about rapping a scientific presentation at an academic conference. It was good for a laugh among friends, but of course I never actually did it BECAUSE IT WAS STUPID. Whatever floats your boat, I guess, but I'm not a fan of either gangsta or "geeksta" rap.
Nah, a game simulating what it's like to be a delusional, Bush-hating, sore-loser liberal doesn't sound like much fun to me.
Games industry vs. movie industry double standards
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The movie industry gets away with a lot of stuff that politicians don't want to allow the games industry to get away with. There are no fines or legal repercussions against movie theaters that let underage kids get into R-rated films. There are no fines or legal repercussions against retailers who let underage kids buy R-rated DVDs. The movie industry does not get in trouble when it releases "unrated" special edition DVDs that add in extra sex and violence compared to the theatrical release. The games industry has been far more proactive about having a good descriptive ratings system as opposed to the simple, undescriptive G/PG/PG-13/R system used by the movie industry.
The reason for these double-standards is that the movie industry has far more political power than the games industry, especially with Democrats. It is time for the games industry to demand assistance on these free-speech issues from the movie industry, or else the games industry should become extremely vociferous about pointing out all the double-standards that exist between the games and movie inustries. They should also start publicizing the amount of contributions Democrats like Hillary Clinton receive from Hollywood movie studios, and asking the question why those same politicians aren't more vociferous about the sex and violence in movies. If the movie industry doesn't help the games industry out, then they deserve to be next in line for heavy-handed government regulation.
I agree. Rockstar is making megabucks off of selling electronic sleaze, yet they don't take any responsibility for their own screw-ups. I strongly believe in the right of games-makers to sell adult content in their games, but they have to do it responsibly, and take responsibility for their own screw-ups. Rockstar is acting irresponsibly when it sells a game with a lower rating, that actually contains more explicit material. That's like selling MAD magazine to underage kids, and then revealing/leaking later the fact that Oops! two of the pages are stuck together, and if you separate them there is hard-core sex photo spread. Wink, wink! That sure would send your sales through the roof, but it is irresponsible marketing, and Rockstar deserves to have their game re-rated or pulled from store shelves until they release a new version without the hidden content.
The interactive marketing folks were the biggest bunch of bullshit artists I have ever dealt with. All you needed to be an interactive marketing expert was to know the fresh new meaningless industry buzzword-of-the-week, and be shameless in your willingness to overstate the benefit of your medium compared to traditional media. When users smartenened up and click-through rates nosedived, they immediately took refuge in the same, soft brand-awareness and brand-identity metrics that they used to put down traditional media for relying on.
Way back in 2000, I asked them what they were going to do when people wised up and started deleting cookies in greater numbers, and they just looked at me like I had three heads.
...and I don't think there is any age-enforcement system to prevent kids under 17 from watching. The games undustry is being screwed by political double-standards.
I agree. Rockstar is making megabucks off of selling electronic sleaze, yet they don't take any responsibility for their own screw-ups. I strongly believe in the right of games-makers to sell adult content in their games, but they have to do it responsibly, and take responsibility for their own screw-ups. Rockstar is acting irresponsibly when it sells a game with a lower rating, that actually contains more explicit material. That's like selling MAD magazine to underage kids, and then revealing/leaking later the fact that Oops! two of the pages are stuck together, and if you separate them there is hard-core sex photo spread. Wink, wink! That sure would send your sales through the roof, but it is irresponsible marketing, and Rockstar deserves to have their game re-rated or pulled from store shelves until they release a new version without the hidden content.
The movie industry gets away with a lot of stuff that politicians don't want to allow the games industry to get away with. There are no fines or legal repercussions against movie theaters that let underage kids get into R-rated films. There are no fines or legal repercussions against retailers who let underage kids buy R-rated DVDs. The movie industry does not get in trouble when it releases "unrated" special edition DVDs that add in extra sex and violence compared to the theatrical release. The games industry has been far more proactive about having a good descriptive ratings system as opposed to the simple, undescriptive G/PG/PG-13/R system used by the movie industry.
