What on earth for? Why should we all live under a pretensive purple sky, when it is perfectly fine for us all to agree that the sky is in fact blue?
Please, elaborate.
The idea that some forms of art are "more serious" than others is closely tied to culture. Certain cultures can have "serious" comic books or puppet shows, whereas here in the West these things are generally considered kiddie fare. Conversely, these foreign cultures may be amused by the West getting so worked up about football, and consider it a frivolous child's game.
There's no company named "The Robber's Den" that has sales reps selling guns right next to every gas station, and which winkingly alludes to the fact they're facilitating others in criminal activity. Such a company almost certainly would be held financially, if not criminally, liable.
Not yet there isn't...but I smell BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! Who wants to go in with my on my robbery-based business?
I think it's a good idea, but the problem is complicated GPU drivers and networking. Also, booting into a separate OS means no running AIM or MSN Messenger during the game (although I never do that, I know plenty of people that do).
Ahhh, consolization at its best. Games being dumbed down, franchises becoming more important then creating good stories and/or gameplay,
That's a problem with all gaming-console and PC alike.
release dates being set in stone weather a game is ready for release or not
PC games are notorious for shipping in alpha quality, with the attitude "we'll patch it later." Consoles have largely been spared this fate, however it is creeping in a little bit with the PS3 and 360.
repetition being used in every conceivable way to artificially lengthen games without writing new code/assets.
PC games do this as well. I'm not sure why you blame this on "consolization."
By the sounds of it, the Terminator game is a turd and no amount of polish will make a turd interesting to play.
Well, I agree with you on this one at least. Tell me, has there ever been a good Terminator game? The T2 pinball game was pretty good, that's the only one I can think of.
Yep...unfortunately, this is the future for consoles. There will be no physical media in the next generation. You won't be able to take your game over to your friends' house to play. And you won't be able to resell games, either.
Mexican drug smugglers are not limited to cannabis.
65% of their business is related to cannabis. I'm sure even more of their business would take a hit (no pun intended) if they knew they could get a cheap legal high from weed rather than paying more for illegal meth.
They also move an enormous amount of cocaine and meth. While legalizing cannabis should have been done years ago already, meth is so clearly destroying the heartland of America.
Meth is also funding the economically challenged "heartland of America," even more so lately with the bad economy. It's a terrible, brain-rotting drug, but it's also one of the few things people will pay for. Talk about your dilemmas...
Toshiba's still getting over HD-DVD. They're making upscaling DVD players to compete with Blu-Ray. They lost a lot of face, and they're losing even more money. All the huge "we do everything" Japanese conglomerates (Toshiba, Hitachi, Sanyo) are in pain due to the stagnant economy. Perhaps these lawsuits can help restore them to profitability. I hope so because Toshiba is a darn fine company that makes out with your mom.
Do we really need someone to tell us that if I type a bunch of personal info into an idiot application. That comes from God knows where. I can be automatically assured that the information will be used for nothing other than producing a number to tell me how old I am acting?
Congradulations, sir. Despite your bizarre syntax, you're officially Too Smart to Be On Facebook.
Welcome to the Internet, where frivolous discussions about anything elevate to the point of wishing death upon someone who has a different opinion than you. You obviously haven't been desensitized.
The GP is far from the only one thinking that such advertisements and "solicitation" should be permitted. After all, there are cases where it would be perfectly reasonable to take someone up on such an offer. Perhaps the target is a known murderer, for example, and you're acting on behalf of someone they killed. Or perhaps they've made credible threats against your life, and you want to hire someone to act as your proxy in self-defense should they happen to come after you.
There's a big difference between hiring someone as a bodyguard and hiring someone to make a hit. Don't pretend like you don't know the difference.
In any event, until the deed is actually done what you propose to outlaw is nothing more than communication. In other words, pure speech. As such, the 1st Amendment should definitely apply.
Educate yourself about the "marketplace of ideas" concept and what is actually considered protected speech, both by the Framers and by later judicial decisions. Advertising for illegal acts is not, and never has been, considered protected speech.
It is possible, in fact quite easy, to believe in free speech without believing that hitmen/child pornographers be able to advertise their wares. They aren't even producing "degenerate speech." It's solicitation, which has nothing to do with the "marketplace of ideas" which is at the core of the First Amendment.
But, you might say, it's still speech. But obviously,it's not the type of speech that the Framers intended to protect. There are variable definitions of speech, you know. What you tell your friends on the 7 train is not the same as the Gettysburg Address, either. Pretending you don't understand the difference is silly.
That actor is the one responsible for the harm that results. Anything less is just someone trying to shirk the responsibility for their actions.
This is sophistry at its worst. Are you seriously saying you think it should be legal for hitmen to advertise their wares? That their offers to kill someone for money are anything like what we treasure as free speech? Surely you're high on drugs!
