As referenced by a gamasutra article, this is not a new policy on walmart's part. In fact, they have many other games available for pre-order that have ratings pending. Bully was made an example of, most likely because of the lawsuit. The point is that walmart is accepting preorders for unrated games, but the article summary fails to point out this crucial point that actually makes the issue a controversy...
Way to fight for the man! No, I mean it - not only did an open source project show an improvement, but it was the right kind of open source project! I feel so much more wholesome as a geek, knowing that the good guys won the grammar race! Just goes to show that some open source projects are more equal than others, w00t!</sarcasm>
Get a life, dude. No one cares how great your shoddy product is compared to OpenOffice. Infighting like the crap your "Story" fosters is exactly the opposite of what the open source industry needs to become mainstream. Why not just say "My office package implemented a grammar checker! Try it out for yourself!"? THat's many times better than "We got the grammar first! OpenOffice su><0rz! W3 B3 1337!"
To be honest, I've already forgotten the name of your office suite, so your ploy to downplay the successes that OpenOffice has already encountered has failed utterly. At least, for me. Why not try creating a community, rather than flaunting your successes like a 3-year-old with a candy bar?
Open your eyes! Sure, here in techno-savvy land it looks like StarOffice has the potential to vreak the monopoly of Microsoft when it comes to document productions, but we have to be honest - millions of people are not going to jump ship just because an open source product all of a sudden had another release. Just the mere idea of switching will likely invalidate the millions of dollars companies spend on Microsoft Premier Support packages. The ubiquity of Microsoft Office is going to be the key factor here.
I know an individual who gets advance copies of the DVDs of popular movies, so that he can review them for events like the Screen Actors Guild awards, and they are made to sign extensive releases stating something to the effect of "I will not make copies of this". Anyone who does so in those cases is breaking a contract that they signed, and may have a significant impact on the revenues from moviegoers.
Not to mention the illegality of the actions of individuals who take camcorders/digital cameras into theatres. This should obviously be punishable by something more than a fine.
THe problem with the way we deal with crime in America is that we have to work with a deterrent-based system. Right now, the threat of litigation from the R-I-double-Assholes, let alone any of the other myriad organizations that feel that adding "Association of America" lends credibility to their cause, isn't nearly enough of a deterrent for the average computer-savvy college student sitting in a dorm room downloading the latest hits from {insert pop flavor of the moment here}. So, the solution is either to make the current deterrent more prevalent (more litigation, yay!), or to create a harsher deterrent. Since obviously someone in power realized that we shouldn't enhance the litigation-happy society we currently enjoy, they opted for an approach that is actually going to do some good.
I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but I remember that a couple years ago the City of Chicago wanted to change all of its lights to LEDs instead of bulbs, but - get this - the light bulb changer's union went on strike wen they heard about it.
Ridiculous. In some areas, unions still have use (like in preventing big companies that focus on Arts of the Electronic variety from treating their employees as slaves), but more often than not they just stifle innovation because it'll cause some poor soul to lose their job.
I bet it's still not going to happen in the lifetime of anyone reading this. Hell, I bet it won't happen in the lifetime of/.
Nobody will EVER convince the people with the checkbooks that colonizing that big rock in the sky is worth the time and effort. Why? Because the people with the checkbooks think in the short-term. Any colonization of the moon is going to require a massive drain on resources, and no politician is going to run for re-election on the platform of "Vote for me so that I can take 70% of your check and give it to people on the moon!"
This project just reeks of something orchestrated to generate popular interest in space exploration again. If we can identify a terrestrial planet, then just maybe people will want to go there, and NASA can get more funding, and the world will unite under one waving banner, and everyone will hold hands and sing "kumbaya"...
Why not some more realistic goals/projects? I'm all for the spirit of exploration, but until someone can see profit from space travel, nothing will ever come from it (thank you, capitalism).
One of these days someone in a broadcast industry (TV can be just as guilty) will realize that transmission mediums have changed, and the best way to survive is to adapt. Surely someone in these monolithic corporations realizes that their paradigm has shifted (See? I'm even using buzz words!), and that the best thing to do now is most likely to shift operations as well. Media companies should be more versatile, might improve their image and even their::gasp:: bottom line!
... when the line between home and work is so blurred as to be unrecognizable? Overwork and stress have been on the rise in the modern world for several years, how will still having to work when we return to our collective castles affect how we function as individuals?
I believe that while telecommuting is a good idea now, sometime in the future (I'm thinking 60 or so years) it's going to have to be regulated. Most people come home to relax and relieve stress. If they have to come home and continue to encounter all the little annoyances that gets them riled up at work, it can't be anything but bad for their stress, morale, and health. THe higher stress as a result may or may not have an effect on the population, but eventually it will go too far and people will start to do things like have heart attacks at an early age, bringing in government regulation to "Save" the populace after the problem becomes unsolvable.