The reason for these double-standards is that the movie industry has far more political power than the games industry, especially with Democrats. It is time for the games industry to demand assistance on these free-speech issues from the movie industry, or else the games industry should become extremely vociferous about pointing out all the double-standards that exist between the games and movie inustries. They should also start publicizing the amount of contributions Democrats like Hillary Clinton receive from Hollywood movie studios, and asking the question why those same politicians aren't more vociferous about the sex and violence in movies. If the movie industry doesn't help the games industry out, then they deserve to be next in line for heavy-handed government regulation.
Battlefiled 2 has taken off faster than BF1942
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Here are the Gamepy rankings for the top 20 online games right now:
Also, wait until after working hours on the East Coast of the US, and the player numbers for BF2 will be higher than Half Life 2. At it's peak, BF1942 seemed to get around 15,000 players playing online at any given momemt.
Do you play on ranked servers all the time? Playing on unranked servers won't contribute to your rank. Also, make sure to join a squad every time you play, because you will get extra teamplay points, especially if you follow orders and do helpful things like capture control points as part of a group, or play as a medic and heal/revive your teamates.
The only thing VOIP companies should have an obligation to do is to take pro-active steps to inform their customers of the limitations of 911 service. The companies cannot control whether or not customers decide to respond that they have read and understand the limitations.
If customers have their service disconnected if they don't respond, then I suggest that the companies refer the resulting complaints to the personal home phone number of Michael Powell.
The only problem is the money might make you rich by Indian standards, but could you ever afford to move back to the States? And do you really want to live in India?
1. Because the PC will still exist for other reasons (e-mail, web, word processing, accessing office network from home, etc.) As long as the PC exists, there will be PC games.
2. MOUSE & KEYBOARD!!!!!!!! If neither the Xbox 360 nor the PS3 will let me use a mouse and keyboard for FPS's and RTS's, then the bulk of my gaming will continue to be on the PC. Why is it that a racing-game fne can connect a racing wheel, but an FPS fan cannot connect a keyboard/mouse-style controller?
The proprietary document formats of Office applications has been Microsoft's ace-up-the-sleeve since MS Office became the dominant office suite back in the mid 90's. During the MS anti-trust brouhaha of 1999-2002 era, I kept saying that all the government needed to do was make Microsoft open up it's file formats so that any competing application could read/write/edit documents on an equal basis. If they go this route, Microsoft will finally have to compete based on quality and price.
Actually, I think it will never actually translate your document. It will however generate an extensive series of proclamations about how it is in favor of translating your document, but that action must not be taken to hastily, and further debate must occur on the merits of translating your document.
Seriously, do we want to wait for the Chinese to have this stuff before we do?
Besides, what we really need to get USB is a space-based death-ray laser that can be fired with pinpoint accuracy at a moments notice.
Lasers like this would also allow us to reduce civilian casulaties due to greater accuracy in taking out the enemy.
The columnists themselves benefit by having their op-ed pieces freely available to read on the internet. Their fame is increased, leading to higher speaking fees and more book sales, etc. Maybe some of the less-well-known (and less-well-compensated) writers will quit and go elsewhere, or start blogging instead.
As an American, I think that reducing our dependence on foreign oil, reducing smog in our cities, reducing acid rain, and the likely benefits of spinoff technologies are all far more compelling reasons to pursue a new energy strategy than the unproven theory that the alleged increase in global temperature since the beginning of the indusrial age is due to human activities. Environmentalists have become overly dependent on the global warming argument to advance their cause in the same way that Bush was overly dependent on WMDs to justify going into Iraq. In both cases, there are a lot of other good arguments in favor of the position. Environmentalists ought to be highlighting other benefits of a new energy economy in case global warming turns out to be their equivalent of Iraqi WMDs.
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Oh my god! Steve Jobs is copying Bill Gates. The end is near.
you are one of those annoying uber-l33t audiophiles who thinks the sound of hissing and popping adds "warmth" to music tracks.
about rapping a scientific presentation at an academic conference. It was good for a laugh among friends, but of course I never actually did it BECAUSE IT WAS STUPID. Whatever floats your boat, I guess, but I'm not a fan of either gangsta or "geeksta" rap.