Campaign finance laws have been challenged on the basis that contributing money to a campaign is an exercise in free speech.
That's just sad. It's funny how radio and TV airwaves are supposed to be owned by the people, yet they are tightly controlled by corporate interests, who can exercise their right to free speech a lot more than we plebes can.
Couldn't a guy arrested for soliciting a prostitute claim that he was merely exercising his first amendment rights to express his belief that paying for sex is not a crime?
He can claim whatever he wants. However, I'd love to be the prosecuting attorney on that case.
The "authorities" are mainly reacting to the Craigslist killer. They probably know this won't help in the long run, but at least it will look like they're trying. This will also disrupt prostitution temporarily, which is a good thing in their minds.
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I'm not talking specifically about Steam. More "Steam-like" download only services. In fact, I'm talking about the future scenario where Xbox and PS3 are download-only. That's why I mentioned "Live" and "PSN" in my example. It's my conclusion that you will not be able to bring games to your friend's house to play in the next generation.
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The Steam hate might have held some ground in 2002/03 while angry Counter-Strike players still clung to WON.net, but times have changed. Unless you're regularly blowing all of your monthly bandwidth on torrenting "linux isos", you can stomach a Steam game download or two with even the most draconian ISP.
Well, I'm not specifically targeting Steam, but game sizes are ballooning while ISP download caps are getting more draconian. You can't gloss this over, it's a problem that's only going to get worse. And anti-Net Neutrality deals between console manufacturers and ISPs are likely on their way, (for example: Xbox counts against the cap, PS3 doesn't) which means your choice of console could be affected by which ISPs are available in your area.
Steam doesn't persistently store your credit card information. I'd be weary of any digital delivery service that did.
Then you should be wary of Xbox Live and Playstation Network. You have to give out your Live or PSN login to download DLC to another 360/PS3. Which means whoever has the info can abuse your credit card, get you kick/banned off servers, etc.
Okay, okay, let's just say your pal doesn't want to waste the bandwidth or time on downloading; that's fine. So, I don't know - as difficult as opening Steam up, navigating to "Backup games", burning it to a disc and walking it over? Personally, I can't imagine a mortal among us to tackle this Herculean errand.
Irrelevant to console games, but I will note that I have seen some big screwups with Steam firsthand-including refusal to play a single player offline game in the same house when someone was playing an online game at the same time.
Gone are the days of juggling CDs and game installations to ensure you have 100MB of space left in order to pay tribute to the Windows 95 swap deity.
Again, irrelevant to console games. Especially to the $360, where Microsoft deigns to charge $100 for a 100 GB drive.
As a final note to answer any forthcoming "but, but, but, what-if!?" conjecturing, Valve has stated repeatedly that in the event they close up shop, a means for us customers to retain our purchases will be provided. If you have to crusade against digital delivery, don't go after Steam.
I can guarantee if that happens, it won't be up to them. If you want to put your all your eggs in one basket, that's your choice. But again, this isn't primarily about Steam. It's about the future of consoles-a future that will be download only, whether the consumer likes it or not.
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DRM doesn't bother me nearly as much as stuff like Steam and the death of the second hand market. Can you imagine how difficult it will be to bring a game to your friends' house to play?
"Hey, Ron, it's Steve. Since we're going to hang out tomorrow, I suggest you start downloading Butt Zappers 2 now. It should take up about 20 GB of your hard drive space."
"OK, what's your Live username and password?"
"It's XXXXXX and XXXXX. My credit card's on that account, don't use it to download a bunch of games like you did last time, okay bro?"
"Sure dude, but what if this puts me up over my bandwidth cap, you'll pay me back, right?"
"I guess."
"Wait a minute, I don't have any room on my hard drive left."
"So, just delete some of your old stuff. You can always download it later."
"Are you gonna pay for me to download all that stuff too?"
"Dude, I knew we should have gotten Playstation, Sony made a deal with Comcast and PSN downloads don't count against the cap."
"Yeah, and maybe we'd actually be able to download it. Looks like the Butt Zappers server is slammed right now."
Honestly, if they try to foist that stuff on us, I'll just stick with the old, disc-based systems.
He also falsely claimed that the editions that include the MPEG4 file were more expensive, that they contained time-limited versions, and that they used Microsoft DRM. You fail at reading comprehension.
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What on earth for? Why should we all live under a pretensive purple sky, when it is perfectly fine for us all to agree that the sky is in fact blue?
Please, elaborate.
The idea that some forms of art are "more serious" than others is closely tied to culture. Certain cultures can have "serious" comic books or puppet shows, whereas here in the West these things are generally considered kiddie fare. Conversely, these foreign cultures may be amused by the West getting so worked up about football, and consider it a frivolous child's game.
