Well, I've thought long and hard about this problem and I think I might have the solution. Just put a message saying "This software is for educational use only, it must be deleted within 24 hours." Problem solved.
"I think soon we'll find graphics subsystems coming in a seperate box and at this rate it'll soon be bigger than your pc and require its own 3 phase power feed from a deadicated nukelea-r generator (homer's running mine:)"
- grahamsz
"I believe that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
- Professor Frink
well then count me in on the 6-12 year old crowd cause I want my metroid 128!
Re:Intel inside? Doesn't make sense.
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why are they using an intel processor? two words: PC compatibility. Microsoft wants PC developers to easily port their games to the X-Box. Not going to happen if they use a different processor.
No, it was a pretty small part. Open source had nothing to do with the making of Titanic, no matter how much you would like to think it did. No movie, not the Matrix, not Titanic, not anything has been helped a great deal by open source. Wow, they used Linux... big crap. And if Linux didn't exist, they would have used NT but the movie would still be made.
Computer Historian? I'm still trying to forget my Commodore 64!
Re:PC is hardly dead - but it may not be very well
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Oh wow. No original ideas... Big freakin whoop. Everyone looks for original ideas in games and it's a load of shit. When I load up a game, I'm looking for something to entertain me. Not amaze me with its originality. I for one, enjoy thinking games. That's why I enjoyed Lemmings. I didn't load up the game and go "Wow! Is this original!" I played it because I liked it. Wolfenstein on the other hand, didn't appeal to me, even though it was original. And from back then (when Lemmings and Wolf3D came out) to today, my taste in games still hasn't changed much. I still like games that require me to think - mainly adventure and puzzle games and I still dislike action games and FPSs. Bottom line, originality is overrated. Good games are good games - no matter how original.
And on the whole "PC is a dead gaming platform thing." The average person is a moron. They like to push 4 buttons and scroll around with thier little analog pad. That's why PC gaming is dying. As the article stated, games went from complicated adventure games to dumbed down FPS games. The next logical step in dumbing down games is moving on to the console so they have less of a choice of buttons to push and less games that require thinking.
The whole difference can be explained by comparing console RPGs with computer RPGs. In a console RPG like Final Fantasy, story overtakes gameplay. There's practically no thinking involved - you just guide your character to the next town where a brand new full motion video awaits, whereas in a CRPG, you take on the role of the character. You have to mess around with stats so that the character becomes your character. No 2 characters are the same, the story is a lot less linear, and follows how you want to play the game. There's too much thinking involved for "the average person." That's my 2 cents about this topic.
Yes, there is a certain level of responsibility that the manufacturer of, say, a "heroin needle" should receive. It shouldn't all be brought on to the maker but some of it should be. If you create a thing that is meant to kill or hurt somebody, then you deserve to be held accountable if that things succeeds in killing and or hurting. I want drug dealers to get busted. I want the gun manufacturers to get busted. I want Phillip Morris to get busted. All the blame shouldn't go to them but a lot of it should be because otherwise, it's legalized murder. If I hire an assassin to kill someone, I'm gonna get arrested too. I want that same responsibility to go to the manufacturers.
But you missed the whole point of the statement that you quoted. The original poster said that the software coder is responsible if the software that the person coded had the sole (or biggest) purpose is to help other people engage in illegal activities. The needle makers, as you stated, aren'y making heroin needles, they're making regular needles. If a needle maker started marketing their needles as heroin needles, then they should be held accountable for it.
its a game console, not a computer. how are people going to find out the IP address of another X-Box? Why would people wanna do that? The only thing you'll probably be able to do with an X-Box is play some multiplayer game, run a web browser, and check some mail - just like a dreamcast. Let's not get too paranoid.
We're worried because we don't really know who's looking through our e-mail. What makes the government any better than Timothy McVeigh? We're living in a society with a corrupt government with their own agendas. They violate our freedoms every day under the guise of national security or in the case of carnivore, trying to stop kiddie porn. If we keep turning a blind eye to stuff like Carnivore, then one day, we're not going to have any freedom left.
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so who cares if we screw up Mars? There are billions of other planets out there that we can't screw up yet.
Not if we build flesh eating robots to kill and eat the powerful! Then we will see who controls who! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Well, I've thought long and hard about this problem and I think I might have the solution. Just put a message saying "This software is for educational use only, it must be deleted within 24 hours." Problem solved.
