You check the site for 5-10 times a day because it is always updating./. is a broadcast medium not unlike radio. You have to avoid dead air more than you have to avoid blathering on about nothing. Maybe you think you'd like some quite time on the radio but what really happens is you will change the station.
How about considering a whole cartoon as in episodes 1-6 or a compleate game as in levels 1 - 20. Think about playing a game a level or two at a time and getting the rest of the levels as you return. For space you could keep the levels you like and discard the levels you don't.
Why couldn't that person then hire a party? Spend some money and go out a create some mayhem with a goon squad of 99th level players making 35 cents an hour.
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The fallacy of your statement is that most of us grew up with game stores where nearly every game was made and marketed for kids. You haven't understood or followed the change in the industry because it was happening while you grew up.
When you were a kid you could play nearly every game in the store. Imagine an eight year old now and nearly a third of the games they see, they can't play because they are not age appropriate.
I keep reading that Nintendo is still profitable and doing well.
I don't think the market is zero sum like you seem to think. Sure, Nintendo would like to have a larger market and make more money but I don't think that the Xbox is taking that market from Nintendo.
Xbox is maybe taking market from Sony or it's growing the over all market with their games and approach.
I don't see Halo2 affecting the sales of Zelda, Mario, or any E games for instance.
The unit can be baked agian to remove moisture and the chips reballed and reused. It costs more to bake the units so I agree with your point. I'm just saying that the parts won't explode during a proper repair process.
None of this counts until they start listing serial numbers. Once you get serial numbers you can tally total instances and corelate manufacturing information.
It would be simple enough to have play back on unrated games restricted until the parents enter the game rating into the system. Parents could simply allow or disallow a specific game and this would be saved in the system.
Since Decemeber of last year. I got it because it was a cheaper option to upgrading my son's computer to play games. I guess I'm a Nintendo fan because I think it's the best game system for kids and adults together.
We still play Starcraft on his PC and if the next gen of consoles end up being PC like, I will skip them and build a new PC for him. I'm interested in the next gen game systems, not PCs for dumb people.
There is far more consoles that do not have online than there are that do. It makes perfect sense to sell more games to more users to make more money. If the game was any good they would come out with a robust single player to sell to the majority of console users. This shows their lack of confidence in the game over all and in the single player mode.
The single player mode is not good enough to sell the game to enough Gamecube owners to make it profitable for that platform. That says much about the game for any console owner.
If you read the ratings "Sexual Themes" starts at M and goes higher. M is rated as 17 and older. A game with an M I would have to review before I would let my 13 year old play.
I would not be too worried about Themes or Nudity but Content I think they could do with out. Do you have an example of "Strong Sexual Content" you would approve for a 13-year-old?
My seven year old is not stupid. He is seven. He understands that E games are for him and M games are not and that he can only play T games if we approve. (Star Craft & RoboTech).
More importantly he was able to understand this when he was five and he has never asked for an M game because he knows they are not for him. As a parent this is a huge feature, the ratings aren't just for adults.
It bother me that while everyone reading this can name 5 white guy IT/OSS/Web/CS innovators/developers. I can pull up a list of ten white guys with out even looking up how to spell their names. In the top ten I don't even need to spell most of their names because you know their initials. And here's the kicker, like it or not, I know they are white and you know the're white.
What really bugs me is that after a couple of weeks no one with a +5 has answered the question. And looking through the answers doesn't come up with much either.
If the question was how many "left handed" developers there are, you would have a list as long as your arm before anyone complained. And you can't even get pulled over for being left handed.
I don't know myself, I don't know if it's racist to ask the quetion, but you think someone could answer the question.
To return an old phrase, "On the internet no one knows your a Dog, every one thinks your a white guy."
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I think most people in the know, have already remapped the "caps lock" to the Control key.
I swap the mapping of the ESC and `~ keys to bring the ESC key closer.
The states should do this to reduce the incidence of sale of stolen goods. By regulating who is selling goods and how, they can increase criminal liability against both the sellers and the unauthorized agents.
If someone steals your stuff and takes it to an agent would you like the agent to be licensed and required to keep records of all transactions? Do you mind if the thief gets off scott free because he was selling it for "someone else".
So why isn't there an HBO subscription service that I can download HBO content from for a monthly fee. Porn sites manage to make money doing it. What's so hard about this concept for HBO.
Why isn't HBO hosting officially branded bittorrent feeds of their content?
The fact that the face plate also acts a protective cover for the screen, I think may make up for the lack of clam shell. If the faces plates are cheap then replacing one now and then isn't such a bad design choice.
The FCC is a government organization the ESRB is a voluntary organization.
As long as the ESRB precludes government regulation of the gaming industry it has done it's job and continues to be useful. If it allows through inaction or incompetence, increased government control and regulation _then_ it will out live it's usefulness. At which time the FCC will take over and continue to regulate the failures of private industry.
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You check the site for 5-10 times a day because it is always updating. /. is a broadcast medium not unlike radio. You have to avoid dead air more than you have to avoid blathering on about nothing. Maybe you think you'd like some quite time on the radio but what really happens is you will change the station.
