I'm not "trying" to say anything. I'm saying exactly what I did say, and it'd doesn't resemble in any way your attempted summary.
If you have a point of your own to make, then make it. But posts that consist of nothing more than misrepresenting what others have said are no use to anyone.
Perhaps because Nintendo was smart enough to include buttons and d-pads on both?
But that doesn't "teach the gaming industry" anything. Other than Nintendo made the choice to include buttons.
*IF* systems without buttons were bound to be a massive failure for games, then Apple wouldn't have such a successful mobile gaming platform. But they do.
I read exactly what you said. You said one problem. Yet I had linked to an article which described multiple problems on that day, and linked back to the stabbing of two weeks before. That isn't "one".
I'm sure you're right. The police just overstepped the mark, and decided to hack an innocent man's messages JUST IN CASE he decides to murder under the guise of being in a water pistol fight.
I think you need to calm down. There's no evidence of "hacking", and the encryption on system is strong enough that the police couldn't decipher the messages without RIM (A Canadian company) cooperating. The Occam's razor explanation is that someone forwarded BBM to the police because they were concerned.
*IF* this truly was a simple water fight, then he won't end up with a criminal record, as that isn't illegal. Trouble is you're not admitting the possibility that there is more to this than you realise.
You are joking, right? One problem over hundreds of events in the country?
I guess you didn't read to the end of the article. It said that at a similar event 2 weeks before someone was fatally stabbed.
Don't get me wrong, from the story as presented by the Guardian, it sounds like the police completely overstepped the mark. I just wanted to point out that they may have reason to believe it won't be the fun you seem to think it is.
Equally, the new genres that are coming along that work with pointing and dragging objects won't work so well on consoles that just have buttons.
Also, your classic third-person shooter was compromised when being ported from PCs with mice to consoles without them.
The good news is that the new set of opportunities and limitations brought about by a new device category always leads to innovative games.
For example, whilst classic Mario and Sonic won't work well, Doodle Jump is an extremely popular platform game on the iPhone. It doesn't emulate buttons.
1. "Free press" - but one that subtly conforms to establishment preferences (like the US media, but not quite as much yet).
Yes, if by the establishment you mean people like the Murdochs, the Barclay brothers and the city. It's important to note that they don't conform to government preferences. Rather governments conform to the preferences of the popular press. As do the people that read it.
When is the last time you tried to get anything significant to change in our "functioning democracy" or yours? Just try some time.
The last time was when I supported the Alternate Vote system in the referendum. Despite the fact that all rational arguments pointed to AV being a little bit better as a system than FPTP, the sheep voted to keep things the same. The fact was the establishment had money to fund their campaign, and newspapers to support them. Rational argument made no difference, it all came down to who could put more propaganda out there.
Certainly it's more blatant in the US - Fox News is a pure propaganda channel, and yet it has higher ratings than the real news channels. In the UK we don't have the same degree of propaganda on the TV. But our press is far, far worse.
Maybe when 6 buttons and an analog stick are standard equipment for smart phones Nintendo might have something to be afraid of; multitouch implementations of buttons and dpads/sticks are terrible and take up screen real estate.
Yes. But the best game developers create games that take advantage of the particular I/O a device has. The best iPhone games use multitouch screen in a way that it's intended to be used - to point and drag objects on the screen. They don't emulate D-Pads and buttons.
I wonder how many people will be executed for this whole ordeal.
I remember during the cold war, all sorts of nonsense was talked in the west about Russia. I see that now America is challenged in economic might by China, they are now object of the disinformation and wild conjecture.
Well that's one way of looking at it. The other is that Foxconn's revenue is about $60 billion, and Apple is their largest customer. That's not small change, and whatever way you look at it it's orders of magnitude more important to the Chinese economy than 22 fake Apple Stores.
Let's face it, the odds of me being wrong, and you being a more accomplished linguist than her is certainly thousands to one. Probably millions to one. So it's not such a big assumption.
