They're okay if the kid is playing a game that encourages you to pick up a hooker, pay for sex, have sex, then beat up the hooker to get your money back.
I don't think the game ever actually encouraged any of that, only rewarded you with additional health if you discovered it. But it certainly didn't encourage that last step.
And I'm not sure you get all your money back anyway. I think it's just the same random amount of money you can get for killing anyone.
The problem isn't the labeling, it's the location of the keys used. I had to use a Windows PC today and I kept pressing Alt-C to copy.
There have been third-party tools to remap keyboards for a long time. I'm sure there are a few for Mac OS X as well. You shouldn't have to make all Mac-only users switch just to appease the Windows-switchers and dual-platform users.
Save button on toolbars.
So what should it look like, hmm? Surely not the anachronistic 3.5" disk long banished from the platform.
A multi button mouse.
Existing aftermarket mice work just fine, and they both aren't round and have actual buttons on them!
Only show relevant file types in open and save dialogs.
This might have some merit. It may be a mistake to show disabled options, even files, if there's no way in that instance of the window to make the files selectable.
However, it does give you information over what files exist so you don't name a file the same as another that isn't associated with this program.
Maybe a sorting or suppression option.
Sort folders to top of directory listings
Sort by type isn't sufficient?
More context sensitive help.
I haven't really had a problem that way. The system is easy enough that I generally don't need help.
I'm 90% sure the "graphic" is an overlay that is NOT part of the actual recording/encoding.
I'm 100% certain that is the case. The only ways I know to prevent it are to wait for the corresponding showcase data to expire or record a different airing with the VBI data blanked out. Though I haven't checked to see if "Save to VCR" playback displays it....
Someone else probably knows how to do it with a series of hacks.
Actually, I will occasionally analog-capture a commercial from the TiVo to my computer if it is particularly good. Or laughably bad. The last one I did was the GE "green/seafoam shirt".
But from my past experience, these interactive features throw a graphic up on the screen. You can clear it (at times only temporarily) from the screen with the Clear button, but the capture is already marred by then. But so far ads that have done this haven't been worth keeping.
There have been 5-6 processor changes in the history of Apple.
Apple: 6502, 65c02, 65c816
Macintosh: 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040
PowerMac: 601, 604, G3, G4, G5
That's two major changes in the past (three if you count the Mac OS X compatibility break between the 604 and G3). Should I have counted the processors used in the Newton and iPod? Or NeXT?
Mactel: Pentium 4
And there ends the run of the 6's/G's that harkened back to the original Apple I price of $666.66, unless Jobs gets Intel to relabel the processors for Apple for the production model.
And shouldn't such a major processor change also entail a model name change?
Not just creating games, but one could plot out reenactments of actual battles. It is said the United States has always collected as much detailed information as possible about every battle they've ever engaged in. This could help history classes to get kids interested in past events.
And then plotitng the settings of books that used real locations as their settings. Simulate the Martian attack from Woking to London, or from Grover's Mill to New York City, and sync it up with multimedia.
A new build of VPC for Mac OS X on Intel will be more like WINE.
But does this mean that PC users should be expecting a new program to run Mac OS X under Linux called MINE (standing for "MINE Is Not an Emulator" of course).
Symbols don't necessarily communicate what you intend. There's an air freshener can in the men's room at my workplace that has a symbol which could be read either as "not for use by children" or as "keep boys and girls segregated".
Another symbol on the same can which they probably intended to mean "don't get in your eye" could also mean "don't look at product".
Are you sure your "no kids" symbol can't be misinterpreted as "no short people"?
And why is this information communicated indelibly on screen instead of as a data stream to be interpreted and acted upon by a V-chip or similar hardware? Especially for HDTV signals that shouldn't have legacy hardware problems! Once coming back from a commercial such a rating appeared directly over a character's face. The first line should have been, "How does Mr. TV-14 plead?"
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Think of it like commenting out the code that allowed the user to get in to that mode.
Or, to be even geekier, it is exactly like Apple's disabling of the code in GS/OS that would have used the ethernet card they developed but never brought to market. Those that got prerelease versions of that card developed a patch for the OS to enable the use of their ethernet cards.
This site carries "News for Nerds". These things shouldn't have to be explained to this audience.
They should place the "No Kids" symbol. You know, the symbol they put in the corner of the screen in movies.
Where are they putting ratings bugs in the corner of screens in movies? I want to know so I never to go to a cinema there! It's bad enough that they're on every channel on my TV.
Now hop across the pond. Suddenly, you are waiting months for a DVD that is already released in the US. Suddenly, you are paying a hell of a lot more for movies.
As opposed to TV series where even US series get released overseas on DVD long before (if ever) they get released in the US (Sci-Fi's The Invisible Man a.k.a. I-Man). I'm in the US and buy from the UK some series that aren't coming out here. I paid £50.28 ($87.70) for two seasons of a UK series that came out in the US recently listing at $79.95. One vendor had it available briefly for $5.00 (if memory serves). Current lowest price I can find for it in the US is $47.97. (The series had aired on Nickelodeon in its early days. If price and availability weren't an issue, I think I'd prefer having a UK TV series in the original PAL format rather than converted to NTSC.)
