Not necessarily. The game development looks first and foremost for employees that love games. If that MIT employee didn't really play games, there's little chance of him getting a job. BTW, you don't need to know how to write custom databases to do QA which is pretty much the lowest level game development job.
"To me it sounds like this has got to be against the law," Levinson said. "To tell people to kill a particular group of people? That has to violate some law."
Holy shit, it isn't telling you to kill the Haitians. It is telling your character, Tommy Vercetti, to kill all the Haitians. If you are unable to make that distinction you are either way too young to be playing it or you have probably already killed someone before touching this game and should be locked up.
So with that logic, I think I will go tryout for the Green Bay Packers because I rule at Madden 2004.
Seriously dude, get real. You've obviously never played any sort of FPS type of game so you don't understand that it's not about the shooting. That part gets old soon. It is about the people. It's about using teamwork to try to accomplish your goal. It's about winning. The majority of gamers are in clans because of that. Gaming is not about just about shooting people, it's much like any other team game.
Also, look at other sports like hockey, baseball, football, hell pretty much any. There are far more injuries in those games due to fights between players than there ever has been with gaming.
This incident while trajic, hardly reflects gaming as a whole. There are 1000s of lans happening both big and small, and every single one I have been to has been filled with tons of great and non-homocidal people. I can't say that about the baseball games I have seen.
You go home, see what your kid is playing, or what your kid has bought, and parent them. Is it too much to ask a parent to be involved in what their child does in his/her spare time? Also, those same people in the military read just as many books as they use simulators to learn from.
However, I do agree the industry should try to police itself more at the store level. I just do not think that there needs to be legistlation to do it.
While we are at it let's do the same for books, movies, and anything you may happen to take a picture of. I mean why not? The activists claims games actually "teach" our children how to kill. However, books that do actually teach someone to maim or kill someone else are perfectly legal for a minor to purchase.
Government regulation is NOT needed for this. If parents can stop their kids from going to R rated movies, they sure as hell can stop them from buy a Mature rated game.
HomeLAN - Some people believe that parents should be the ultimate shield against their kids playing these games and that laws like this are unnecessary. What is your response to this?
Leland Y. Yee - I certainly believe parents have a responsibility here. However, many live very difficult and busy lives and can not possibly monitor their children at all times. Unlike movies, in which parents can easily determine whether it is suitable for their child, many of these games must be mastered before the interaction begins at the most violent levels. Parents are the ultimate shields against their kids drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and exposure to pornography as well. But as a society, we recognize the need to protect children from harmful material and we make laws to restrict access to these products.
How about the big fucking letter(s) on the box that tells you what ages it is suitable for? Just because parents can't understand this doesn't mean we should make a law against it.
HomeLAN - Have you personally played games such as the ones you have mentioned in your proposed bill? If so which ones and what did you think about them in terms of an artistic endeavor?
Leland Y. Yee - I have not personally played these games, however many of my staff members have. I have seen numerous footage pieces of these games, which clearly shows the need for such legislation.
Personally I find it ironic that every time this issue comes up the politician involved, despite the amount of work and preparation put into the campaign, never manages to pick up a controller or pop in a cd himself in order to personally judge the material he is seeking to censor. No other form of media gets this type of blame for the problems with our kids. I for one am sick of video games being treated worse than hardcore pornography.
I don't think the point of this is the say whether the firm was good or bad. It's just another example of technical work for the US being farmed outside of the US. It's really sad that it was a University like MIT that has tons of students that could do this work for nothing.
What really aggravates me is the typical "There are blacklists available that you can subscribe to, and some are updated regularly, but these are noncommercial lists with no guarantees." I'd like to see what guarantees the commercial lists come with.
Apparantly this IT consultant and author of two networking books hasn't read a single EULA.
What I really love is how instead of actually trying to stop the Novell/Suse merger, SCO merely puts out a notice saying, "Do it and we'll sue." I guess stopping a merger isn't as profitable as suing the company afterwards.
Well maybe you should get off your ass and do some research. This year over a million dollars in cash will be given away as tournament prizes. Companies like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA sponsor clans with hardware and money.
Yes, very few people are actually able to play games for a living at this point, but there are some that can manage it. Considering that professional gaming is only a few years old, and the popularity of it is growing with the younger generations I would say there is great possibility for gaming as a true sport in the future.