"I think soon we'll find graphics subsystems coming in a seperate box and at this rate it'll soon be bigger than your pc and require its own 3 phase power feed from a deadicated nukelea-r generator (homer's running mine :)"
- grahamsz
"I believe that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
- Professor Frink
coincidence?
well then count me in on the 6-12 year old crowd cause I want my metroid 128!
why are they using an intel processor? two words: PC compatibility. Microsoft wants PC developers to easily port their games to the X-Box. Not going to happen if they use a different processor.
probably as hard as making a crappy post.
They'll start putting their crazy encryption on it and our future generations will never know what was going on!
problem solved if we just give them a slab of rock with the blueprints for a cd-rom drive.
I knew that was coming.
I don't know how the rest of the world gets so addicted to it.
Come on, the Simpsons, Baywatch, and Cleopatra 2525... need I say more?
Thanks in no small part to Open Source.
No, it was a pretty small part. Open source had nothing to do with the making of Titanic, no matter how much you would like to think it did. No movie, not the Matrix, not Titanic, not anything has been helped a great deal by open source. Wow, they used Linux... big crap. And if Linux didn't exist, they would have used NT but the movie would still be made.
You can't just leave us all on a cliffhangar here! What's the ending?!?!
yep... it's crazy.
Computer Historian? I'm still trying to forget my Commodore 64!
Oh wow. No original ideas... Big freakin whoop. Everyone looks for original ideas in games and it's a load of shit. When I load up a game, I'm looking for something to entertain me. Not amaze me with its originality. I for one, enjoy thinking games. That's why I enjoyed Lemmings. I didn't load up the game and go "Wow! Is this original!" I played it because I liked it. Wolfenstein on the other hand, didn't appeal to me, even though it was original. And from back then (when Lemmings and Wolf3D came out) to today, my taste in games still hasn't changed much. I still like games that require me to think - mainly adventure and puzzle games and I still dislike action games and FPSs. Bottom line, originality is overrated. Good games are good games - no matter how original.
And on the whole "PC is a dead gaming platform thing." The average person is a moron. They like to push 4 buttons and scroll around with thier little analog pad. That's why PC gaming is dying. As the article stated, games went from complicated adventure games to dumbed down FPS games. The next logical step in dumbing down games is moving on to the console so they have less of a choice of buttons to push and less games that require thinking.
The whole difference can be explained by comparing console RPGs with computer RPGs. In a console RPG like Final Fantasy, story overtakes gameplay. There's practically no thinking involved - you just guide your character to the next town where a brand new full motion video awaits, whereas in a CRPG, you take on the role of the character. You have to mess around with stats so that the character becomes your character. No 2 characters are the same, the story is a lot less linear, and follows how you want to play the game. There's too much thinking involved for "the average person." That's my 2 cents about this topic.
I was thinking the same exact thing when I came out of Hollow Man. I guess we're just gonna have to make every part invisible except for the eyes.
you stole my sig you bastard.
Yes, there is a certain level of responsibility that the manufacturer of, say, a "heroin needle" should receive. It shouldn't all be brought on to the maker but some of it should be. If you create a thing that is meant to kill or hurt somebody, then you deserve to be held accountable if that things succeeds in killing and or hurting. I want drug dealers to get busted. I want the gun manufacturers to get busted. I want Phillip Morris to get busted. All the blame shouldn't go to them but a lot of it should be because otherwise, it's legalized murder. If I hire an assassin to kill someone, I'm gonna get arrested too. I want that same responsibility to go to the manufacturers.
But you missed the whole point of the statement that you quoted. The original poster said that the software coder is responsible if the software that the person coded had the sole (or biggest) purpose is to help other people engage in illegal activities. The needle makers, as you stated, aren'y making heroin needles, they're making regular needles. If a needle maker started marketing their needles as heroin needles, then they should be held accountable for it.
its a game console, not a computer. how are people going to find out the IP address of another X-Box? Why would people wanna do that? The only thing you'll probably be able to do with an X-Box is play some multiplayer game, run a web browser, and check some mail - just like a dreamcast. Let's not get too paranoid.
We're worried because we don't really know who's looking through our e-mail. What makes the government any better than Timothy McVeigh? We're living in a society with a corrupt government with their own agendas. They violate our freedoms every day under the guise of national security or in the case of carnivore, trying to stop kiddie porn. If we keep turning a blind eye to stuff like Carnivore, then one day, we're not going to have any freedom left.
And best of all, it's free (speech and beer!)!
He's not breaking the rules, there is no spoon, or bullets!