I'm really really tired of people making comments of this sort. In any civilized society, the citizens have to give up some "privacy" in order to have the protection granted by the society. Privacy means nothing if your life and well-being are constantly at risk. So, enjoy your time in Jamaica. Oh, and enjoy your Jamacian crime rates as well.
And how many of those people are going to put linux on the PS3. Very few I guarantee.
Not everyone cares to put linux on a gaming machine or even could.
While I worked at Gamestop, we couldn't sell M rated games to minors, but that sure as hell doesn't stop us from selling it to the parents who are standing right there with the kids that are playing the games.
Besides, if the kids want the games they will get them whether there is a law slowing them down or not. Kids drink alcohol before they are 21, they smoke before they are 18 and get porn before they are 18 too.
If it's a "knee jerk reaction" to the so called "Hot-Coffee" mod, the government is really out of touch more so that I thought before. Worrying about some lame-ass "porn" like that in GTA is retarded when the whole point of the series is shooting cops and selling drugs.
To test the option's preference for 5-stars, I created a short playlist of six songs: one from each different star rating and a song left un-rated. The songs were from the same genre and artist and were changed to be
only one second in duration.
Everyone wants to put music on their phone. Problem is, the carriers want to charge you to put it on your phone.
From the article:
SKIMPY PROFITS. Verizon, Cingular, and other wireless operators want customers to pay to put music on phones. They think getting a full song should be like getting a ring tone, snippets for which customers now pay from 99 to $3. The carriers have no interest in conceding the booming digital-music market to the tech players. "When carriers see this future, Apple is front and center," says Andrew Cole, head of the wireless practice at consultant A.T. Kearney. Apple is "a competitor not to be embraced, but to be rejected."
I don't really think so. All that they really are doing is showing that our thought processes are largely governed by our desire to survive. By increasing the amount of money, the researchers pretty much told the subjects minds that they are being more successful in their environment -- just a positive feedback system increasing survival chances of the subject. I dunno, this research doesn't really prove anything.
I think a lot of people just don't know what *nix is. Of course, textbooks like these don't help. Hell I'm in my senior year of a CS BS course of study, and there are students in my classes who couldn't use a terminal to save their lives or work remotely without a GUI. They just don't understand the system commands.
Sad
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iDG was down for about 2 months, right after the Jnauary annoucement of 21 days later due to a security breach. The person who runs the site had to upgrade his system, and is currently running it from his home.
Give him a bit of time to get the site back in order.:)
Let's hope that the quality of education also rises. I am in my senior year at a CSU school, and sorry to say it, but I am _highly_ disappointed in the quality of professors at both of the CSU's I have studied at. Teachers who are not passionate about their field, and students in my systems programming course who have never used a terminal emulator before or even really know what linux is. It is sad when seniors in a BS CS program don't understand basic concepts. I had several students in my compiler course not understanding how to even implement a hash table. Another student had his source code headers included via "c:\dir\to\file" even though the source had to be compiled and run on sun workstations at school that are accessable remotely. My compiler teacher had his *nix environment so messed up that he couldn't even compile or run utilities that linked to libstdc. *sigh*
Well, NASIOC held up great during the Mark Mitsubishi fiasco, looks like we are about to find out what its really made of Slashdot vs NASIOC!
LOL
Try this link.
I don't think most of the research that goes on in universities and science laboritories necessarily has any "practical" application; it's research for the sake of science and expanding human knowledge, not necessarily for an "application" aka profit.
=)
My 2 cents, for what its worth.
If you look at the most popular games of all time, (I have in mind Tetris, Final Fantasy, Unreal Tournament, GTA, Pac-Man, The Sims, WarCraft, Mario, well, you get the idea . ..) they are all fun. That's the point. But they are all respectable in their own right.
The reason violent and brutal games are fun is because games involve conflict, and the most basic type of conflict is physical violence/confrontation. It is also the easiest type of conflict to understand, and resolve. (Guy is in my way, kill him)
It is much easier to make a game where you have to kill all your enemies, as opposed to make them loyal and win their friendship and love. And besides, most of us do the more complex task in our daily lives anyway.
As far as comparing books and film to video games, the problem is interactivity. A person doesn't make choices in the two proven genres, but games are participatory. The future of game development is going to be intresting, because current game sales have been based on improved technology; not improved gameplay. (ex: UT v UT2003) The proven game genres are going to have to take a back-seat, and be modified to make some fresh ideas.
Who would have thought games such as The Sims would have been so successful? What the game business needs is innovation, not this repetitive stagnation.
How that is going to come about has yet to be seen -- I don't have any ideas just yet.
I don't even know why this "feature" is that intresting anyway. I can't really think of a reason to have a drawer with a shell in it. Keep my shells in my terminal or my emacs, nowhere else! They will probably drop the feature, as it is more of a novelty than anthing else.
but being the UT junkie that I am I prefer the Unreal Tournament movies made by some of the best clans and players on the face of the planet.
Good Stuff Here
Cheers.
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Figures you posted anon. LOL
I'm really really tired of people making comments of this sort. In any civilized society, the citizens have to give up some "privacy" in order to have the protection granted by the society. Privacy means nothing if your life and well-being are constantly at risk. So, enjoy your time in Jamaica. Oh, and enjoy your Jamacian crime rates as well.
