"They have tweaked things," said Olson, "but there is blatant pornography on the best-selling game of the year. That says that the ratings system didn't work."
Do what? So apparently only minors are interested in pornography, and even though the core gamer market seems to be 18-34 year olds they wouldn't have bought the game had it had an MA rating?
I'm 34, and a parent. I have the quaint idea that a parent should review the content of any thing before they let their children have it if they are so concerned about said content. I do believe the ratings in general, but for every example you can always find a 'but wait' example. For exmaple Fox and the Hound was rated G. However in the movie there is an extremely intense, somewhat violent fight with a monstrous scary bear that sends most >5 year olds running for the hills. Should I scream and gnash my teeth? Or should I just not put that movie in next time because it startled them...
But what do I know, I'm part of the 80% of the US that is normal, it's the 20% that run the country that screw things up.
Oh yeah I knew of the original Buckaroo Banzai that's why I found it so funny. Odyssey 5 was a short lived sci-fi series on Showtime. It's a US premium cable channel like HBO. It was in 2002 I believe. I'm not sure if it has come out on DVD yet. I really enjoyed it but apparently most people didn't, or Showtime was tired of their 'sci-fi fridays' they used to run.
Actually it's a quote from Odyssey 5. Peter Weller was in it and in this episode there was a 'sci-fi' AI and right before the AI sacrificed himself for the greater good and all he looked at Peter Weller and said that, I found it entertaining.
Yes but in the late 70s and early 80s the performers were being hunted down and arrested for prostitution here in the US. I can't find a link that describes it but in Ron Jeremey's Biography they talked about the challenges to making porn there is a little bit mentioned here in his wiki entry.
I believe it was California v. Freeman that killed this method of persecution, opening the door up for what we have to enjoy or hate today.
It could be worse. You could travel to New York on business a lot. THere could be another person with the same name but without the dots. That person lives in new york, and has lots of friends visiting him.
Of course, theyre all talking about how they can't wait to hook up.
More power too him, except I don't swing that way. They're all guys, I'm into girls. Should be fun explaining that to the wife. I've replied to the first few that there seems to be a mistake but not sure what they think, because they won't respond. I've just started deleting them.
No, to have the right analogy for this article you'd need to say 'hitched their wagon to a sinking rock while the guy with an antigravity device next to you isn't allowed to help'
Note that Dell's numbers, and all online direct resellers numbers are excluded from this.
Last time I checked Dell did a significant amount of business with people that aren't corporations. That's a chunk of business that could change those numbers somewhat significantly one could think. Also this doesn't include Laptops, which I firmly believe is the reason Apple went Intel. While on the desktop side AMD can bitch slap Intel around rather handily the laptop side isn't near as strong when you look at power consumption/battery life vs. performance
Not only that, but think of applying Adwords to Podcasting? There are lots of podcasters out there looking for a decent business model to support their programming or whatever you call it. Google could be positioning themselves to do just that.
I used to think this way myself in that with film you can't really see more than 30 fps.
However the difference in FPS measured in a game vs. measured in a film is that there is persistance of vision in that our brain fills in the gaps as a person moves an arm or jumps or moves or whatever.
With the video games the FPS means that the arm moves in it's range of motion in 24 steps at 24 fps, or in 60 steps at 60 fps. that's 150% more data being presented on the screen providing a much smoother range of motion for the object.
It's pretty easy to see by watching a film at half speed, or 12 fps. Watcha computer game at 12 fps. The film just looks like the guy is moving slow, the computer game the arm moves from by his side to straight up to your fragged.
Why make a Mozilla for x86 Macintosh and a Mozilla for PowerPC Macintosh? Make a universal binary, that's what they are there for aren't they? I mean relying on rosetta for a few things like flash and java can't be that big of deal, it's not like the bottleneck in a browser is the browser itself, it's more commonly the pipe feeding the browser. Isn't the point of Rosetta that Mozilla Firefox as it stands now runs just fine on a MacBook or iMac regardless of the proc under the covers?
Also most of the user community doesn't care that at 10.4.4 there is a version that runs on an Intel processor and a PowerPC Processor, so when we download trying to decide between Mozilla Firefox for Macintosh OS X (PowerPC) and Macintosh OS X (Intel) isnt' something we should have to decide. The ability to make univseral binaries is there, why not take advantage of it? Why create yet another file the world has to mirror and worry about which is the right one?