Nah, a game simulating what it's like to be a delusional, Bush-hating, sore-loser liberal doesn't sound like much fun to me.
The movie industry gets away with a lot of stuff that politicians don't want to allow the games industry to get away with. There are no fines or legal repercussions against movie theaters that let underage kids get into R-rated films. There are no fines or legal repercussions against retailers who let underage kids buy R-rated DVDs. The movie industry does not get in trouble when it releases "unrated" special edition DVDs that add in extra sex and violence compared to the theatrical release. The games industry has been far more proactive about having a good descriptive ratings system as opposed to the simple, undescriptive G/PG/PG-13/R system used by the movie industry. The reason for these double-standards is that the movie industry has far more political power than the games industry, especially with Democrats. It is time for the games industry to demand assistance on these free-speech issues from the movie industry, or else the games industry should become extremely vociferous about pointing out all the double-standards that exist between the games and movie inustries. They should also start publicizing the amount of contributions Democrats like Hillary Clinton receive from Hollywood movie studios, and asking the question why those same politicians aren't more vociferous about the sex and violence in movies. If the movie industry doesn't help the games industry out, then they deserve to be next in line for heavy-handed government regulation.
I agree. Rockstar is making megabucks off of selling electronic sleaze, yet they don't take any responsibility for their own screw-ups. I strongly believe in the right of games-makers to sell adult content in their games, but they have to do it responsibly, and take responsibility for their own screw-ups. Rockstar is acting irresponsibly when it sells a game with a lower rating, that actually contains more explicit material. That's like selling MAD magazine to underage kids, and then revealing/leaking later the fact that Oops! two of the pages are stuck together, and if you separate them there is hard-core sex photo spread. Wink, wink! That sure would send your sales through the roof, but it is irresponsible marketing, and Rockstar deserves to have their game re-rated or pulled from store shelves until they release a new version without the hidden content.
Way back in 2000, I asked them what they were going to do when people wised up and started deleting cookies in greater numbers, and they just looked at me like I had three heads.
...and I don't think there is any age-enforcement system to prevent kids under 17 from watching. The games undustry is being screwed by political double-standards.
I agree. Rockstar is making megabucks off of selling electronic sleaze, yet they don't take any responsibility for their own screw-ups. I strongly believe in the right of games-makers to sell adult content in their games, but they have to do it responsibly, and take responsibility for their own screw-ups. Rockstar is acting irresponsibly when it sells a game with a lower rating, that actually contains more explicit material. That's like selling MAD magazine to underage kids, and then revealing/leaking later the fact that Oops! two of the pages are stuck together, and if you separate them there is hard-core sex photo spread. Wink, wink! That sure would send your sales through the roof, but it is irresponsible marketing, and Rockstar deserves to have their game re-rated or pulled from store shelves until they release a new version without the hidden content.
The reason for these double-standards is that the movie industry has far more political power than the games industry, especially with Democrats. It is time for the games industry to demand assistance on these free-speech issues from the movie industry, or else the games industry should become extremely vociferous about pointing out all the double-standards that exist between the games and movie inustries. They should also start publicizing the amount of contributions Democrats like Hillary Clinton receive from Hollywood movie studios, and asking the question why those same politicians aren't more vociferous about the sex and violence in movies. If the movie industry doesn't help the games industry out, then they deserve to be next in line for heavy-handed government regulation.
