"...'Grand Theft Auto,' which was sent to stores with hidden sex scenes left embedded on the discs by programmers. "
Get the FUCK over it! God anyone else tired of this yet!?! Everyday I'm half tempted to just stop reading "gaming" news. If I wanted drama I'd go by a ticket to a play!
"We know the differences between the two, but who wants to guess which way the media, politicians and other twats like Thompson are going to go."
Yup, and this garbage lawsuit is going to helpfully undo some of the harm to the game industry and expose these idiots as just that.
Here is what will happen: Hype - a week from now there will be a story about this on every blog, paper, tv station, and radio station.
Eventually this thing will either make it to court or not even go that far before it is thrown out. It will clearly highlight how ridiculous these zealots are.
Then next time someone starts crying wolf media outlets will hopefully take things with a grain of salt after being made to look so foolish. (I'm not sure if that will get me +1 insightful, or +1 funny)
"The most controversial of the police proposals is the demand to be able to hold without charge a terrorist suspect for three months instead of 14 days. An Acpo spokesman said the complexity and scale of counter-terrorist operations means the 14-day maximum is often insufficient."
Why not just stick them on a plane heading to the US where they can call them an "enemy combatant" and hold them until the end of time.
Agreed, but I did find a lack of "community" that FFXI had. I played FFXI from the start of the NA beta until WoW came out - now I'm going back to FFXI.
I think it already is.. way back in Highschool (age 15) my sweet heart and I use to tell her parents we were "going for coffee". Really though we were going parking and having consensual sex.
Hell if I'm going to buy an AO game I better be getting what is promised on the box!
Next weeks headline : "Geek sues Rockstar for false claims of explicit sex in GTA".
Quote from the article "Steve purchased GTA:SA hoping to get a glimpse of naked women engaged in sexual acts, but instead found himself searching Rockstar's website for a 'patch'. Turns out Rockstar didn't live up to their promise of hot sex and coffee - the only way to get to that content is from a program made by some Swedish guy who doesn't even work for the game developer."
I'm sorry I tried to read the entire FA, but I couldn't do it. By the end of the second page this guy must have referred to himself in the third person close to 10 times. "Steele Style" was my favorite.
This is the second post The Escapist has gotten, and so far I've found it painful to read an article half full of self horn blowing.
Seriously though, "Max Steele"? Who comes up with this shit?
"Sony has just now produced its third console, while Microsoft is already on its 360th."
I'm sure this is a joke, but it's not well delivered. It comes across as far to serious which had me thinking the guy was really that dumb for a moment.
I don't know about the US, but here in Canada any time I sign an NDA, and Non-Compete I make sure it is as ridiculously broad and obviously unfair as possible.
Here when it comes to "work contracts" anything that is not fair, reasonable and specific to your function in the company pretty much makes it void if they ever take you to court.
My policy is to be reasonable and fair - I'm not going to leave a company and go work for one of their direct competitors, contact their clients, staff, etc.
"I'm about to (hopefully, last round of approvals is under way) build a crime scene information system for a Swedish police authority, based on Open Source, and I'd like to be able to offer something along these lines as a future extension."
Geez people can't even be bothered to read the post anymore!
The parent should get -2 Troll to sink the comment rating to -1.
"there are plenty of small businesses out there that pay the same and don't give any benefits."
Yes that's correct, and no it isn't illegal to create wage slaves, but it should be. The reason I target Walmart is because they use their money and influence on legislators. They also actively seek out and remove any potential disruption to their way of doing business.
At least 2 stores in Canada closed their doors shortly before an attempt to unionize came through. How fucking sad is it that they'd put hundreds of people out of work so they wouldn't have to treat them as well as the dirt Walmarts executives have in their back yards.
So yeah Walmart is no different than any other retail outlet, but they have the ability to make things better or worse. Unlike the mom and pop corner store they CAN afford to have their employees live above the poverty line and still make billions a year.
Anyway got a bit long winded there. Don't worry because when I'm Prime Minister of the world we'll see some social responsibility in multi-national corporations.
1) I bid the cost of doing well written, documented, and supported code in a reasonable amount of time.
2) Watch as Indian companies bid ridiculously low development costs, and time using exceptionally poor English (even by./ standards).
3) Watch as a "ebay clone" goes to the shop bidding 2 days and $200.
4) Wait a month.
5) See the poster of the original project looking for some one else.
Honestly your best bet would just watch the comments for people like me. I'm in Eastern Canada so I can do things cheaper than someone in Cali, or NY without cutting corners. My email addy is intierlogic at gmail.com
"Wal-Mart has Low Prices but high Morale standards; they are based out of Arkansas for Sam's sake."
You forgot low business ethics. The employee wages, and tactics against employee rights is far more offensive to me than violence, naughty words, and nudity.
"Not that this has anything directly to do with google".
I know this sounds remote, but could some of google's money be involved with this? Really I could see google buying, or investing in this company, except it would probably piss off some of "partner" companies. I know.. not very likely but you never know right?
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"...'Grand Theft Auto,' which was sent to stores with hidden sex scenes left embedded on the discs by programmers. "
Get the FUCK over it! God anyone else tired of this yet!?! Everyday I'm half tempted to just stop reading "gaming" news. If I wanted drama I'd go by a ticket to a play!
"We know the differences between the two, but who wants to guess which way the media, politicians and other twats like Thompson are going to go."
Yup, and this garbage lawsuit is going to helpfully undo some of the harm to the game industry and expose these idiots as just that.
