Since none of the three console producers will allow AO games, they have effectively ruined the rating system. If these companies would just allow all games to play on their systems without artificially hampering them, everyone would be happy.
Manhunt 2 is "adult entertainment" only in the sense that it rquires proof of age.
One of the rewards of maturity is turning your back on the schlockmeister's blood and gore fest and admitting that you rather spend an evening out with Brad Bird, Tim Burton, Nick Park, etc.
To run a router you'll want to log into it at 192.168.x.1 (find the x using ipconfig or whatever) click on the advanced button, then on the ppp location button, set to "bridged mode, ppp is not used" and then apply, it might ask for the modem access code which is on a yellow sticker on the underside of the modem. then configure pppoE on your router....
congratulations. you have just explained why 99.99% of home users choose the setup disk for Windows or the Mac.
what makes this game worse than Hostel or Turistas? Do games deserve to be judged more harshly than any other medium?
You watch a movie for ninety minutes. You watch a movie from a physical and psychological distance. You do not act out the twist of the knife. You are not rewarded for the brutality of your kills.
The "torture porn" of Hostel has become box office poison.
Manhunt 2 is the video game equivalent of the exploitation flick that ups the ante but hits the screens after the audience has gone elsewhere.
Cheeky Rockstar programmers left hidden sex animations (accidentally or otherwise) buried in the PS2 code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Modders made sure they didn't stay buried for long.
Vice City helped set the stage.
Rockstar North, based in Scotland, enraged ethnic communities in Miami.
Rockstar came into the arena with a reputation for pushing the limits of public tolerance for violence in the M-rated game - and touched a raw nerve simply by being so far removed physically from the American inner city gang violence it exploits.
Hot Coffee could be unlocked in every version of GTA: San Andreas.
There is no way a voluntary ratings system could survive if AO content could be embedded in a game "accidentally-on-purpose" and later exposed through some more or less trivial "mod."
Manhunt 2 seems to arrived as the window of opportunity is closing on the entire "torture porn" genre.
Virgin Mobile, phones available at Target or Best Buy, starting at around $20 for a phone that doesn't have a camera, mp3 player, or corkscrew. Just a phone.
You'll find Virgin Mobile at the neighborhood RiteAid.
Why are there never winges about 'MS Office just doesn't render Open Office format docs properly' or 'MS is rubbish because the tab key behaves differently to OO'?
Because all your correspondents can read MS Office docs and the occasional PDF.
Because with one phone call to a temp service you can staff a branch office with X number of employees with ten years experience in MS Office. Where X is a number from one to one thousand.
I too have to take issue with the notion that "training" should be even required for processing words, running a spreadsheet or creating a presentation of any kind. If you or anyone else can't figure out how to use Open Office without "training" they've got to be dumb as rocks. And I'm not writing flame-bait here. I dead serious about that.
What the boss is looking for is a temp who can come in cold, and work through a mountain of backlogged paperwork quickly and efficiently. "Help" files are not a substitute for training and experience.
No, because TFA specifically said that MS "conceded" to letting their users run office at home.
There is nothing new in this.
Employees can get a licensed copy of Microsoft Office desktop applications, such as Microsoft Office Professional, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Visio Professional, to install and use on a home computer. The only cost to employees for the Home Use Program benefit is the cost of media (CDs), shipping, and handling.Volume Licensing: Home Use Program
Employees are encouraged to discontinue use of the software on termination of their employment, but there has never been a mechanism in place to enforce the rules.
If you work for the NHS you can order Office 2007 on-line for a S&H cost of eighteen pounds, Microsoft Home User Programme
it's just a word processor. And one that isn't all that dissimilar to Word. "Training" issues often seem to be overblown, in my experience. Personal likes and dislikes, however, are another story. As is resistance to change, which can be almost insurmountable.
Every high school within seventy-five miles, every community college, every outreach program for those on disability and welfare, offers evening courses in MS Office. These certificates are marketable, they are what employers want to see.
so now that sunrocket's "24-7" customer service line promptly hangs up on you, WTF do we do about getting a refund? they just charged me last month $199 for my renewal.
you stand in line with the other 200,000 paid-up subscribers and kiss your money goodbye.
Can VOIP providers who aren't connected with a Telco make a go of it?
What struck me were the numbers, which do not impress: Vonage at $2.95 a share. Penny stock
territory. SunRocket No. 2 in VoIP with 200,000 subscribers.
From The-Handwriting-Is-On-The-Wall Department:
Internet phone service provider SunRocket Inc. fired a significant number of employees and several top executives on June 29.
The layoffs included Chief Technology Officer Mark Fedor and Chief Information Officer Robert Kramer. CFO David Samuels also is leaving the company. He resigned July 2 to take an executive position with another firm.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that SunRocket laid off 30 employees, a figure the paper said was a quarter of the company's staff.