I agree. What he did was no different than supergluing your desk drawers shut, filling the keyholes with glue, crapping on the desk and ripping the seat cushion to shreds. I find it strange that there are already posts blaming IBM for 'taking so long' to do things. Would you complain that a maintenance guy took to long to repair that kind of damage? Probably not.
I must admit after installing iTunes 6.0.2 I spent about 5 seconds looking at the mini store before hitting the party shuffle tab and play and minimizing it again, but I remember thinking 'ah, lost space to look at my library with that, I bet I can shut it off'
Personally, I don't find it bad that someone knows what kind of music I listen too, because a lot of it isn't on iTunes, and some of it is. I'd like to see them realize that they could squeeze even more money out of me than the 1135 songs I've bought since the start of the iTMS.
I like personalization, the only way you can personalize something is to give some data that they can build references off of, if you don't, the top 10 list of what was bought is the only thing they're going to have to go off of and I don't own a single song in the top 10 list...
It was called a PowerBook before the power chip existed...unless you consider the PowerBook 100 with the 68HC00 a power processor.
I'm not sure I'm happy with the MacBook name either, but it does leave them the ability to call the iBook refresh the MacBook, witht he 'pro' line being the MacBook Pro.
Amen! I was so lost after Enterprise aired and finding BSG has turned me into a rabid fanatic and Star Trek is a distant memory.
The only thing that worries me is that Farscape was a long thought out arc and it got nuked in the end which made me not watch Sci-Fi for over two years. BSG was the first time I'd watch Sci-Fi since the cancellation of Farscape.
I've been counting the days to January 6th when it comes back on. I can't wait to see where they go next.
...while commenting on the cost of the camera vs. the cost of the tool there is a problem with what Aperture is being 'marketed as' vs. what you can do with it with the camera mentioned.
Aperture is a 'workflow' program. Designed to help in getting a RAW image out of a camera, do basic processing, and hand it off to an image editor.
The problem with the camera mentioned in my limited knowledge of the product is that it produces no RAW/NEF image, only a JPG.
What would you workflow on it? Nothing that another raster program like Photoshop Elements or something else can do, because the RAW processing is handled by insert-chip-with-fancy-marketspeak-name-here instead of an external tool like Aperture/iView Media Pro/Bibble/Capture One/Adobe Camera RAW.
So using your analogy that would be like building a clean room and then using it to install your favorite OS of choice.
My daughter is four. I bought the DS for her because she hates dogs in real life but loved the Nintendogs.
At least that is what I tell my wife, I bought it so I could play Metroid and what not.
Anyway, This was one of the titles I was waiting for. However she loves it as well. She doesn't care about racing per se, she just has fun driving around in circles. Every once in a while I'll get tired of hearing the 'wrong way' noise from the little dude on the cloud and turn her around but she'll run around for 30 min the wrong way and be laughing and having a blast.
When she gets older, I'm sure she'll figure it out. But for now she loves the game.
And look how Blockbuster is turning out, along with their 'late fees'
One would think with the amount of TV shows being sold on DVD that they'd think there would be a happy digital medium to this. It's OK to sell DVDs, but if it plays on a computer it must explode and go away. I don't get it, the content on my computer isn't going to be as good as a DVD unless I want to download 10GB of stuff, which I don't.
When you're a bit insane about it and were a boy scout and live out here in the boonies you remember the 'be prepared' statement and usually order your ink in packs of three.
I've got a lateral file drawer full of the six inks my inkjet uses, tons of photo paper, and what not that I keep at least one of each ink, usually three of each ink in. So at 12AM after the kids are asleep and I'm dinking with the printer I can just jump up and grab a new cart when I run out.
About an hour after posting that I thought to myself $4.95? where the heck did I come up with that. I've spent $1.95 on shipping from Kodak a number of times. I think the $4.95 was for over $100 worth of printing I had done which was rather reasonable considering there was a 16x20 print in there and it had to be shipped UPS in special mailers.
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I'm 34, and a parent. I have the quaint idea that a parent should review the content of any thing before they let their children have it if they are so concerned about said content. I do believe the ratings in general, but for every example you can always find a 'but wait' example. For exmaple Fox and the Hound was rated G. However in the movie there is an extremely intense, somewhat violent fight with a monstrous scary bear that sends most >5 year olds running for the hills. Should I scream and gnash my teeth? Or should I just not put that movie in next time because it startled them...