Meanwhile some of the first DVDs to be released are out of print in the US, and unless you want to pay high collector's prices you have to get them from another region. Titles such as Flash Gordon. Or they're tied up with contracts preventing their R1 DVD release like Fox's Doctor Who.
They then convert them to RGBHV or unprotected DVI signals.
Which still aren't recordable, yes?
Let me know when it there's one that will convert it to a decrypted compressed data stream I can capture over Firewire.
Wait, let me guess: HDCP is a compressed encrypted signal, not an encrypted compressed signal, so you can't get an unencrypted compressed signal without recompressing, right?
Maybe he should come down with an STD if he fucks every skank in the neighborhood. Or maybe he can be have his cash taken away to support the kid he fathered.
I haven't played San Andreas (been waiting for the PC version's price to drop), but with the population I've seen in GTA3 and Vice City, the whole population must be sterile. (Or at least half of it.) Everyone apparently reproduces by full body mitosis whenever you turn your back on them. Even their clothes get in on the cloning action.
As to STDs, I don't know what ones you think you can catch from the sex depicted in those two games. You're just sitting motionless in the front seats of a car while its shocks bounce it around. The characters don't even touch each other. As far as I can tell, it's the car that's getting off!
If I look in the window, while on public sidewalk, and read the content on the monitor, have I stolen bandwidth?
"And, what if your family don't like bread; they like cigarettes?" -- Fat Tony
No, not stealing bandwidth; the bandwidth was already consumed by the legitimate user, you're just an observer.
But to digress more, would watching someone else's pay-per-view movie through their window be stealing cable? Or is the homeowner violating the license agreement (periodically displayed on HBO between programming) by having the screen viewable to the public, however unintentionally?
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It seems a natural thing to put on my USB thumbdrive, especially if I install the Hot Coffee modified save-game on it.
They're okay if the kid is playing a game that encourages you to pick up a hooker, pay for sex, have sex, then beat up the hooker to get your money back.
I don't think the game ever actually encouraged any of that, only rewarded you with additional health if you discovered it. But it certainly didn't encourage that last step.
And I'm not sure you get all your money back anyway. I think it's just the same random amount of money you can get for killing anyone.
- Compatible control keys.
- Save button on toolbars.
- A multi button mouse.
- Only show relevant file types in open and save dialogs.
- Sort folders to top of directory listings
- More context sensitive help.
Well, that's my breakdown.The problem isn't the labeling, it's the location of the keys used. I had to use a Windows PC today and I kept pressing Alt-C to copy.
There have been third-party tools to remap keyboards for a long time. I'm sure there are a few for Mac OS X as well. You shouldn't have to make all Mac-only users switch just to appease the Windows-switchers and dual-platform users.
So what should it look like, hmm? Surely not the anachronistic 3.5" disk long banished from the platform.
Existing aftermarket mice work just fine, and they both aren't round and have actual buttons on them!
This might have some merit. It may be a mistake to show disabled options, even files, if there's no way in that instance of the window to make the files selectable.
However, it does give you information over what files exist so you don't name a file the same as another that isn't associated with this program.
Maybe a sorting or suppression option.
Sort by type isn't sufficient?
I haven't really had a problem that way. The system is easy enough that I generally don't need help.
I'm 90% sure the "graphic" is an overlay that is NOT part of the actual recording/encoding.
I'm 100% certain that is the case. The only ways I know to prevent it are to wait for the corresponding showcase data to expire or record a different airing with the VBI data blanked out. Though I haven't checked to see if "Save to VCR" playback displays it....
Someone else probably knows how to do it with a series of hacks.
Childproof packaging for games won't prevent parents from opening it for the child.
Actually, I will occasionally analog-capture a commercial from the TiVo to my computer if it is particularly good. Or laughably bad. The last one I did was the GE "green/seafoam shirt".
But from my past experience, these interactive features throw a graphic up on the screen. You can clear it (at times only temporarily) from the screen with the Clear button, but the capture is already marred by then. But so far ads that have done this haven't been worth keeping.
There have been 5-6 processor changes in the history of Apple.
Apple: 6502, 65c02, 65c816
Macintosh: 68000, 68020, 68030, 68040
PowerMac: 601, 604, G3, G4, G5
That's two major changes in the past (three if you count the Mac OS X compatibility break between the 604 and G3). Should I have counted the processors used in the Newton and iPod? Or NeXT?
Mactel: Pentium 4
And there ends the run of the 6's/G's that harkened back to the original Apple I price of $666.66, unless Jobs gets Intel to relabel the processors for Apple for the production model.
And shouldn't such a major processor change also entail a model name change?
I can see the day where we all change our last name to "Smith" or something of that nature.
I seem to recall seeing a movie about that.
Nevermind that something can be more like more than one other thing, you've completely missed the point.
VirtualPC is an emulator. WINE Is Not an Emulator.
Why would you run an emulator for a processor you already have?
