Well, I hate Linux, so I'd much prefer Apple stay in the software AND hardware business... I just wish they'd hurry up and ship my goddamn Core 2 Duo Mac Pro:)
Second is the lack of support from certain developers (games, 3dsmax, etc). That, however, would easily be remedied had you been able to get a cheap $500 dell and slap OS X on it.
Already been remedied, you can run Windows on a Mac.
Apple must exit the computer hardware business as quickly as possible. The powerful competitive forces marshalled by a multi-billion-dollary industry will destroy Apple. Who wants to buy an overpriced computer from Apple?
OK, who gave the guys over at Gartner Slashdot accounts?
OK, now I've even searched the referenced (but not linked) article, which someone helpfully linked to above, and I've STILL been unable to locate this Blizzard. Does that quote have ANYTHING to do with the story? If I were to throw-up in the Story Submission box, would a Slashdot editor clean it up, or submit the story as-is?
Except they removed access to the content. Granted, they should've removed it completely, but there was no way to access it without modifying the game.
I don't know what the ESRB was supposed to do. They could've played the entire game, found all the hidden packages, completed every mission, achieved 100% completion of the game, and they'd still not have found the inaccessible digital boobs.
Now, Steve Bink at bink.nu is a great guy and a friend, and I know he had no idea that these guys were just ripping me off. But that's the point of this: If you separate a story enough from its true source, it's becomes kind of unclear what the truth is.
Welcome to my life.
Poor Paul Thurrott! Such a hard life you lead. "I wrote about this first, I wrote about this first! digitimes didn't credit me! IDG credited digitimes, not me! I wrote about this first! bink linked to the IDG story, what about me!"
Paul Thurrott may be an important figure in the coverage of Microsoft Product or something, but I hardly think he's the only person with "sources" who get tipped off when these things happen. Maybe, just maybe, digitimes has sources too, and they found out about the setback from some place other than Paul Thurrott's site(s). Paul needs to get over himself, he's not the sole source of Microsoft news.
Castlevania? pfft!
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Reminds me of our TI computer
Yeah, but we (I had a TI 99/4A) got great games like Parsec, Munch Man, and Tombstone City!
I saw a PS3 ad on tv last night, and it was fucking disturbing.
Basically, there's a little baby sitting on the floor. Then it cuts to a PS3. Back to the baby, who's starting to mumble things, then back to the PS3. Back to the baby again, only now his eyes are glowing and shit, then back to the PS3, which has started to levitate.
It made me want to hide in the closet, not buy a PS3.
Interestingly enough, the author of this editorial (who apparently couldn't even put his name on it) didn't refute any of those "facts" from the Forbes article.
Maybe Stallman does eat hair and engage in nasal sex.
I'd prefer a controller that I'd NOT have second thoughts about tossing across the room. If it's too light, I might feel like it'll break if it falls off the couch, let alone when I throw it at the TV. A controller should feel solid and hefty, like it'll take a good deal of abuse, and come back for more.
I mean you could get in your car and run over people for hourse then turn around and start a war with the Police, FBI, etc. and pretty much decimate a city in a matter of hours. I would call that prolonged violence.
If that's the case the other GTA games should've received an AO rating as well. The way previous games were rated kind of sets precedent (Manhunt was an M-rated game, and I think it's probably the most violent and gruesome game I've ever played - if ever a title deserved an AO rating, Manhunt has to be that title).
Granted most people know it is a video game but if you think 17 years old kids are mature then I think you need to hang out with more 17 year olds. Hell I knew 23 year olds who would act more childish then some highschoolers.
I said they were mature enough to handle such a game, not that they act mature...:) I think there is a difference. I know 40 year olds who act more childish than some highschoolers:)
Have you ever seen a place like Wal-Mart selling an AO game?
I don't know, I don't shop at Wal-Mart. But, how many games are actually rated AO, anyway? I'd never seen one, until San Andreas was re-rated.
