Word has it that they didn't play Manhunt 2 but just watched the video trailers. That's usually how it works, right? They try to shoehorn video games into the same ratings mechanic as movies just because they have graphics and then boost the rating 2 or 3 levels because it must be worse because you're "interacting" with it.
You know, I'd do a better job than the ESRB just by looking at the cover art and back of the box. Sure there'd be a few titles rated AO just so they wouldn't get released (like if they're stupid enough to put out another Tenchu) but over all the quality of the ratings would be a lot more consistent and would serve as a better guide for parents.
If only we could get that lucky. I'd be happy if we get out of this in my lifetime. Unless some Democrats grow the balls to remove Roberts, Alito, and Thomas for perjuring themselves in their confirmation hearings.
That's not marketing. That's SALES. When they go to [bignameoem] and say "you have to buy a copy of windows for every machine that you sell (thus all but ensuring that you install it on every machine that you sell) or you have to pay retail price" is an unethical SALES tactic. It isn't marketing.
Yeah, I guess they could just go with using the SD card slot... but seems kind of pricey per megabyte. But they managed to put out some games that people like on XBLA with a 50MB limit so maybe it'll work. Wouldn't really want a hdd hanging off the back of the system anyway.
How about they start doing that with the disc-based games first. And this basically confirms a hard drive addon (hopefully they won't make you use theirs) because that 512MB isn't going to last.
I'm sure the majority of republicans run it because they're so in bed with big corporations so they're obviously helping out their republican buddies at microsoft. There's also the chance that a few of the candidates picked it because their tech guys are also republicans and thus idiots.
Not sure what accounts for republicans who aren't using windows. Perhaps they outsourced their hosting to India?
I have this feeling that pretty soon they'd realize that the video game industry is in fact losing $3 Billion per year per person!!! You've got to figure in all those casual games that people play while blocking the ads that are supposed to pay for them!
The majority of them have proven that they are unable to vote in their best interests, whether economic or otherwise. If this is ignorance it is to such a degree as to be indistinguishable from stupidity. These people are idiots and I won't pretend otherwise for the sake of "civility."
I don't know how well your analogy works there, since I can't think of any MMO guilds that actually matter. But with bloggers there are a few who actually are influential. It's just that all the rest of them seem to think that because they blog they're also influential, which they're not. But they also have a lot of people (cable news and what not) telling them that they're influential and important. I'm pretty sure these guys in these guilds are just being told to clean their room and get a job (mostly by their mom).
You should just do what I do and wave the Magical Copyright Protection Wand(tm) over all your posts. The Magical Copyright Protection Wand(tm) is a system designed to protect the copyright on my posts and enforce my licensing terms. I happen to only license derivative works of my posts (ie: replies, citations) to those who agree with me 100%. Anyone else is in violation of the DMCA for circumventing the Magical Copyright Protection Wand(tm).
Is it illegal under the DMCA to circumvent region locking mechanisms? And if you could prove that the lockout is actually more about locking users out of playing alternate region discs would you still be in violation?
Not that we shouldn't keep working to get rid of the DMCA since it serves no purpose for the people and is effectively just more corporate welfare on top of that.
Now I'm just fucking cheap. But I don't want to pay $15-20 for a CD, especially since there is almost nothing that I would want to listen to (that I know of) that I don't already own on CD. Maybe if the radio wasn't so full of annoying ads and the same 5 garbage songs being pushed by big record companies being played over and over again I might find new stuff I want to listen to, but not the way it is now.
Of course there's always stuff like Pandora.com, but most of the time it plays stuff that I kind of like listening to while it's playing but don't feel compelled to purchase^Wlicense.
The government is whoever we elect it to be (except when the supreme court decides or someone just steals it). So I guess if we don't care enough to keep the idiots from electing people who don't have our best interests at heart that's the kind of government we get. And I'd say deserve.
But the government doesn't have to be a bunch of assholes like bush and his gang. But you seem to be one of the idiots who has drunk the koolaid, so it probably doesn't do any good to tell you that.
We can only hope. I'm fearing the day that one of the big Linux distros backs miguel's future project (that I'm sure he's already thinking about): gnome.mono. He'll probably find some way to write it in c# with a moonlight front-end, ick.