"Here's what happened: I go to their website and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me," he said. "It just sort of escalated... and I sort of lost my cool at that point."
Well if this company would have to actually listen to people when they opt-out instead of just confirming that email address exists and spamming it more, this wouldn't have been an issue. What the man did was wrong, but the company in question should also be liable for damages.
I am waiting to see how long it will take for good old Darl to come out and say that this report is just IBM plotting again.
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Whether or not it's cutting edge is irrelevant; what matters is whether it does the necessary job. Whether it serves the customer's needs is irrelevant (to the corporation) too: there are lots of in-house needs that can be helped with good use of IT, and serving the customer's needs is certainly good business sense, but in business you do it for that reason, and not as an end in itself.
Well the problem with that statement is that it can make your company stagnant. For example, about 10 years ago the company I work at was hand drafting all of its technical drawings. That worked fine. However, they decided to spend tons of money on computers for drafting stations, and in the long run, that worked out great.
Five years later, they decided that the pen plotter that they had that took 3 minutes per D-size drawing should be upgraded to a multi-thousand dollar laser plotting machine that could make the same drawing in 10 seconds. Obviously, this type of investment was well worth it.
Lastly, just recently we moved the mechanical engineers mostly off of AutoCAD and onto Solidworks. The licenses and the much faster computers needed to run the new software cost thousands, yet we are seeing the benefits.
All of these things weren't needed, but they increased productivity. A lot of things will serve the company's or customer's needs, but some will do it faster and more efficient. That is what is meant by cutting edge.
You got to start somewhere. Odds are, the technology will advance to where you can connect to anyone, and then start encrypting the call assuming the other cell phone has some standard chip to do so.
Correct, in fact they actually admitted to it:
VAR Business: Other than the suit, how's business?
McBride: That's the great untold story no one even asks about. We have over two million servers actively running today. Customers continue to come to us. We have laid out a growth map that will be significant for our customers. In the next year expect Legend, which will take OpenServer and update it. Longer term, expect SVR 6, which will be 64-bit Unix on Intel. That is a few years out.
As we look at monetizing this two-million-user installed base, we can sell product for a $800 to $1,000 dollars, whatever. We're talking about a couple of billion dollars in upgrade opportunities.
From a financial standpoint. The first part was cleaning the company up. We've done that. Going forward we have three dials. The core business, we think that's bottomed out and there's upside now with new products coming. We haven't had a new product in our OpenServer base in years and years.
The second dial is the 2.5 million Linux servers out there today that are paired with our intellectual property in them. We have a licensed product $699, $1,399. Chris [Sontag] is driving that and that's another multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunity
The third bucket has to do with the IBM settlement. We filed that at $3 billion. Every day they don't resolve this, the AIX meter is still ticking....
That's in a Utah courtroom 18 months out. That's a down the road revenue opportunity but the first two dials are going right now, and today's announcement today with Boies will really help move the second dial along.
Clauses 11 and 12 of the GPL say there is no warranty. The quid pro quo of the GPL is that you get it for free, but the end user takes on the liability.
Last I checked that's what the MS end user license agreement says:
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. The Limited Warranty referenced below is the only express warranty made to you and is provided in lieu of any other express warranties (if any) created by any documentation or packaging. Except for the Limited Warranty and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Microsoft and its suppliers provide the Product and support services (if any) AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS, and hereby disclaim all other warranties and conditions, either express, implied, or statutory, including, but not limited to, any (if any) implied warranties, duties or conditions of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of accuracy or completeness of responses, of results, of workmanlike effort, of lack of viruses, and of lack of negligence, all with regard to the Product, and the provision of or failure to provide support services. ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE PRODUCT.
The SCO court case is moving way too slow to get that sort of constant media attention. Maybe in a/. story a year from now we'll see all of the alledged "evidence" of SCO's case.
But wouldn't having a 20", $1300 monitor atop a print server and vintage program machine be a little wasteful? A new, top of the line monitor can outlast a computer by many lifetimes. Where normally you could replace that 20" LCD with some 15-17" CRT you might have lying around or can buy cheap, now you need to go buy another 20"+ LCD with your next computer. Especially considering the upgradability of iMacs is virtually non-existent.
And I am sure their software will come pre-installed on all future windows OS' for your convenience. Another "feature" that you probably won't need and will have some sort of exploit available with default configuration.
