The funny thing is, you'll let the government do whatever they want. You cant watch hot chicks shitting on each other, but you'll let the government shit all over you.
Fuck i wish i were in Nazi Germany... I hear civil rights were better then:)
hehehe.. oops rant brain fart. Yes its a vote for exemption, so anyone that votes against bill........
sigh. Thats what i get for writing with this in mind. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Then fuck campaign finance reform. Free Speech comes first and before all else. As a citizen, i refuse to allow MY government to take such power away from citizens.
If i get on slashdot and say "President Bush and his asshole friends are fucking scumbags" does that count as a blog? What counts as a blog? Ok, so lets say i only said it once... maybe then its not a blog. BUT what if i continue to contribute to slashdot, and speak my political beleifs whenever a political topic is posted?
Does slashdot become regulated because there are thousands of others like me that get published on slashdot?
The real difference is, the big lie that media is for the people. It's not. Media has been for the corperations. I cant get on CNN unless i murder someone in some fashion that drives ratings higher. Yet they still "use our airwaves" I love that stupid FCC statement. As if we even have a rats ass chance of getting on those airwaves.
So now you have the internet, where ANYONE can contribute. They can share files, they can start webpages, voice their opinion, become famous, get book deals as a result, start buisnesses, invent new ideas in distributing information, even encrypt and protect their information from the government itself...
WHOA... we're talking FREEDOM BABY.... Like Washington, Jeffersonian freedom baby......................
Congress will have none of that:)
The corperations will have none of that.
It's too much power, and as we all know governments (aka ruling class) hate to relinquish power, even back to the citizens who by law grant them such power in the first place.
It sure does trickle down folks.... They piss on us until we drown.
I suggest you raise hell in your districts and kick any congressman that votes for this, out on their ass. They've made enough money already anyways. How are you living? Do you like free speech? You're only POWER LEFT is to kick these guys out. You're only power left is to start a dam webpage and VOICE YOUR OPINIONS!!!!! AND THEY'RE TAKING THAT AWAY?
Better yet, Sony should open up the PSP to more codecs, and give users easy ways to ADD videos to their PSP, encode them, library them, and give them a better OS.
The PSP is too fucking hacky, and they're taking far to long to figure out what to do with it. The users already know. They want to put their videos and music on it, and use it like a fucking ipod.
WHATS SONY DOING? Nothing.
Fucking sony and they're UMD movies.
In short, if this list hasn't made you upgrade from XP to Linux yet, then you will probably buy Vista and continue to use it as well.
See this isnt fair. Linux doesnt offer me what i need. Linux does not have any good video editing packages, photoshop, good media playing support etc.
I do video editing and 3d animation. Linux simply lacks programs that i require. I do use softimage XSI and there is a linux version. However i use other programs as well to compliment Softimage. How about Zbrush? Is there a linux version of Zbrush?
How are the tablet drivers for linux from wacom? Are there any?
How about corel painter?
I use windows because of the applications despite its mess.
Linux cant offer me what i need just yet. I wish i could because i would be open to an alternative but it would have to be a lot tighter than linux is currently.
my opinion, having had run redhat on my "browseing/emailing" computer as an experiment, wasnt very good.
Linux could do all of those things but everything seemed shakey and hacky to me.
I ran into dependency hell, which was the thing that finally lead me to install xp again on that machine. I'm at the point where i might try another distro on my email machine but linux just seems user unfriendly in many ways, despite being very powerful.
I do not deny that i would like to try linux and feel comfortable in it, but i cant seem to get comfortable with it. Everything seemed so half assed and open ended. Software was never finished, dependencies were versions after version like version 1.01 verions 1.02, version 1.021324, version 1.021325... etc It was hell trying to figure out what the hell was going on and where to change it.
And i'm talking as a user... i used to sysop bbs's back in the day so i'm not too retarded when it comes to pcs. I used to config Desqview, qemm, dos, bbses, etc.. So i have a solid history, and i'm all for tinkering. But what i found with linux was that it just seemed too "loose"
I hope the linux crowd can take the criticism because i would like linux to improve so we could break the microsoft grip. But that also takes getting the major corperations to support linux by coding products for it. Products i need.
Perhaps one day. I am tempted to try again, i do like to tinker, or so i thought i did. Now i just like to use my programs and get my work done. Which is 3d animation... and thats plenty of tinkering in itself.
actually you're correct. After posting my question, i infact did go to microsofts webpage to try and learn about vista.
