How about adding a tinny sound to sounds that would be on the left side, or something similar? It certainly wouldn't be the same experience that someone with both ears would hear, but half-deaf people have no other choice.
I'm with Shaw, which used to have some connections with Rogers, iirc. In the past the download limit was 20GB/month, and the upload was probably 2GB/month. Eventually the limits ceased to exist, although they will still act if you download too much. If you read the EULA (which I have many times), it states that the service has no monthly limits, but it suggests that you download with the same limits that their small business package has.
My friend got in trouble with them once when he was hosting a CS server which had players 24/7 - upload up to 80GB I seem to remember. He got out of trouble by removing the server.
I got a letter myself, but it the wording made it seem more like concern that I may have become an xdcc bot, or something similar. I was going to ignore it, but my mom ended up phoning them. Don't know what happened but I never changed my ways. At most I've downloaded 80GB/month and uploaded as little as necessary (for BT and emule - emule is limited at 1KB/s but it thinks it has 30KB/s up) which may be 20GB. I think confusion is an excellent way to get out of anything; they've always given second chances to my knowledge. Further in the past I got in trouble for hosting a website, so I've really gotten two strikes against me.
But after sifting through their EULA lots, there are no usage limits. If you do go really high, they reserve the right to take action, however (EULA wording, may have little legal validity). They also limit some types of access. You can't host servers for other people (servers meant to be personal are Ok - ftp from school to grab files, etc). You can't download copyrighted material that you've got no right to (funny I thought that was covered in the copyright act of Canada - maybe they listed it under valid termination reasons..).
Since you're dealing with people, there are ways to bluff and lie through it all.
"...less common than the US media makes them out to be."
I don't think the media makes violence out to be more common than it is (well, it probably depends on your definitions). Just by virtue of seeing violence on the news - from possibility the entire world - might make an individual think violence happens more often than not, but it not as if the media evilly plans it like that. Most things just aren't news.
Anyway, I just wanted to try and take any misplaced blame on the media away.
"Nintendo is aware of a minor issue.... It affects only very minor areas in the game (such as growing certain berries) after one full calendar year of game play."
It sounds like an easily missed thing. Advancing time is one thing, but advancing time and using every feature is different - these features don't depend on the game being a year later, just time in general. However, they'll no doubt pay much more attention to time features in the future.
I just don't think it's a "major failure" or that their "test teams are entirely incompetent."
Is this behaviour acceptable from politicians? On the one hand, they are elected by you to sit through these boring meetings and figure out what's best for the nation and its people. On the other hand, it is probably often quite boring, and would be sometimes unnecessary to pay attention. When I go to a uni math course, sometimes I pay attention, sometimes now; it just depends on if the class is important or not (review of an easy test, versus new material). So he's probably fine.
There is an editorial published in a recent issue of Nature which points out that others have shown those 1000 studies don't actually exist. Many of them are essays and articles about real studies. It's short and proves nothing, but the editorial gives a couple of things to go on if you want to look furthur into the matter. (the reference to a Surgeon General's report on violence is good)
"A Calm View of Video Violence." Nature 424.6947 (2003): 355.
I wouldn't mind for you to point out examples of corruption in the stock market. I would never never thought of corruption existing there.
Gambling is indeed addictive, however. Do you think that drinking is more addictive than gambling or not? I can see how gambling could become financially worse, since it's easy to gamble $1000 per hand if you have it.
The "realism" is what gives Counter-Strike its gameplay (just equivocating). But it isn't very realistic, and you have to learn to play it like any game (within the rules of the game - not the rules of the world which happen to be mimicked in the game poorly). I can't comment on Urban Terror (though I played a game of a similar name for Unreal Tournament and it was boring), but if you don't get any action from Counter-Strike for 30 minutes then you are either in a bad server or you just suck at camping or hunting (a problem which is only at the end of the game and isn't limited to counter-strike, so I think your experiences are exceptions).
The same is true for poker, or other games of competition against equals (as opposed to the house). However for most people, they'd be better off playing the stock market.
What exactly is the difference between publishing and "sharing"? Sharing, in my view, is just one new way of publishing something in today's world. And even if you don't think so, what is so wrong with companies being given legal rights to prevent those who "share" their materials online?
From a terrorist point of view, I suspect that a building is a better target than a train: easier to get to, easier to get away from, and more likely to kill lots of people.
But what makes the train a good target is that it seems like such a poor target, when compared to buildings. This is terrorism, afterall.
I hate the ones that say something like, "See you on Tuesday." I don't remember anybody named Darcy meeting me on Tuesday, but how can I be sure? I'll have to open it and find out. Nope, Darcy wants me to hire his sleazy escorts. Of course I'm not susceptible to those sorts of worms, but otherwise it could be a dilemma.
