Several of the stores in my area already enforce the ratings on games are refuse to sell mature rated games to kids. But Funkcikle is right, it's not illegal for kids to own them, just for the shops to sell them (at least it will be in OK). In fact, when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas first came out, my 30 year old brother-in-law got it for a gift. The interesting part was his wife's 14 year old brother saying, "I already beat that game... it's cool!", just as the main character uses the F-word while shooting a hooker. I wonder how he got that game... his mother.
Same can be said about Win95. I had to manually patch a bunch of PC's for my company and it was amazing how many of them were still running Win95. According to the admin's, these machines are safe and I could skip 'em.
The simple fact that an group of developers have devoted their free time and effort towards making a game for free deserves praise and admiration! I'm a HUGE civ fan and am excited to try this rendition.
I haven't been a member of my current library too long (about 3 years), but they've held PC games there for that entire time. The biggest problem is the condition of the CD's. Just like with music CD's, PC CD's at libraries are TERRIBLY mistreated. Until a more durable disc is used for production CD/DVD's such as TDK's "armor plated" discs (http://www.tdk.com/recmedia/dvd/index.html), providing console games is a waste of time.
The "$22B" is pretty crazy, but it's nearly impossible to stay 100% productive during the workday anyhow. Let's face it, between checking personal email, using the restroom, buying coffee/soda, chating with your peers, sitting in useless meetings, reading SlashDot, and zoning out, most humans (let's not just blame Americans) don't do a whole lot at work. Period. So what if we lost a few more minutes a day deleting our "generic viagra" SPAM.
Of course, if the "$22B" quote causes a change that punishes SPAMMERS, then I'm glad it was found.
On a side note, how can a SPAMMER be happy with himself/herself? Pissing off the world isn't a very fulfilling career.
Is it possible that this increased trend is more related to the seemingly decreased number of emails being sent? With BLOGS, IM, etc, there seems to be less emails flying around than in the past. At least this is the case for me. I tend to get just as much SPAM as I did over the last few years, but I get less legitamite email. I have no quantitative evidence to support this, so I may be full of *something*.
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I bet we already have! We probably cloned aliens from Area 51, Hitler, and Mozart... someone's keeping it all hush-hush.
Several of the stores in my area already enforce the ratings on games are refuse to sell mature rated games to kids. But Funkcikle is right, it's not illegal for kids to own them, just for the shops to sell them (at least it will be in OK). In fact, when Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas first came out, my 30 year old brother-in-law got it for a gift. The interesting part was his wife's 14 year old brother saying, "I already beat that game... it's cool!", just as the main character uses the F-word while shooting a hooker. I wonder how he got that game... his mother.
Same can be said about Win95. I had to manually patch a bunch of PC's for my company and it was amazing how many of them were still running Win95. According to the admin's, these machines are safe and I could skip 'em.
The simple fact that an group of developers have devoted their free time and effort towards making a game for free deserves praise and admiration! I'm a HUGE civ fan and am excited to try this rendition.
I haven't been a member of my current library too long (about 3 years), but they've held PC games there for that entire time. The biggest problem is the condition of the CD's. Just like with music CD's, PC CD's at libraries are TERRIBLY mistreated. Until a more durable disc is used for production CD/DVD's such as TDK's "armor plated" discs (http://www.tdk.com/recmedia/dvd/index.html), providing console games is a waste of time.
The "$22B" is pretty crazy, but it's nearly impossible to stay 100% productive during the workday anyhow. Let's face it, between checking personal email, using the restroom, buying coffee/soda, chating with your peers, sitting in useless meetings, reading SlashDot, and zoning out, most humans (let's not just blame Americans) don't do a whole lot at work. Period. So what if we lost a few more minutes a day deleting our "generic viagra" SPAM. Of course, if the "$22B" quote causes a change that punishes SPAMMERS, then I'm glad it was found. On a side note, how can a SPAMMER be happy with himself/herself? Pissing off the world isn't a very fulfilling career.
Is it possible that this increased trend is more related to the seemingly decreased number of emails being sent? With BLOGS, IM, etc, there seems to be less emails flying around than in the past. At least this is the case for me. I tend to get just as much SPAM as I did over the last few years, but I get less legitamite email. I have no quantitative evidence to support this, so I may be full of *something*.
Agreed. Looks like they couldn't handle the bandwidth.
I was certain I'd have at least a few incorrect answers, but I got every one of them correct! Looks like I can't be fooled! -LS