Top Game Servers By Players
- 1. Half Life
22940 servers, 47003 players
- 2. Half Life 2
14743 servers, 37386 players
- 3. Battlefield 2
6439 servers, 28676 players
- 4. Call of Duty
6412 servers, 10679 players
- 5. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
3189 servers, 10063 players
- 6. Unreal Tournament 2004
2671 servers, 6476 players
- 7. Americas Army: Special Forces
1503 servers, 5201 players
- 8. Neverwinter Nights
1237 servers, 3809 players
- 9. Medal of Honor Allied Assault
2284 servers, 3556 players
- 10. Quake 3: Arena
2243 servers, 3233 players
- 11. Soldier of Fortune 2
1384 servers, 2740 players
- 12. Battlefield 2 Demo
239 servers, 2716 players
- 13. Unreal Tournament
2204 servers, 2668 players
- 14. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Spearhead
1379 servers, 2517 players
- 15. Battlefield 1942
1019 servers, 1917 players
- 16. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
705 servers, 1887 players
- 17. Halo: Combat Evolved
687 servers, 1772 players
- 18. Vietcong
345 servers, 940 players
- 19. SWAT 4
230 servers, 819 players
- 20. Battlefield: Vietnam
363 servers, 696 players
Also, wait until after working hours on the East Coast of the US, and the player numbers for BF2 will be higher than Half Life 2. At it's peak, BF1942 seemed to get around 15,000 players playing online at any given momemt.Do you play on ranked servers all the time? Playing on unranked servers won't contribute to your rank. Also, make sure to join a squad every time you play, because you will get extra teamplay points, especially if you follow orders and do helpful things like capture control points as part of a group, or play as a medic and heal/revive your teamates.
The only thing VOIP companies should have an obligation to do is to take pro-active steps to inform their customers of the limitations of 911 service. The companies cannot control whether or not customers decide to respond that they have read and understand the limitations. If customers have their service disconnected if they don't respond, then I suggest that the companies refer the resulting complaints to the personal home phone number of Michael Powell.
I don't normally succumb to gadget envy. I passed on the Palm, the iPaq, the iPod, and the PSP. But I want one of those keyboards.
Translation: "This is the way we would do this if we had the time."
Is it the nerdliness, or just the bank account? Hot chicks hooking up with ugly rich guys is nothing new.
The only problem is the money might make you rich by Indian standards, but could you ever afford to move back to the States? And do you really want to live in India?
1. Because the PC will still exist for other reasons (e-mail, web, word processing, accessing office network from home, etc.) As long as the PC exists, there will be PC games. 2. MOUSE & KEYBOARD!!!!!!!! If neither the Xbox 360 nor the PS3 will let me use a mouse and keyboard for FPS's and RTS's, then the bulk of my gaming will continue to be on the PC. Why is it that a racing-game fne can connect a racing wheel, but an FPS fan cannot connect a keyboard/mouse-style controller?
The proprietary document formats of Office applications has been Microsoft's ace-up-the-sleeve since MS Office became the dominant office suite back in the mid 90's. During the MS anti-trust brouhaha of 1999-2002 era, I kept saying that all the government needed to do was make Microsoft open up it's file formats so that any competing application could read/write/edit documents on an equal basis. If they go this route, Microsoft will finally have to compete based on quality and price.
Actually, I think it will never actually translate your document. It will however generate an extensive series of proclamations about how it is in favor of translating your document, but that action must not be taken to hastily, and further debate must occur on the merits of translating your document.
Seriously, do we want to wait for the Chinese to have this stuff before we do? Besides, what we really need to get USB is a space-based death-ray laser that can be fired with pinpoint accuracy at a moments notice. Lasers like this would also allow us to reduce civilian casulaties due to greater accuracy in taking out the enemy.
That sounds about right for the Democrats. Keep recounting until you get the outcome you want.
The columnists themselves benefit by having their op-ed pieces freely available to read on the internet. Their fame is increased, leading to higher speaking fees and more book sales, etc. Maybe some of the less-well-known (and less-well-compensated) writers will quit and go elsewhere, or start blogging instead.
You're endangering the galaxy.
As an American, I think that reducing our dependence on foreign oil, reducing smog in our cities, reducing acid rain, and the likely benefits of spinoff technologies are all far more compelling reasons to pursue a new energy strategy than the unproven theory that the alleged increase in global temperature since the beginning of the indusrial age is due to human activities. Environmentalists have become overly dependent on the global warming argument to advance their cause in the same way that Bush was overly dependent on WMDs to justify going into Iraq. In both cases, there are a lot of other good arguments in favor of the position. Environmentalists ought to be highlighting other benefits of a new energy economy in case global warming turns out to be their equivalent of Iraqi WMDs.