I've basically given up hope on the RIAA. I haven't bought a CD in over a year, and don't play to start using itunes or any other of those crap pay to listen services anytime soon. No amount of me posting on/. has seemed to make them change their ways so maybe a couple hundred less dollars a year will work. Then again, probably not.
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This guy might want to be careful. The Haitians and the relatives of anyone who has been killed by some kid with a gun might sue him too.
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Not necessarily. The game development looks first and foremost for employees that love games. If that MIT employee didn't really play games, there's little chance of him getting a job. BTW, you don't need to know how to write custom databases to do QA which is pretty much the lowest level game development job.
Holy shit, it isn't telling you to kill the Haitians. It is telling your character, Tommy Vercetti, to kill all the Haitians. If you are unable to make that distinction you are either way too young to be playing it or you have probably already killed someone before touching this game and should be locked up.
Seriously dude, get real. You've obviously never played any sort of FPS type of game so you don't understand that it's not about the shooting. That part gets old soon. It is about the people. It's about using teamwork to try to accomplish your goal. It's about winning. The majority of gamers are in clans because of that. Gaming is not about just about shooting people, it's much like any other team game.
Also, look at other sports like hockey, baseball, football, hell pretty much any. There are far more injuries in those games due to fights between players than there ever has been with gaming.
This incident while trajic, hardly reflects gaming as a whole. There are 1000s of lans happening both big and small, and every single one I have been to has been filled with tons of great and non-homocidal people. I can't say that about the baseball games I have seen.
You go home, see what your kid is playing, or what your kid has bought, and parent them. Is it too much to ask a parent to be involved in what their child does in his/her spare time? Also, those same people in the military read just as many books as they use simulators to learn from. However, I do agree the industry should try to police itself more at the store level. I just do not think that there needs to be legistlation to do it.
While we are at it let's do the same for books, movies, and anything you may happen to take a picture of. I mean why not? The activists claims games actually "teach" our children how to kill. However, books that do actually teach someone to maim or kill someone else are perfectly legal for a minor to purchase. Government regulation is NOT needed for this. If parents can stop their kids from going to R rated movies, they sure as hell can stop them from buy a Mature rated game.
Leland Y. Yee - I certainly believe parents have a responsibility here. However, many live very difficult and busy lives and can not possibly monitor their children at all times. Unlike movies, in which parents can easily determine whether it is suitable for their child, many of these games must be mastered before the interaction begins at the most violent levels. Parents are the ultimate shields against their kids drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and exposure to pornography as well. But as a society, we recognize the need to protect children from harmful material and we make laws to restrict access to these products.
How about the big fucking letter(s) on the box that tells you what ages it is suitable for? Just because parents can't understand this doesn't mean we should make a law against it.
HomeLAN - Have you personally played games such as the ones you have mentioned in your proposed bill? If so which ones and what did you think about them in terms of an artistic endeavor?
Leland Y. Yee - I have not personally played these games, however many of my staff members have. I have seen numerous footage pieces of these games, which clearly shows the need for such legislation.
Personally I find it ironic that every time this issue comes up the politician involved, despite the amount of work and preparation put into the campaign, never manages to pick up a controller or pop in a cd himself in order to personally judge the material he is seeking to censor. No other form of media gets this type of blame for the problems with our kids. I for one am sick of video games being treated worse than hardcore pornography.
If your wife liked RtCW then she would probably like Wolfenstein: Enemy-Territory. The best part is that it is free.
I don't think the point of this is the say whether the firm was good or bad. It's just another example of technical work for the US being farmed outside of the US. It's really sad that it was a University like MIT that has tons of students that could do this work for nothing.
Apparantly this IT consultant and author of two networking books hasn't read a single EULA.
What I really love is how instead of actually trying to stop the Novell/Suse merger, SCO merely puts out a notice saying, "Do it and we'll sue." I guess stopping a merger isn't as profitable as suing the company afterwards.
Well maybe you should get off your ass and do some research. This year over a million dollars in cash will be given away as tournament prizes. Companies like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA sponsor clans with hardware and money. Yes, very few people are actually able to play games for a living at this point, but there are some that can manage it. Considering that professional gaming is only a few years old, and the popularity of it is growing with the younger generations I would say there is great possibility for gaming as a true sport in the future.
You underestimate the fans online gaming.