I didnt see much in terms of features. The "experience" page is all about how pretty it will look.
I went to the security page, and i got that "uh this is just marketing crap targeted at security because MS has become a joke publically to even the mom and pop users"
I really didnt see much interms of new features that will change my life.
Well, aside from the UI which i feel will slow down my life. It seems Vista will be a resource hog, a fancy ui (thats not at all pretty) and very little else.
And i'm not bringing any zealotry into this. I'm serious. I really dont know why Vista is a must have.
The ui thing interests me but not at the cost of my current hardware being slower for it.
I'm not quite sure what to think of Vista. The little info MS gives about it, leads me to beleive that it isnt really anything at all worth having.
It seems redundant and frankly i just dont get what MS is trying to do with Vista.
And i'm NOT a linux user. I run xp on all of my machines.
Frankly i wish the linux crowd would inspire companies to port their software over, but linux just isnt friendly for my desktop needs (which is video editing and 3d animation) And yes i know linux runs maya, softimage etc... but they're not as solid as their window's versions
Photoshop would be nice on linux, Sony Vegas on Linux etc...
Linux just doesnt cut it for me. My limited experience with redhat was fun but also a very bad and long headache.
So i'm really not coming from some anti MS point of view. I'm not a fan of MS, but at the same time, i do use their software and it does a fairly well job at that. I'm just concerned about what VISTA will really do for me, and why its a big deal.
) Most people in the west seem to describe it as a run-of-the-mill "coming of age" fantasy, which it most certainly is not.
I'm not sure if you're saying that it is not a "coming of age" fantasy, or if you're stating that it is more than just a "coming of age" fantasy. But i'll toss my pennies out there for you.
Spirited Away, blew me away. It certainly is a "coming of age" fantasy. I think you're reading into the gluttony and greed aspects have merit, but Spirited Away is most certainly about a little girl growing up.
It certainly is not so cut and dry though. The idea of "Growing up" presented in the film certainly encompasses a lot within the context of the film, and yes there is a subtext of "lets all grow up and not be greedy, and destroy the environment" etc.
But at the heart of the film its about a little brat that is detached from the world, a rather unhappy girl, affraid of what life has for her, and when thrust into life, the real world, the harsh and unyeilding world, she is forced to grow up. A once detached and depressed/selfish brat, discovers whats important in life, friends family, and certainly there is the deeper meaning of that we all will one day realize what is important to us, and perhaps we'll grow up. Gluttony and greed certainly being one of those things.
Miyazaki has said in the commentary that the idea came from a close family members little girl who seemed unhappy, and that this story was for her.
So there is most certainly a comming of age tale, and i do think it is the focus of the film.
But as we know Miyazaki is to brilliant of a man to tell a straight beginning to end story without weaving into it deeper symbolic things. He mentions on the commentary the common symbols eh's used in films (pigs) etc. He talks about the waste creature and how he got the idea from seeing junk in a river he had been to.
There most certainly is a hidden meaning about being greedy people and needing to grow up and recognize the conciquences of our actions, but the deeper meanings simply play into the overall tale of "coming of age"
So in a sense i very much agree with you, but it certainly is a beatiful story about a little girl growing up. The song that plays at the end is absolutely incredible and further drives home the coming of age theme.
But i would never say Spirited Away, was not meant to be a "coming of age" fantasy. It is exactly what it is. It just so happens that there is an adult comming of age message, as well as a child coming of age message within the film. The child's message being of course the focus.
But forgive me if i've mistaken your comments on the story. I just had to write. I love the film:)
What features are in Vista that would inspire me to upgrade besides the UI? Frankly the UI looks big and clunky like XP and flat out ugly... but what is the benefit of Vista?
Seriously 11 months? And hes not allowed to own a computer, cell phone or any internet devices for 2 years?!
Thats silly.
Thats a death sentence in todays world for a kid who is obviousy quite handy with such devices.
Come on, what happened to silly pranks?:) Paris Hilton wasnt harmed at all. This is the high tech version of writing "For a good fuck and blow job, call Jen at 555-5555" on your highschool bathroom.
Make the kid do some community service, and move on.
Better yet, get creative with his sentence and make him carry a cellphone with a publically posted phone number on a webpage for everyone to call.
