Hell, my daughter figured out Tetris last year when she was 4!! These 10-13 year olds are either isolated from classics or their parents don't give a damn about them. Check out their use of language and they play GTA3?? Time for the parents to step in a show them what it is to be a kid...I remember going to the park on my bike was more fun then spending all day inside playing games, even if it was to go to the local Arcade...we still went outside and rode our bikes to play games =)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've run through the entire Vice City storyline, and I've never seen any nudity and only occasionally heard some relatively mild language
If you call "Fucker" "Shithead" "Cocksucker" and "Bitch" mild...
You must of missed the "Movie Studio" missions with Candy Suxxx where the last mission is to modify a spot light to display a large pair of breasts on the side of a building...not to mention the cut scenes with vivid descriptions of sex and the act of, everything short of nudity and hardcore.
But, if I had a 14-year-old, I wouldn't have a problem with them looking at porn of their own accord.
And this coming from a guy that maintains porn gathering software =)
I wouldn't say that hardcore "harm's a child" but it does leave the impression that this is OK to do. Sex is a great thing, but you need to know what your doing. With the risk of disease and teenage pregnancy they do need to be educated on 'safe sex'. Kids have enough problems today without having to raise a family...
Ah, the good 'ol 'Slashdot is only skin deep' defense...
Completely ignoring the 14 year olds getting porn statement also. maybe if I put that in the beginning you would of finished reading before getting all steamed over sex > violence *sigh*
In America, violence is an every day even that can not be escaped. News, TV, movies, games. But hardcore sex is not something everyone can handle. We already have an overpopulation problem and to think sex does not contribute to this problem? Not to mention a lack of sex education can result in disease, AIDS or parenthood. How many High School people do you know that are ready to raise a family? It takes a lot more discipline and respect to raise a family then "shooting someone in the face"
And Mortal Kombat? Comon...that was a cartoon with bad blood effects, a joke. I've seen better and more gruesome on the Commodore PET. Anyone that blames that game for violence are the same people that think the WWF is real. And Night Trap was a B movie on the computer...more 'tongue in cheek' then anything. And B movies are fun, Evil Dead 2 and April Fools Day were both campy classics
But don't let your kids watch "Faces of Death"...that will scar them for life =)
And yes, those few 'kids' that are mature enough to handle playing GTA are treated unfair by the system...THAT is when the parent should be able to say yes or no. Don't just let them have things, know what your getting your kids and know if they can handle it...ignorance is no excuse
The parents can't be there with thier 14 year old kids 24/7.
I picked up GTA:Vice City and have been loving it, but there is no way I'd let anyone under 18 (even 21) play this game. It's not he violence, it's the sex/nudity and language that really gives it the "M" rating (Should of been an "A" IMO). If I saw a kid buying this game I would have to raise my voice to the seller about it.
It's not about "If the kid is mature enough" it's about "If the kid is responsable enough". And I know that most kids High School and under are not.
Would you buy porn for your 14 year old? If yes, I'm sorry, but that's just sick and unresponsable in itself...there should be laws against parents like that.
It uses the Loki Installer, which is a nice GUI frontend that installs the files where they are needed (mostly/usr/local/games/ and a shell script to launch in/usr/bin) It looks like S2 made it default for a single user install see install here but has a multiuser install option.
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Oh ya, I thought the whole story about Max being a battery for a super computer and he gained self awareness was SO the Matrix!
And when Max flew off the Empire State Building into the sky at the end...that was SO lame!!
Oh wait...Max Payne was a mob game, no sci-fi what-so-ever...I guess super slow motion is a total rip off of the Matrix in every way that TV commercials and a few dozen other movies where trying to "be like the Matrix" with slow motion action...
Guess we can sue Etienne Jules Marey for making a camera that took 700 pictures a second in 1894...damn copy cats!!
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Yes, it's a pre-release...
Yes, Joe wrote a review based on it
Joe liked it and was only disapointed by the install...which I agree, still sucks:)
Remember...what you would consider a "kick-ass app" another person would consider it "crap"
The great thing about have two (or more in this case, haven't seen mention og Ogle yet) is that the end user gets to make the final choice about which app they prefer to use.
It wasn't that bad, it's just not something you can do without thinking it through...
My first mistake was not putting that film on the LCD, looks like crap if you do that. Took it apart again, put the film on and looks great now! I like to think I saved myself $100 for a new GBASP
Unreal 2 and UT2003 were forked off what was then called the "Unreal Warfare" engine. Since these games have been released the engine's name has be changed and set as "Unreal Tech"
Just to correct you for others so if someone reading this hasen't gotten Flash working...