Ooooh, lloks like I've upset you. Oh no! I'm not even worth karma! I'm so hurt! I think I'm gonna go cut myself now becuase some dumbass thinks he's better than me! Etiher you don't want to waste karma on me, or your fingers are too fat to type in your login. Lazy ass.
Thank you so very much sir for educating me! I am such a better person now that you opened your cock hole to give me what for! Wow, I stand in awe of how pathetic you are.
So what am I supposed to do with all those games that are no longer made anywhere? Am I supposed to rely on my fond memories of playing contra on the NES? Am I to envision what it was like to play my way through 7th Saga on the SNES? How can they possibly argue against a technology that keeps things like that alive when they are shunned by the very companies that made them?
Nintendo is again missing out on an opportunity here. Charge for emulators, do something like what the IPod is doing with music. Have a fee to download an emulator and some ROMs. For an industry so worried about copy protection, you'd think they would figure this out...
"Some might say if you can't master parallel parking, perhaps you shouldn't be driving."
Some pepople are utterly convinced that their SUV with 4-wheel drive gives them complete license to drive like an oblivious moron at the first sign of bad weather.
Some people have forgotten how to use their turn signal, whether it be to signal a lane change or to tear blindly across four lanes of traffic.
Some people are convinced that putting a sign to the effect of "Baby on Board" will actually help other drivers to realize that "This vehicle must be kept safe!" while completely neglecting the fact that the very premise of the sign accuses every person that reads it of being a bad driver.
Some people sit in the passing lane, averaging a whole 1 mph more than the person they are passing.
Some people intentionally ride in your blind spot, then honk wildly and make some interesting gestures when you try to change lanes (sometimes they even tell you "You're number 1!" with a single gesture).
And some people think parallel parking ability defines the driver? Some people are utter morons. How's about the author spares us the pathetic attempts at social commentary, and just present the article. Hell, my high school didn't even teach parallel parking, there was no way to practice it (even though we're a suburb of Chicago). I had to teach myself once I got to college....
"Some might say if you can't master parallel parking, perhaps you shouldn't be driving."
Some people are utterly convinced that four-wheel drive in the snow means you can drive like an idiot.
Some people are also convinced that putting a sign in the window to the effect of "Baby on Board" will automatically make other drivers care about them and avoid them, and don't realize that the very premise of that sign is accusing other drivers of not driving well.
Some people have forgotten how to use their turn signal, whether it be a lane change or a tire-spinning madman rush through 4 lanes of traffic.
Some people think it's OK to sit in the passing lane when moving only 1 mph faster than the person they are passing.
Some people think that because they drive a big truck the world has to conform to them (not all, but there are many clear-cut cases of moron truckers).
Some people think flashing your lights at someone is a perfectly legitimate way to get an entire line of vehicles out of your way.
And "some people" want to claim that parallel parking defines driving? How's about the author of this blurb saves the pathetic attempts at editorial commentary and just gives us the news. Hell, my high school didn't even teach parallel parking, as there wasn't really anywhere it could be practiced/used - I had to teach myself once I got to college...
of nthe three years that I spent waiting for Master of Orion 3. They almost released that game like 7 or 8 times before they finally gave up and spent 6 months in regression testing...
How many of these people do we have to deal with? I'm tired of the whole "blame somebody else" mentality of today's parents. It's not the game company's fault that your kids are idiots, it's your fault for refusing to teach them the difference between what's real and what's not. If your kids are mimicing a video game, it's because of something YOU did, not because of some publisher.
I can almost see the kind of person that is making this statement.
You obviously will never understand what you are missing out on - energy. Most CD recordings, unless they are done live, don't accurately capturre the energy of a concert. As both a performer and avid concert goer, there's no way to explain the feelings you get from listening to an artist who's catching his stride in the middle of a set.
You're missing out on a very diverse range of experiences if you're closing your mind to the idea of a different experience.
And don't even try to tell me that stuff like Jazz is only audio - that would only serve to undermine your point in a manner that you will never know, as you've never been to a live performance (here's a hint, improvisation isn't always the same thing)
Not to mention that pro-active law enforcement tends to misunderstand the role of the police officer. Pro-active law enforcement more often than not consists of law enforcement agents going out and creating a crime to catch the crook. Thus police officers are creating crime while they are paid to prevent it - kind of a contradiction, right?
Not to mention all the fun that comes with entrapment - a joyous side effect of pro-active enforcement
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The Atanassoff-Berry computer was actually largely designed on a napkin while John Vincent Atanassoff and one of his graduate students drank at a local bar. They had decided to get away from the office to "Think the problem through"
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If the reviewer is Zonk, the review is total unmitigated crap. Most other reviews are at least passable in comparison.