I guess all of those rich California kids will just have to spend less time infront of their Playstations and more time sneaking into upscale nightclubs, drinking underage and fucking talent agents.:)
Actually i agree with you, its quite scary. I do care if under 18's can by violent gams. I find a 17 year old just as capable as an 18 year old.
And 16 isnt far from 17...
Every child is different. We have 40 year old adults who act like children....
And we have 10 year old kid geniuses that are focused on curing cancer....... (figuratively speaking)
I think back to when i was 17 and boy i would be pissed if i couldnt buy a violent videogame because i wasnt 18. Thats silly.
What should happen is return policies should be more liberal for parenting concerns.
10 year olds are roaming the malls alone. They get there some how.
14 year olds roaming the mall freely?... Is it the malls responsibility if you're 14 year old daughter (that you dropped off at the mall) gets raped behind the mall?
Do 13 year olds have $50 ?!
I was rarely at the mall alone until i was 16 and i had to skateboard or ride a bike there.
If my parents let me trek to the mall by myself... and I think a violent videogame is the least of my worries out there in life.
I dont care if they want to make it illegal to sell adult content to minors but lets finally be consistant about this. Lets make it illegal period to use adult imagery to advertise ANYTHING publically viewable.
This would include beer commercials, 16 year old MTV pop singers that dance and dress like strippers/whores, automobile commericals, insurance commericials, toy commercials, etc.
LETS just do away with free speech period.
Lets finally rid the world of Porn (good fucking luck)
Lets cut our peniseseseses off and stop being humans beings.
Seriously if the issue is about minors getting a hold of GTA, we need to first address Minors watching acts of real violence on TV news. How about 9/11 ?
Frankly with the current thinking behind these bills/movements, wouldnt they make showing the 9/11 footage of real violence, illegal?
What is the difference between selling violence to children and having them witness advertising or live news events aimed at adults that feature violence and sex?
What is the difference?
One is a game and the other is real? Is that the difference?
So fake violence bad... real violence good...
Yeah i have a problem with that as a progressive American that beleives government should stay out of our lives when it comes to pissing on our rights.
As kids we grew up with mortal kombat, and slasher films. We all lived through the nightmare on elm street days, the friday the 13th's, The Thing, Evil Dead, and yes.. most kids in their teens at some point tried beer, and a third of them probably tried weed. AND ALL OF THEM SAW PORN before the age of 18. AND if you were lucky you got some tail too:)
So lets recap. All children turn into teenagers, and teenagers turn into adults. It's a process that has gone on for years. My father played cowboys and indians in the backyard with realistic looking toy guns...
My generation did the same but we played "soldier" , and then we got into videogames as teens, which really is just in addition to the cars girls and beer that previous generations were into. Toss in rebelious music and movies... and you have what we call... "GROWING UP"
So whos generation is better? Mine? the new generation of kids? my Fathers generation? How about his fathers generation?
I bet they're all quite similar... and yet we always refer to the "current genreation" as being the one in decline. It happens over and over and over which each generation.
Before it was the PMRC after Explicit Lyrics, or it was the evil communistic devil music of the 60s... Now its violent videogames.
We put more effort into this nonsense than we invest in fighting oppression within our own government, or corperate abuse, the decline of our working class, the huge gap between the wealthy and the poor.
We worry about what our kids are playing... an historical arguement that has been proven time and time again to be worthless. A parent is to decide how to raise their children, and that includes allowing their underage child to take a sip of beer, or listening to whatever music they want, or even teaching their child about safe sex and masturbation, or that its ok to be gay, to homeschool a child, to teach a child how to hunt and fish, to teach religion or not...
These are parenting discisions and not the governments.
If we're to be consistant about rating systems and the likes, then we END IT THERE. We do not dictate what can and can not be sold content wise. We can make it illegal to sell sexually explicit material to a young child, but violence? GOOD LUCK.
If violence is the issue, little league football should be illegal.
I'm being quite round about and silly but, i beleive a child needs violence in their life. It teaches right and wrong.
Violence is a part of life that we witness. It is OUR REACTION, that determines what kind of person we are. A parent needs to raise their child with love and co
Its well known that press releases like this get sent out during the times at which a movie, tv show, or book are to be released.