The installer 'suggests' the mozilla directory is in/usr/lib/mozilla, but if mozilla was installed via RPM most likely the plugin directory is (for version 1.4)/usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugin
I know this drove me nuts for a while also;-)
The results don't impress the judges much, but I suppose the consumer will ultimately be the judge."
From what I hear from everyone that gets a chance to play with one of these...they don't even make a good phone and the games are terrible!
Stick with your Nokia phone and GameBoy Advanced SP
When UT2003 came out last year the bar for system hardware was raised ten fold. The graphics engine alone was/is awesome, then you throw in the whole Karma engine for real-time physics you have to upgrade your CPU AND vid card for this game...not to mention more RAM to support the HUGE maps and 64bit textures (textures require video ram, so a 64mb card is a good start)
Looking at UT2004, I'm still wondering why this requires a new release and not something like a "mission pack" or "expansion" for UT2003. It is the same engine, the vehicles are only new because they did not bother to make any for UT2003 (the code is there, just unused expect for the demo) the new game types are great, but they are just umods added into the already existent engine...the only cool thing is if you have been putting off getting UT2003, UT2004 is what you want to get now. For those of us that got UT2003 have a slight feeling of being ripped off...
But hey, it really doesn't matter much at all since both UT2003 and UT2004 ship with a Linux installer and support! Wahoo!!
Oh, and if any of my facts, thoughts or opinions are incorrect...please correct me!! =)
You just mad me realize something...anyone else notice that these "un-biased tests" happen to come out a month after a large virus attack on the Windows systems around the world?
It's almost like thay are trying to prove something...
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Hell, my daughter figured out Tetris last year when she was 4!! These 10-13 year olds are either isolated from classics or their parents don't give a damn about them. Check out their use of language and they play GTA3?? Time for the parents to step in a show them what it is to be a kid...I remember going to the park on my bike was more fun then spending all day inside playing games, even if it was to go to the local Arcade...we still went outside and rode our bikes to play games =)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've run through the entire Vice City storyline, and I've never seen any nudity and only occasionally heard some relatively mild language
If you call "Fucker" "Shithead" "Cocksucker" and "Bitch" mild...
You must of missed the "Movie Studio" missions with Candy Suxxx where the last mission is to modify a spot light to display a large pair of breasts on the side of a building...not to mention the cut scenes with vivid descriptions of sex and the act of, everything short of nudity and hardcore.
But, if I had a 14-year-old, I wouldn't have a problem with them looking at porn of their own accord.
And this coming from a guy that maintains porn gathering software =)
I wouldn't say that hardcore "harm's a child" but it does leave the impression that this is OK to do. Sex is a great thing, but you need to know what your doing. With the risk of disease and teenage pregnancy they do need to be educated on 'safe sex'. Kids have enough problems today without having to raise a family...
Ah, the good 'ol 'Slashdot is only skin deep' defense...
Completely ignoring the 14 year olds getting porn statement also. maybe if I put that in the beginning you would of finished reading before getting all steamed over sex > violence *sigh*
In America, violence is an every day even that can not be escaped. News, TV, movies, games. But hardcore sex is not something everyone can handle. We already have an overpopulation problem and to think sex does not contribute to this problem? Not to mention a lack of sex education can result in disease, AIDS or parenthood. How many High School people do you know that are ready to raise a family? It takes a lot more discipline and respect to raise a family then "shooting someone in the face"
And Mortal Kombat? Comon...that was a cartoon with bad blood effects, a joke. I've seen better and more gruesome on the Commodore PET. Anyone that blames that game for violence are the same people that think the WWF is real. And Night Trap was a B movie on the computer...more 'tongue in cheek' then anything. And B movies are fun, Evil Dead 2 and April Fools Day were both campy classics
But don't let your kids watch "Faces of Death"...that will scar them for life =)
And yes, those few 'kids' that are mature enough to handle playing GTA are treated unfair by the system...THAT is when the parent should be able to say yes or no. Don't just let them have things, know what your getting your kids and know if they can handle it...ignorance is no excuse
The parents can't be there with thier 14 year old kids 24/7.
I picked up GTA:Vice City and have been loving it, but there is no way I'd let anyone under 18 (even 21) play this game. It's not he violence, it's the sex/nudity and language that really gives it the "M" rating (Should of been an "A" IMO). If I saw a kid buying this game I would have to raise my voice to the seller about it.