CEO Lisa Hook denied...at the beginning of May that her team was preparing to cut a significant number of staff -- which at the time numbered 160 full-time and contract employees.
SunRocket has raised approximately $20 million in additional venture capital from existing investors since early spring bringing the company's total capital raised to date to about $100 million.
The company is likely to [reach] August with a total of $30 million to $40 million in new venture capital, said one of SunRocket's investors.
"There's a lot of interest in the company. Obviously it's been tough with the industry being under pressure, but the category is still strong."
SunRocket has been pulled into the legal fracas over Internet phone technology.. as well as increased competition by cable providers packaging Internet telephone service... Vonage's disappointing {IPO] in May 2006 and poor stock performance has also hurt. Vonage shares debuted at a price of $17 on May 24, 2006 and were trading at $3.13 early on July 3. SunRocket fires 2 top execs, staff [July 3, 2007]
Free software empowers users. We all know that if you're a coder, you can fix free software yourself, but more importantly, if you run an organization that depends on the software, you can pay someone to fix it.
Fixing a mission-critical app can cost bucket loads of cash.
The fix that breaks compatibility with the bog-standard install means trouble down the road.
Your hernia-in-a-box won't mount on a wall, have widescreen display, digital audio outputs, a digital ATSC tuner, etc., etc. You are paying the close-out price on close-out tech.
But it seems to me that the original image is in the public domain, and therefore any faithful copy may be published without need for permission from anyone.
The painting was first exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.
But finding a "faithful copy" presents something of a challenge. Williard painted at least four versions, and there are countless lithographs, etc. Spirit of '76
Sure enough, even knowing that the copyright holder doesn't want me to do such a thing might not stop me from doing it
Do you have to be hit by a bus before you learn not to cross against the light?
if I find a piece of music on the Internet and I want to use it in something that I'm creating, how do I know if I can? Who do I contact? What if I don't even know what the song actually is?
One place to begin is with the rights agencies themselves, ASCAP, BMI, SoundExchange, and so on. There you are likely to find FAQs - Licensing 101 - search engines and other resources.
Corbis has tons of pre 1923 images, images from US Govt photographers (WWII, etc) that are all labeled (c) copyright
Corbis stores 100 million photos in a refrigerated cave 225 feet down. Iron Mountain Incorporated Corbis isn't distributing direct copies of the originals, it is licensing print-ready digital scans.
Not everything is an arrangement. You can get new prints of the original scores, and those can't be copyrighted.
The question ia, can a 21st century musician read and play an unedited 18th century score? Without having expert knowledge of 18th century notation, instruments, orchestrations, traditions of performance, and so on.
The only way that Toshiba can overcome the tyranny of Sony/Minolta and their competing Blue-Ray format is to obviously make the HD-DVD format open source.
Nice one.
But Blu-ray's prime advantage is in studio support.
he freely admits his math can justify a 70 or for that matter any copyright (except possibly infinite, not quite sure. But if it's 3.4e38 years who cares.) The 14 year mark only comes from the numbers he decided to stick in as historical averages.
so the math proves nothing and the numbers he inputs are pulled from a hat.
in two sentences, you gut the paper of any meaning.
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Manhunt 2 is "adult entertainment" only in the sense that it rquires proof of age.
One of the rewards of maturity is turning your back on the schlockmeister's blood and gore fest and admitting that you rather spend an evening out with Brad Bird, Tim Burton, Nick Park, etc.
congratulations. you have just explained why 99.99% of home users choose the setup disk for Windows or the Mac.
The console manufacturers don't need the grief.
There will be federal legislation - demands for proof of age online that cannot be trivially compromised.
You watch a movie for ninety minutes. You watch a movie from a physical and psychological distance. You do not act out the twist of the knife. You are not rewarded for the brutality of your kills.
The "torture porn" of Hostel has become box office poison.
Manhunt 2 is the video game equivalent of the exploitation flick that ups the ante but hits the screens after the audience has gone elsewhere.
if "there is nothing worth watching" then why are you posting?
Vice City helped set the stage.
Rockstar North, based in Scotland, enraged ethnic communities in Miami.
Rockstar came into the arena with a reputation for pushing the limits of public tolerance for violence in the M-rated game - and touched a raw nerve simply by being so far removed physically from the American inner city gang violence it exploits.
Hot Coffee could be unlocked in every version of GTA: San Andreas.
There is no way a voluntary ratings system could survive if AO content could be embedded in a game "accidentally-on-purpose" and later exposed through some more or less trivial "mod."
Manhunt 2 seems to arrived as the window of opportunity is closing on the entire "torture porn" genre.
You'll find Virgin Mobile at the neighborhood RiteAid.
Because all your correspondents can read MS Office docs and the occasional PDF.