And how many of those people are going to put linux on the PS3. Very few I guarantee. Not everyone cares to put linux on a gaming machine or even could.
If you look through out history, military might has driven the need for better technology.
... of taxpayers dollars and time.
While I worked at Gamestop, we couldn't sell M rated games to minors, but that sure as hell doesn't stop us from selling it to the parents who are standing right there with the kids that are playing the games.
Besides, if the kids want the games they will get them whether there is a law slowing them down or not. Kids drink alcohol before they are 21, they smoke before they are 18 and get porn before they are 18 too.
If it's a "knee jerk reaction" to the so called "Hot-Coffee" mod, the government is really out of touch more so that I thought before. Worrying about some lame-ass "porn" like that in GTA is retarded when the whole point of the series is shooting cops and selling drugs.
Lawmakers really need to get in touch.
Oh, really? Why don't you try it in Safari first. Works in Safari v1.3(312) fine.
Might help if you RTFA.
Everyone wants to put music on their phone. Problem is, the carriers want to charge you to put it on your phone.
From the article:
SKIMPY PROFITS. Verizon, Cingular, and other wireless operators want customers to pay to put music on phones. They think getting a full song should be like getting a ring tone, snippets for which customers now pay from 99 to $3. The carriers have no interest in conceding the booming digital-music market to the tech players. "When carriers see this future, Apple is front and center," says Andrew Cole, head of the wireless practice at consultant A.T. Kearney. Apple is "a competitor not to be embraced, but to be rejected."
Why don't you get an education. Distance and time are nearly equivalent. I believe it's called space-time.
I've seen in a long time. LOL
I don't really think so. All that they really are doing is showing that our thought processes are largely governed by our desire to survive. By increasing the amount of money, the researchers pretty much told the subjects minds that they are being more successful in their environment -- just a positive feedback system increasing survival chances of the subject. I dunno, this research doesn't really prove anything.
I think a lot of people just don't know what *nix is. Of course, textbooks like these don't help. Hell I'm in my senior year of a CS BS course of study, and there are students in my classes who couldn't use a terminal to save their lives or work remotely without a GUI. They just don't understand the system commands.
Sad
iDG was down for about 2 months, right after the Jnauary annoucement of 21 days later due to a security breach. The person who runs the site had to upgrade his system, and is currently running it from his home. :)
Give him a bit of time to get the site back in order.
Heh, well if you didn't answer to all that penis enlargment spam, we probably wouldn't be tripping on your dick.
gg
Let's hope that the quality of education also rises. I am in my senior year at a CSU school, and sorry to say it, but I am _highly_ disappointed in the quality of professors at both of the CSU's I have studied at. Teachers who are not passionate about their field, and students in my systems programming course who have never used a terminal emulator before or even really know what linux is. It is sad when seniors in a BS CS program don't understand basic concepts. I had several students in my compiler course not understanding how to even implement a hash table. Another student had his source code headers included via "c:\dir\to\file" even though the source had to be compiled and run on sun workstations at school that are accessable remotely. My compiler teacher had his *nix environment so messed up that he couldn't even compile or run utilities that linked to libstdc. *sigh*
Here's to the future.
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Strange alliances indeed. This is prolly gonna scare the craap outta Microsoft.
Well, NASIOC held up great during the Mark Mitsubishi fiasco, looks like we are about to find out what its really made of Slashdot vs NASIOC!
LOL
Try this link.
I don't think most of the research that goes on in universities and science laboritories necessarily has any "practical" application; it's research for the sake of science and expanding human knowledge, not necessarily for an "application" aka profit.
=)
My 2 cents, for what its worth.
Heh, probably has something to do with penny-arcade. ;)
If you look at the most popular games of all time, (I have in mind Tetris, Final Fantasy, Unreal Tournament, GTA, Pac-Man, The Sims, WarCraft, Mario, well, you get the idea . . .) they are all fun. That's the point. But they are all respectable in their own right.
The reason violent and brutal games are fun is because games involve conflict, and the most basic type of conflict is physical violence/confrontation. It is also the easiest type of conflict to understand, and resolve. (Guy is in my way, kill him)
It is much easier to make a game where you have to kill all your enemies, as opposed to make them loyal and win their friendship and love. And besides, most of us do the more complex task in our daily lives anyway.
As far as comparing books and film to video games, the problem is interactivity. A person doesn't make choices in the two proven genres, but games are participatory. The future of game development is going to be intresting, because current game sales have been based on improved technology; not improved gameplay. (ex: UT v UT2003) The proven game genres are going to have to take a back-seat, and be modified to make some fresh ideas. Who would have thought games such as The Sims would have been so successful? What the game business needs is innovation, not this repetitive stagnation.
How that is going to come about has yet to be seen -- I don't have any ideas just yet.
I don't even know why this "feature" is that intresting anyway. I can't really think of a reason to have a drawer with a shell in it. Keep my shells in my terminal or my emacs, nowhere else! They will probably drop the feature, as it is more of a novelty than anthing else.
but being the UT junkie that I am I prefer the Unreal Tournament movies made by some of the best clans and players on the face of the planet. Good Stuff Here
Cheers.