I wouldn't say it was an appeal to authority. She changed my mind, in a way that was also very entertaining. Far better that I give you the same opportunity, than that I try to shoehorn my version of the message into a slashdot post. You get a better version of the message, and I save myself a lot of typing.
Yes, you can lock it down changing a lot of settings, but you can do additional configuring on Linux and Windows machines. MacOS doesn't lose Pwn2Own the quickest every year for no reason.
If there is X in the working age population and Y is the number of jobs, then X - Y will be the number unemployed. That number rises and falls according to the success of the economy and according to how many the government themselves employ. Both responsibilities of the government.
Of course an individual should try as hard as possible to get a job. But if they are successful, then someone else won't be successful in getting that vacancy. It's a zero sum game.
In the UK are to police only allowed to fire if fired on or are they allowed to fire on if threatened with a gun?
They are certainly allowed to fire if they are threatened with a gun. However you are assuming that is what happened without a shred of evidence for it.
Of course if the police where trying to hide something or set this up why didn't they just put a bullet from the suspects gun in place of the bullet found in the radio?
Fairly obviously because SOCO would spot immediately that it was a bullet that hadn't been fired from a gun.
This is showing them to be honest in their investigation again.
What? They didn;t do some self incriminating thing from your imagination, and that somehow makes them honest? You are irrational. No point in going any further.
If the police could have said he was shot because he had a gun in his hand they would have said so. They haven't. Neither did the report of the initial investigation.
Score! a ten meter long jump to a conclusion based on a rumor.
You're the one saying he drew a gun with absolutely no evidence for it.
Uh, pretty much every single article in the BBC, the Guardian, or the Times today?
That's not a citation.
That's why Tim Godwin was repeatedly quoted and shown on TV Monday night as saying that the most essential thing to control Tuesday night's rioting was for parents to keep their kids at home.
The request to keep kids at home doesn't imply that they are middle class.
Stuff like the two white teenage girls speaking here is a lot more typical.
You thing the typical rioter is a girl? I presume that's what you mean because there's no indication what race they are.
It's actually more interesting... Most of the footage from London was of black guys doing the rioting. In Manchester on the other hand it was mostly white guys. The ethnicity depends on location.
It started in Tottenham because the Duggan shooting was in Tottenham. Since then it's happened everywhere. Crouch End and Catford, as just two examples, don't exactly strike me as warrens of council housing.
As I said it started in the poor areas. Then it spread to the places where the richest pickings are to be found - the rich areas. Crouch End is only 2 miles from Tottenham. Not far to travel to loot valuable stuff.
Indeed. Hence my point that Labour were not soft on crime, contrary to the GPs claim.
And either that hardness on criminals was successful in lowering the rate of crime, or coincidentally there were other causes that were lowering the crime rate, or both.
Oh, and by the way, the sentiment that "We'll take free stuff, because the authorities are powerless to stop us" is not limited to the English rioters. It's endemic on Slashdot too with regard to downloading pirated movies and music.
For that matter it's also endemic in the financial industry of rich dealers, traders and bankers, with fraud a daily occurrence. For example insider trading is readily identified every day by watching share prices move rapidly a day before an important official press release. Yet the authorities are powerless or unwilling to prosecute the white collar criminals that do it.
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I'm not "trying" to say anything. I'm saying exactly what I did say, and it'd doesn't resemble in any way your attempted summary.
If you have a point of your own to make, then make it. But posts that consist of nothing more than misrepresenting what others have said are no use to anyone.
Perhaps because Nintendo was smart enough to include buttons and d-pads on both?
But that doesn't "teach the gaming industry" anything. Other than Nintendo made the choice to include buttons.
*IF* systems without buttons were bound to be a massive failure for games, then Apple wouldn't have such a successful mobile gaming platform. But they do.
I guess you missed what I said
I read exactly what you said. You said one problem. Yet I had linked to an article which described multiple problems on that day, and linked back to the stabbing of two weeks before. That isn't "one".
