Yes this is the wrong crowd to ask. I can attest to GTA3 getting more than it's fair share of adult game play. While I don't mean 40 year olds, I do mean people out of school who do not hold any weight in the issue of Mommy watching what Johnny plays.
I hate to say it but there is some weight to such an article. Many parents May absent mindedly allow whatever little Johnny likes to play right into their households. But there also begs the question on what types of households these are. Many culturally rich households include many other sorts of activities which can sometimes also be looked down upon.
How many kids go without toy guns anymore? While Mom may need to watch what her kids do, I'd hate to focus on video games as the key aspect of school shoot outs. Possibly the fact that many households include guns for a child to marvel at and toys for a child to hold could be a severe indicator on how to take gaming fantasies into all too realistic realities.
While all of that can be true for certain households, there are also many times many households where everything the child does is monitored by their growth instructional unit (parent). Many of these households have parents who act as a constant positive force in the child's life and keep those negative things out of their reach. I can't say that's the end all and be all, but I can say that the most evil game of the year GTA3 (by some people's standards aparently) won't make it into those houses.
Is GTA3 really going to become the next scapegoat replacing Doom? I think that most of the naming of names for games is in quite poor taste as there are plenty of games which follow the same blood/gore/illegal activities that GTA3 partakes in. I for one welcome our new game killing parental overlords.
Scott McIntosh, an appellate lawyer with the U.S. Justice Department, assured the court that "we don't think the constitutional questions are substantial ones."
That sounds extremely accurate to the RIAA's view. Nobody has rights, but they have copyrights!
I find that interesting. Phillips obviously can't change what EMI calls their media, but it would be interesting to read more about these specs and why they're different. Don't these CDs all work fine when you make a magic marker ring around the edge? Therefore I wonder how different the spec might be for a copy protected CD. I doubt that the copy protection is still the same as when it first came out, therefore I wouldn't be surprised if the spec actually does differ from the original CD design.
In every sytem I've built, the pumps (no matter how big, and I had a few large ones) were never louder than the fan to cool the radiator. Bongs are loud from splashing water. Who cares if the pump doesn't have moving parts, you've still got to cool the water off.
At least read the/. piece!! 1/2 of it goes to Mozilla, HALF!!! That is a lot of the price of that 10 dollar coffee when you use your brain cells to compute it!
You mean a client side firewall then. There's a fairly big difference between that and the usual firewall/proxy which most large networks or home users with many computers use.
In my opinion, I think that Mac is a little too addicted to the mouse for total computer operation. Yes it's possible to operate a Mac off a keyboard, no it's not feasible.
"So try again? Build me a PC box with the level of componants in an Apple rig.. which Alien Ware does. A rough check says their systems go from 1500-2500.."
Beyond spelling... First: Alienware's machines are crap. Second: Should you want the "level of components" in an Alienware system, go build it for 1/3 the price. Third: What the hell is a "level of components"? Fourth: Should you be talking about quality of parts, don't tell me about Apple's quality. My iBook went back to the factory SIX times during the half year that I owned it!
There may be plenty of companies that still accel, but even so Lokigames was the largest game publisher (and was even in the USA malls!) and Mandrake is among the most widely used distros around, these aren't just little flops. I have no problem with a company folding, but when it's something this large, it makes people look really bad. Mandrake going down would only be slightly less hurtful than SUsE or RedHat going down, and that's even from a person who doesn't use it. As stated earlier, it's not for sure about the future, it sounds like they have Ch11 under more control than Loki did. Thus I am forced to believe that MDK is actually doing fine and just weaseling their way out of debt. Mark my words, if they screw up, it's really bad news for the face of Linux in a world that Microsoft is trusted simply because somebody's child uses the OS to play Solitare at night.
So, will they actually pull it off, or will this be just like the reorginization that Lokigames didn't pull off. I'm questioning the chance OSS has without making much money off a product (mandrake) and and how it kills its market for closed source apps (Loki)
Good thing they cant do anything about Audio->Audio transfers. Really tho, its kind of like they want to make life miserable for everybody, but they dont realize that their hands are so big that users just slip thru their fingers. It would be like Bill Gates saying that nobody pirates Windows (he stresses the problem in China, it was only an example)
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Yes this is the wrong crowd to ask. I can attest to GTA3 getting more than it's fair share of adult game play. While I don't mean 40 year olds, I do mean people out of school who do not hold any weight in the issue of Mommy watching what Johnny plays.
I hate to say it but there is some weight to such an article. Many parents May absent mindedly allow whatever little Johnny likes to play right into their households. But there also begs the question on what types of households these are. Many culturally rich households include many other sorts of activities which can sometimes also be looked down upon.