That's where it'll ask you your age before letting you see something. There's some gaming site that has this on their flash videos. I just put in January 1 (default date) and then whichever year I happen to click on first, usually somewhere in the 60s or 70s. It's stupid, because there's NO verification (I don't think there should be anyway, don't let your kids on the Internet if you don't want them to see stuff) and it's just annoying as fuck.
Never heard the term "age-gating" before though, but it makes sense.
I don't think I've ever heard someone say that there was nothing before the Big Bang, except you creationist nutcases. Clearly there was something there before it, and clearly there is probably no way for us ever to see what that was. That doesn't mean there was any sort of design by any sort of intelligence.
That you can go out of the house expressing views like that without being horribly embarrassed is amazing. Or maybe you just never leave your mom's basement.
Just in case you were wondering, all the matter that there is or ever will be has always existed. It floated around in space and through literally countless collisions due to the inherent physics of everything (that have also always existed) they eventually came together into stars and planets and on some of them, such as Earth, life evolved and here we are. Whether or not this explanation is true (it likely is similar to the truth) it sure as hell seems easier to believe than some desert sky daddy or whatever nonsense you believe.
I wasn't defending flash and have been saying for years (like 5 of them) that it needs to be broken up into two separate products and re-written from the ground up. But it currently works for most people most of the time and is already entrenched.
So yeah, I'd rather stick with that than transition to some microsoft thing with the only route to adoption on Linux being through a de icaza project (and all the crap that goes along with that).
Adobe mostly lacks motivation to support Linux, as opposed to microsoft that directly benefits from its demise. And yes, I fucking HATE miguel de icaza. He's trying to destroy desktop Linux, and doing a pretty successful job.
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Word has it that they didn't play Manhunt 2 but just watched the video trailers. That's usually how it works, right? They try to shoehorn video games into the same ratings mechanic as movies just because they have graphics and then boost the rating 2 or 3 levels because it must be worse because you're "interacting" with it.
You know, I'd do a better job than the ESRB just by looking at the cover art and back of the box. Sure there'd be a few titles rated AO just so they wouldn't get released (like if they're stupid enough to put out another Tenchu) but over all the quality of the ratings would be a lot more consistent and would serve as a better guide for parents.
It's going to be rough 10-15 years.
If only we could get that lucky. I'd be happy if we get out of this in my lifetime. Unless some Democrats grow the balls to remove Roberts, Alito, and Thomas for perjuring themselves in their confirmation hearings.
Race in humans doesn't exist. Next!
And probably the name of the editor who will post this article again tomorrow, too.
That's not marketing. That's SALES. When they go to [bignameoem] and say "you have to buy a copy of windows for every machine that you sell (thus all but ensuring that you install it on every machine that you sell) or you have to pay retail price" is an unethical SALES tactic. It isn't marketing.
And there's a little sentence at the bottom that says something about them being compensated for their time or being a paid spokesperson or something.
Yeah, I guess they could just go with using the SD card slot... but seems kind of pricey per megabyte. But they managed to put out some games that people like on XBLA with a 50MB limit so maybe it'll work. Wouldn't really want a hdd hanging off the back of the system anyway.
So are they going to come back with a "movie" or two like Babylon 5 when Halo 3 hits?
How about they start doing that with the disc-based games first. And this basically confirms a hard drive addon (hopefully they won't make you use theirs) because that 512MB isn't going to last.
I'm sure the majority of republicans run it because they're so in bed with big corporations so they're obviously helping out their republican buddies at microsoft. There's also the chance that a few of the candidates picked it because their tech guys are also republicans and thus idiots.
Not sure what accounts for republicans who aren't using windows. Perhaps they outsourced their hosting to India?
I have this feeling that pretty soon they'd realize that the video game industry is in fact losing $3 Billion per year per person!!! You've got to figure in all those casual games that people play while blocking the ads that are supposed to pay for them!
The majority of them have proven that they are unable to vote in their best interests, whether economic or otherwise. If this is ignorance it is to such a degree as to be indistinguishable from stupidity. These people are idiots and I won't pretend otherwise for the sake of "civility."