I'm sure you're right. The police just overstepped the mark, and decided to hack an innocent man's messages JUST IN CASE he decides to murder under the guise of being in a water pistol fight.
I think you need to calm down. There's no evidence of "hacking", and the encryption on system is strong enough that the police couldn't decipher the messages without RIM (A Canadian company) cooperating. The Occam's razor explanation is that someone forwarded BBM to the police because they were concerned.
Additionally the possibility that possibility that this wasn't really a water fight being planned hasn't occurred to you. Even though it's only a week ago that riots were being planned through the same service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/blackberry/8702164/UK-riots-Essex-police-charge-man-over-BlackBerry-Messenger-water-fight-plot.html
*IF* this truly was a simple water fight, then he won't end up with a criminal record, as that isn't illegal. Trouble is you're not admitting the possibility that there is more to this than you realise.
You are joking, right? One problem over hundreds of events in the country?
I guess you didn't read to the end of the article. It said that at a similar event 2 weeks before someone was fatally stabbed.
Don't get me wrong, from the story as presented by the Guardian, it sounds like the police completely overstepped the mark. I just wanted to point out that they may have reason to believe it won't be the fun you seem to think it is.
Equally, the new genres that are coming along that work with pointing and dragging objects won't work so well on consoles that just have buttons.
Also, your classic third-person shooter was compromised when being ported from PCs with mice to consoles without them.
The good news is that the new set of opportunities and limitations brought about by a new device category always leads to innovative games.
For example, whilst classic Mario and Sonic won't work well, Doodle Jump is an extremely popular platform game on the iPhone. It doesn't emulate buttons.
1. "Free press" - but one that subtly conforms to establishment preferences (like the US media, but not quite as much yet).
Yes, if by the establishment you mean people like the Murdochs, the Barclay brothers and the city. It's important to note that they don't conform to government preferences. Rather governments conform to the preferences of the popular press. As do the people that read it.
When is the last time you tried to get anything significant to change in our "functioning democracy" or yours? Just try some time.
The last time was when I supported the Alternate Vote system in the referendum. Despite the fact that all rational arguments pointed to AV being a little bit better as a system than FPTP, the sheep voted to keep things the same. The fact was the establishment had money to fund their campaign, and newspapers to support them. Rational argument made no difference, it all came down to who could put more propaganda out there.
Certainly it's more blatant in the US - Fox News is a pure propaganda channel, and yet it has higher ratings than the real news channels. In the UK we don't have the same degree of propaganda on the TV. But our press is far, far worse.
I hate to link to The Sun, but it was linked to from TFA. It seems these things aren't always quite as much fun as one might think.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1499810.ece
If the Wii and DS have taught the gaming industry anything, it's that touch and motion controls are not a substitute for buttons.
How so, given that the Wii outsold the competitor consoles and the DS outsold the competitor hand-helds?
Maybe when 6 buttons and an analog stick are standard equipment for smart phones Nintendo might have something to be afraid of; multitouch implementations of buttons and dpads/sticks are terrible and take up screen real estate.
Yes. But the best game developers create games that take advantage of the particular I/O a device has. The best iPhone games use multitouch screen in a way that it's intended to be used - to point and drag objects on the screen. They don't emulate D-Pads and buttons.
If Apple was smart, they'd be the largest company in America, and have more cash then the US government.
If you want to see real disgrace check out the list of countries that have executed juvenile offenders since 1990.
To save the click:
The People's Republic of China (PRC), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United States and Yemen.
How many Britons are executed vs. USA?
Thus Britain is more virtuous then US, yes?
I wonder how many people will be executed for this whole ordeal.
I remember during the cold war, all sorts of nonsense was talked in the west about Russia. I see that now America is challenged in economic might by China, they are now object of the disinformation and wild conjecture.
Well that's one way of looking at it. The other is that Foxconn's revenue is about $60 billion, and Apple is their largest customer. That's not small change, and whatever way you look at it it's orders of magnitude more important to the Chinese economy than 22 fake Apple Stores.
