, what with it being a giant security hole and all.
At any rate, the Akamai trick is useful for viewing a single web page only, and even then, it takes much longer to load.
Changing the proxy settings won't work at my school, unfortunately:\ I wish I could though; proxy.uen.net seems to be using AOL as its service provider.
Consider the fact that the guide in question featured several pieces of artwork ripped DIRECTLY from Nintendo's guide.
I don't think 'fair use' covers charging for someone else's artwork without their permission either. Imagine Media was charging $12 for stolen artwork. Doesn't that make you feel all warm inside?
My integrated "4-channel" VIA sound system was a pain in the ass. It refused to install the sound drivers because I didn't have Windows 98SE (wha? 98 isn't good enough for you?) and the link to download the audio drivers at VIA's page was broken
So I wound up living without sound for a week or two because my Shuttle AK10 motherboard doesn't have any ISA slots (Thanks, Creative Labs for the AWE64!)
Even worse, when I did get my sound card, I had to set a jumper to disable it, get rid of any references to it in the Windows Device Manager, AND tell the BIOS to disable the On-Board sound chip
What the hell are people thinking when they decide to integrate crap that just drives up the cost of the motherboard?
The police came and arrested a kid who put up an obscene-laced website that was generally something like the anti-e/n fly-by-night websites. He called a school official the town drunk, several cheerleaders "sluts".
I don't care what the hell Helix Code calls itself. If it calls itself MicroHard (tm), I'll still call it Helix Code. If it suddenly decides to change markets and become a pr0n site, I'll still call it Helix Code
The past three releases of the Win32 kernel have shown minimal changes. Many people are still using Windows 95, because it's small, it's fast, and it offers the best compatibility between Windows and MS-DOS.
Three years later, Microsoft comes out with Windows 98 and what do we see? Bloatware, because Microsoft's Wonderful Little Browser (tm) is integrated into Windows. No updates to any of the standard utilities (Notepad, WordPad, Calculator, Solitaire, Minesweeper), but just a prettier LOGOS.SYS.
And now Windows Millenium Edition is here. What does it do?
It does a wonderful job of hiding DOS (thanks for the limited functionality), it comes with a nifty free System Restore utility, startup times are slightly faster, a new LOGOS.SYS, ISDN configuration wizard, Checkers on the Internet, a redesigned troubleshooter, and Internet Explorer 5 clings to it like a bloodthirsty leech. Are there any stability fixes? Maybe (I had Windows running for a week without crashing), but it's lost amongst Microsoft PR.
And now with these screenshots of Whistler, I sure as hell won't be treated like an idiot by Microsoft's Friendly "Oh, Look at those Pretty Icons!" interface.
Winmodems exist BECAUSE THEY'RE CHEAPER. Most of the time the end consumer doesn't know the difference because all they use the computer for is Web surfing (and occasionally word processing)
Do you think the average user is going to pay extra for a hardware-based modem of which will be little apparent benefit?
You see Winmodems in the "$899 with ONE YEAR OF AOL INCLUDED" Dell ads.
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I worked at a video game store for a bit as a cashier, and whenever a kid bought up Unreal Tournament or Q3A, I just let the kid buy it. If the kid was with a parent, it'd be just the same.
Why? First off:
- It's not MY job to be enforcing morality on your kid. YOU should take the responsibility to get off your lazy ass and download a demo of the game and determine if it meets your moral criteria.
Second:
- The ESRB's ratings are whacked. CHRONO CROSS was given a "T" for "Mild animated violence" and "Suggestive behavior". I can't find any "suggestive" behavior other than Harle's "Oh la la Serge, you look sexy!" behavior.
In contrast, Lunar 2 (for the SEGA CD, not the PSX, which was corrected) was given a "K-A" rating, despite the fact that it had some nudity, blood, and swearing. In the PSX version, it was given a "Teen" rating, which is all good, but
THIRD:
- I've played Doom, Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Unreal, and Wolfenstein 3D since I was 10. Now, does this make me a psychopathic killer? Did it encourage aggressive behavior?
Absolutement pas. I'm a calm individual who tends to shy away from the crowd. Yes, I'm desensitized to violence, but is that necessarily a Bad Thing?(tm)
That's a really weird way they have it there.
If I lean back, the console better be crash-resistant.
...it's named 'CramFS' as opposed to FAT
I fail to see what you have against the Defense Contract Management Agency. Dirty bastards, managing defense contracts!
oh wait, you're talking about the DMCA. It always seems to me that people mix up acronyms when talking about organizations and law. People seemed to have a grudge against the IBM AS/400 community for going on a rampage against emulation and ROM sites when it was actually The Interactive Digital Software Association that was terrorizing the emulation community.
I don't mean to be grammar police, but please get your acronyms straight.
Considering that EA publicly stated that they would screw Sega and their Dreamcast, I'd imagine not much.
Thanks, Freshmeat.
You've just made my character get slaughtered on Unweb
And I used to beat up on Freshmeat all of the time. sigh.
So how long until this is cracked?
What is a Beowulf cluster?
No, seriously, I see the trolls mentioning this all of the time, and yet I have no clue what one is..
What is it used for, anyways?
Like the article says, AOL and MSN tried the 'walled garden' approach, and found that it didn't pay off. If Yahoo! is bought out by a megacorporation, what's to stop me from using MetaCrawler or Google for searching the Internet?
Yahoo, in my opinion, has really gone down in quality in recent months, almost to the level of AltaVista. I only use Yahoo when I'm searching for a specific subject, and even then, this is only when Google can't find what I'm looking for. Disney and Go.com just flat out suck, period.