In previous famouns anounced dinosaur discoveries, the dino's had already been well known among the reasearch community however the public hasnt heard of them so for films like Jurrasic Park 3, they anounced the dinosaur that is bigger than a Trex. Also back a year ago, they also anounced another dinosaur that just so happened to be during the release of a dinosaur mass marketed product (cant remember which though unforuntately)
There was a guy on NPR that explained this marketing strategy, as the expert dinosaur consultant on Jurrasic Park, he said Universal asked him to old back on announcing discoveries publically to coincide with all 3 of the Jurrasic Park films.
The sims was created by an already established successful game director. Those people still have power in the game industry, however they are very few in numbers. We're talking less than 6 of them.
ID, Valve, Unreal, Simcity/Sims guys, Peter Molymuex, blizzard guys (although the originalblizzard guys all left blizzard if i recall)
Yeah but World of Warcraft only exists because many moons ago, Blizzard as a much smaller company made a game called "Warcraft":)
Warcraft has survived several versions, and the spin of World of Warcraft.
So are we to assume the only way for a game to be successful is to milk the crap out of an old title and force fans to pay monthly fees?!
I will never pay a monthly fee to play a game, especially if i have to pay $50 upfront as well.
The whole buisness model behind World of Warcraft is perfect example of how lame gaming has become, and it shows you what is important to the developers.
Frankly it is impossible to create a new idea in the gaming world and get funding for it. Publishers want you to do what they want you to do. They dictate from the top down.
NO ONE in game developement is coming up with new ideas. The only developers that are given any power, are those that were battle tested in the earlier days of gaming and were successful, such as ID's John Carmack, and The Unreal team.
And they're just selling technology these days, and perhaps thats the goal of an independent developer. Dev some new tech and sell it to the suits that dictate the gaming industry. It's the only way to have any control.
Look at renderware, doom engine, quake engine, unreal engine, etc.
It's simply impossible to stand up in this industry and say "I've got a great idea folks, check this out"... then they say "Just make another Grand Theft Auto" or "We bought the rights to Viagra, and we want to make a budget Viagra game, so get on it... oh and make it like Grand Theft Auto... OH and DO IT IN 3 MONTHS"
The industry is as lame as it gets.
Most games suck. I've given up playing games for the most part, and the sad thing is i make them.
Its just boring, the same old thing. It's becoming corperatized in not only its buisness model which it had been for years, but now they want to infect games with advertising, marketing, product liscensing, celebrity names and music etc. It's become about the marketing more than about the game.
Games fucking suck. If anything Japan still has a degree of open creativity within their industry in the console world, but within the PC gaming world, its dead.
Flight Simulators went the way of the dodo, because complex simulations that require you to read a 500 page manual to fly a very detailed F18A or F16, or Apache Longbow... is simply too overwelming for the general gamer.
The suits want a wide general audience, not niche games. There are no more complex flight simulation games out there. The fans all fly the old ones because that market has died thanks to developers pulling out of it because it doesnt make enough money as selling "Def Jam Fighting games"
How about a kick ass Space simulation? Fly the shuttle into space, accomplish missions in full 3D with todays realtime tech?!
And you wonder why they say we lack kids intereted in science. We dont give kids any chance to really dream about it!
Check out games like ICO from Sony (Ps2) and the upcoming Shadow of the Collosus on (PS2) which comes out in october. ICO sold extremely poor compared to the grand theft auto's of the world, and yet the game emotionally moved gamers, some to the point of tears. It's a wild experience, and yet so subtle in its story telling techniques. It's unbeleivable and one of the best games ever made. It's my personal favorite. It sold poorly because the cover on the dvd case looked dumb, it looks like a "kids" game, and the screen shots do not at all convey the experience. So many people missed playing a great game, but those who did play ICO... scream from the highest mountain they can climb just to say "ICO is brilliant and you need to play it, its the best ever"
Over the years, people have tried it, and many fall right in line and agree.
ICO is proof that great games, (the best ever in my opinion) lack an audience.
Sony has stuck by their ICO team realizing that they ar
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The funny thing is, you'll let the government do whatever they want. You cant watch hot chicks shitting on each other, but you'll let the government shit all over you.
Fuck i wish i were in Nazi Germany... I hear civil rights were better then
Well if you wont say it... I will. "Fuck you to everyone that voted for Bush"
Whats wrong with adults pissing and shitting on each other? :) Ok i mean wrong in the legal sense ;) Its so F'n hott.
hehehe.. oops rant brain fart. Yes its a vote for exemption, so anyone that votes against bill........
sigh. Thats what i get for writing with this in mind. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Then fuck campaign finance reform. Free Speech comes first and before all else. As a citizen, i refuse to allow MY government to take such power away from citizens.
