I still cannot fathom how games can come under such scrutiny while television and movies show things far, far more brutal, sadistic, and sexually depraved.
You watch a movie from a distance that is both physical and pychological.
You are not a partcipant in the action. You are not invited to wield the knife and you are not rewarded for the ingenuity of your kills.
I don't believe that a jury would convict a divorced mother of five on the crime of downloading pirated media.
You aren't the one who will be selecting the jury. You won't be chosen if the judge thinks you aren't capable of making a decision based on the facts and the law.
The odds are that a juror will be middle-aged and middle class, socially conservative.
The kind of person who believes in an ordered, structured society, and who does not bend the rules on the grounds they have become inconvenient.
Windows XP and WIN.NET 72% Up 2% from September 05 Linux 3% Up 1% from March 03
the third party products available for..Linux will explode which will in turn have users demanding to run something other than Windows
The reality is that when an open source project moves beyond the hobbyist stage it is generally ported to Windows or is developed as a native Windows app. Most Active Projects
My local newspaper purports to be accurate and non-libelous. Wikipedia does not. The difference (almost) is between something in a newspaper, and something scribbled on a bathroom wall.
"Scribblings on a bathroom wall." I'll remember that the next time I am tempted to cite the Wikipedia as a reference.
prior restraint
Prior restraint applies to abrbritrary suppressiom of the press by executive action. It does not mean you can't be stopped by a court before publishing your libel.
WalMart.com no longer sells Microtel machines with Linsipre on them>
The chain has been losing the middle class to upscale retailers like Walmart, What sells looks a lot more like Microtel's HTPC running Windows than the el cheapo Linux box. Factor in HDTV sales and the X-Box 360 and you have a potent and profitable combination.
They don't think of the sheer number of applications that you get right out of the box with many distros.
Whenever anyone tries to distribute a sampler disk of OSS, it always boils down to "the usual suspects," mature, cross-platform, apps that anyone can use.
That's a pretty bold claim, with a very tiny amount of anecdotal evidence to back it up.
They may fall like snowflakes on Buffalo here, I have yet to come across a BSOD joke "in the wild." A quick search of Google returned 81 pages of what passes for Geek humor. But damn few questions from end-users, and nothing from sources like "Consumer Reports."
the concept of freely available, community developed software being anything but cheap crap is not really that widespread in the mainstream
Maybe that is because the OS apps with "mainstream" recognition have been community projects in name only. It is the Sun logo the user sees when he launches OpenOffice.
More likely the IT department sees a need for X, draws up a budget for X with the company's current platform, and gets the budget rejected. So they just do it anyway with the open source solution, present it as a working solution and off you go
I distrust "stealth" installs. The Cowboy in IT is God's gift to Microsoft.
I disagree.. The average user I talk to is sick of pop-ups, spywayre, browser hijacks and other nusances that come with IE. When I tell them about Firefox, they are interested and some even download it.
They could just download Microsoft's Antispyware, the MSN, Google, or Yahoo toolbars. It has become very easy to make these problems go away.
Was Hot Coffee actually in the game with a cheat code?
Hot Coffee was found in the PC, PS2 and X-Box pressings of the game.
Rockstar's reckless "don't look at us" PR offensive backfired disastrously in Congress and the state legislatures, where the gangster game gene is equally poisonous and potent politically whether you represent the inner city or the suburbs.
Just because an OS has market share and it is lucrative to port to it, does not mean that it is preferable or enjoyable or even in the long-term best interest of the world to support that OS.
"In the long run, we are all dead."
You develop for the platform that has the users and pays the bills. This week.
iTunes, Firefox, OpenOffice.org had negligible press or presence until they were ported to Windows.
Why in God's name would you ever expect that kind of reaction from ANYONE, much less an internet message board?
Because this is the behavior that is expected of an adult and what we try to teach our kids?
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Short of slander, whatever nasty stuff someone says about you in a situation like that is fair game. If he doesn't like the attention, maybe he should shut the fuck up and stop making an ass out of himself publically.
Trash talk on Amazon simply proves Thompson's point: that the gamer hasn't the maturity to cross the street alone.
There are damn few public forums where gamers have a chance to break through to a larger audience. Amazon isn't obliged to provide you that platform.