What the hell expertise, as a moronic editor at a site going slowly down the tubes, do you have to lend to the independent gaming realm?!?!?!?!?!?!
As referenced by a gamasutra article, this is not a new policy on walmart's part. In fact, they have many other games available for pre-order that have ratings pending. Bully was made an example of, most likely because of the lawsuit. The point is that walmart is accepting preorders for unrated games, but the article summary fails to point out this crucial point that actually makes the issue a controversy...
Get a life, dude. No one cares how great your shoddy product is compared to OpenOffice. Infighting like the crap your "Story" fosters is exactly the opposite of what the open source industry needs to become mainstream. Why not just say "My office package implemented a grammar checker! Try it out for yourself!"? THat's many times better than "We got the grammar first! OpenOffice su><0rz! W3 B3 1337!"
To be honest, I've already forgotten the name of your office suite, so your ploy to downplay the successes that OpenOffice has already encountered has failed utterly. At least, for me. Why not try creating a community, rather than flaunting your successes like a 3-year-old with a candy bar?
BetaMax might be the VHS Killer!
Napster might be the RIAA killer!
Open your eyes! Sure, here in techno-savvy land it looks like StarOffice has the potential to vreak the monopoly of Microsoft when it comes to document productions, but we have to be honest - millions of people are not going to jump ship just because an open source product all of a sudden had another release. Just the mere idea of switching will likely invalidate the millions of dollars companies spend on Microsoft Premier Support packages. The ubiquity of Microsoft Office is going to be the key factor here.
Not to mention the illegality of the actions of individuals who take camcorders/digital cameras into theatres. This should obviously be punishable by something more than a fine.
THe problem with the way we deal with crime in America is that we have to work with a deterrent-based system. Right now, the threat of litigation from the R-I-double-Assholes, let alone any of the other myriad organizations that feel that adding "Association of America" lends credibility to their cause, isn't nearly enough of a deterrent for the average computer-savvy college student sitting in a dorm room downloading the latest hits from {insert pop flavor of the moment here}. So, the solution is either to make the current deterrent more prevalent (more litigation, yay!), or to create a harsher deterrent. Since obviously someone in power realized that we shouldn't enhance the litigation-happy society we currently enjoy, they opted for an approach that is actually going to do some good.
I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but I remember that a couple years ago the City of Chicago wanted to change all of its lights to LEDs instead of bulbs, but - get this - the light bulb changer's union went on strike wen they heard about it. Ridiculous. In some areas, unions still have use (like in preventing big companies that focus on Arts of the Electronic variety from treating their employees as slaves), but more often than not they just stifle innovation because it'll cause some poor soul to lose their job.
I bet it's still not going to happen in the lifetime of anyone reading this. Hell, I bet it won't happen in the lifetime of /.
Nobody will EVER convince the people with the checkbooks that colonizing that big rock in the sky is worth the time and effort. Why? Because the people with the checkbooks think in the short-term. Any colonization of the moon is going to require a massive drain on resources, and no politician is going to run for re-election on the platform of "Vote for me so that I can take 70% of your check and give it to people on the moon!"
Next thing you know - BAM! One of the three-eyed aliens from Toy Story in a photo from a mars rover! Scheming pranksters...
This project just reeks of something orchestrated to generate popular interest in space exploration again. If we can identify a terrestrial planet, then just maybe people will want to go there, and NASA can get more funding, and the world will unite under one waving banner, and everyone will hold hands and sing "kumbaya"... Why not some more realistic goals/projects? I'm all for the spirit of exploration, but until someone can see profit from space travel, nothing will ever come from it (thank you, capitalism).
One of these days someone in a broadcast industry (TV can be just as guilty) will realize that transmission mediums have changed, and the best way to survive is to adapt. Surely someone in these monolithic corporations realizes that their paradigm has shifted (See? I'm even using buzz words!), and that the best thing to do now is most likely to shift operations as well. Media companies should be more versatile, might improve their image and even their ::gasp:: bottom line!
... when the line between home and work is so blurred as to be unrecognizable? Overwork and stress have been on the rise in the modern world for several years, how will still having to work when we return to our collective castles affect how we function as individuals? I believe that while telecommuting is a good idea now, sometime in the future (I'm thinking 60 or so years) it's going to have to be regulated. Most people come home to relax and relieve stress. If they have to come home and continue to encounter all the little annoyances that gets them riled up at work, it can't be anything but bad for their stress, morale, and health. THe higher stress as a result may or may not have an effect on the population, but eventually it will go too far and people will start to do things like have heart attacks at an early age, bringing in government regulation to "Save" the populace after the problem becomes unsolvable.