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If i get on slashdot and say "President Bush and his asshole friends are fucking scumbags" does that count as a blog? What counts as a blog? Ok, so lets say i only said it once... maybe then its not a blog. BUT what if i continue to contribute to slashdot, and speak my political beleifs whenever a political topic is posted?
Does slashdot become regulated because there are thousands of others like me that get published on slashdot?
The real difference is, the big lie that media is for the people. It's not. Media has been for the corperations. I cant get on CNN unless i murder someone in some fashion that drives ratings higher. Yet they still "use our airwaves" I love that stupid FCC statement. As if we even have a rats ass chance of getting on those airwaves.
So now you have the internet, where ANYONE can contribute. They can share files, they can start webpages, voice their opinion, become famous, get book deals as a result, start buisnesses, invent new ideas in distributing information, even encrypt and protect their information from the government itself...
WHOA... we're talking FREEDOM BABY.... Like Washington, Jeffersonian freedom baby......................
Congress will have none of that
The corperations will have none of that.
It's too much power, and as we all know governments (aka ruling class) hate to relinquish power, even back to the citizens who by law grant them such power in the first place.
It sure does trickle down folks.... They piss on us until we drown.
I suggest you raise hell in your districts and kick any congressman that votes for this, out on their ass. They've made enough money already anyways. How are you living? Do you like free speech? You're only POWER LEFT is to kick these guys out. You're only power left is to start a dam webpage and VOICE YOUR OPINIONS!!!!! AND THEY'RE TAKING THAT AWAY?
You should be very concerned. VERY.
What's the point of having this neato device, if we're just going to tell the world that we have one?!
Better yet, Sony should open up the PSP to more codecs, and give users easy ways to ADD videos to their PSP, encode them, library them, and give them a better OS. The PSP is too fucking hacky, and they're taking far to long to figure out what to do with it. The users already know. They want to put their videos and music on it, and use it like a fucking ipod. WHATS SONY DOING? Nothing. Fucking sony and they're UMD movies.
Any relation between this release and all the bad firefox press? :)
It'll keep my boner raging longer too. Dam sexy kitties all chewed up in my big balls to the wall Chevy.... Guhh-errrrrr!
See this isnt fair. Linux doesnt offer me what i need. Linux does not have any good video editing packages, photoshop, good media playing support etc.
I do video editing and 3d animation. Linux simply lacks programs that i require. I do use softimage XSI and there is a linux version. However i use other programs as well to compliment Softimage. How about Zbrush? Is there a linux version of Zbrush?
How are the tablet drivers for linux from wacom? Are there any?
How about corel painter?
I use windows because of the applications despite its mess.
Linux cant offer me what i need just yet. I wish i could because i would be open to an alternative but it would have to be a lot tighter than linux is currently.
my opinion, having had run redhat on my "browseing/emailing" computer as an experiment, wasnt very good.
Linux could do all of those things but everything seemed shakey and hacky to me.
I ran into dependency hell, which was the thing that finally lead me to install xp again on that machine. I'm at the point where i might try another distro on my email machine but linux just seems user unfriendly in many ways, despite being very powerful.
I do not deny that i would like to try linux and feel comfortable in it, but i cant seem to get comfortable with it. Everything seemed so half assed and open ended. Software was never finished, dependencies were versions after version like version 1.01 verions 1.02, version 1.021324, version 1.021325... etc
It was hell trying to figure out what the hell was going on and where to change it.
And i'm talking as a user... i used to sysop bbs's back in the day so i'm not too retarded when it comes to pcs. I used to config Desqview, qemm, dos, bbses, etc.. So i have a solid history, and i'm all for tinkering. But what i found with linux was that it just seemed too "loose"
I hope the linux crowd can take the criticism because i would like linux to improve so we could break the microsoft grip. But that also takes getting the major corperations to support linux by coding products for it. Products i need.
Perhaps one day. I am tempted to try again, i do like to tinker, or so i thought i did. Now i just like to use my programs and get my work done. Which is 3d animation... and thats plenty of tinkering in itself.
actually you're correct. After posting my question, i infact did go to microsofts webpage to try and learn about vista.
I didnt see much in terms of features. The "experience" page is all about how pretty it will look.