Well if this company would have to actually listen to people when they opt-out instead of just confirming that email address exists and spamming it more, this wouldn't have been an issue. What the man did was wrong, but the company in question should also be liable for damages.
I am waiting to see how long it will take for good old Darl to come out and say that this report is just IBM plotting again.
Well the problem with that statement is that it can make your company stagnant. For example, about 10 years ago the company I work at was hand drafting all of its technical drawings. That worked fine. However, they decided to spend tons of money on computers for drafting stations, and in the long run, that worked out great.
Five years later, they decided that the pen plotter that they had that took 3 minutes per D-size drawing should be upgraded to a multi-thousand dollar laser plotting machine that could make the same drawing in 10 seconds. Obviously, this type of investment was well worth it.
Lastly, just recently we moved the mechanical engineers mostly off of AutoCAD and onto Solidworks. The licenses and the much faster computers needed to run the new software cost thousands, yet we are seeing the benefits.
All of these things weren't needed, but they increased productivity. A lot of things will serve the company's or customer's needs, but some will do it faster and more efficient. That is what is meant by cutting edge.
You got to start somewhere. Odds are, the technology will advance to where you can connect to anyone, and then start encrypting the call assuming the other cell phone has some standard chip to do so.
Correct, in fact they actually admitted to it: VAR Business: Other than the suit, how's business? McBride: That's the great untold story no one even asks about. We have over two million servers actively running today. Customers continue to come to us. We have laid out a growth map that will be significant for our customers. In the next year expect Legend, which will take OpenServer and update it. Longer term, expect SVR 6, which will be 64-bit Unix on Intel. That is a few years out. As we look at monetizing this two-million-user installed base, we can sell product for a $800 to $1,000 dollars, whatever. We're talking about a couple of billion dollars in upgrade opportunities. From a financial standpoint. The first part was cleaning the company up. We've done that. Going forward we have three dials. The core business, we think that's bottomed out and there's upside now with new products coming. We haven't had a new product in our OpenServer base in years and years. The second dial is the 2.5 million Linux servers out there today that are paired with our intellectual property in them. We have a licensed product $699, $1,399. Chris [Sontag] is driving that and that's another multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunity The third bucket has to do with the IBM settlement. We filed that at $3 billion. Every day they don't resolve this, the AIX meter is still ticking.... That's in a Utah courtroom 18 months out. That's a down the road revenue opportunity but the first two dials are going right now, and today's announcement today with Boies will really help move the second dial along.
Last I checked that's what the MS end user license agreement says:
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES. The Limited Warranty referenced below is the only express warranty made to you and is provided in lieu of any other express warranties (if any) created by any documentation or packaging. Except for the Limited Warranty and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Microsoft and its suppliers provide the Product and support services (if any) AS IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS, and hereby disclaim all other warranties and conditions, either express, implied, or statutory, including, but not limited to, any (if any) implied warranties, duties or conditions of merchantability, of fitness for a particular purpose, of accuracy or completeness of responses, of results, of workmanlike effort, of lack of viruses, and of lack of negligence, all with regard to the Product, and the provision of or failure to provide support services. ALSO, THERE IS NO WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, QUIET POSSESSION, CORRESPONDENCE TO DESCRIPTION OR NON-INFRINGEMENT WITH REGARD TO THE PRODUCT.
The SCO court case is moving way too slow to get that sort of constant media attention. Maybe in a /. story a year from now we'll see all of the alledged "evidence" of SCO's case.
Let me guess. They wanted to pay you entirely in stock options?
But wouldn't having a 20", $1300 monitor atop a print server and vintage program machine be a little wasteful? A new, top of the line monitor can outlast a computer by many lifetimes. Where normally you could replace that 20" LCD with some 15-17" CRT you might have lying around or can buy cheap, now you need to go buy another 20"+ LCD with your next computer. Especially considering the upgradability of iMacs is virtually non-existent.
And I am sure their software will come pre-installed on all future windows OS' for your convenience. Another "feature" that you probably won't need and will have some sort of exploit available with default configuration.
I've basically given up hope on the RIAA. I haven't bought a CD in over a year, and don't play to start using itunes or any other of those crap pay to listen services anytime soon. No amount of me posting on /. has seemed to make them change their ways so maybe a couple hundred less dollars a year will work. Then again, probably not.