But what do I know, I'm part of the 80% of the US that is normal, it's the 20% that run the country that screw things up.
Oh yeah I knew of the original Buckaroo Banzai that's why I found it so funny. Odyssey 5 was a short lived sci-fi series on Showtime. It's a US premium cable channel like HBO. It was in 2002 I believe. I'm not sure if it has come out on DVD yet. I really enjoyed it but apparently most people didn't, or Showtime was tired of their 'sci-fi fridays' they used to run.
Actually it's a quote from Odyssey 5. Peter Weller was in it and in this episode there was a 'sci-fi' AI and right before the AI sacrificed himself for the greater good and all he looked at Peter Weller and said that, I found it entertaining.
Yes but in the late 70s and early 80s the performers were being hunted down and arrested for prostitution here in the US. I can't find a link that describes it but in Ron Jeremey's Biography they talked about the challenges to making porn there is a little bit mentioned here in his wiki entry.
I believe it was California v. Freeman that killed this method of persecution, opening the door up for what we have to enjoy or hate today.
Do they really only name dungeons by picking two letters and using them? Or does AQ stand for something?
It could be worse. You could travel to New York on business a lot. THere could be another person with the same name but without the dots. That person lives in new york, and has lots of friends visiting him.
Of course, theyre all talking about how they can't wait to hook up.
More power too him, except I don't swing that way. They're all guys, I'm into girls. Should be fun explaining that to the wife. I've replied to the first few that there seems to be a mistake but not sure what they think, because they won't respond. I've just started deleting them.
No, to have the right analogy for this article you'd need to say 'hitched their wagon to a sinking rock while the guy with an antigravity device next to you isn't allowed to help'
Note that Dell's numbers, and all online direct resellers numbers are excluded from this.
Last time I checked Dell did a significant amount of business with people that aren't corporations. That's a chunk of business that could change those numbers somewhat significantly one could think. Also this doesn't include Laptops, which I firmly believe is the reason Apple went Intel. While on the desktop side AMD can bitch slap Intel around rather handily the laptop side isn't near as strong when you look at power consumption/battery life vs. performance
Shipping is a bitch though.
Plus after a few days of working all the miners would be going dum...duh..dum..duh..dum.duh...dum.duh...
peew peew peew duh dum duh dum.
and the occasional ufo that pops out and shoot at you isn't much fun.
Not only that, but think of applying Adwords to Podcasting? There are lots of podcasters out there looking for a decent business model to support their programming or whatever you call it. Google could be positioning themselves to do just that.
I used to think this way myself in that with film you can't really see more than 30 fps.
However the difference in FPS measured in a game vs. measured in a film is that there is persistance of vision in that our brain fills in the gaps as a person moves an arm or jumps or moves or whatever.
With the video games the FPS means that the arm moves in it's range of motion in 24 steps at 24 fps, or in 60 steps at 60 fps. that's 150% more data being presented on the screen providing a much smoother range of motion for the object.
It's pretty easy to see by watching a film at half speed, or 12 fps. Watcha computer game at 12 fps. The film just looks like the guy is moving slow, the computer game the arm moves from by his side to straight up to your fragged.
Why make a Mozilla for x86 Macintosh and a Mozilla for PowerPC Macintosh? Make a universal binary, that's what they are there for aren't they? I mean relying on rosetta for a few things like flash and java can't be that big of deal, it's not like the bottleneck in a browser is the browser itself, it's more commonly the pipe feeding the browser. Isn't the point of Rosetta that Mozilla Firefox as it stands now runs just fine on a MacBook or iMac regardless of the proc under the covers?
Also most of the user community doesn't care that at 10.4.4 there is a version that runs on an Intel processor and a PowerPC Processor, so when we download trying to decide between Mozilla Firefox for Macintosh OS X (PowerPC) and Macintosh OS X (Intel) isnt' something we should have to decide. The ability to make univseral binaries is there, why not take advantage of it? Why create yet another file the world has to mirror and worry about which is the right one?
Just a thought.
I agree. What he did was no different than supergluing your desk drawers shut, filling the keyholes with glue, crapping on the desk and ripping the seat cushion to shreds. I find it strange that there are already posts blaming IBM for 'taking so long' to do things. Would you complain that a maintenance guy took to long to repair that kind of damage? Probably not.