I went to the security page, and i got that "uh this is just marketing crap targeted at security because MS has become a joke publically to even the mom and pop users"
I really didnt see much interms of new features that will change my life.
Well, aside from the UI which i feel will slow down my life. It seems Vista will be a resource hog, a fancy ui (thats not at all pretty) and very little else.
And i'm not bringing any zealotry into this. I'm serious. I really dont know why Vista is a must have.
The ui thing interests me but not at the cost of my current hardware being slower for it.
I'm not quite sure what to think of Vista. The little info MS gives about it, leads me to beleive that it isnt really anything at all worth having.
It seems redundant and frankly i just dont get what MS is trying to do with Vista.
And i'm NOT a linux user. I run xp on all of my machines.
Frankly i wish the linux crowd would inspire companies to port their software over, but linux just isnt friendly for my desktop needs (which is video editing and 3d animation) And yes i know linux runs maya, softimage etc... but they're not as solid as their window's versions
Photoshop would be nice on linux, Sony Vegas on Linux etc...
Linux just doesnt cut it for me. My limited experience with redhat was fun but also a very bad and long headache.
So i'm really not coming from some anti MS point of view. I'm not a fan of MS, but at the same time, i do use their software and it does a fairly well job at that. I'm just concerned about what VISTA will really do for me, and why its a big deal.
It doesnt appear to be a big deal at all.
I'm not sure if you're saying that it is not a "coming of age" fantasy, or if you're stating that it is more than just a "coming of age" fantasy. But i'll toss my pennies out there for you.
Spirited Away, blew me away. It certainly is a "coming of age" fantasy. I think you're reading into the gluttony and greed aspects have merit, but Spirited Away is most certainly about a little girl growing up.
It certainly is not so cut and dry though. The idea of "Growing up" presented in the film certainly encompasses a lot within the context of the film, and yes there is a subtext of "lets all grow up and not be greedy, and destroy the environment" etc.
But at the heart of the film its about a little brat that is detached from the world, a rather unhappy girl, affraid of what life has for her, and when thrust into life, the real world, the harsh and unyeilding world, she is forced to grow up. A once detached and depressed/selfish brat, discovers whats important in life, friends family, and certainly there is the deeper meaning of that we all will one day realize what is important to us, and perhaps we'll grow up. Gluttony and greed certainly being one of those things.
Miyazaki has said in the commentary that the idea came from a close family members little girl who seemed unhappy, and that this story was for her.
So there is most certainly a comming of age tale, and i do think it is the focus of the film.
But as we know Miyazaki is to brilliant of a man to tell a straight beginning to end story without weaving into it deeper symbolic things. He mentions on the commentary the common symbols eh's used in films (pigs) etc. He talks about the waste creature and how he got the idea from seeing junk in a river he had been to.
There most certainly is a hidden meaning about being greedy people and needing to grow up and recognize the conciquences of our actions, but the deeper meanings simply play into the overall tale of "coming of age"
So in a sense i very much agree with you, but it certainly is a beatiful story about a little girl growing up. The song that plays at the end is absolutely incredible and further drives home the coming of age theme.
But i would never say Spirited Away, was not meant to be a "coming of age" fantasy. It is exactly what it is. It just so happens that there is an adult comming of age message, as well as a child coming of age message within the film. The child's message being of course the focus.
But forgive me if i've mistaken your comments on the story. I just had to write. I love the film
What features are in Vista that would inspire me to upgrade besides the UI? Frankly the UI looks big and clunky like XP and flat out ugly... but what is the benefit of Vista?
Why have Vista?
Ah, you fucking rule. GREAT FILM!!!!!!!
I love that movie.
Seriously 11 months? And hes not allowed to own a computer, cell phone or any internet devices for 2 years?!
:) Paris Hilton wasnt harmed at all. This is the high tech version of writing "For a good fuck and blow job, call Jen at 555-5555" on your highschool bathroom.
Thats silly.
Thats a death sentence in todays world for a kid who is obviousy quite handy with such devices.
Come on, what happened to silly pranks?
Make the kid do some community service, and move on.
Better yet, get creative with his sentence and make him carry a cellphone with a publically posted phone number on a webpage for everyone to call.
Yup quite scary.
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I guess all of those rich California kids will just have to spend less time infront of their Playstations and more time sneaking into upscale nightclubs, drinking underage and fucking talent agents.
Actually i agree with you, its quite scary. I do care if under 18's can by violent gams. I find a 17 year old just as capable as an 18 year old.