Here is what will happen: Hype - a week from now there will be a story about this on every blog, paper, tv station, and radio station.
Eventually this thing will either make it to court or not even go that far before it is thrown out. It will clearly highlight how ridiculous these zealots are.
Then next time someone starts crying wolf media outlets will hopefully take things with a grain of salt after being made to look so foolish. (I'm not sure if that will get me +1 insightful, or +1 funny)
"The most controversial of the police proposals is the demand to be able to hold without charge a terrorist suspect for three months instead of 14 days. An Acpo spokesman said the complexity and scale of counter-terrorist operations means the 14-day maximum is often insufficient."
Why not just stick them on a plane heading to the US where they can call them an "enemy combatant" and hold them until the end of time.
Agreed, but I did find a lack of "community" that FFXI had. I played FFXI from the start of the NA beta until WoW came out - now I'm going back to FFXI.
I think it already is.. way back in Highschool (age 15) my sweet heart and I use to tell her parents we were "going for coffee". Really though we were going parking and having consensual sex.
Hell if I'm going to buy an AO game I better be getting what is promised on the box!
Next weeks headline : "Geek sues Rockstar for false claims of explicit sex in GTA".
Quote from the article "Steve purchased GTA:SA hoping to get a glimpse of naked women engaged in sexual acts, but instead found himself searching Rockstar's website for a 'patch'. Turns out Rockstar didn't live up to their promise of hot sex and coffee - the only way to get to that content is from a program made by some Swedish guy who doesn't even work for the game developer."
What about Starsky and Hutch?!?! You can't forget Starsky and Hutch!
I wear ear plugs, and a blind fold.
200,000 Windows users purchased Macs in both the second and third fiscal quarters.
200,000 x 2 fiscal quarters == 400,000
Sure it was poorly written (saying 400k in two different ways), but shame on you for not bothering to read the entire post before Trolling.
I'm sorry I tried to read the entire FA, but I couldn't do it. By the end of the second page this guy must have referred to himself in the third person close to 10 times. "Steele Style" was my favorite.
This is the second post The Escapist has gotten, and so far I've found it painful to read an article half full of self horn blowing.
Seriously though, "Max Steele"? Who comes up with this shit?
"Sony has just now produced its third console, while Microsoft is already on its 360th."
I'm sure this is a joke, but it's not well delivered. It comes across as far to serious which had me thinking the guy was really that dumb for a moment.
I don't know about the US, but here in Canada any time I sign an NDA, and Non-Compete I make sure it is as ridiculously broad and obviously unfair as possible.
Here when it comes to "work contracts" anything that is not fair, reasonable and specific to your function in the company pretty much makes it void if they ever take you to court.
My policy is to be reasonable and fair - I'm not going to leave a company and go work for one of their direct competitors, contact their clients, staff, etc.
"I'm about to (hopefully, last round of approvals is under way) build a crime scene information system for a Swedish police authority, based on Open Source, and I'd like to be able to offer something along these lines as a future extension."
Geez people can't even be bothered to read the post anymore!
The parent should get -2 Troll to sink the comment rating to -1.
I don't know of any, but this could be an interesting place to use google's map api :
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
"there are plenty of small businesses out there that pay the same and don't give any benefits."
Yes that's correct, and no it isn't illegal to create wage slaves, but it should be. The reason I target Walmart is because they use their money and influence on legislators. They also actively seek out and remove any potential disruption to their way of doing business.
At least 2 stores in Canada closed their doors shortly before an attempt to unionize came through. How fucking sad is it that they'd put hundreds of people out of work so they wouldn't have to treat them as well as the dirt Walmarts executives have in their back yards.
So yeah Walmart is no different than any other retail outlet, but they have the ability to make things better or worse. Unlike the mom and pop corner store they CAN afford to have their employees live above the poverty line and still make billions a year.
Anyway got a bit long winded there. Don't worry because when I'm Prime Minister of the world we'll see some social responsibility in multi-national corporations.
"See PMB" (Private Message Board) which left me thinking "What's so special about your bid that you can't say it in front of the rest of us?"
I can't speak for others, but often I will give contact infomation for past clients, and a semi-detailed overview of how I would do what they want.
The way it usually works is:
1) I bid the cost of doing well written, documented, and supported code in a reasonable amount of time.
2) Watch as Indian companies bid ridiculously low development costs, and time using exceptionally poor English (even by
3) Watch as a "ebay clone" goes to the shop bidding 2 days and $200.
4) Wait a month.
5) See the poster of the original project looking for some one else.
Honestly your best bet would just watch the comments for people like me. I'm in Eastern Canada so I can do things cheaper than someone in Cali, or NY without cutting corners. My email addy is intierlogic at gmail.com
"Wal-Mart has Low Prices but high Morale standards; they are based out of Arkansas for Sam's sake."
You forgot low business ethics. The employee wages, and tactics against employee rights is far more offensive to me than violence, naughty words, and nudity.
Yeah I know, I know :P They really need to up the M age to 18+, and crack down on retailers selling it to minors.
Not based on content added/unlocked by modders of course!
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/1 8/185233&tid=160&tid=191&tid=14
Pig sprem is flying, does that count?
"by sending the semen from pedigree pigs into orbit."
Are these the capitalist breed of pig?
It would have been great if John Romero was involved in the project.
"Not that this has anything directly to do with google".
I know this sounds remote, but could some of google's money be involved with this? Really I could see google buying, or investing in this company, except it would probably piss off some of "partner" companies. I know.. not very likely but you never know right?
Umm that is their website - dumbass.