There's no company named "The Robber's Den" that has sales reps selling guns right next to every gas station, and which winkingly alludes to the fact they're facilitating others in criminal activity. Such a company almost certainly would be held financially, if not criminally, liable.
Not yet there isn't...but I smell BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! Who wants to go in with my on my robbery-based business?
I think it's a good idea, but the problem is complicated GPU drivers and networking. Also, booting into a separate OS means no running AIM or MSN Messenger during the game (although I never do that, I know plenty of people that do).
Ahhh, consolization at its best. Games being dumbed down, franchises becoming more important then creating good stories and/or gameplay,
That's a problem with all gaming-console and PC alike.
release dates being set in stone weather a game is ready for release or not
PC games are notorious for shipping in alpha quality, with the attitude "we'll patch it later." Consoles have largely been spared this fate, however it is creeping in a little bit with the PS3 and 360.
repetition being used in every conceivable way to artificially lengthen games without writing new code/assets.
PC games do this as well. I'm not sure why you blame this on "consolization."
By the sounds of it, the Terminator game is a turd and no amount of polish will make a turd interesting to play.
Well, I agree with you on this one at least. Tell me, has there ever been a good Terminator game? The T2 pinball game was pretty good, that's the only one I can think of.
Yep...unfortunately, this is the future for consoles. There will be no physical media in the next generation. You won't be able to take your game over to your friends' house to play. And you won't be able to resell games, either.
Why you can't read the summary after you click the comments? Is Slashdot trying to discourage people from reading summaries? Not RTFA is bad enough!
Also, why does that firehose keep loading stuff? I will hit "refresh" if I want more stories! Also, my shoes hurt. Waaah!
"G1 Google Phone Could End Up the Most Popular Console Ever"
No, it couldn't. You're wrong, and stupidly wrong at that. Next story please!
Mexican drug smugglers are not limited to cannabis.
65% of their business is related to cannabis. I'm sure even more of their business would take a hit (no pun intended) if they knew they could get a cheap legal high from weed rather than paying more for illegal meth.
They also move an enormous amount of cocaine and meth. While legalizing cannabis should have been done years ago already, meth is so clearly destroying the heartland of America.
Meth is also funding the economically challenged "heartland of America," even more so lately with the bad economy. It's a terrible, brain-rotting drug, but it's also one of the few things people will pay for. Talk about your dilemmas...
No, but it works in your Mom's kush.
Toshiba's still getting over HD-DVD. They're making upscaling DVD players to compete with Blu-Ray. They lost a lot of face, and they're losing even more money. All the huge "we do everything" Japanese conglomerates (Toshiba, Hitachi, Sanyo) are in pain due to the stagnant economy. Perhaps these lawsuits can help restore them to profitability. I hope so because Toshiba is a darn fine company that makes out with your mom.
I think Beatmania might be what you're looking for!
Wow, Sigur-Ros and Fuck Buttons! What an awesome party that would be! Musical prozac gets me SO PUMPED!
There's a My Little Pony game? Fucking awesome! I was holding off on buying an Xbox, but you changed my mind, buddy!
Do we really need someone to tell us that if I type a bunch of personal info into an idiot application. That comes from God knows where. I can be automatically assured that the information will be used for nothing other than producing a number to tell me how old I am acting?
Congradulations, sir. Despite your bizarre syntax, you're officially Too Smart to Be On Facebook.
Welcome to the Internet, where frivolous discussions about anything elevate to the point of wishing death upon someone who has a different opinion than you. You obviously haven't been desensitized.
The GP is far from the only one thinking that such advertisements and "solicitation" should be permitted. After all, there are cases where it would be perfectly reasonable to take someone up on such an offer. Perhaps the target is a known murderer, for example, and you're acting on behalf of someone they killed. Or perhaps they've made credible threats against your life, and you want to hire someone to act as your proxy in self-defense should they happen to come after you.
There's a big difference between hiring someone as a bodyguard and hiring someone to make a hit. Don't pretend like you don't know the difference.
In any event, until the deed is actually done what you propose to outlaw is nothing more than communication. In other words, pure speech. As such, the 1st Amendment should definitely apply.
Educate yourself about the "marketplace of ideas" concept and what is actually considered protected speech, both by the Framers and by later judicial decisions. Advertising for illegal acts is not, and never has been, considered protected speech.
Your false dichotomy stupifies me.
It is possible, in fact quite easy, to believe in free speech without believing that hitmen/child pornographers be able to advertise their wares. They aren't even producing "degenerate speech." It's solicitation, which has nothing to do with the "marketplace of ideas" which is at the core of the First Amendment.