And 16 isnt far from 17...
Every child is different. We have 40 year old adults who act like children....
And we have 10 year old kid geniuses that are focused on curing cancer....... (figuratively speaking)
I think back to when i was 17 and boy i would be pissed if i couldnt buy a violent videogame because i wasnt 18. Thats silly.
What should happen is return policies should be more liberal for parenting concerns.
10 year olds are roaming the malls alone. They get there some how.
14 year olds roaming the mall freely?... Is it the malls responsibility if you're 14 year old daughter (that you dropped off at the mall) gets raped behind the mall?
Do 13 year olds have $50 ?!
I was rarely at the mall alone until i was 16 and i had to skateboard or ride a bike there.
If my parents let me trek to the mall by myself... and I think a violent videogame is the least of my worries out there in life.
They can't legally do all those things and yet our kids still do... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I'm sure this law will be just as effective.
This is a lawyer driven movement under the guise of parenting.
The real issue is poverty and class warfare. Poor families do not live in a stable environment that affords a good upbringing.
Thats actually quite interesting. I bet its not too far from the truth.
Frankly this is so fucking stupid.
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I dont care if they want to make it illegal to sell adult content to minors but lets finally be consistant about this. Lets make it illegal period to use adult imagery to advertise ANYTHING publically viewable.
This would include beer commercials, 16 year old MTV pop singers that dance and dress like strippers/whores, automobile commericals, insurance commericials, toy commercials, etc.
LETS just do away with free speech period.
Lets finally rid the world of Porn (good fucking luck)
Lets cut our peniseseseses off and stop being humans beings.
Seriously if the issue is about minors getting a hold of GTA, we need to first address Minors watching acts of real violence on TV news. How about 9/11 ?
Frankly with the current thinking behind these bills/movements, wouldnt they make showing the 9/11 footage of real violence, illegal?
What is the difference between selling violence to children and having them witness advertising or live news events aimed at adults that feature violence and sex?
What is the difference?
One is a game and the other is real? Is that the difference?
So fake violence bad... real violence good...
Yeah i have a problem with that as a progressive American that beleives government should stay out of our lives when it comes to pissing on our rights.
As kids we grew up with mortal kombat, and slasher films. We all lived through the nightmare on elm street days, the friday the 13th's, The Thing, Evil Dead, and yes.. most kids in their teens at some point tried beer, and a third of them probably tried weed. AND ALL OF THEM SAW PORN before the age of 18. AND if you were lucky you got some tail too
So lets recap. All children turn into teenagers, and teenagers turn into adults. It's a process that has gone on for years. My father played cowboys and indians in the backyard with realistic looking toy guns...
My generation did the same but we played "soldier" , and then we got into videogames as teens, which really is just in addition to the cars girls and beer that previous generations were into. Toss in rebelious music and movies... and you have what we call... "GROWING UP"
So whos generation is better? Mine? the new generation of kids? my Fathers generation? How about his fathers generation?
I bet they're all quite similar... and yet we always refer to the "current genreation" as being the one in decline. It happens over and over and over which each generation.
Before it was the PMRC after Explicit Lyrics, or it was the evil communistic devil music of the 60s... Now its violent videogames.
We put more effort into this nonsense than we invest in fighting oppression within our own government, or corperate abuse, the decline of our working class, the huge gap between the wealthy and the poor.
We worry about what our kids are playing... an historical arguement that has been proven time and time again to be worthless. A parent is to decide how to raise their children, and that includes allowing their underage child to take a sip of beer, or listening to whatever music they want, or even teaching their child about safe sex and masturbation, or that its ok to be gay, to homeschool a child, to teach a child how to hunt and fish, to teach religion or not...
These are parenting discisions and not the governments.
If we're to be consistant about rating systems and the likes, then we END IT THERE. We do not dictate what can and can not be sold content wise. We can make it illegal to sell sexually explicit material to a young child, but violence? GOOD LUCK.
If violence is the issue, little league football should be illegal.
I'm being quite round about and silly but, i beleive a child needs violence in their life. It teaches right and wrong.
Violence is a part of life that we witness. It is OUR REACTION, that determines what kind of person we are. A parent needs to raise their child with love and co
Its well known that press releases like this get sent out during the times at which a movie, tv show, or book are to be released.
