The MPAA isn't legally enforced, in case you didn't know. You can distribute your movies without having them rated if you care about your free speech. That's pretty much the entire difference here!
In order to restrict game companies on the same basis as drug companies, you would have to make the case that games are physically dangerous to the direct consumer. I.E., there might reasonably be restrictions placed on games that cause epileptic seizures. Drugs are restricted because of the direct danger to the user. If there was evidence that books/movies/tv/games caused direct harm to the consumer, I'm pretty sure we would be restricting them the same way.
TEEN Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.
MATURE Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
GTA IV, rated Mature: "Grand Theft Auto IV Rockstar Games Mature Intense Violence, Blood,
Strong Language,
Strong Sexual Content,
Partial Nudity,
Use of Drugs and Alcohol Xbox 360, PlayStation 3"
Warcraft III, rated Teen: "WarCraft III Expansion Set: The Frozen Throne Blizzard Entertainment Teen Blood, Violence Macintosh, Windows PC Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Blizzard Entertainment (div. of Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing) Teen Blood, Violence Macintosh, Windows PC"
I would think this would be clear: being forced to go to a government ratings board before the release of your game restricts your expression of that game. What if the ratings board declines to rate your game? Your game can then never be released.
If your kids can't outsmart you, your genes are doomed. A kid ought to be able to outwit his parents by age 13, otherwise your kid's just not developing well.
It's censorship in the sense of: I can't sell a box with whatever artistic qualities I want. I have to have a big fat violent content label. The usual parallel people like to use to see how ridiculous this is: imagine if the bible could not be sold without a large orange sticker that said: warning: violent content, inappropriate for children!
I'm sorry, but regardless of the long term outcome of Iraq, we aren't helped oil wise since we just allowed them to rejoin the OPEC cartel. Anyone who believes that Iraq was a 'war for oil' is foolish. Whatever the stupidity behind Iraq, that wasn't it, or it was the absolute worst possible execution of a war for oil possible.
1. They are somewhat heavy (50 lbs). They are awkwardly large at 5ftx3ft. Two person job if you don't want to risk a rooftop fall.
2. They are typically bolted on. Uninstall time will be in the several minutes per panel range. Be sure you have an electrician with you to avoid death by electric shock.
3. You can see in the pictures he has a typical roof. Bring a ladder. And a crane if you want an easier time lowering the panels.
4. Yes, see the pictures.
5. Don't know about that one. Probably end of December or next summer.
Do you want to be a nurse, do you want to be in IT, or do you not care and want to optimize for maximum likelihood of having a job, or do you want to optimize for maximum earnings?
If you want to be in IT or optimize for maximum earnings, stick with IT and get good at it. If you can't get good at IT, go for nursing.
If you want to be a nurse, be a nurse.
If you want to optimize for maximum likelihood of having a job, be a nurse. Specialize in elder care. There is a huge segment of the population that is going to need elder care soon. If you like changing adult diapers, there is going to be endless employment for you.
Thank goodness most people don't make their style decisions based on what 3 year olds think. Their brains are a little under half full mass and don't have near the power of an adult brain.
There are sound reasons beyond screen space for breaking long lines.
Why isn't the editor automatically (optionally) wrapping lines to your window size, while also maintaining the proper indentation of that wrapped line? Any decent editor should allow you to set it to wrap at an arbitrary column number regardless of windows size, as well.
Putting line breaks into text for anything other than signaling the end of a paragraph/statement is very 1980s.
If editors could put braces where the reader expects them to be we wouldn't be reading this whole discussion.
All the good ones can. People are just too lazy/scared to use this feature.
From another perspective: Modern ides are so good at restructuring code that code style is irrelevant. You should have your source control system restyle to the standard at checkin, and the individual developers' ide should restyle to their preferred style at sync/file open/checkout as they prefer.
I assume such a company can have one employee process one certificate in an average of 10 minutes, at a $10 per hour wage. Factoring in benefits, that employee should be profitable at a rate of roughly $100 per hour. Even if the employee takes a total of 30 minutes per cert at $30 total cost, we'll be making $20 / hour per employee. With only one employee, that's 2 cert / hour, or 16 cert / day, or 4000 cert / year (* employee).