That's an awful big assumption right there buddy
Let's face it, the odds of me being wrong, and you being a more accomplished linguist than her is certainly thousands to one. Probably millions to one. So it's not such a big assumption.
I wouldn't say it was an appeal to authority. She changed my mind, in a way that was also very entertaining. Far better that I give you the same opportunity, than that I try to shoehorn my version of the message into a slashdot post. You get a better version of the message, and I save myself a lot of typing.
You ought to watch this video, from someone who knows far more about language than you ever will. It should change your mind.
http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html
Yes, you can lock it down changing a lot of settings, but you can do additional configuring on Linux and Windows machines. MacOS doesn't lose Pwn2Own the quickest every year for no reason.
Well in part because Pwn2Own doesn't test Linux.
No, really they don't. Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2own
Which again does nothing to change the amount of unemployment.
If there is X in the working age population and Y is the number of jobs, then X - Y will be the number unemployed. That number rises and falls according to the success of the economy and according to how many the government themselves employ. Both responsibilities of the government.
Of course an individual should try as hard as possible to get a job. But if they are successful, then someone else won't be successful in getting that vacancy. It's a zero sum game.
Do you actually have a cite for a correlation between Gini Coefficient and crime rates by country?
There have been many such studies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality
http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=crime+gini+index+correlation&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=aNpCTrfNL8GGhQfWmpXcCQ
In the UK are to police only allowed to fire if fired on or are they allowed to fire on if threatened with a gun?
They are certainly allowed to fire if they are threatened with a gun. However you are assuming that is what happened without a shred of evidence for it.
Of course if the police where trying to hide something or set this up why didn't they just put a bullet from the suspects gun in place of the bullet found in the radio?
Fairly obviously because SOCO would spot immediately that it was a bullet that hadn't been fired from a gun.
This is showing them to be honest in their investigation again.
What? They didn;t do some self incriminating thing from your imagination, and that somehow makes them honest? You are irrational. No point in going any further.
Or he could have dropped it when he was shot.
If the police could have said he was shot because he had a gun in his hand they would have said so. They haven't. Neither did the report of the initial investigation.
Score! a ten meter long jump to a conclusion based on a rumor.
You're the one saying he drew a gun with absolutely no evidence for it.
Uh, pretty much every single article in the BBC, the Guardian, or the Times today?
That's not a citation.
That's why Tim Godwin was repeatedly quoted and shown on TV Monday night as saying that the most essential thing to control Tuesday night's rioting was for parents to keep their kids at home.
The request to keep kids at home doesn't imply that they are middle class.
Stuff like the two white teenage girls speaking here is a lot more typical.
You thing the typical rioter is a girl? I presume that's what you mean because there's no indication what race they are.
It's actually more interesting... Most of the footage from London was of black guys doing the rioting. In Manchester on the other hand it was mostly white guys. The ethnicity depends on location.
It started in Tottenham because the Duggan shooting was in Tottenham. Since then it's happened everywhere. Crouch End and Catford, as just two examples, don't exactly strike me as warrens of council housing.
As I said it started in the poor areas. Then it spread to the places where the richest pickings are to be found - the rich areas. Crouch End is only 2 miles from Tottenham. Not far to travel to loot valuable stuff.
Indeed. Hence my point that Labour were not soft on crime, contrary to the GPs claim.
And either that hardness on criminals was successful in lowering the rate of crime, or coincidentally there were other causes that were lowering the crime rate, or both.
Oh, and by the way, the sentiment that "We'll take free stuff, because the authorities are powerless to stop us" is not limited to the English rioters. It's endemic on Slashdot too with regard to downloading pirated movies and music.
For that matter it's also endemic in the financial industry of rich dealers, traders and bankers, with fraud a daily occurrence. For example insider trading is readily identified every day by watching share prices move rapidly a day before an important official press release. Yet the authorities are powerless or unwilling to prosecute the white collar criminals that do it.