...All that money those people made from selling money/characters/EQ/whatever will be immediantly offset by bandwidth costs from the SlashDot effect.
Nice, huh?
Just rename "eToys" to "Money-losing dot-com eToys". jamie brings up good ideas.
I'll go register "money-losing-dot-com-etoys.com", assuming that my registrar of choice will accept that many characters.
I could say that Pluto is just a 2,500 mile-wide hunk of ice. It won't do anything; it's already been absorbed into the general public that yes, Pluto IS a planet.
Too bad we don't know much about it, though.
First it was that Sega would be bought out by Nintendo. It screws with Sega's stock price. Thank you NYTimes.
Then a Japanese newspaper places Sega, fiscal-wise, ahead of a company that sold tainted milk to children which was in last place.
Then Sega "announces" that they would stop manufacturing Dreamcasts; this is denied.
Is this FUD generated by Sony or what?
But it's still imperfect. Example conversation. Japanese and English
american:"HI I LIKE AH-NAH-MEE MUCH"
japanese:"AH-NAH-MEE IS VERY GREAT IN JAPAN"
american:"DO YOU PLAY YOUR VIDEO OF GAMES WELL"
japanese: "YES. A WINNER IS ME AT FANTASY FINAL 7 NOT LONG."
american: "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"
etc. etc
Yes, I wouldn't try asking a date out in a foreign language with this thing
If this is new to you, we've posted a few things about the DeCSS cases before
.BMP or a .JPG of the DeCSS source code?
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And that 'few things' happens to be 95 matches, with that query. I wonder if more aren't flushed out of the cache?
Since DeCSS is all over the net now, I'd like to make it known at my local school. Is there a
It's pretty simple really. Dig through all of those cartridges to find the pr0n games. Yes, pr0n games for the Atari 2600, they did exist, although I can't imagine anyone getting excited over a half-inch peach pixel.
Take these pr0n games to Congress and demand for more restrictive game control, since the ESRB obviously isn't doing their part. If anyone brings up the fact that the ESRB wasn't around back then, point out that Congress didn't do anything about these games when they were released.
If you're lucky, you'll have Congress banning all pr0n atari games dating back to 1985. Bonus points if you get Lieberman in a rage over this.
But how do you find out the site's IP address? Our clueless sysadmin has disabled DOS, what with it being a giant security hole and all.
:\ I wish I could though; proxy.uen.net seems to be using AOL as its service provider.
At any rate, the Akamai trick is useful for viewing a single web page only, and even then, it takes much longer to load.
Changing the proxy settings won't work at my school, unfortunately
Consider the fact that the guide in question featured several pieces of artwork ripped DIRECTLY from Nintendo's guide.
I don't think 'fair use' covers charging for someone else's artwork without their permission either. Imagine Media was charging $12 for stolen artwork. Doesn't that make you feel all warm inside?
My integrated "4-channel" VIA sound system was a pain in the ass. It refused to install the sound drivers because I didn't have Windows 98SE (wha? 98 isn't good enough for you?) and the link to download the audio drivers at VIA's page was broken
So I wound up living without sound for a week or two because my Shuttle AK10 motherboard doesn't have any ISA slots (Thanks, Creative Labs for the AWE64!)
Even worse, when I did get my sound card, I had to set a jumper to disable it, get rid of any references to it in the Windows Device Manager, AND tell the BIOS to disable the On-Board sound chip
What the hell are people thinking when they decide to integrate crap that just drives up the cost of the motherboard?
Standard floppy holds about 1.44MB of data. But then, everyone here already knows that, right?
And floppies go bad easily too. And you can only store one song each on a floppy, making it a real pain in the ass to sort floppies.
wonder why they're even around?
While the price isn't mentioned on the website, I'm sure it's a LOT. For a 10". What are you going to cook in it? A single pancake or strip of bacon?
The police came and arrested a kid who put up an obscene-laced website that was generally something like the anti-e/n fly-by-night websites. He called a school official the town drunk, several cheerleaders "sluts".
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I don't care what the hell Helix Code calls itself. If it calls itself MicroHard (tm), I'll still call it Helix Code. If it suddenly decides to change markets and become a pr0n site, I'll still call it Helix Code
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The past three releases of the Win32 kernel have shown minimal changes. Many people are still using Windows 95, because it's small, it's fast, and it offers the best compatibility between Windows and MS-DOS.
Three years later, Microsoft comes out with Windows 98 and what do we see? Bloatware, because Microsoft's Wonderful Little Browser (tm) is integrated into Windows. No updates to any of the standard utilities (Notepad, WordPad, Calculator, Solitaire, Minesweeper), but just a prettier LOGOS.SYS.
And now Windows Millenium Edition is here. What does it do?
It does a wonderful job of hiding DOS (thanks for the limited functionality), it comes with a nifty free System Restore utility, startup times are slightly faster, a new LOGOS.SYS, ISDN configuration wizard, Checkers on the Internet, a redesigned troubleshooter, and Internet Explorer 5 clings to it like a bloodthirsty leech. Are there any stability fixes? Maybe (I had Windows running for a week without crashing), but it's lost amongst Microsoft PR.
And now with these screenshots of Whistler, I sure as hell won't be treated like an idiot by Microsoft's Friendly "Oh, Look at those Pretty Icons!" interface.
What does everyone else think?
Winmodems exist BECAUSE THEY'RE CHEAPER. Most of the time the end consumer doesn't know the difference because all they use the computer for is Web surfing (and occasionally word processing)
Do you think the average user is going to pay extra for a hardware-based modem of which will be little apparent benefit?
You see Winmodems in the "$899 with ONE YEAR OF AOL INCLUDED" Dell ads.