If it were insanely obvious then we could program computers to do it. It isn't and we can't.
How about considering a whole cartoon as in episodes 1-6 or a compleate game as in levels 1 - 20. Think about playing a game a level or two at a time and getting the rest of the levels as you return. For space you could keep the levels you like and discard the levels you don't.
Why couldn't that person then hire a party? Spend some money and go out a create some mayhem with a goon squad of 99th level players making 35 cents an hour.
The fallacy of your statement is that most of us grew up with game stores where nearly every game was made and marketed for kids. You haven't understood or followed the change in the industry because it was happening while you grew up.
When you were a kid you could play nearly every game in the store. Imagine an eight year old now and nearly a third of the games they see, they can't play because they are not age appropriate.
MTV doing stories about Xbox popularity... Hum... You know I hear that suits are coming back in style.
I keep reading that Nintendo is still profitable and doing well.
I don't think the market is zero sum like you seem to think. Sure, Nintendo would like to have a larger market and make more money but I don't think that the Xbox is taking that market from Nintendo.
Xbox is maybe taking market from Sony or it's growing the over all market with their games and approach.
I don't see Halo2 affecting the sales of Zelda, Mario, or any E games for instance.
The unit can be baked agian to remove moisture and the chips reballed and reused. It costs more to bake the units so I agree with your point. I'm just saying that the parts won't explode during a proper repair process.
None of this counts until they start listing serial numbers. Once you get serial numbers you can tally total instances and corelate manufacturing information.
Apparently the BIOS is configured to overheat and shutdown the system when copyright infringment is detected.
It would be simple enough to have play back on unrated games restricted until the parents enter the game rating into the system. Parents could simply allow or disallow a specific game and this would be saved in the system.
Since Decemeber of last year. I got it because it was a cheaper option to upgrading my son's computer to play games. I guess I'm a Nintendo fan because I think it's the best game system for kids and adults together.
We still play Starcraft on his PC and if the next gen of consoles end up being PC like, I will skip them and build a new PC for him. I'm interested in the next gen game systems, not PCs for dumb people.
There is far more consoles that do not have online than there are that do. It makes perfect sense to sell more games to more users to make more money. If the game was any good they would come out with a robust single player to sell to the majority of console users. This shows their lack of confidence in the game over all and in the single player mode.
The single player mode is not good enough to sell the game to enough Gamecube owners to make it profitable for that platform. That says much about the game for any console owner.
I think the content of the Disney Movie does that.
If you read the ratings "Sexual Themes" starts at M and goes higher. M is rated as 17 and older. A game with an M I would have to review before I would let my 13 year old play.
I would not be too worried about Themes or Nudity but Content I think they could do with out. Do you have an example of "Strong Sexual Content" you would approve for a 13-year-old?
My seven year old is not stupid. He is seven. He understands that E games are for him and M games are not and that he can only play T games if we approve. (Star Craft & RoboTech).
More importantly he was able to understand this when he was five and he has never asked for an M game because he knows they are not for him. As a parent this is a huge feature, the ratings aren't just for adults.
It bother me that while everyone reading this can name 5 white guy IT/OSS/Web/CS innovators/developers. I can pull up a list of ten white guys with out even looking up how to spell their names. In the top ten I don't even need to spell most of their names because you know their initials. And here's the kicker, like it or not, I know they are white and you know the're white.
What really bugs me is that after a couple of weeks no one with a +5 has answered the question. And looking through the answers doesn't come up with much either.
If the question was how many "left handed" developers there are, you would have a list as long as your arm before anyone complained. And you can't even get pulled over for being left handed.
I don't know myself, I don't know if it's racist to ask the quetion, but you think someone could answer the question.
To return an old phrase, "On the internet no one knows your a Dog, every one thinks your a white guy."
I think most people in the know, have already remapped the "caps lock" to the Control key.
I swap the mapping of the ESC and `~ keys to bring the ESC key closer.
The states should do this to reduce the incidence of sale of stolen goods. By regulating who is selling goods and how, they can increase criminal liability against both the sellers and the unauthorized agents.
If someone steals your stuff and takes it to an agent would you like the agent to be licensed and required to keep records of all transactions? Do you mind if the thief gets off scott free because he was selling it for "someone else".
The units of a democracy are votes/population not "sq km".
So why isn't there an HBO subscription service that I can download HBO content from for a monthly fee. Porn sites manage to make money doing it. What's so hard about this concept for HBO.
Why isn't HBO hosting officially branded bittorrent feeds of their content?
The fact that the face plate also acts a protective cover for the screen, I think may make up for the lack of clam shell. If the faces plates are cheap then replacing one now and then isn't such a bad design choice.
For a second there... I actually thought one of his daughters was old enough to start sending in patches.
The FCC is a government organization the ESRB is a voluntary organization.
As long as the ESRB precludes government regulation of the gaming industry it has done it's job and continues to be useful. If it allows through inaction or incompetence, increased government control and regulation _then_ it will out live it's usefulness. At which time the FCC will take over and continue to regulate the failures of private industry.