It doesn't have to be unauthorizedly loaded into ram in order to be used. You can play WOW with an AUTHORIZED copy loaded into ram just fine and legal. It's only UN-authorized copies loaded into ram by glider/other that are in trouble.
Blizzard can authorize you as specifically as they'd like. Have a Microsoft OS load the copy into ram as part of a standard program loading operation? Authorized. Have exact same program loaded into exact same memory by Glider? Unauthorized. This is very simple to understand.
the CEO's promise "to one day sell his gasoline for $1 less than the pump price for regular fuel, no matter what the cost. 'Even if it's $2 per gallon, I'll sell mine for $1,"' he said."
I can't wait until his product comes to maturity -- then demand for gas will be so low that the price will drop below $1.
"Fill her up with regular, please. You can pay me in cash."
It will still be a profitable business model because they're essentially paying you to haul away farm refuse.
Among others, there were bugs in some of the installers that did not work with many people's cd rom drives. Hard to play the game when you can't install it.
Diablo II shipped with a bug that made it impossible in some conditions to kill Diablo, thus unfinishable. We found that 2 days after the gold master had shipped. Broodwar had a mid-game mission that was unpassable if you had made a certain mistake earlier in the game. Fixed in a patch 2 or 3 days after being reported.
Blizzard does do a much better job than most software houses, but they are not perfect.
The wear and tear argument isn't very comparable. The direct/indirect loss of value is precisely where the argument over copyright infringement vs theft comes from. Some people believe indirect loss of value matters, others believe only direct loss of value matters. The wear and tear on the car is direct loss of value. The overplay of music via piracy is just another argument for indirect loss of value.
If you don't cover your parking space with a car, it gets more sunshine, and the cement/tar is more likely to crack, requiring costly repairs. The point being, there are physical consequences to the car not being there.
Under the table leasing of cars is certainly illegal, but beneficial, so it's a cost. Would you argue that taking a drug dealer's illegal cocaine isn't stealing?
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The MPAA isn't legally enforced, in case you didn't know. You can distribute your movies without having them rated if you care about your free speech. That's pretty much the entire difference here!
In order to restrict game companies on the same basis as drug companies, you would have to make the case that games are physically dangerous to the direct consumer. I.E., there might reasonably be restrictions placed on games that cause epileptic seizures. Drugs are restricted because of the direct danger to the user. If there was evidence that books/movies/tv/games caused direct harm to the consumer, I'm pretty sure we would be restricting them the same way.
Factually incorrect.
http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp
TEEN
Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.
MATURE
Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.
GTA IV, rated Mature:
"Grand Theft Auto IV Rockstar Games Mature Intense Violence, Blood,
Strong Language,
Strong Sexual Content,
Partial Nudity,
Use of Drugs and Alcohol Xbox 360, PlayStation 3"
Warcraft III, rated Teen:
"WarCraft III Expansion Set: The Frozen Throne Blizzard Entertainment Teen Blood, Violence Macintosh, Windows PC
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Blizzard Entertainment (div. of Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing) Teen Blood, Violence Macintosh, Windows PC"
Because artistic food is generally exempt from those labeling requirements.
Well, first you'd have to make it illegal to sell those games to underage consumers. Then you could have a crackdown.
I would think this would be clear: being forced to go to a government ratings board before the release of your game restricts your expression of that game. What if the ratings board declines to rate your game? Your game can then never be released.
If your kids can't outsmart you, your genes are doomed. A kid ought to be able to outwit his parents by age 13, otherwise your kid's just not developing well.
It's censorship in the sense of: I can't sell a box with whatever artistic qualities I want. I have to have a big fat violent content label. The usual parallel people like to use to see how ridiculous this is: imagine if the bible could not be sold without a large orange sticker that said: warning: violent content, inappropriate for children!
Or tie them into the electrical system so they can provide power to the system. Oh, wait.
I'm sorry, but regardless of the long term outcome of Iraq, we aren't helped oil wise since we just allowed them to rejoin the OPEC cartel. Anyone who believes that Iraq was a 'war for oil' is foolish. Whatever the stupidity behind Iraq, that wasn't it, or it was the absolute worst possible execution of a war for oil possible.
1. They are somewhat heavy (50 lbs). They are awkwardly large at 5ftx3ft. Two person job if you don't want to risk a rooftop fall.