In previous famouns anounced dinosaur discoveries, the dino's had already been well known among the reasearch community however the public hasnt heard of them so for films like Jurrasic Park 3, they anounced the dinosaur that is bigger than a Trex. Also back a year ago, they also anounced another dinosaur that just so happened to be during the release of a dinosaur mass marketed product (cant remember which though unforuntately)
There was a guy on NPR that explained this marketing strategy, as the expert dinosaur consultant on Jurrasic Park, he said Universal asked him to old back on announcing discoveries publically to coincide with all 3 of the Jurrasic Park films.
Now all we need is science to invent a 4 wheeled giant hamster that seats 4. If she goes 0-60 in 2, even cooler.
We can park them hamster wheels and sell back the energy to the city!
Ah the list of stupid ideas is endless.
Will you please run for president so i have someone to vote for?! :)
The sims was created by an already established successful game director. Those people still have power in the game industry, however they are very few in numbers. We're talking less than 6 of them.
ID, Valve, Unreal, Simcity/Sims guys, Peter Molymuex, blizzard guys (although the originalblizzard guys all left blizzard if i recall)
Yeah but World of Warcraft only exists because many moons ago, Blizzard as a much smaller company made a game called "Warcraft" :)
Warcraft has survived several versions, and the spin of World of Warcraft.
So are we to assume the only way for a game to be successful is to milk the crap out of an old title and force fans to pay monthly fees?!
I will never pay a monthly fee to play a game, especially if i have to pay $50 upfront as well.
The whole buisness model behind World of Warcraft is perfect example of how lame gaming has become, and it shows you what is important to the developers.
Frankly it is impossible to create a new idea in the gaming world and get funding for it. Publishers want you to do what they want you to do. They dictate from the top down.
NO ONE in game developement is coming up with new ideas. The only developers that are given any power, are those that were battle tested in the earlier days of gaming and were successful, such as ID's John Carmack, and The Unreal team.
And they're just selling technology these days, and perhaps thats the goal of an independent developer. Dev some new tech and sell it to the suits that dictate the gaming industry. It's the only way to have any control.
Look at renderware, doom engine, quake engine, unreal engine, etc.
It's simply impossible to stand up in this industry and say "I've got a great idea folks, check this out"... then they say "Just make another Grand Theft Auto" or "We bought the rights to Viagra, and we want to make a budget Viagra game, so get on it... oh and make it like Grand Theft Auto... OH and DO IT IN 3 MONTHS"
The industry is as lame as it gets.
Most games suck. I've given up playing games for the most part, and the sad thing is i make them.
Its just boring, the same old thing. It's becoming corperatized in not only its buisness model which it had been for years, but now they want to infect games with advertising, marketing, product liscensing, celebrity names and music etc. It's become about the marketing more than about the game.
Games fucking suck. If anything Japan still has a degree of open creativity within their industry in the console world, but within the PC gaming world, its dead.
Flight Simulators went the way of the dodo, because complex simulations that require you to read a 500 page manual to fly a very detailed F18A or F16, or Apache Longbow... is simply too overwelming for the general gamer.
The suits want a wide general audience, not niche games. There are no more complex flight simulation games out there. The fans all fly the old ones because that market has died thanks to developers pulling out of it because it doesnt make enough money as selling "Def Jam Fighting games"
How about a kick ass Space simulation? Fly the shuttle into space, accomplish missions in full 3D with todays realtime tech?!
And you wonder why they say we lack kids intereted in science. We dont give kids any chance to really dream about it!
Check out games like ICO from Sony (Ps2) and the upcoming Shadow of the Collosus on (PS2) which comes out in october. ICO sold extremely poor compared to the grand theft auto's of the world, and yet the game emotionally moved gamers, some to the point of tears. It's a wild experience, and yet so subtle in its story telling techniques. It's unbeleivable and one of the best games ever made. It's my personal favorite. It sold poorly because the cover on the dvd case looked dumb, it looks like a "kids" game, and the screen shots do not at all convey the experience. So many people missed playing a great game, but those who did play ICO... scream from the highest mountain they can climb just to say "ICO is brilliant and you need to play it, its the best ever"
Over the years, people have tried it, and many fall right in line and agree.
ICO is proof that great games, (the best ever in my opinion) lack an audience.
Sony has stuck by their ICO team realizing that they ar
12% of client desktops running linux?
You're smoking some crazy shit my friend.
I just do not see that happening at all. Linux is not lamer friendly.