It's not about "If the kid is mature enough" it's about "If the kid is responsable enough". And I know that most kids High School and under are not.
Would you buy porn for your 14 year old? If yes, I'm sorry, but that's just sick and unresponsable in itself...there should be laws against parents like that.
It uses the Loki Installer, which is a nice GUI frontend that installs the files where they are needed (mostly /usr/local/games/ and a shell script to launch in /usr/bin) It looks like S2 made it default for a single user install see install here but has a multiuser install option.
Caution, Google results may vary...
"Linus Torvalds"
2,260,000
"Bill Gates"
2,460,000
Clearly it is a very close fight!
Oh ya, I thought the whole story about Max being a battery for a super computer and he gained self awareness was SO the Matrix!
And when Max flew off the Empire State Building into the sky at the end...that was SO lame!!
Oh wait...Max Payne was a mob game, no sci-fi what-so-ever...I guess super slow motion is a total rip off of the Matrix in every way that TV commercials and a few dozen other movies where trying to "be like the Matrix" with slow motion action...
Guess we can sue Etienne Jules Marey for making a camera that took 700 pictures a second in 1894...damn copy cats!!
Yes, it's a pre-release... :)
Yes, Joe wrote a review based on it
Joe liked it and was only disapointed by the install...which I agree, still sucks
Remember...what you would consider a "kick-ass app" another person would consider it "crap"
The great thing about have two (or more in this case, haven't seen mention og Ogle yet) is that the end user gets to make the final choice about which app they prefer to use.
And America's Army...and Neverwinter Nights...and their expansions...and...
Or one of the codemonkeys at www.icculus.org writting a port for it by next week :)
But you'll get a good workout lugging around all that weight! It's a geeks fitness program!
i dunno, all that hardware might protect you from stabbing as well!
But it won't save you from the resulting electrocution!!
It wasn't that bad, it's just not something you can do without thinking it through...
My first mistake was not putting that film on the LCD, looks like crap if you do that. Took it apart again, put the film on and looks great now! I like to think I saved myself $100 for a new GBASP
Yes, it's called embedded software
It's a snazy new way of making softwar, maybe you've heard of it? It's only been around for 50 years or so...
I really doubt people are getting killed over file sharing...
But in the Open Source/Linux world, they don't pretend it doesn't exist and not write a patch for 3 months...then get slammed by a major virus/worm.
Unreal 2 and UT2003 were forked off what was then called the "Unreal Warfare" engine. Since these games have been released the engine's name has be changed and set as "Unreal Tech"
For a good list of LiveCDs, check out Distrowatch.com list of run-from-cd distros.
Get a Segway! I hear these are great and even the President of the US has one!
+10 geek points to who ever OWNS a Segway
Just to correct you for others so if someone reading this hasen't gotten Flash working...
/usr/lib/mozilla, but if mozilla was installed via RPM most likely the plugin directory is (for version 1.4) /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugin ;-)
The installer 'suggests' the mozilla directory is in
I know this drove me nuts for a while also
From what I hear from everyone that gets a chance to play with one of these...they don't even make a good phone and the games are terrible!
Stick with your Nokia phone and GameBoy Advanced SP
When UT2003 came out last year the bar for system hardware was raised ten fold. The graphics engine alone was/is awesome, then you throw in the whole Karma engine for real-time physics you have to upgrade your CPU AND vid card for this game...not to mention more RAM to support the HUGE maps and 64bit textures (textures require video ram, so a 64mb card is a good start)
Looking at UT2004, I'm still wondering why this requires a new release and not something like a "mission pack" or "expansion" for UT2003. It is the same engine, the vehicles are only new because they did not bother to make any for UT2003 (the code is there, just unused expect for the demo) the new game types are great, but they are just umods added into the already existent engine...the only cool thing is if you have been putting off getting UT2003, UT2004 is what you want to get now. For those of us that got UT2003 have a slight feeling of being ripped off...
But hey, it really doesn't matter much at all since both UT2003 and UT2004 ship with a Linux installer and support! Wahoo!!
Oh, and if any of my facts, thoughts or opinions are incorrect...please correct me!! =)
I should preview more often before submitting...
You mad me realize something...
Should read made...sorry
You just mad me realize something...anyone else notice that these "un-biased tests" happen to come out a month after a large virus attack on the Windows systems around the world?
It's almost like thay are trying to prove something...