Ooooh, lloks like I've upset you. Oh no! I'm not even worth karma! I'm so hurt! I think I'm gonna go cut myself now becuase some dumbass thinks he's better than me! Etiher you don't want to waste karma on me, or your fingers are too fat to type in your login. Lazy ass. Thank you so very much sir for educating me! I am such a better person now that you opened your cock hole to give me what for! Wow, I stand in awe of how pathetic you are.
Wow, so much vehemence from a moron who's afraid to even post his own name. Ignored!
So what am I supposed to do with all those games that are no longer made anywhere? Am I supposed to rely on my fond memories of playing contra on the NES? Am I to envision what it was like to play my way through 7th Saga on the SNES? How can they possibly argue against a technology that keeps things like that alive when they are shunned by the very companies that made them? Nintendo is again missing out on an opportunity here. Charge for emulators, do something like what the IPod is doing with music. Have a fee to download an emulator and some ROMs. For an industry so worried about copy protection, you'd think they would figure this out...
LOSE. not loose. Lose means to misplace something. Loose is a property usually attributed to clothing (or things that fit in general).
Now how do I get ahold of the guy who does the spices at KFC?
Some pepople are utterly convinced that their SUV with 4-wheel drive gives them complete license to drive like an oblivious moron at the first sign of bad weather.
Some people have forgotten how to use their turn signal, whether it be to signal a lane change or to tear blindly across four lanes of traffic.
Some people are convinced that putting a sign to the effect of "Baby on Board" will actually help other drivers to realize that "This vehicle must be kept safe!" while completely neglecting the fact that the very premise of the sign accuses every person that reads it of being a bad driver.
Some people sit in the passing lane, averaging a whole 1 mph more than the person they are passing.
Some people intentionally ride in your blind spot, then honk wildly and make some interesting gestures when you try to change lanes (sometimes they even tell you "You're number 1!" with a single gesture). And some people think parallel parking ability defines the driver? Some people are utter morons. How's about the author spares us the pathetic attempts at social commentary, and just present the article. Hell, my high school didn't even teach parallel parking, there was no way to practice it (even though we're a suburb of Chicago). I had to teach myself once I got to college....
"Some might say if you can't master parallel parking, perhaps you shouldn't be driving." Some people are utterly convinced that four-wheel drive in the snow means you can drive like an idiot. Some people are also convinced that putting a sign in the window to the effect of "Baby on Board" will automatically make other drivers care about them and avoid them, and don't realize that the very premise of that sign is accusing other drivers of not driving well. Some people have forgotten how to use their turn signal, whether it be a lane change or a tire-spinning madman rush through 4 lanes of traffic. Some people think it's OK to sit in the passing lane when moving only 1 mph faster than the person they are passing. Some people think that because they drive a big truck the world has to conform to them (not all, but there are many clear-cut cases of moron truckers). Some people think flashing your lights at someone is a perfectly legitimate way to get an entire line of vehicles out of your way. And "some people" want to claim that parallel parking defines driving? How's about the author of this blurb saves the pathetic attempts at editorial commentary and just gives us the news. Hell, my high school didn't even teach parallel parking, as there wasn't really anywhere it could be practiced/used - I had to teach myself once I got to college...
of nthe three years that I spent waiting for Master of Orion 3. They almost released that game like 7 or 8 times before they finally gave up and spent 6 months in regression testing...
How many of these people do we have to deal with? I'm tired of the whole "blame somebody else" mentality of today's parents. It's not the game company's fault that your kids are idiots, it's your fault for refusing to teach them the difference between what's real and what's not. If your kids are mimicing a video game, it's because of something YOU did, not because of some publisher.
I can almost see the kind of person that is making this statement.
You obviously will never understand what you are missing out on - energy. Most CD recordings, unless they are done live, don't accurately capturre the energy of a concert. As both a performer and avid concert goer, there's no way to explain the feelings you get from listening to an artist who's catching his stride in the middle of a set.
You're missing out on a very diverse range of experiences if you're closing your mind to the idea of a different experience.
And don't even try to tell me that stuff like Jazz is only audio - that would only serve to undermine your point in a manner that you will never know, as you've never been to a live performance (here's a hint, improvisation isn't always the same thing)
Not to mention that pro-active law enforcement tends to misunderstand the role of the police officer. Pro-active law enforcement more often than not consists of law enforcement agents going out and creating a crime to catch the crook. Thus police officers are creating crime while they are paid to prevent it - kind of a contradiction, right?
Not to mention all the fun that comes with entrapment - a joyous side effect of pro-active enforcement
The Atanassoff-Berry computer was actually largely designed on a napkin while John Vincent Atanassoff and one of his graduate students drank at a local bar. They had decided to get away from the office to "Think the problem through"
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