If there were more AO games, would stores like Wal-Mart start to carry them? Does Wal-Mart still carry San Andreas (I assume they did when it was rated M)? I think if there were more AO games, and they were actually good, that stores would start carrying them. If not Wal-Mart, at least EB and Best Buy.
blah, blah, blah.. if you really give a damn, go out and do something about the problem, instead of sitting on your fat ass telling everyone what THEIR problem is and what THEY should do.
I still think video games need to be rated though and if the ESRB would have gotten off of their lazy asses and taken a real look at GTA San Andreas it probably would have been rated Adults Only in the first place. AO does not need to equal Porn.
Is there really that big a difference between an Mature (17+) rating and an AO (18+) rating? The majority of 17 year olds I know or have ever known would be mature enough to play San Andreas. And the ones that aren't probably wouldn't be mature enough at 18 either.
M: 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.
AO: ADULTS ONLY Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
The only real differentiator I see between those is the "graphic sexual content and nudity" part of the AO rating, which San Andreas didn't contain (Hot Coffee required a 3rd party modification, I hardly see how that should count). The only other difference is the "prolonged scenes of intense violence" vs. "intense violence, blood and gore" - The blood and gore sections almost makes the M rating sound worse. Are any of the "violent" scenes in San Andreas "prolonged"? How does the ESRB define "prolonged"?
No, but Sony's win sets precedent for future lawsuits. Sony could in turn sue Lik-Sang for PS2 and PS3 sales. Then Nintendo could do the same thing. Better for them to get out now than face more lawsuits.
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Well, I hate Linux, so I'd much prefer Apple stay in the software AND hardware business... I just wish they'd hurry up and ship my goddamn Core 2 Duo Mac Pro :)
So he's supposed to click the link in his email to have it open in Firefox, and then use that plugin to open the page again, but in IE this time?
Seems rather inelegant...
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Only if you can install OS X on the LC.
Second is the lack of support from certain developers (games, 3dsmax, etc). That, however, would easily be remedied had you been able to get a cheap $500 dell and slap OS X on it.
Already been remedied, you can run Windows on a Mac.
That page has a bunch of userland utilities, nothing related to the kernel OR to the GUI.
That's like saying FreeBSD should be GPL'd because it ships with GCC.
If anyone's a jackass, I'm afraid its not the grandparent poster, and it's not me. I'll leave it up to you to decide who's left.
Apple must exit the computer hardware business as quickly as possible. The powerful competitive forces marshalled by a multi-billion-dollary industry will destroy Apple. Who wants to buy an overpriced computer from Apple?
OK, who gave the guys over at Gartner Slashdot accounts?
I can read fine. If some random person is mentioned in the summary, the submitter/editor should at least say who the fuck he is.
Now, had I noticed I had to click through 5 pages of the stupid story just to generate more ad revenue for linuxworld.com, I might've found it..
OK, now I've even searched the referenced (but not linked) article, which someone helpfully linked to above, and I've STILL been unable to locate this Blizzard. Does that quote have ANYTHING to do with the story? If I were to throw-up in the Story Submission box, would a Slashdot editor clean it up, or submit the story as-is?
his reports of suckiness, which include kernel-based measurements of wasteful behavior, are helpful, Blizzard says.
Now, I can't find any mention of a Blizzard in either the linked article or the summary, so exactly who is this quote attributed to?
Except they removed access to the content. Granted, they should've removed it completely, but there was no way to access it without modifying the game.
I don't know what the ESRB was supposed to do. They could've played the entire game, found all the hidden packages, completed every mission, achieved 100% completion of the game, and they'd still not have found the inaccessible digital boobs.
Sigh.
Now, Steve Bink at bink.nu is a great guy and a friend, and I know he had no idea that these guys were just ripping me off. But that's the point of this: If you separate a story enough from its true source, it's becomes kind of unclear what the truth is.
Welcome to my life.
Poor Paul Thurrott! Such a hard life you lead. "I wrote about this first, I wrote about this first! digitimes didn't credit me! IDG credited digitimes, not me! I wrote about this first! bink linked to the IDG story, what about me!"