Most importantly, Nice Sig :)
I must admit after installing iTunes 6.0.2 I spent about 5 seconds looking at the mini store before hitting the party shuffle tab and play and minimizing it again, but I remember thinking 'ah, lost space to look at my library with that, I bet I can shut it off'
Personally, I don't find it bad that someone knows what kind of music I listen too, because a lot of it isn't on iTunes, and some of it is. I'd like to see them realize that they could squeeze even more money out of me than the 1135 songs I've bought since the start of the iTMS.
I like personalization, the only way you can personalize something is to give some data that they can build references off of, if you don't, the top 10 list of what was bought is the only thing they're going to have to go off of and I don't own a single song in the top 10 list...
My $0.02. $0.97 more and I can buy a song.
It was called a PowerBook before the power chip existed...unless you consider the PowerBook 100 with the 68HC00 a power processor.
I'm not sure I'm happy with the MacBook name either, but it does leave them the ability to call the iBook refresh the MacBook, witht he 'pro' line being the MacBook Pro.
I'd be looking outside for it to be raining frogs & locusts, or something. That's just too much for this world to handle.
I've got both DVD sets but I'd be really freakin tempted to buy HD versions.
I'd also pick up a new Mac Mini if it were compelling enough for me to plug it into my HDTV.
Amen! I was so lost after Enterprise aired and finding BSG has turned me into a rabid fanatic and Star Trek is a distant memory.
The only thing that worries me is that Farscape was a long thought out arc and it got nuked in the end which made me not watch Sci-Fi for over two years. BSG was the first time I'd watch Sci-Fi since the cancellation of Farscape.
I've been counting the days to January 6th when it comes back on. I can't wait to see where they go next.
...while commenting on the cost of the camera vs. the cost of the tool there is a problem with what Aperture is being 'marketed as' vs. what you can do with it with the camera mentioned.
Aperture is a 'workflow' program. Designed to help in getting a RAW image out of a camera, do basic processing, and hand it off to an image editor.
The problem with the camera mentioned in my limited knowledge of the product is that it produces no RAW/NEF image, only a JPG.
What would you workflow on it? Nothing that another raster program like Photoshop Elements or something else can do, because the RAW processing is handled by insert-chip-with-fancy-marketspeak-name-here instead of an external tool like Aperture/iView Media Pro/Bibble/Capture One/Adobe Camera RAW.
So using your analogy that would be like building a clean room and then using it to install your favorite OS of choice.
My entire network is WPA. Except the DS doesn't support WPA, so to enjoy the wireless feature I'll need to go back to WEP.
not that anyone near me knows enough about computers to crack my network, it's just frustrating that the latest 'secure' stuff isn't supported.
My daughter is four. I bought the DS for her because she hates dogs in real life but loved the Nintendogs.
At least that is what I tell my wife, I bought it so I could play Metroid and what not.
Anyway, This was one of the titles I was waiting for. However she loves it as well. She doesn't care about racing per se, she just has fun driving around in circles. Every once in a while I'll get tired of hearing the 'wrong way' noise from the little dude on the cloud and turn her around but she'll run around for 30 min the wrong way and be laughing and having a blast.
When she gets older, I'm sure she'll figure it out. But for now she loves the game.
i spit fire once after eating a habenero off a fire flower
With all the films they had to choose from the one they pick to show Charlie's Angels 2? Nice way to kill the format.
And look how Blockbuster is turning out, along with their 'late fees'
One would think with the amount of TV shows being sold on DVD that they'd think there would be a happy digital medium to this. It's OK to sell DVDs, but if it plays on a computer it must explode and go away. I don't get it, the content on my computer isn't going to be as good as a DVD unless I want to download 10GB of stuff, which I don't.
When you're a bit insane about it and were a boy scout and live out here in the boonies you remember the 'be prepared' statement and usually order your ink in packs of three.
I've got a lateral file drawer full of the six inks my inkjet uses, tons of photo paper, and what not that I keep at least one of each ink, usually three of each ink in. So at 12AM after the kids are asleep and I'm dinking with the printer I can just jump up and grab a new cart when I run out.
About an hour after posting that I thought to myself $4.95? where the heck did I come up with that. I've spent $1.95 on shipping from Kodak a number of times. I think the $4.95 was for over $100 worth of printing I had done which was rather reasonable considering there was a 16x20 print in there and it had to be shipped UPS in special mailers.