But, you might say, it's still speech. But obviously ,it's not the type of speech that the Framers intended to protect. There are variable definitions of speech, you know. What you tell your friends on the 7 train is not the same as the Gettysburg Address, either. Pretending you don't understand the difference is silly.
That actor is the one responsible for the harm that results. Anything less is just someone trying to shirk the responsibility for their actions.
This is sophistry at its worst. Are you seriously saying you think it should be legal for hitmen to advertise their wares? That their offers to kill someone for money are anything like what we treasure as free speech? Surely you're high on drugs!
Campaign finance laws have been challenged on the basis that contributing money to a campaign is an exercise in free speech.
That's just sad. It's funny how radio and TV airwaves are supposed to be owned by the people, yet they are tightly controlled by corporate interests, who can exercise their right to free speech a lot more than we plebes can.
Couldn't a guy arrested for soliciting a prostitute claim that he was merely exercising his first amendment rights to express his belief that paying for sex is not a crime?
He can claim whatever he wants. However, I'd love to be the prosecuting attorney on that case.
Dude, it's not a First Amendment issue.
The "authorities" are mainly reacting to the Craigslist killer. They probably know this won't help in the long run, but at least it will look like they're trying. This will also disrupt prostitution temporarily, which is a good thing in their minds.
I'm not talking specifically about Steam. More "Steam-like" download only services. In fact, I'm talking about the future scenario where Xbox and PS3 are download-only. That's why I mentioned "Live" and "PSN" in my example. It's my conclusion that you will not be able to bring games to your friend's house to play in the next generation.
The Steam hate might have held some ground in 2002/03 while angry Counter-Strike players still clung to WON.net, but times have changed. Unless you're regularly blowing all of your monthly bandwidth on torrenting "linux isos", you can stomach a Steam game download or two with even the most draconian ISP.
Well, I'm not specifically targeting Steam, but game sizes are ballooning while ISP download caps are getting more draconian. You can't gloss this over, it's a problem that's only going to get worse. And anti-Net Neutrality deals between console manufacturers and ISPs are likely on their way, (for example: Xbox counts against the cap, PS3 doesn't) which means your choice of console could be affected by which ISPs are available in your area.
Steam doesn't persistently store your credit card information. I'd be weary of any digital delivery service that did.
Then you should be wary of Xbox Live and Playstation Network. You have to give out your Live or PSN login to download DLC to another 360/PS3. Which means whoever has the info can abuse your credit card, get you kick/banned off servers, etc.
Okay, okay, let's just say your pal doesn't want to waste the bandwidth or time on downloading; that's fine. So, I don't know - as difficult as opening Steam up, navigating to "Backup games", burning it to a disc and walking it over? Personally, I can't imagine a mortal among us to tackle this Herculean errand.
Irrelevant to console games, but I will note that I have seen some big screwups with Steam firsthand-including refusal to play a single player offline game in the same house when someone was playing an online game at the same time.
Gone are the days of juggling CDs and game installations to ensure you have 100MB of space left in order to pay tribute to the Windows 95 swap deity.
Again, irrelevant to console games. Especially to the $360, where Microsoft deigns to charge $100 for a 100 GB drive.
As a final note to answer any forthcoming "but, but, but, what-if!?" conjecturing, Valve has stated repeatedly that in the event they close up shop, a means for us customers to retain our purchases will be provided. If you have to crusade against digital delivery, don't go after Steam.
I can guarantee if that happens, it won't be up to them. If you want to put your all your eggs in one basket, that's your choice. But again, this isn't primarily about Steam. It's about the future of consoles-a future that will be download only, whether the consumer likes it or not.
DRM doesn't bother me nearly as much as stuff like Steam and the death of the second hand market. Can you imagine how difficult it will be to bring a game to your friends' house to play?
"Hey, Ron, it's Steve. Since we're going to hang out tomorrow, I suggest you start downloading Butt Zappers 2 now. It should take up about 20 GB of your hard drive space."
"OK, what's your Live username and password?"
"It's XXXXXX and XXXXX. My credit card's on that account, don't use it to download a bunch of games like you did last time, okay bro?"
"Sure dude, but what if this puts me up over my bandwidth cap, you'll pay me back, right?"
"I guess."
"Wait a minute, I don't have any room on my hard drive left."
"So, just delete some of your old stuff. You can always download it later."
"Are you gonna pay for me to download all that stuff too?"
"Dude, I knew we should have gotten Playstation, Sony made a deal with Comcast and PSN downloads don't count against the cap."
"Yeah, and maybe we'd actually be able to download it. Looks like the Butt Zappers server is slammed right now."
Honestly, if they try to foist that stuff on us, I'll just stick with the old, disc-based systems.
He also falsely claimed that the editions that include the MPEG4 file were more expensive, that they contained time-limited versions, and that they used Microsoft DRM. You fail at reading comprehension.