2. They are typically bolted on. Uninstall time will be in the several minutes per panel range. Be sure you have an electrician with you to avoid death by electric shock.
3. You can see in the pictures he has a typical roof. Bring a ladder. And a crane if you want an easier time lowering the panels.
4. Yes, see the pictures.
5. Don't know about that one. Probably end of December or next summer.
6. Doubtful.
Do you want to be a nurse, do you want to be in IT, or do you not care and want to optimize for maximum likelihood of having a job, or do you want to optimize for maximum earnings?
If you want to be in IT or optimize for maximum earnings, stick with IT and get good at it. If you can't get good at IT, go for nursing.
If you want to be a nurse, be a nurse.
If you want to optimize for maximum likelihood of having a job, be a nurse. Specialize in elder care. There is a huge segment of the population that is going to need elder care soon. If you like changing adult diapers, there is going to be endless employment for you.
What would the world be like without Google?
Well, it would have a few more dissidents.
Why not just have:
if ( flag )
salute();
And save an extra line?
Because you forgot part of the implementation, and it's particularly vulnerable to this bug:
if (flag)
comeToAttention();
salute();
Thank goodness most people don't make their style decisions based on what 3 year olds think. Their brains are a little under half full mass and don't have near the power of an adult brain.
Why isn't the editor automatically (optionally) wrapping lines to your window size, while also maintaining the proper indentation of that wrapped line? Any decent editor should allow you to set it to wrap at an arbitrary column number regardless of windows size, as well.
Putting line breaks into text for anything other than signaling the end of a paragraph/statement is very 1980s.
If editors could put braces where the reader expects them to be we wouldn't be reading this whole discussion.
All the good ones can. People are just too lazy/scared to use this feature.
From another perspective:
Modern ides are so good at restructuring code that code style is irrelevant. You should have your source control system restyle to the standard at checkin, and the individual developers' ide should restyle to their preferred style at sync/file open/checkout as they prefer.
I assume such a company can have one employee process one certificate in an average of 10 minutes, at a $10 per hour wage. Factoring in benefits, that employee should be profitable at a rate of roughly $100 per hour. Even if the employee takes a total of 30 minutes per cert at $30 total cost, we'll be making $20 / hour per employee. With only one employee, that's 2 cert / hour, or 16 cert / day, or 4000 cert / year (* employee).
Authorizing certain copies while not authorizing others is an action Blizzard is precisely what Blizzard is doing to reduce cheating.
It doesn't have to be unauthorizedly loaded into ram in order to be used. You can play WOW with an AUTHORIZED copy loaded into ram just fine and legal. It's only UN-authorized copies loaded into ram by glider/other that are in trouble.
Blizzard can authorize you as specifically as they'd like. Have a Microsoft OS load the copy into ram as part of a standard program loading operation? Authorized. Have exact same program loaded into exact same memory by Glider? Unauthorized. This is very simple to understand.
Blizzard authorizes you to load it into ram using the standard operating system methods only. Not glider. Hence, not authorized.
Who still allows ads on the internet?
I can't wait until his product comes to maturity -- then demand for gas will be so low that the price will drop below $1.
"Fill her up with regular, please. You can pay me in cash."
It will still be a profitable business model because they're essentially paying you to haul away farm refuse.
Among others, there were bugs in some of the installers that did not work with many people's cd rom drives. Hard to play the game when you can't install it.
Diablo II shipped with a bug that made it impossible in some conditions to kill Diablo, thus unfinishable. We found that 2 days after the gold master had shipped. Broodwar had a mid-game mission that was unpassable if you had made a certain mistake earlier in the game. Fixed in a patch 2 or 3 days after being reported.
Blizzard does do a much better job than most software houses, but they are not perfect.
The wear and tear argument isn't very comparable. The direct/indirect loss of value is precisely where the argument over copyright infringement vs theft comes from. Some people believe indirect loss of value matters, others believe only direct loss of value matters. The wear and tear on the car is direct loss of value. The overplay of music via piracy is just another argument for indirect loss of value.
If you don't cover your parking space with a car, it gets more sunshine, and the cement/tar is more likely to crack, requiring costly repairs. The point being, there are physical consequences to the car not being there.
Under the table leasing of cars is certainly illegal, but beneficial, so it's a cost. Would you argue that taking a drug dealer's illegal cocaine isn't stealing?