Because with one phone call to a temp service you can staff a branch office with X number of employees with ten years experience in MS Office. Where X is a number from one to one thousand.
What the boss is looking for is a temp who can come in cold, and work through a mountain of backlogged paperwork quickly and efficiently. "Help" files are not a substitute for training and experience.
There is nothing new in this.
Employees can get a licensed copy of Microsoft Office desktop applications, such as Microsoft Office Professional, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Visio Professional, to install and use on a home computer. The only cost to employees for the Home Use Program benefit is the cost of media (CDs), shipping, and handling. Volume Licensing: Home Use Program
Employees are encouraged to discontinue use of the software on termination of their employment, but there has never been a mechanism in place to enforce the rules.
If you work for the NHS you can order Office 2007 on-line for a S&H cost of eighteen pounds, Microsoft Home User Programme
Every high school within seventy-five miles, every community college, every outreach program for those on disability and welfare, offers evening courses in MS Office. These certificates are marketable, they are what employers want to see.
you stand in line with the other 200,000 paid-up subscribers and kiss your money goodbye.
What struck me were the numbers, which do not impress: Vonage at $2.95 a share. Penny stock territory. SunRocket No. 2 in VoIP with 200,000 subscribers.
From The-Handwriting-Is-On-The-Wall Department:
Internet phone service provider SunRocket Inc. fired a significant number of employees and several top executives on June 29.
The layoffs included Chief Technology Officer Mark Fedor and Chief Information Officer Robert Kramer. CFO David Samuels also is leaving the company. He resigned July 2 to take an executive position with another firm.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that SunRocket laid off 30 employees, a figure the paper said was a quarter of the company's staff.
CEO Lisa Hook denied...at the beginning of May that her team was preparing to cut a significant number of staff -- which at the time numbered 160 full-time and contract employees.
SunRocket has raised approximately $20 million in additional venture capital from existing investors since early spring bringing the company's total capital raised to date to about $100 million.
The company is likely to [reach] August with a total of $30 million to $40 million in new venture capital, said one of SunRocket's investors. "There's a lot of interest in the company. Obviously it's been tough with the industry being under pressure, but the category is still strong."
SunRocket has been pulled into the legal fracas over Internet phone technology.. as well as increased competition by cable providers packaging Internet telephone service... Vonage's disappointing {IPO] in May 2006 and poor stock performance has also hurt. Vonage shares debuted at a price of $17 on May 24, 2006 and were trading at $3.13 early on July 3. SunRocket fires 2 top execs, staff [July 3, 2007]
Fixing a mission-critical app can cost bucket loads of cash.
The fix that breaks compatibility with the bog-standard install means trouble down the road.
Your hernia-in-a-box won't mount on a wall, have widescreen display, digital audio outputs, a digital ATSC tuner, etc., etc. You are paying the close-out price on close-out tech.
The painting was first exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876.
But finding a "faithful copy" presents something of a challenge. Williard painted at least four versions, and there are countless lithographs, etc. Spirit of '76
Do you have to be hit by a bus before you learn not to cross against the light?
if I find a piece of music on the Internet and I want to use it in something that I'm creating, how do I know if I can? Who do I contact? What if I don't even know what the song actually is?
One place to begin is with the rights agencies themselves, ASCAP, BMI, SoundExchange, and so on. There you are likely to find FAQs - Licensing 101 - search engines and other resources.
Corbis stores 100 million photos in a refrigerated cave 225 feet down. Iron Mountain Incorporated Corbis isn't distributing direct copies of the originals, it is licensing print-ready digital scans.
Here is a simple experiment:
Open a Project Gutenberg e-text. Compare it to the Penguin Classics edition.
You'll almost certainly find the Gutenberg text a very tough slog -- and that HTML or a PDF scan of the original isn't going to help you very much.
The question ia, can a 21st century musician read and play an unedited 18th century score? Without having expert knowledge of 18th century notation, instruments, orchestrations, traditions of performance, and so on.
The "early adopters" went HD in 2001. HD is mass-market in 2007: ilo 32" Widescreen LCD HDTV w/ Built-in Digital ATSC/NTSC Tuner $500
Resolution 1366 x 768
HDMI, S-Video, Component Video, DVI Inputs
Nice one.
But Blu-ray's prime advantage is in studio support.
so the math proves nothing and the numbers he inputs are pulled from a hat.
in two sentences, you gut the paper of any meaning.
Because financial independence gives you the freedom to take risks?
It's the mature Spielberg who produces Schindler's List, not the young director of Duel.
Pinocchio (1940) Carlo Collodi 1826-1890 Life plus 50 years?
The Reluctant Dragon (1941) and Wind in the Willows (1949) Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932
Under Berne copyright.
The Sword and the Rose (1953) Charles Major 1856-1913 Just under the wire?
The Jungle Book (1967) Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 Under Berne copyright.