Can't most of those games be played on a standard deck? I know I've seen remakes of card games with silly decks, when they could easily have been played on a standard deck otherwise. However, I do know of a few games which are more similar to MTG than poker.
Of course there are thousands of card games, which are variants of a few.
That doesn't look like it covers file sharing. File sharing of music, maybe, but certainly not of software. Since you have the right to make backups of software optical media, it seems like a similar situation - except it isn't covered here (and I've not found it anywhere in the act).
While that sounds plausible, it still sounds too much like an obvious loophole that nobody would want to exist (well, "nobody"). The act doesn't say anything about it being illegal to make copies of original discs you do not own*, or that you must destroy copies once you give up ownership?
Netmeeting is 2.5mb in its directory on my win2k machine. Oh my, what a horrible waste of space. IM, a browser, and a video player too? Microsoft provides a platform for largly ignorant people to browse the web, play movies, check their email, and play games. Would you rather those things not to come with the operating system, so these users have no idea how to do anything? It doesn't make sense to add alternatives, first for the bloat, second because you'd need to include so many Windows would be a 5 disc set - but mostly the bloat. Anyone can go find an alternative tool, and many of the things that come installed with windows can be removed (movie creation, all the clearly extra bulk).
The OS/application boundary (if you mean DLLs) is a different thing.
Maybe I'm not entirely familiar with the rating system used in the USA (I think it's the same as in Canada), but many of the old game boxes I had wouldn't just have a rating, they'd include descriptions.
I had an old Blizzard game whose name I forgot, but it included a mention of violence, and "human's killed." Isn't it the same for games today? I think I remember boxes that mentioned degrees of sexual content too.
Having ratings and a short list of reasons seems like a great system, whether it is used today or not.
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How about adding a tinny sound to sounds that would be on the left side, or something similar? It certainly wouldn't be the same experience that someone with both ears would hear, but half-deaf people have no other choice.
I'm with Shaw, which used to have some connections with Rogers, iirc. In the past the download limit was 20GB/month, and the upload was probably 2GB/month. Eventually the limits ceased to exist, although they will still act if you download too much. If you read the EULA (which I have many times), it states that the service has no monthly limits, but it suggests that you download with the same limits that their small business package has.
My friend got in trouble with them once when he was hosting a CS server which had players 24/7 - upload up to 80GB I seem to remember. He got out of trouble by removing the server.
I got a letter myself, but it the wording made it seem more like concern that I may have become an xdcc bot, or something similar. I was going to ignore it, but my mom ended up phoning them. Don't know what happened but I never changed my ways. At most I've downloaded 80GB/month and uploaded as little as necessary (for BT and emule - emule is limited at 1KB/s but it thinks it has 30KB/s up) which may be 20GB. I think confusion is an excellent way to get out of anything; they've always given second chances to my knowledge. Further in the past I got in trouble for hosting a website, so I've really gotten two strikes against me.
But after sifting through their EULA lots, there are no usage limits. If you do go really high, they reserve the right to take action, however (EULA wording, may have little legal validity). They also limit some types of access. You can't host servers for other people (servers meant to be personal are Ok - ftp from school to grab files, etc). You can't download copyrighted material that you've got no right to (funny I thought that was covered in the copyright act of Canada - maybe they listed it under valid termination reasons..).
Since you're dealing with people, there are ways to bluff and lie through it all.
"...less common than the US media makes them out to be."
I don't think the media makes violence out to be more common than it is (well, it probably depends on your definitions). Just by virtue of seeing violence on the news - from possibility the entire world - might make an individual think violence happens more often than not, but it not as if the media evilly plans it like that. Most things just aren't news.
Anyway, I just wanted to try and take any misplaced blame on the media away.
"Nintendo is aware of a minor issue .... It affects only very minor areas in the game (such as growing certain berries) after one full calendar year of game play."
It sounds like an easily missed thing. Advancing time is one thing, but advancing time and using every feature is different - these features don't depend on the game being a year later, just time in general. However, they'll no doubt pay much more attention to time features in the future.
I just don't think it's a "major failure" or that their "test teams are entirely incompetent."
Is this behaviour acceptable from politicians? On the one hand, they are elected by you to sit through these boring meetings and figure out what's best for the nation and its people. On the other hand, it is probably often quite boring, and would be sometimes unnecessary to pay attention. When I go to a uni math course, sometimes I pay attention, sometimes now; it just depends on if the class is important or not (review of an easy test, versus new material). So he's probably fine.
When in GTA 3 can you have sex with prostitutes? The best I could do was pay them to ride around with me. I feel like I'm missing out.