Paul Thurrott may be an important figure in the coverage of Microsoft Product or something, but I hardly think he's the only person with "sources" who get tipped off when these things happen. Maybe, just maybe, digitimes has sources too, and they found out about the setback from some place other than Paul Thurrott's site(s). Paul needs to get over himself, he's not the sole source of Microsoft news.
Reminds me of our TI computer
Yeah, but we (I had a TI 99/4A) got great games like Parsec, Munch Man, and Tombstone City!
I saw a PS3 ad on tv last night, and it was fucking disturbing.
Basically, there's a little baby sitting on the floor. Then it cuts to a PS3. Back to the baby, who's starting to mumble things, then back to the PS3. Back to the baby again, only now his eyes are glowing and shit, then back to the PS3, which has started to levitate.
It made me want to hide in the closet, not buy a PS3.
Interestingly enough, the author of this editorial (who apparently couldn't even put his name on it) didn't refute any of those "facts" from the Forbes article.
Maybe Stallman does eat hair and engage in nasal sex.
That's probably why, but I don't think Sony has ever admitted that.
I'd prefer a controller that I'd NOT have second thoughts about tossing across the room. If it's too light, I might feel like it'll break if it falls off the couch, let alone when I throw it at the TV. A controller should feel solid and hefty, like it'll take a good deal of abuse, and come back for more.
I mean you could get in your car and run over people for hourse then turn around and start a war with the Police, FBI, etc. and pretty much decimate a city in a matter of hours. I would call that prolonged violence.
:) I think there is a difference. I know 40 year olds who act more childish than some highschoolers :)
If that's the case the other GTA games should've received an AO rating as well. The way previous games were rated kind of sets precedent (Manhunt was an M-rated game, and I think it's probably the most violent and gruesome game I've ever played - if ever a title deserved an AO rating, Manhunt has to be that title).
Granted most people know it is a video game but if you think 17 years old kids are mature then I think you need to hang out with more 17 year olds. Hell I knew 23 year olds who would act more childish then some highschoolers.
I said they were mature enough to handle such a game, not that they act mature...
Have you ever seen a place like Wal-Mart selling an AO game?
I don't know, I don't shop at Wal-Mart. But, how many games are actually rated AO, anyway? I'd never seen one, until San Andreas was re-rated.
If there were more AO games, would stores like Wal-Mart start to carry them? Does Wal-Mart still carry San Andreas (I assume they did when it was rated M)? I think if there were more AO games, and they were actually good, that stores would start carrying them. If not Wal-Mart, at least EB and Best Buy.
blah, blah, blah.. if you really give a damn, go out and do something about the problem, instead of sitting on your fat ass telling everyone what THEIR problem is and what THEY should do.
I still think video games need to be rated though and if the ESRB would have gotten off of their lazy asses and taken a real look at GTA San Andreas it probably would have been rated Adults Only in the first place. AO does not need to equal Porn.
Is there really that big a difference between an Mature (17+) rating and an AO (18+) rating? The majority of 17 year olds I know or have ever known would be mature enough to play San Andreas. And the ones that aren't probably wouldn't be mature enough at 18 either.
M: 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.
AO: ADULTS ONLY
Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.
The only real differentiator I see between those is the "graphic sexual content and nudity" part of the AO rating, which San Andreas didn't contain (Hot Coffee required a 3rd party modification, I hardly see how that should count). The only other difference is the "prolonged scenes of intense violence" vs. "intense violence, blood and gore" - The blood and gore sections almost makes the M rating sound worse. Are any of the "violent" scenes in San Andreas "prolonged"? How does the ESRB define "prolonged"?
That's handy. Too bad I can't get online because my network requires WPA!
Don't forget the horrible English/French hybrid they sing at sporting events so as not to offend anybody.
Actually, since this is about Canada, it'd be the CRIA's turf :)
No, but Sony's win sets precedent for future lawsuits. Sony could in turn sue Lik-Sang for PS2 and PS3 sales. Then Nintendo could do the same thing. Better for them to get out now than face more lawsuits.