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Microsoft Research opened in China in 1998.
In 2002, Microsoft was the first foreign company invited to join the China Software Industry Association. Microsoft Joins in China Software Industry Association
OS Platform Stats October 2005:
Windows XP and Win.NET 72% Up 2% from September 05
Linux 3% Up 1% from March 03
This is how the world looks to a web developer. I'll leave it to your imagination where Microsoft stands in the home market.
you can pirate Windows and run it on a cheap PC if you need to
or you can buy a brand new Celeron PC with a 17" CRT, XP Home and Word Perfect from Dell for $250 plus shipping: Basic Desktops
Win MCE is fast becoming the default consumer install even on the laptop. I suggest you take a look at the holiday specials from Dell.
I hear the X-Box 360 is making waves too.
You watch a movie from a distance that is both physical and pychological.
You are not a partcipant in the action. You are not invited to wield the knife and you are not rewarded for the ingenuity of your kills.
You aren't the one who will be selecting the jury. You won't be chosen if the judge thinks you aren't capable of making a decision based on the facts and the law.
The odds are that a juror will be middle-aged and middle class, socially conservative.
The kind of person who believes in an ordered, structured society, and who does not bend the rules on the grounds they have become inconvenient.
OS Platform Statistics October 2005:
Windows XP and WIN.NET 72% Up 2% from September 05
Linux 3% Up 1% from March 03
the third party products available for..Linux will explode which will in turn have users demanding to run something other than Windows
The reality is that when an open source project moves beyond the hobbyist stage it is generally ported to Windows or is developed as a native Windows app. Most Active Projects
"Scribblings on a bathroom wall." I'll remember that the next time I am tempted to cite the Wikipedia as a reference.
prior restraint
Prior restraint applies to abrbritrary suppressiom of the press by executive action. It does not mean you can't be stopped by a court before publishing your libel.
The First Amendement protects political debate from government interference. But it is not a license to libel or slander anyone.
A mistake that allowed an AO mini-game -not a media file - to be unlocked and played on three different platforms?
911 callers can be in pain beyond anything you've experienced or imagined, profoundly anxious and disoriented, or simply unable to speak.
You will never understand until it happens to you.
Americans regard capitalist hardball as the norm and have little sympathy for losers, no matter how much they complain that the other guy cheated.
Adjusted for inflation, I'd suspect that MS pricing has remained stable or gone down.
The chain has been losing the middle class to upscale retailers like Walmart, What sells looks a lot more like Microtel's HTPC running Windows than the el cheapo Linux box. Factor in HDTV sales and the X-Box 360 and you have a potent and profitable combination.
Whenever anyone tries to distribute a sampler disk of OSS, it always boils down to "the usual suspects," mature, cross-platform, apps that anyone can use.
They may fall like snowflakes on Buffalo here, I have yet to come across a BSOD joke "in the wild." A quick search of Google returned 81 pages of what passes for Geek humor. But damn few questions from end-users, and nothing from sources like "Consumer Reports."
You haven't much experience with civil litigation in the states. Two years is nothing.
200+ Linux distros creates confusion enough. But Linux can't go on if users must chose between competing and incompatible Linux kernels.
Maybe that is because the OS apps with "mainstream" recognition have been community projects in name only. It is the Sun logo the user sees when he launches OpenOffice.
I distrust "stealth" installs. The Cowboy in IT is God's gift to Microsoft.
They could just download Microsoft's Antispyware, the MSN, Google, or Yahoo toolbars. It has become very easy to make these problems go away.
Hot Coffee was found in the PC, PS2 and X-Box pressings of the game.
Rockstar's reckless "don't look at us" PR offensive backfired disastrously in Congress and the state legislatures, where the gangster game gene is equally poisonous and potent politically whether you represent the inner city or the suburbs.
"In the long run, we are all dead."
You develop for the platform that has the users and pays the bills. This week.
iTunes, Firefox, OpenOffice.org had negligible press or presence until they were ported to Windows.
Because this is the behavior that is expected of an adult and what we try to teach our kids?
Trash talk on Amazon simply proves Thompson's point: that the gamer hasn't the maturity to cross the street alone.
There are damn few public forums where gamers have a chance to break through to a larger audience. Amazon isn't obliged to provide you that platform.