How many kids go without toy guns anymore? While Mom may need to watch what her kids do, I'd hate to focus on video games as the key aspect of school shoot outs. Possibly the fact that many households include guns for a child to marvel at and toys for a child to hold could be a severe indicator on how to take gaming fantasies into all too realistic realities.
While all of that can be true for certain households, there are also many times many households where everything the child does is monitored by their growth instructional unit (parent). Many of these households have parents who act as a constant positive force in the child's life and keep those negative things out of their reach. I can't say that's the end all and be all, but I can say that the most evil game of the year GTA3 (by some people's standards aparently) won't make it into those houses.
Is GTA3 really going to become the next scapegoat replacing Doom? I think that most of the naming of names for games is in quite poor taste as there are plenty of games which follow the same blood/gore/illegal activities that GTA3 partakes in. I for one welcome our new game killing parental overlords.
Scott McIntosh, an appellate lawyer with the U.S. Justice Department, assured the court that "we don't think the constitutional questions are substantial ones."
That sounds extremely accurate to the RIAA's view. Nobody has rights, but they have copyrights!
You just discovered the difference between making pages like the pros, and being a pro.
That just got sent to about 20 friends. Fairly well done, but it just doesn't scream their name loud enough.
I find that interesting. Phillips obviously can't change what EMI calls their media, but it would be interesting to read more about these specs and why they're different. Don't these CDs all work fine when you make a magic marker ring around the edge? Therefore I wonder how different the spec might be for a copy protected CD. I doubt that the copy protection is still the same as when it first came out, therefore I wouldn't be surprised if the spec actually does differ from the original CD design.
In every sytem I've built, the pumps (no matter how big, and I had a few large ones) were never louder than the fan to cool the radiator. Bongs are loud from splashing water. Who cares if the pump doesn't have moving parts, you've still got to cool the water off.
At least read the /. piece!! 1/2 of it goes to Mozilla, HALF!!! That is a lot of the price of that 10 dollar coffee when you use your brain cells to compute it!
Did I do thaaaaaaat?
We all know you can indeed charge for GPL software. However isn't it a little late for wanting to charge for it after you've released it?
Crack paid for by the blo^H^H dollars of our Linux users.
You mean a client side firewall then. There's a fairly big difference between that and the usual firewall/proxy which most large networks or home users with many computers use.
And if it's sending http requests over port 80? The sosftware doesn't really have to be sending over it's own port.
I'm 19, live upstairs in our house, and I happen to be a real life user of linux.
I have, I did own a mac for a few months. No, it wasn't good at all.
I'd put a smart comment like try to find out what a real machine is like here, but I dont really think I need to.
In your opinion, yes.
In my opinion, I think that Mac is a little too addicted to the mouse for total computer operation. Yes it's possible to operate a Mac off a keyboard, no it's not feasible.
"So try again? Build me a PC box with the level of componants in an Apple rig .. which Alien Ware does. A rough check says their systems go from 1500-2500 .."
Beyond spelling...
First: Alienware's machines are crap.
Second: Should you want the "level of components" in an Alienware system, go build it for 1/3 the price.
Third: What the hell is a "level of components"?
Fourth: Should you be talking about quality of parts, don't tell me about Apple's quality. My iBook went back to the factory SIX times during the half year that I owned it!
There may be plenty of companies that still accel, but even so Lokigames was the largest game publisher (and was even in the USA malls!) and Mandrake is among the most widely used distros around, these aren't just little flops. I have no problem with a company folding, but when it's something this large, it makes people look really bad. Mandrake going down would only be slightly less hurtful than SUsE or RedHat going down, and that's even from a person who doesn't use it. As stated earlier, it's not for sure about the future, it sounds like they have Ch11 under more control than Loki did. Thus I am forced to believe that MDK is actually doing fine and just weaseling their way out of debt. Mark my words, if they screw up, it's really bad news for the face of Linux in a world that Microsoft is trusted simply because somebody's child uses the OS to play Solitare at night.
So, will they actually pull it off, or will this be just like the reorginization that Lokigames didn't pull off. I'm questioning the chance OSS has without making much money off a product (mandrake) and and how it kills its market for closed source apps (Loki)
sad sad sad that M$ can control everything
Good thing they cant do anything about Audio->Audio transfers. Really tho, its kind of like they want to make life miserable for everybody, but they dont realize that their hands are so big that users just slip thru their fingers. It would be like Bill Gates saying that nobody pirates Windows (he stresses the problem in China, it was only an example)