I don't know how well your analogy works there, since I can't think of any MMO guilds that actually matter. But with bloggers there are a few who actually are influential. It's just that all the rest of them seem to think that because they blog they're also influential, which they're not. But they also have a lot of people (cable news and what not) telling them that they're influential and important. I'm pretty sure these guys in these guilds are just being told to clean their room and get a job (mostly by their mom).
You should just do what I do and wave the Magical Copyright Protection Wand(tm) over all your posts. The Magical Copyright Protection Wand(tm) is a system designed to protect the copyright on my posts and enforce my licensing terms. I happen to only license derivative works of my posts (ie: replies, citations) to those who agree with me 100%. Anyone else is in violation of the DMCA for circumventing the Magical Copyright Protection Wand(tm).
Is it illegal under the DMCA to circumvent region locking mechanisms? And if you could prove that the lockout is actually more about locking users out of playing alternate region discs would you still be in violation?
Not that we shouldn't keep working to get rid of the DMCA since it serves no purpose for the people and is effectively just more corporate welfare on top of that.
Now I'm just fucking cheap. But I don't want to pay $15-20 for a CD, especially since there is almost nothing that I would want to listen to (that I know of) that I don't already own on CD. Maybe if the radio wasn't so full of annoying ads and the same 5 garbage songs being pushed by big record companies being played over and over again I might find new stuff I want to listen to, but not the way it is now.
Of course there's always stuff like Pandora.com, but most of the time it plays stuff that I kind of like listening to while it's playing but don't feel compelled to purchase^Wlicense.
The government is whoever we elect it to be (except when the supreme court decides or someone just steals it). So I guess if we don't care enough to keep the idiots from electing people who don't have our best interests at heart that's the kind of government we get. And I'd say deserve.
But the government doesn't have to be a bunch of assholes like bush and his gang. But you seem to be one of the idiots who has drunk the koolaid, so it probably doesn't do any good to tell you that.
Yes, google would be better than microsoft. Next question.
We can only hope. I'm fearing the day that one of the big Linux distros backs miguel's future project (that I'm sure he's already thinking about): gnome.mono. He'll probably find some way to write it in c# with a moonlight front-end, ick.
Probably something very similar to what is after. It wasn't "god," I assure you of that.
That's where it'll ask you your age before letting you see something. There's some gaming site that has this on their flash videos. I just put in January 1 (default date) and then whichever year I happen to click on first, usually somewhere in the 60s or 70s. It's stupid, because there's NO verification (I don't think there should be anyway, don't let your kids on the Internet if you don't want them to see stuff) and it's just annoying as fuck.
Never heard the term "age-gating" before though, but it makes sense.
I don't think I've ever heard someone say that there was nothing before the Big Bang, except you creationist nutcases. Clearly there was something there before it, and clearly there is probably no way for us ever to see what that was. That doesn't mean there was any sort of design by any sort of intelligence.
That you can go out of the house expressing views like that without being horribly embarrassed is amazing. Or maybe you just never leave your mom's basement.
Just in case you were wondering, all the matter that there is or ever will be has always existed. It floated around in space and through literally countless collisions due to the inherent physics of everything (that have also always existed) they eventually came together into stars and planets and on some of them, such as Earth, life evolved and here we are. Whether or not this explanation is true (it likely is similar to the truth) it sure as hell seems easier to believe than some desert sky daddy or whatever nonsense you believe.
I wasn't defending flash and have been saying for years (like 5 of them) that it needs to be broken up into two separate products and re-written from the ground up. But it currently works for most people most of the time and is already entrenched.
So yeah, I'd rather stick with that than transition to some microsoft thing with the only route to adoption on Linux being through a de icaza project (and all the crap that goes along with that).
Adobe mostly lacks motivation to support Linux, as opposed to microsoft that directly benefits from its demise. And yes, I fucking HATE miguel de icaza. He's trying to destroy desktop Linux, and doing a pretty successful job.
I sure hope so. Then they can lock him away somewhere underground in Redmond so we won't have to put up with him ruining Linux anymore.