There is an editorial published in a recent issue of Nature which points out that others have shown those 1000 studies don't actually exist. Many of them are essays and articles about real studies. It's short and proves nothing, but the editorial gives a couple of things to go on if you want to look furthur into the matter. (the reference to a Surgeon General's report on violence is good)
"A Calm View of Video Violence." Nature 424.6947 (2003): 355.
The ESA thinks that less than 9% of games are sold to people under 18. Figures available in this pdf.
Or dihydrogen monoxide? With monoxide it sounds a little more dangerous, perhaps.
1^2=1; (-1)^2=1; 1^2=(-1)^2; 1=-1; 1=0.
(-1)^2=(1)^2; sqrt((-1)^2)=sqrt(1^2); 1=1.
Because, sqrt((-1)^2)=|-1|, not -1, and therefore is 1. Right?
Maybe here in the west, but not in Asia.
I wouldn't mind for you to point out examples of corruption in the stock market. I would never never thought of corruption existing there.
Gambling is indeed addictive, however. Do you think that drinking is more addictive than gambling or not? I can see how gambling could become financially worse, since it's easy to gamble $1000 per hand if you have it.
The "realism" is what gives Counter-Strike its gameplay (just equivocating). But it isn't very realistic, and you have to learn to play it like any game (within the rules of the game - not the rules of the world which happen to be mimicked in the game poorly). I can't comment on Urban Terror (though I played a game of a similar name for Unreal Tournament and it was boring), but if you don't get any action from Counter-Strike for 30 minutes then you are either in a bad server or you just suck at camping or hunting (a problem which is only at the end of the game and isn't limited to counter-strike, so I think your experiences are exceptions).
The same is true for poker, or other games of competition against equals (as opposed to the house). However for most people, they'd be better off playing the stock market.
What exactly is the difference between publishing and "sharing"? Sharing, in my view, is just one new way of publishing something in today's world. And even if you don't think so, what is so wrong with companies being given legal rights to prevent those who "share" their materials online?
From a terrorist point of view, I suspect that a building is a better target than a train: easier to get to, easier to get away from, and more likely to kill lots of people.
But what makes the train a good target is that it seems like such a poor target, when compared to buildings. This is terrorism, afterall.
I hate the ones that say something like, "See you on Tuesday." I don't remember anybody named Darcy meeting me on Tuesday, but how can I be sure? I'll have to open it and find out. Nope, Darcy wants me to hire his sleazy escorts. Of course I'm not susceptible to those sorts of worms, but otherwise it could be a dilemma.
You wouln't have to smuggle them. They won't be taxed at the border. (unless I'm ignorant of international business)
Can't most of those games be played on a standard deck? I know I've seen remakes of card games with silly decks, when they could easily have been played on a standard deck otherwise. However, I do know of a few games which are more similar to MTG than poker.
Of course there are thousands of card games, which are variants of a few.
That doesn't look like it covers file sharing. File sharing of music, maybe, but certainly not of software. Since you have the right to make backups of software optical media, it seems like a similar situation - except it isn't covered here (and I've not found it anywhere in the act).
While that sounds plausible, it still sounds too much like an obvious loophole that nobody would want to exist (well, "nobody"). The act doesn't say anything about it being illegal to make copies of original discs you do not own*, or that you must destroy copies once you give up ownership?
They didn't call it innovation, so I disagree. But they did say "the current IM clouds really aren't built for that." Umm.. wrong.
Netmeeting is 2.5mb in its directory on my win2k machine. Oh my, what a horrible waste of space. IM, a browser, and a video player too? Microsoft provides a platform for largly ignorant people to browse the web, play movies, check their email, and play games. Would you rather those things not to come with the operating system, so these users have no idea how to do anything? It doesn't make sense to add alternatives, first for the bloat, second because you'd need to include so many Windows would be a 5 disc set - but mostly the bloat. Anyone can go find an alternative tool, and many of the things that come installed with windows can be removed (movie creation, all the clearly extra bulk).
The OS/application boundary (if you mean DLLs) is a different thing.
Looks like I should have read the article. The system is fine, though there should be more "descriptors."
Maybe I'm not entirely familiar with the rating system used in the USA (I think it's the same as in Canada), but many of the old game boxes I had wouldn't just have a rating, they'd include descriptions.
I had an old Blizzard game whose name I forgot, but it included a mention of violence, and "human's killed." Isn't it the same for games today? I think I remember boxes that mentioned degrees of sexual content too.
Having ratings and a short list of reasons seems like a great system, whether it is used today or not.
"Mature:
Fantasy violence, blood
Nudity"