Not just creating games, but one could plot out reenactments of actual battles. It is said the United States has always collected as much detailed information as possible about every battle they've ever engaged in. This could help history classes to get kids interested in past events.
And then plotitng the settings of books that used real locations as their settings. Simulate the Martian attack from Woking to London, or from Grover's Mill to New York City, and sync it up with multimedia.
A new build of VPC for Mac OS X on Intel will be more like WINE.
But does this mean that PC users should be expecting a new program to run Mac OS X under Linux called MINE (standing for "MINE Is Not an Emulator" of course).
Symbols don't necessarily communicate what you intend. There's an air freshener can in the men's room at my workplace that has a symbol which could be read either as "not for use by children" or as "keep boys and girls segregated".
Another symbol on the same can which they probably intended to mean "don't get in your eye" could also mean "don't look at product".
Are you sure your "no kids" symbol can't be misinterpreted as "no short people"?
And why is this information communicated indelibly on screen instead of as a data stream to be interpreted and acted upon by a V-chip or similar hardware? Especially for HDTV signals that shouldn't have legacy hardware problems! Once coming back from a commercial such a rating appeared directly over a character's face. The first line should have been, "How does Mr. TV-14 plead?"
Think of it like commenting out the code that allowed the user to get in to that mode.
Or, to be even geekier, it is exactly like Apple's disabling of the code in GS/OS that would have used the ethernet card they developed but never brought to market. Those that got prerelease versions of that card developed a patch for the OS to enable the use of their ethernet cards.
This site carries "News for Nerds". These things shouldn't have to be explained to this audience.
I don't get why GTA:SA gets dragged through the mud when a minigame is found, but God of War gets away with it when it's meant to be played.
Were you in a self-imposed media exile through 1998 and 1999?
Game developers are required to report all disk contents to the ESRB and to the console manufacturers, whether that content is accessible or not.
Link, please, to the contract or law that states this.
They should place the "No Kids" symbol. You know, the symbol they put in the corner of the screen in movies.
Where are they putting ratings bugs in the corner of screens in movies? I want to know so I never to go to a cinema there! It's bad enough that they're on every channel on my TV.
Now hop across the pond. Suddenly, you are waiting months for a DVD that is already released in the US. Suddenly, you are paying a hell of a lot more for movies.
As opposed to TV series where even US series get released overseas on DVD long before (if ever) they get released in the US (Sci-Fi's The Invisible Man a.k.a. I-Man). I'm in the US and buy from the UK some series that aren't coming out here. I paid £50.28 ($87.70) for two seasons of a UK series that came out in the US recently listing at $79.95. One vendor had it available briefly for $5.00 (if memory serves). Current lowest price I can find for it in the US is $47.97. (The series had aired on Nickelodeon in its early days. If price and availability weren't an issue, I think I'd prefer having a UK TV series in the original PAL format rather than converted to NTSC.)
Meanwhile some of the first DVDs to be released are out of print in the US, and unless you want to pay high collector's prices you have to get them from another region. Titles such as Flash Gordon. Or they're tied up with contracts preventing their R1 DVD release like Fox's Doctor Who.
Whatever way the porn industry goes with high definition dvds is likely the way the consumer will go.
I think the porn industry will have no problem going both ways, and a few others besides.
They then convert them to RGBHV or unprotected DVI signals.
Which still aren't recordable, yes?
Let me know when it there's one that will convert it to a decrypted compressed data stream I can capture over Firewire.
Wait, let me guess: HDCP is a compressed encrypted signal, not an encrypted compressed signal, so you can't get an unencrypted compressed signal without recompressing, right?
all you want to do is to eat the brain of someone else for some obscure reason (protein content, perhaps?).
It makes the constant pain of being dead go away.
Just goes to demonstrate that the Taco hand doesn't know what the Zonk hand is doing.
Apple registers "Numbers".
Cocoa Java frozen.
I have to wonder how will this affect the OpenOffice.Org port NeoOffice/J.
Maybe he should come down with an STD if he fucks every skank in the neighborhood. Or maybe he can be have his cash taken away to support the kid he fathered.
I haven't played San Andreas (been waiting for the PC version's price to drop), but with the population I've seen in GTA3 and Vice City, the whole population must be sterile. (Or at least half of it.) Everyone apparently reproduces by full body mitosis whenever you turn your back on them. Even their clothes get in on the cloning action.
As to STDs, I don't know what ones you think you can catch from the sex depicted in those two games. You're just sitting motionless in the front seats of a car while its shocks bounce it around. The characters don't even touch each other. As far as I can tell, it's the car that's getting off!
Clearly then the mod should be rated AO and the game rated M.
As sold, the game is appropriately rated M.
If I look in the window, while on public sidewalk, and read the content on the monitor, have I stolen bandwidth?
"And, what if your family don't like bread; they like cigarettes?" -- Fat Tony
No, not stealing bandwidth; the bandwidth was already consumed by the legitimate user, you're just an observer.
But to digress more, would watching someone else's pay-per-view movie through their window be stealing cable? Or is the homeowner violating the license agreement (periodically displayed on HBO between programming) by having the screen viewable to the public, however unintentionally?